France set to change its civil code to end “conjugal rights" in marriage. The long held idea holds that sex is basically mandatory in marriage. A bill approved on Wednesday in the National Assembly adds a clause to the country's civil code stating that "community of living" does not create an "obligation for sexual relations." The bill’s sponsor says "Marriage cannot be a bubble in which consent to sex is regarded as definitive and for life." The civil code change was spurred by the 2019 case of a woman who was found to have withheld sex from her husband for several years, and the husband was then granted a "fault-based" divorce implying guilt on her part. A European court overturned that ruling.
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