R M. v M. M
| Jurisdiction | Northern Ireland |
| Judgment Date | 01 January 1942 |
| Date | 01 January 1942 |
| Court | High Court (Northern Ireland) |
Nullity - Petition by husband - Incapacity of wife to consummate - Frigidity - Impotence - Hysteria - Repugnance -Other defect - Plea by wife (aged 19 years) of invincible repugnance or revulsion - Denial of frigidity, impotence or other defect - Curability of incapacity - Possibility of wife's consummating marriage - No physical impediment.
The Court found (1) That at the date of the ceremony of marriage between the petitioner and respondent the respondent was and still was capable of the act of generation; (2) That having regard to the finding at (1) above the question of the removal by art or skill of any incapacity on the part of the respondent did not arise; (3) That the respondent did not at the date of the ceremony of marriage and did not now suffer from such invincible repugnance or aversion to the petitioner as to render it impossible for her to consummate the marriage. Judgment was given dismissing the petition. The Court was of opinion that, although she was genuinely shocked and disgusted by attempts at consummation, and although she had a strong and real aversion towards the sexual act, the respondent did not make any genuine attempt to consummate her marriage...
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