Law: Weekly Ration

Husband's divorce bid fizzles

How much sex is reasonable for a couple married ten years? For Brenda Mason, 31, of Basingstoke, England, one session a week, usually on Saturday night, was quite enough. Her husband David, 30, a mechanic, favored a more ambitious schedule. Despite his best efforts, including a vasectomy to ease his wife's fear of a third pregnancy, sex remained "rationed," as he put it. In frustration he sought and won a divorce at Exeter Crown Court in May. But two weeks ago, a trio of sexagenarian judges (ages 62, 65 and 69) overturned the Exeter decree. Said Lord Justice...

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