US EditionFrench parliament approves bill to end concept of ‘marital duty’ after consent concerns
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France will introduce in law the abolition of so-called “conjugal rights” – the notion that marriage means an obligation to have sexual relations, reports BBC.
The National Assembly unanimously buried the "conjugal duty" this week. Finally, the progressive press was extased, delighted to see the disappearance of a legal notion deemed archaic. However, it remains a question: a marriage without sexual relations, what is it right? A co-location? Have our deputies been touched by the good graces of the wokist fairies? Indeed, destroying the image of the dominant male by assimilating to a serial marital rap…
French parliament approves bill to end concept of ‘marital duty’ after consent concerns
The French National Assembly unanimously approved a bill on Wednesday that ends so-called “marital duty” following criticism about its use to ignore sexual consent in marriages. This cross-party bill, backed by more than 120 MPs, enshrines the fundamental principle that consent remains essential for any sexual act, including within marriage. Spearheaded by the MP Marie-Charlotte Garin and the president of the Horizons group Paul Christophe, the …
On Wednesday 28 January, MPs unanimously voted on a bill stating clearly that there is no marital duty in marriage. In other words, being married does not create any obligation to have sex and other obligations with one's partner.
France is in the process of abolishing the "marital debt" at the legislative level, and the National Assembly has already approved the removal of long-standing legal uncertainty, in which the absence of intimate relations could sometimes even lead to divorce; now the Senate is in charge.
A 2019 judgment attributed the full responsibility for a divorce, and the economic consequences of it, to a woman for refusing to sleep with her husband.
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