Sleepwalking?

In line with other posters, i’ve also seen (in the past) TV programmes or documentaries on sleepwalking. As I understand it, sleepwalkers can do pretty much everything they do whilst awake … but in fact they are ‘asleep’. With this in mind, it seems entirely possible that a (male) sleepwalker could have sex with a female.

Secondly, and given that rape is the act of a male having sexual intercourse (i.e. actual penetration) with a female BUT without her consent – it would appear to be entirely possible that a male whilst asleep visited a female and had sex with her WITHOUT her consent – i.e. raped her.

According to the report in the Media: “Jane McKenna, 33, was asleep at home when a friend’s husband, who had been a guest at a barbecue, walked into the bedroom and started having sex with her.” Note the “started having sex with her” bit. In other words the act wasn’t necessarily completed.

From this I would infer that he was already a guest in her house and simply ”sleepwalked’ from one room into another. He started to do what came naturally to him when with a woman and then, when she resisted, he ‘woke up’ and presumably stopped. however, penetration had taken place and therefore she HAD been raped – even though he subsequently stopped.

On the face of it this is entirely possible. HOWEVER, my instinct is that he came up with a mighty convenient defence. Somehow I find myself wondering if he woke up feeling a bit horny, and just thought that he would pop into the next door bedroom and give his friend’s wife a bit of a seeing to – if she was up for it. Unfortunately for him …. she wasn’t !!!