Somnophilia

Not to be confused with the sleepy beauty disorder, dormaphilia or sleep sex (a parasomnia wherein one engages in sex while asleep).

Somnophilia (from Latin somnus "sleep" and Greek φιλία, -philia "friendship") is a paraphilia in which an individual becomes sexually aroused by someone who is unconscious.[1][2][3] The Dictionary of Psychology categorized somnophilia within the classification of predatory paraphilias.[4]

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