IF sex is that much a necessity, why do married couples deny
each other the “precious gift”?
A Bulawayo woman who has allegedly endured sexual
starvation for a long time was left with no choice but to drag her husband to
the courts for denying her conjugal rights and abusing her physically and
verbally.
A seemingly sexually frustrated Thembekile Moyo said her
husband Gwinyai Musesengwe, a nurse at United Bulawayo Hospitals, was not only
denying her conjugal rights but also complimented and proposed other women in
her presence.
She said her husband, in a bid to keep a distance between
them in bed, had created a “boundary” so that she doesn’t feel his body in an
intimate way.
Moyo who was seeking a protection order against her husband
described her sexual starvation and abuse she had been subjected to as follows:
“Gwinyai Musesengwe who is my husband and works at UBH as a
nurse is physically, emotionally and verbally abusing me almost on a daily
basis. He beats me up, he scolds me and shouts at me for no apparent reason.
When I asked him not to harass me, he said I should not compare him with other
men whom I’m used to.
“He also deprives me of my conjugal rights and he sets a
boundary between us every day as we sleep. I am afraid that if he continues
depriving me my conjugal rights it will push me to engage in extra-marital
affairs, something which I believe is not good to do.
“He also isolates me socially, as he doesn’t want me to
talk to my friends. He demands that I should stay indoors. Whenever my siblings
phone me, he shouts as they listen claiming that they didn’t want me to get
married to him,” complained Moyo.
She said her husband also took pleasure in humiliating her.
“He sleeps away from home. I also have scars on my head
which I suffered as a result of his physical abuse. I am afraid that, if he
continues, abusing me he will end up killing me. I have also suffered a heart
attack as a result of his persistent abuse,” said Moyo.
Musesengwe, who apparently feared the humiliation of a
trial, didn’t come to court to defend himself leading the presiding magistrate
Adelaide Mbeure to grant an order in favour of his wife, in which she ordered
him not to verbally, emotionally and physically harass her or threaten her in
any way. B Metro
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