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> > > Frenchman ordered to pay wife damages for lack of sex > > A Frenchman has been ordered to pay his ex-wife £8,500 in damages for failing > to have enough sex with her during their marriage. > > > The wife blamed the break-up on her husband's lack of activity in the bedroom > Photo: REX > By Our Foreign Staff > > 12:41PM BST 05 Sep 2011 > > The 51-year-old man was fined under article 215 of France’s civil code, which > states married couples must agree to a “shared communal life”. > A judge has now ruled that this law implies that “sexual relations must form > part of a marriage”. > The rare legal decision came after the wife filed for divorce two years ago, > blaming the break-up on her husband’s lack of activity in the bedroom. > A judge in Nice, southern France, then granted the divorce and ruled the > husband named only as Jean-Louis B. was solely responsible for the split. > But the 47-year-old ex-wife then took him back to court demanding 10,000 > euros in compensation for “lack of sex over 21 years of marriage”. > The ex-husband claimed “tiredness and health problems” had prevented him from > being more attentive between the sheets. > But a judge in the south of France’s highest court in Aix-en-Provence ruled: > “A sexual relationship between husband and wife is the expression of > affection they have for each other, and in this case it was absent. > “By getting married, couples agree to sharing their life and this clearly > implies they will have sex with each other.” > -- Acta Virum Probant --
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