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In many traditions and statutes of civil or religious law, the consummation of a marriage, often called simply consummation, is the first (or first officially credited) act of sexual intercourse between two people, either following their marriage to each other or after a prolonged sexual attraction.
The search for a definition of consummation and adultery â neither of which are precisely formulated in the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 â has been dismissed by equality activists as an irrelevance. But church groups and Conservative MPs have focused on the issue in their opposition to gay marriage.