Husband's Sexual Requirement [עונה] & Rules for Sexual Relations

General issues of modesty

The mitzvah of procreation

Psychology and marriage

Psychology and sexual relationships

Rape

Whether the Kutim kept this obligation: Nedarim 31a

Consuming garlic on Friday night: Nedarim 31a

Correlating the position used for sexual relations with the sin in the Garden of Eden: Eruvin 100b

Is there more pain and embarrassment for a man or a woman when their spouse refuses sexual relations: Ketuvot 64b

This is a biblical requirement: Ketuvot 47b-48a; Nedarim 15b

How often a husband is required to have sexual relations with his wife, depending on his profession and its demands: Ketuvot 61b, 62a-b

Requirement to gain wife's permission, and satisfy her, before sexual relations: Chagigah 5b

What if she claims that he doesn't have sexual relations with her: Yevamot 112a

Adding to a woman's ketubah over time for the husband's refusal to engage in sexual relations: Ketuvot 63a, 64a-b

Not adding to the ketubah for Shabbat when the man refuses sexual relations, because that would look like a prohibited Shabbat salary: Ketuvot 64a-b

What if she claims that he can't impregnate her: Tos. Yevamot 112a #4

What if she vows not to have sexual relations: Yevamot 112a; Ketuvot 71b; Nedarim 15b

What if he vows not to have sexual relations: Ketuvot 61b, 62a-b, 71b; Nedarim 15b

Forcing a man to divorce his wife if he vows not to have sexual relations for more than a certain period of time: Ketuvot 61b, 71a, 72b

Sexual Relations on the night a woman immerses to end her niddah period [under the older system of immersion]: Pesachim 112b

Statement against those who travel to Israel, leaving their wives alone for long periods of time: Gittin 6b

The ideal period of onah for a Torah scholar and his wife: Ketuvot 62b

Requiring a Torah scholar to get his wife's permission to leave town in order to study Torah: Ketuvot 61b [and see Tosafot התלמידים], 61b-62a, 62b

Requiring a day labourer to get her permission to leave town in order to work: Ketuvot 61b

Marrying a woman on condition of not having to fulfill the requirement of providing food, clothing and sexual satisfaction: Ketuvot 56a-b; Kiddushin 19b; Bava Metzia 51a-b

Babylonians considered Israelis physically pampered, and therefore able to fulfill onah more frequently: Ketuvot 62a

A woman will accept her husband being away longer, even reducing onah, if it will result in income, but not if it is just for him to pursue his own mitzvot: Ketuvot 62a [see Rashi שאני התם] and Ketuvot 62b [see Tosafot רוצה]

Rav Rechumi left home to learn Torah from Rava in Mechoza all year, coming home only on the eve of Yom Kippur. One year he was late due to his studies, and his wife cried. As a result, he passed away: Ketuvot 62b

Is a woman sanctioned for refusing sexual relations if she says her husband is physically repellent to her?: Ketuvot 63b-64a

Mar Zutra's rabbinical court sanctioned a woman for rejecting her husband due to his physical repellence. The reunion resulted in the birth of Rabbi Chanina of Sura, but that wasn't a sign that this was a good policy; it was a special case of Divine assistance: Ketuvot 63b

Reduction of a woman's ketubah over time for refusal to engage in sexual relations: Ketuvot 63a-b, 64a-b

Loss of rights to the nedunya for refusal to engage in sexual relations: Ketuvot 63b-64a

Loss of rights to support by the husband for refusal to engage in sexual relations in order to pain him: Ketuvot 64a [see Hilchot Ishut 14:9-10]

Whether the rabbinical court should take a conciliatory approach or a coercive approach when a wife refuses: Ketuvot 63b

Waiting up to one year before divorcing a woman who refuses sexual relations in order to pain her husband: Ketuvot 64a

Friday night or Shabbat day as the ideal time for sexual relations: Ketuvot 62b [and see Rashi מע"ש], 64b, 65b

For a woman to demand sexual relations from her husband: Eruvin 100b; Nedarim 20b

Statements against men who demand sexual relations with their wives: Eruvin 100b; Nedarim 20b

Prohibition against forcing one's wife to have sexual relations: Eruvin 100b

Whether all forms of sexual interaction are permitted, or only certain ones: Nedarim 20a-b; Niddah 13b

Potential causes of birth defects, based on the manner of sexual relations: Nedarim 20a-b

A man and woman are only permitted to each other at night because of the human ability for voice-recognition: Gittin 23a

Not to be drunk during Sexual Relations: Pesachim 110a; Nedarim 20b

Not to have sexual relations while the two are angry at each other: Nedarim 20b

Not to have sexual relations with other people present: Nedarim 20b

Not to have sexual relations with living creatures present: Niddah 17a

Not to have sexual relations while a guest in someone else's home: Ketuvot 65a

Having sexual relations with a Torah or phylacteries [tefillin] in the room, in a case or out of a case: Berachot 25b-26a

Learning lessons from the rooster regarding sexual relations: Eruvin 100b

Having multiple intercourses without checking for menstrual blood in between: Niddah 16b

Participating in intercourse when one is an Onein: Berachot 18a

Dangerous to have Sexual Relations an even number of consecutive times: Pesachim 109b, 110a

Looking at other women, even his own wives, during sexual relations: Nedarim 20b

What if the husband is in ex-communication at the time when he is due to have sexual relations with his wife: Moed Katan 15b; Nedarim 20b

Not completing the "Kiddushin" transaction of marriage via Intercourse: Kiddushin 12b

Intercourse during the day: Shabbat 86a; Megillah 13a; Ketuvot 65b; Niddah 16a, 16b, 17a

Daytime intercourse, for a Torah Scholar: Shabbat 86a; Niddah 17a

Torah scholars should not be with their wives sexually too frequently, like chickens, lest that reduce the time spent on study: Berachot 22a

Achashverosh wouldn't have marital relations during the daytime: Megillah 13a

Intercourse during the day, in a darkened room: Ketuvot 56a, 65b; Niddah 17a

Intercourse in a lit room: Pesachim 112b

Intercourse in a bed with an infant sleeping on it: Pesachim 112b

Speaking during Sexual Relations: Chagigah 5b

Prohibition against sexual relations for the Jewish people entering Israel when the Ark was not in its proper place: Eruvin 63b

Whether both men and women with tzaraat are prohibited from marital relations: Keritot 8b

A man insisting on having sexual relations only while clothed is like the (uncouth) Persians and is grounds for compulsory divorce: Ketuvot 48a



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