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===Inability to consummate a marriage===
It used to be the <span class="noglossary">case</span>, and many people think this is still true, that a marriage can be annulled if the spouses never have sex. The common law on this subject has developed in a somewhat different direction. A spouse must have either a complete inability to have sex, because of some physical problem, or an "invincible repugnance" to the prospect of sex which is psychological in nature. Be warned that one instance of consummation will defeat either spouse's ability to claim "inability to consummate " as a ground of voidability.
A 2004 case of the British Columbia Supreme Court, ''[http://canlii.ca/t/1q1m1 Grewal v Sohal]'', reviewed the law on applications to annul a marriage based on an inability to consummate. The court held that the applicant must prove that: