French lawmakers on Wednesday unanimously approved a bill seeking to end "marital duty", after criticism from women’s rights groups about its use to ignore sexual consent in marriage and marital rape. The text — backed by more than 120 MPs in the lower house National Assembly — clarifies in the civil code that cohabitation does not create any obligation for spouses to have sexual relations. FRANCE 24’s Monte Francis reports.
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