Researchers are struggling to understand a rare medical condition where sufferers unknowingly demand, or actually have, sex while asleep.
Research into sexsomnia - making sexual advances toward another person while asleep - has been hampered as sufferers are so embarrassed by the problem they tend not to own up to it, while doctors do not ask about it.
As yet there is no cure for the condition, which often leads to difficulties in relationships.
Most researchers view sexsomnia as a variant of sleepwalking, where sufferers are stuck between sleep and wakefulness, though sexsomniacs tend to stay in bed rather than get up and walk about.
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