1,050. When to Abstain

Because of the public nature of these posts, we are omitting some of the more graphic details of this chapter. HaShoneh Halachos encourages interested readers to review these laws more fully in the original sources.

150:11 One may not engage in marital relations in markets, streets, gardens or orchards, but only in a private residence so that it won't be like prostitution.

150:12 When there is a famine so severe that the price of grain has doubled - even though one has his own supply of grain - or when there is any other comparable catastrophe, then one is only allowed to have marital relations on the night one's wife goes to the mikvah. If the couple has no children, then it is permitted at any point.