"Swedish Man Acquitted of Rape Due to 'Sexomnia'"
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Mikael Halvarsson was acquitted of rape this month after experts said he was asleep during the attack and had no memory of the incident, according to a translated court ruling from the Sundsvall appeals court in Sweden."
Halvarsson was accused after the victim woke up as Halvarsson allegedly assaulted her on April 2, 2014. They had been sleeping in the same bed, but they each had their own blanket, according to the translated court documents, which also noted that she called the police the next morning, and they found Halvarsson still asleep in her bed when they arrived.
In the appeal, Halvarsson's previous girlfriend testified that he had previously tried once to have sex with her when she was sleeping. When she stopped him, he then acted confused and asked what had happened.
While the term sexomnia may seem made up for the purposes of getting away with a crime, Dr. Kingman Strohl, a professor of medicine and director of research at the Sleep Center at Case Medical Center in Cleveland, confirmed it's an actual medical diagnosis that includes unintentional sexual behaviors during sleep.
"You want to know how people react to it. You want to know what the people look like and want to know how each partner reacts to it," said Strohl of diagnosing a sexomnia incident. "You don't want to encourage unwanted sexual advances."
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What's with the seemingly universal obsession with rape and sexual assault?
Seems to be building into a sort of madness.
My late wife, who lived through war and suffered through torture in the Philippines, thought that this obsession represented a deeply repressed subconscious desire for all hell to break loose, for all rules to collapse so that we can wallow in blood, gore and lust.
I don't know whether I entirely agree with that.
I thought in Sweden people could afford to have their own bed.
There are several issues dominating the news which have nothing to do with the critical problems of the day.
Why, it's almost like there is some sort of organized effort at distraction.
That's not to say that Swedish sexomnia is not deserving of close attention. There should be video somewhere.
ST, you remind me of a short story, I think it's called The Beast. A couple are away at an English house party (where a several people are invited for the week-end or longer). One of the husbands inexplicably commits suicide. Later another female in the party comes to the wife and tells her that one day when everyone had gone off, she and the lady's husband had come across each other and irresistibly copulated like animals. She told the wife she thought her husband committed suicide because he could not cope with how easily societal rules could break down and animal nature take over.
Sexomnia should be valid for users of Ambien, etc.
I agree with Rush. Everybody is saying pretty much the same thing about the critical issues of the day.
Part of it is political correctness fear.
Incubus.
It is that stupid freaking Ikea furniture!
I'm so old-fashion. I thought when men and women slept in the same bed at night, sex was involved, in some way.
Woman: Hey Darling, you can sleep naked with me in my bed. But remember, no sex!
Man: OK, after all its Sweden!
I'm so old-fashion. I thought when men and women slept in the same bed at night, sex was involved, in some way.
The world has changed.
Now, each partner needs to have an attorney and a government inspector present to make such that consent is obtained at each step in the process.
Women are all victims, so vote for Hillary! Or that indian chick. Squaw. Whatever.
I'm so old-fashion. I thought when men and women slept in the same bed at night, sex was involved, in some way.
LOL.
Way back in the days when we were younger(Hubby and I) we called it roll over sex. Roll over half asleep or even fully asleep.... and ....hello.... :-)
"Women are all victims, so vote for Hillary! Or that indian chick. Squaw. Whatever."
Wah.
He's talking about Elisabeth Warren.
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