2) Somnophilia
This fetish involves arousal at the idea of caressing, touching, and engaging in s3xual activity, without force or violence, with a person who is asleep or unconscious. Some have referred to the condition as pseudo-necrophilia. In 1972, Dr. Victor Calef and Dr. Edward Weinshel called it “Sleeping Beauty syndrome” and suggested that patients who complained about their partners falling asleep before s3x could be initiated were actually covering up a deep-seated s3xual fascination with their sleeping partner. In a 2006 thesis on sleep, Christina Eugene wrote:
“Sleep is the essential objectifier of all life. The passivity of sleep transforms subjects into inanimate objects, and in doing so removes the subject’s privilege of being able to act on the world of objects. [ . . . ] This rendering of people into inanimate objects allows them to be fundamentally treated as objects—consumed, fetishized, and controlled.” In another thesis, Carolyn Fay wrote, “Contemporary sleep fetish culture is driven by the idea that the sleeping person is an absent person. [ . . . ] To the fetishist, sleep is that perfect moment when consciousness is evacuated, leaving a living, breathing fragment, worthy of love. [ . . . ]
If the person wakes up, the fantasy and the fetish object become lost.”This particular paraphilia became newsworthy following the many allegations of s3xual assault raised against Bill Cosby in 2015. The fallen actor is alleged to have drugged and raped multiple women since the 1970s, using Quaaludes and Benadryl. Some witness testimony, including women who had consensual s3x with Cosby, seems to confirm this. But in legal and moral terms, connecting the two is a distraction, as it is just as likely that Cosby used the drugs merely or primarily to prevent the women from resisting his s3xual advances.
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