EXOD533 Most other traditions in both the Occident and the Orient--and in American law as well, until recently--assume that men have sexual drives and women do not, but women acquiesce to the sexual advances of their husbands because they want economic security and children. Judaism, by contrast, from its earliest sources, assumes that women have sexual needs just as much as men do. [This verse] stipulates that even a man who marries a slave "must not withhold from her her food, clothing, or conjugal rights," and the Rabbis reasoned that this holds even more obviously for a man marrying a free woman. Thus, while a husband may never force himself upon his wife, the Mishnah stipulates the number of times each week he must offer to have sexual relations with her, which depends on how often his job enables him to be home. Conversely, he has rights to sex within marriage, too, and if his wife consistently refuses to have sex with him, he may gradually reduce the amount of money he has to pay her in the divorce settlement until he does not have to pay her anything. M. Ketubbot 5:6-7