My first assumption isn't "bizarre," well, not the wife's actions, at least. My guess would be that she really wasn't suing because she was all torn up about not getting busy in the sack - it was probably just a ploy to get some money. Greed and avarice are often driving forces behind actions, so, in this case, I'd say that she thought of a rather *ahem* creative ploy to get some green. If there's anything I find bizarre, it's that a court humored and eventually favored the prosecution. I didn't know you could sue someone for something as subjective and vague as "a shared communal life." Why does that have to imply banging? Of course, it would be bizarre to sue over and bring to court such a personal affair (if her motivation were really restitution [but why monetary? Greed, as aforementioned?] for her lack of shagging, something that should be resolved between the people involved, not the government (seriously, people). Of course, the idea of marriage as a contract just makes me uneasy, and is something I generally question, but that's a different discussion.
EDIT: Also, there's just something inherently wrong about all this. If I don't want to fuck you, I don't want to fuck you - my body is my body, and no one can... FINE me because I didn't put out. Really, really people? At this point we're verging on looking at bodies like possessions. Sex is something to be given at the whim of the individual, and to put someone in the position where, if, for whatever reason, they don't feel like having sex, they'll have to pay, is abominable. It's crossing a line. When I think of the wife, I don't think of someone who's entitled to money because her husband didn't feel like having sex - he had his reasons. I see her almost as a putrescent creature. Like others said, if you want sex, go find it - if you define your "marriage" by the availability of sex without regard to other factors or to the reasons behind the withholding of sex, end it. If you would actually sue another person (in this case, your supposed significant other) because they wouldn't have sex with you, look at yourself in the goddamn mirror, find out whatever salvageable remnants of your humanity remain by gazing deep within yourself, and grasp them - because you're on the path to losing whatever sort of decency you might have had.
