Sex will no longer be a duty in marriage, according to a new French law that won unanimous approval in National Assembly (opens in new tab)

Last week, the French National Assembly voted unanimously to abolish the legal concept of “devoir conjugal” (marital duty) in the Civil Code. Traditionally, marital duty implied that spouses had a legal obligation to engage in sexual relations — a notion rooted in old interpretations of marriage law, even though the Civil Code never explicitly spelled […]