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How many Swedes were unfaithful last year?

A third of Swedes cheated on their partners last year. Or three percent. It depends on how you define infidelity, a new study shows.

Published: 30 June 2016 11:49 CEST
How many Swedes were unfaithful last year?
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Three percent of respondents in the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education's (RFSU) annual survey said they had engaged in a sexual activity with another person that their partner didn't know about and would't have much appreciated, Aftonbladet reported.

A model of restraint, you might think, but the national cheat-ometer screeched into life when other kinds of naughtiness came into play.

What about sex chats, porn-surfing, online flirting, webcam sex, setting up a real-life meeting with an online pal? Is that cheating?

Women think so more than men, it turns out. Sixty-five percent of women reckon sex chats amount to infidelity compared to 49 percent of men.

Porn-surfing while in a monogamous relationship is considered cheating by 13 percent of women, which was twice the total for men.

Based on their own definitions of what it means to be unfaithful 32 percent of Swedes said either they or their partner had cheated last year.

RFSU questioned 1,062 Swedes aged 15-65 about their sex habits for the survey.

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France taken to European Court over divorce ruling that woman had ‘marital duty’ to have sex with husband

A case has been brought against France at the European Court of Human Rights by a woman who lost a divorce case after judges ruled against her because she refused to have sex with her husband.

Published: 19 March 2021 16:40 CET
France taken to European Court over divorce ruling that woman had 'marital duty' to have sex with husband
Photo: Frederick Florin/AFP

The woman, who has not been named, has brought the case with the backing of two French feminist groups, arguing that the French court ruling contravened human rights legislation by “interference in private life” and “violation of physical integrity”.

It comes after a ruling in the Appeals Court in Versailles which pronounced a fault divorce in 2019 because of her refusal to have sex with her husband.

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The court ruled that the facts of the case “established by the admission of the wife, constitute a serious and renewed violation of the duties and obligations of marriage making intolerable the maintenance of a shared life”.

Feminist groups Fondation des femmes (Women’s Foundation) and Collectif féministe contre le viol (Feminist Collective against Rape) have backed her appeal, deploring the fact that French justice “continues to impose the marital duty” and “thus denying the right of women to consent or not to sexual relations”.

“Marriage is not and should not be a sexual servitude,” the joint statement says, pointing out that in 47 percent of the 94,000 recorded rapes and attempted rapes per year, the aggressor is the spouse or ex-spouse of the victim.

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