Marital rape, often initiated by the wife, is now considered a crime in a growing number of countries because forcing one's spouse to have sex even if the other party does not want to is considered violating the partner's body.

But what if it is the other way around, if the man refuses to make love to his wife?

Groom Kanjeng Pangeran Haryo Notonegoro and his bride Gusti Kanjeng Ratu Hayu, the daughter of Sultan Hamengkubuwono X, walk after their wedding ceremony at Kraton in the old city of Yogyakarta. October 22, 2013.

An Indian court ruled that, too, is cruelty, according to a Times of India article about a Mumbai woman who sought to divorce her husband because in the two years of their marriage, no lovemaking had ever occurred.

It started on their wedding night when instead of having a honeymoon, she found her in-laws using their bedroom. From that night on, the husband offered various excuses ranging from stress to his being jobless. Most probably, he had used the infamous line; "Not tonight, honey, I have a headache."

The court favoured the wife's petition for divorce and ordered the husband to pay a one-time alimony of 300,000 rupees or the equivalent of $4,849. In granting the divorce, the judge said, quoted by World Time, "No party has the right to deprive the other from marital bliss without any justifiable reason."

Meanwhile, a Chinese husband sued his wife for giving him 3 ugly children, and he was awarded by the court $120,000.

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It turns out the wife was not really pretty originally, but had cosmetic surgery to improve her chances of finding a handsome husband.

She did, but could not hide the "ugly" physical traits which showed up in her children, leading her husband to file a fraud lawsuit against her for not telling the truth about her real physical features.

In a blogpost, at couples and co., the anonymous blog writer applauded the judge's decision, stressing that the man's children "have been afflicted in a way that will stay with them all their lives and if we give them cosmetic surgery too then this crime will only repeat itself."

Going against a popular adage, the blogger concluded: "Beauty is not skin deep; it's in your genes and if you think otherwise you're the shallow one here."