The Impotent Examination in Medieval Marriage

Sex is seen as a really important part of mediaeval marriage. In theory, your spouse can sue for an annulment on the grounds of inability to have and it pretty much is always women suing men. The attitude is that there are very rare cases wherew women aresuned because they're frigid. Women sue their husbands for impotence because they want to be allowed to marry somebody else and have children. People undergo physical examinations by expertso sometimes it's doctors or midwifes. They will do all sorts of set of tests to try and see whether somebody can be aroused, whether they can maintain an erection, comono, the size of their genitals,. All that