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'Condoms make sex less enjoyable,' claims HIV+ man
12 Aug 2014 at 10:12hrs | Views
AN HIV positive woman in Bulawayo claimed that she wanted her husband who is also living with the virus evicted from their lodgings because he was forcing her to have unprotected sex claiming condoms made sex less enjoyable.
The woman, from Cowdray Park (name withheld for legal reasons), claimed that her husband was "heartless" by demanding unprotected sex despite the warning they were given by medical practitioners that they should always have protected sex.
She further said she wanted him booted lout of their lodgings after he turned violent by habitually assaulting her each time she advised him to use protection during sex.
The woman chronicled her ordeal at the Bulawayo Civil Court where she was seeking a protection order against her husband whom she also accused of verbal abuse.
"My husband forces me to have unprotected sex with him every time despite the warning we were given by medical practitioners that we should always have protected sex. He does not want to use condoms claiming they make sex less enjoyable.
"Whenever I refuse to have unprotected sex with him he assaults me and forces me to sleep with him the last incident being on 10 July. What hurts me most is the fact that he is refusing to use protection yet he is the one who deliberately infected me with the virus.
"Sometimes if I refuse to sleep with him he starts assaulting me in front of our seven-year-old son and this has affected I him at school. Because of his abusive behaviour I want him to vacate our lodgings" she said.
She also claimed that her husband courted her anger after he disrespected her by inviting his girlfriend to their lodgings and had sex with her on their matrimonial bed.
Meanwhile, her husband who seemed to have sensed humiliation during the court proceedings did not come to the court leaving the magistrate Marylene Mtshina to grant the protection order in favour of the applicant
The respondent was barred from physically, sexually or verbally abusing his wife and was also ordered to vacate their lodgings.
The woman, from Cowdray Park (name withheld for legal reasons), claimed that her husband was "heartless" by demanding unprotected sex despite the warning they were given by medical practitioners that they should always have protected sex.
She further said she wanted him booted lout of their lodgings after he turned violent by habitually assaulting her each time she advised him to use protection during sex.
The woman chronicled her ordeal at the Bulawayo Civil Court where she was seeking a protection order against her husband whom she also accused of verbal abuse.
"My husband forces me to have unprotected sex with him every time despite the warning we were given by medical practitioners that we should always have protected sex. He does not want to use condoms claiming they make sex less enjoyable.
"Sometimes if I refuse to sleep with him he starts assaulting me in front of our seven-year-old son and this has affected I him at school. Because of his abusive behaviour I want him to vacate our lodgings" she said.
She also claimed that her husband courted her anger after he disrespected her by inviting his girlfriend to their lodgings and had sex with her on their matrimonial bed.
Meanwhile, her husband who seemed to have sensed humiliation during the court proceedings did not come to the court leaving the magistrate Marylene Mtshina to grant the protection order in favour of the applicant
The respondent was barred from physically, sexually or verbally abusing his wife and was also ordered to vacate their lodgings.
Source - B-Metro
