Haha what a funny article. My first thought is why haven't they wondered if it's the other way round- that people with sexsomniac tendencies are slightly more likely to be drawn to illicit drugs?
I could imagine that people who have sexsomina could have higher sex drives, so are more pleasure seeking, so more likely to seek pleasure in drugs also.
Or maybe they're more in tune with themselves so more open so less likely to lie about how they use drugs?
Or maybe it's because most of the sexsomniacs were men, and maybe men are more likely to take drugs than women? If three times more men are sexsomniacs than women as the article claims, then that's about 17 women vs 50 men sexsomniacs.
Or maybe men are more likely to admit to having taken drugs than women? Etc, so many potential variables, just seems really speculative to me.
Another thought is that 16% and 8% are not so far apart. Of the 832 patients, only 67 were sexsomniacs, and only 11 of these sexsomniacs admitted to having taken drugs... that doesn't seem enough people to come to any solid conclusions at all in my eyes, could be a complete fluke that it was 11 out of 67 drug taking sexsomniacs in that sample instead of 6 out of 67.
Often with these things they assume to blame the drugs. I'm not saying it isn't the drugs, maybe it is, but maybe it isn't too, and I'm sceptical.
If the study had ended up the other way round with only 3 of the sexsomniacs being drug takers, would they have decided that drugs are good for you because they stop you turning into a horrible depraved pervert in your sleep? And would the press have wanted to run a story to suggest that we should take more drugs to stop us becoming sleeping perverts? I think not
