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    Italian wins in court after husband's 'sex strike'
    Court awards damages, says 7-year campaign was unfair
    Updated: 10:45 a.m. ET March 25, 2005ROME - An Italian woman whose angry husband refused for 7 years to have sex with her was awarded divorce damages by Italy's high court this week.

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    Francesco launched his "sex strike" in the early 1990s to punish his wife, Piera, for taking sides against him in a family dispute over money, according to details of the case reported by local media.

    They bitterly separated in 2000 and Francesco, still convinced that she was responsible for the broken marriage, refused to make support payments demanded by Italian courts and repeatedly appealed against them.

    But the highest court ruled that Francesco's sexual punishment did not fit the crime, and doomed Piera to perpetual frustration.

    "The refusal of affection or sexual attention must constitute the blame for the separation," the court ruled.

    For Piera, "satisfaction in life (was) impossible ... along with fulfillment of marriage in its deepest sense." Beyond support payments, Francesco must pay court costs of several thousand euros.

    Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters.
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7294069/

    Seven years is just a bit much in my modest opinion. I'm thinkin' more like a couple of months, maybe. I mean, they couldn't have really been happy all that time if he was actually refusing to do the deed. So, how long?
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    6 Months - 1 Year
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    The banana option is just too wrong for this poll
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    We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln

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    • #3
      marriage > sex.
      In da butt.
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      • #4
        marriage > sex.
        Understood, but he refused to have sex with her for 7 years. Sounds to me like a relatively serious falling out.
        "Beauty is not in the face...Beauty is a light in the heart." - Kahlil Gibran
        "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves" - Victor Hugo
        "It is noble to be good; it is still nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble." - Mark Twain

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        • #5
          10 nanoseconds

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          • #6
            I LIKE sex.
            Stop Quoting Ben

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            • #7
              Kirnwaffen, true, that means there were some serious problems if someone could hold out for so long just because.
              So it makes me think, that the sex part wasn't the real problem, just a side product of it all.

              I don't believe in divorces. I mean, if there is no abuse in the relationship, I dont believe in divorce. Simple as that. You are pledging to be together forever until death aparts you. How can you pledge, and not keep your words? I don't understand that. I know a lot of people understands it and don't understand my position on it, but I guess I'm not like most when it comes to some things. You pledge that you are together for the better and for the worse. So there were some bad times. But the idea was to work it out, and if both want to work it out, it works out. But if the other one is a traitor like that, then it's for the worse for the rest of their lives. Too bad. I guess they married the wrong person. That's why I also don't believe true love exists, and I do believe marriage is built on love, trust and respect. It's a bit complicated, yet very simple. That's why I would not marry a girl if we knew each other for a year and she was really pretty and rich too and pledging alliance to me, because I don't trust another persons pledging. One pledges one day and another day that pledge is taken apart. That's not how it works in my mind. I'm not getting married ever and be alone forever? So be it. I get married and it works out? Even better. But I'm not pledging anything, until I'm rock solid 100% sure. And I don't trust anyone.
              In da butt.
              "Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
              THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
              "God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Pekka
                I don't believe in divorces.
                Hear hear!

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                • #9
                  Dunno. I've held for 22 years without having sex, but ever since I met my girlfriend, I crave for sex after a mere two weeks of separation (we're often geographically separated).

                  So, it's banana for me
                  "I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident
                  "I never had the need to have a boner." -- Dissident
                  "I have never cut off my penis when I was upset over a girl." -- Dis

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                  • #10
                    3 months after having sex for the first time
                    "I hope I get to punch you in the face one day" - MRT144, Imran Siddiqui
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                    • #11
                      The longest I ever went after first breaking the seal was 5 weeks.
                      12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
                      Stadtluft Macht Frei
                      Killing it is the new killing it
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                      • #12
                        You can get sued for refusing to have sex? WTF!?!

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                        • #13
                          This is Italy
                          "I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident
                          "I never had the need to have a boner." -- Dissident
                          "I have never cut off my penis when I was upset over a girl." -- Dis

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Odin
                            You can get sued for refusing to have sex? WTF!?!
                            More seriously, this is a divorce case, whre the man claims the divorce is the woman's fault. I suppose that in the Italian law, it is important to know whose fault a divorce is. As he witheld sex for years, the man denied his wife her right to live a fulfilling family life. As long as justice intervened in their couple (apparently, in divorce procedure), it is normal that justice didn't ignore such an important part of it.
                            "I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident
                            "I never had the need to have a boner." -- Dissident
                            "I have never cut off my penis when I was upset over a girl." -- Dis

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                            • #15
                              shoot them both
                              To us, it is the BEAST.

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