It’s bad enough when your wife divorces you over a lack of sex and the judge rules you “solely responsible.” It’s worse when she takes you back to court two years later and garners $14,000 in damages.
But this apparently happened in—where else?—France, where a man known in court documents as Jean-Louis B. was ordered to pay out around $14,000 to his ex, answering the prayers of dozens of stand-up comedians.
Two years after the couple divorced, the 47-year-old ex-wife then took him back to court demanding 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 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.”
The ruling is based on France’s civil code, which states married couples must agree to a ‘shared communal life,’ which the judge says includes sex.
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