TOPIC: Sexsomnia
RHETORICAL PURPOSE: To inform
SPECIFIC PURPOSE: To inform my classmates about an abnormal sleeping disorder – Sexsomnia.
THESIS: The rare sleeping disorder sexsomnia has been complicated to completely understand and can cause harm and confusion to the victim’s and/or sufferer lifestyle.
Introduction
I. Attention-getting device: It’s normal for two people to fall asleep after having sex. However, having sex with your partner and to find out that they are fully sleep and on the job is something else. And the kicker is your partner doesn’t remember any of it.
II. Thesis: The rare sleeping disorder sexsomnia has been complicated to completely understand and can cause harm and confusion to the victim’s and/or sufferer lifestyle.
III. What’s in it for the audience? : Sexsomnia is becoming more common than what researchers thought. Obtaining information about sexsomnia can help us and researchers actually find a cure for those who have it. Just imagine if (emphasis) you weren’t aware that when you feel asleep at night you were involved in strange sexual activities. Envision that you realize (emphasis) your partner or even a friend is moaning and engaging in sexual behavior while they’re fully sleep. Or hearing on the news that someone got raped by someone that has sexsomnia and they claim they have no remembrance of what happened. Gaining information about this rare disease can help us know what exactly the problem is and prevent the sufferers from harming themselves and others.
IV. Credibility: Dr. Ebrahim from London’s Center of Sleep in May 2006’s Journal of Canadian Forensic Medicine explain that a defendant was dismissed of three charges of rape on the basis that he suffered from the somnambulistic sexual beha...
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...xsomnia” was first used by Dr.Shapiro and two of his colleagues from the Sleep Awareness Clinic of Toronto Western Hospital in an article the placed in the June 2003 edition of Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.
1. They consulted and interviewed patients who were referred to their sleep clinic for sleeping problems.
2. Out of 832 patients, 62 participators or about 8% are sexsomniacs.
i. 11% were men and 4% were women.
3. The researchers also discovered during their interviews that most of the partners of sexsomniacs aren’t bothered by the disorder at all. They claim that they actually prefer it.
4. Therefore, there may be more cases of sexsomnia then actually known in the general population.
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