00:00For 20 years, Ingrid was married to the same man and felt pressure to have sex with him
00:05under a legal obligation.
00:07He said, she's my wife, so that's it.
00:10When I said I didn't want to, he said he would take a mistress, that he would look elsewhere.
00:15So, those were the threads, when I didn't want to, I was punished.
00:21Ingrid is not alone.
00:22A recent survey found that more than half of French women report
00:25sex with their partner that was either forced or coerced.
00:28On Wednesday, the national
00:30assembly passed a bill doing away with any legal obligation to have sexual relations within
00:35marriage.
00:37I would also like to spare a thought for all the women
00:40who were forced into sex, who suffered marital rape, who were coerced into sex with women.
00:45When they didn't want to be.
00:46And we're counting on this text to be a starting point for ensuring that this
00:50ends.
00:51Although not explicit, the current civil code requires spouses
00:55to live together, which is often legally interpreted as an obligation of marital duty.
01:00Last year, the European Court of Human Rights ruled against France and in favor of a 69-year
01:05old woman whose husband obtained a divorce on grounds that she was at fault for refusing to
01:10have sex with him.
01:11The proposed changes to the civil code would make granting a divorce on
01:15such grounds impossible.
01:16The bill adopted by the assembly must now be examined.
01:20The Senate
01:21The Senate
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