A 51-year-old French man has been ordered to pay his ex-wife 8,500 euros in damagers after failing to have “enough” sex with her during their marriage. He was fined under article 215 of France’s civil code, which states that married couples must agree to a “shared communal life.”
A judge has ruled that that article implies that “sexual relations must form part of a marriage.” The legal decision that the man should pay his ex-wife the sum of money is rare, and came after the judge ruled that the husband, named only as Jean-Louis B., was solely responsible for the split.
Two years prior, his wife filed for divorce, citing her husband’s “lack of activity in the bedroom” as the reason for the breakup. The 47-year-old woman took him to court demanding 10,000 euros in compensation for “lack of sex over 21 years of marriage.” Though the husband claimed that tiredness and “health problems” were his reasons for not sleeping with his wife, the judge ruled that “a sexual relationship between husband and wife is the expression of affection they have for each other, and in this case it was absent.”
The judge continued, “By getting married, couples agree to sharing their life and this clearly implies they will have sex with each other.” Though the exact terms of how much sex the wife had expected were not disclosed, I have to wonder if this is setting a bizarre precedent – paying for sex (or lack thereof) within a marriage? Kind of strange.
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