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Saturday, September 18, 2004

No sex as domestic abuse

Just read this bit of news from Reuters about a Spaniard who tried to sue his wife for domestic abuse. 

What sort of abuse? 

Well, she refused to have sex with him for five consecutive days. In his complaint, he said it was “degrading treatment.”

Well, I agree with him. Being refused sex by your own wife is not the most flattering of experiences. But it’s not something I'd like the whole world to know by squabbling about it in court.

The judge, bless him, shelved the case, saving the guy a lot of public humiliation on top of the private humiliation he claimed to have suffered in his own bedroom.

His wife’s lawyer, had the judge allowed the case to be tried, would have hit him with a lot of embarrassing questions: Do you have bad breath? Or maybe you have body odor? Do you brush your teeth and take a bath before getting into bed with your wife? Are you sure you have what it takes to satisfy your wife in bed?

Whatever the wife’s reason, she obviously doesn’t get turned on by her husband anymore. And there’s no law that could force her to feel otherwise.

What was the husband thinking? That maybe the judge would order his wife to give in every time he feels frisky or else pay a fine? Or that maybe she’d give him money so he could get a prostitute?

Maybe he should just have filed for divorce.

@ ATM

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