An American reality star has come under criticism after saying that while receiving chemotherapy, he wants his wife to have sex with him.
Maurice Scott, 43, featured in Oprah Winfrey Network’s Love & Marriage: Huntsville, which follows three high-powered African-American couples who join forces to revitalise the booming city of Huntsville, Alabama, through a cooperative real estate enterprise.
However, a podcast debate has harmed the series’ and its protagonists’ success after Maurice made a stunning disclosure.
While his wife Kimmi is battling breast cancer and undergoing chemotherapy, Maurice expects her to do her “marital obligations.”
‘There’s a difference between wants and needs, and I’m a person who actually needs sex,’ Maurice said when appearing on Carlos King’s Reality with the King podcast
‘Life throws us curveballs, like what we’re going through right now, and what Kimmi is doing is admirable as a spouse.
‘To roll over and suffer through it… fake it, all for me. Because at that moment it’s something that she completely didn’t desire’
He added that he look at it as her ‘standing by me while I’m standing by her’.
Pushing back against criticism, he said: ‘We should all feel that we would be better people and say, “Oh no, I don’t want or need sex for however long it takes for you to recover”. But we then live in reality, where that’s not true.’
Maurice informed Kimmi in an earlier episode of Love & Marriage: Huntsville that he desired sex every day, sometimes twice a day.
His wife, who was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer last year and is currently receiving chemotherapy and radiation treatment, termed his requests “extreme.”
‘I feel like men just never get enough. Maurice, I feel like if we had sex every single day you still would want more sex,’ she said.
‘You know why I feel like that? Because it happens now. We’ll have sex at six o’clock, and you’re pulling my panties down at 10 o’clock, and then getting mad because I don’t wanna do it at 10 o’clock. It’s never enough!’
Maurice’s requests evidently enraged many people, who took to social media to call him out.
‘Maurice Scott doing an interview telling the world his wife rolls over, fakes it, and suffers through sex while she’s sick battling cancer because he NEEDS sex is wild af,’ one person posted on Twitter.
‘Maurice Scott is an excellent example of a toxic, chauvinistic, ignorant and arrogant “man”,’ someone else said.
‘His wife is suffering from cancer and he demands her to “roll over and suffer” sex with him. Glad I’m currently single!’ they added.
After being diagnosed with cancer, Kimmi, 34, told People magazine last month that she was ‘devastated’ by the news.
She then began 20 weeks of’very harsh’ chemotherapy before undergoing breast conserving surgery and 36 sessions of radiotherapy.
Since 2019, the pair has been on Love & Marriage: Huntsville.
Love & Marriage: Huntsville airs on the Oprah Winfrey Network in the US.
