Daily Wire's Michael Knowles: “Ladies, you owe your husband sex. You owe it to him. It's called the marital debt.”
Knowles: “Wives, yes, you have to sleep with your husbands and you have to do it probably more than you do”
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From the August 12, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Michael Knowles Show
MICHAEL KNOWLES (HOST): OK. So this clip has been criticized for any number of reasons. And when you go point by point, though, you have to wonder if the criticism is totally valid.
So, I want to get this out of the way at the top because this is a very, very important point that legitimately some women don't seem to understand.
Married men need sex. That's part of the deal. Women, listen to me. Women, look — hold on. If you're distracted right now, if you're — hold — if you're just listening while you're doing some other activity, stop. Put down what you're doing. Ladies, you owe your husband sex. You owe it to him. It's called the marital debt. You have to do it. Not all the time. I'm not saying you can never have a headache. I'm not saying that there are not moments in a marriage when actually you're not able to have sex, which I think is the point Lila's actually making.
The clip is being criticized for all sorts of other reasons because at the top, the podcast guest makes a joke about how Mike — Father Mike Schmitz is an attractive guy. He's a handsome guy. Everyone's made that joke. Everyone's pointed it out. He's one of the most popular podcasters in the country. Come on. People have made that joke before. Then they say, well, we don't want ladies going on podcasts talking about their marital lives. And I kind of agree with that. But, anyway, that exists.
And, what are people really upset about here? I think the point Lila's making is crucial. And the reason people are getting angry at her is because you kind of have to pick your enemy here. Is the enemy to attack feminism, which says that wives don't owe their husbands sex? Maybe. That is — that's a problem. Or is the enemy the sexual revolution, which says that we are not rational creatures, that we can never abstain from sex, and that because sex is such a biological imperative, we should engage in all of the attendant vices that go with the sexual revolution. That's the point Lila's obviously taking on, and that's crucial. That's totally right. She's a hundred percent right about that.
So if we clear off the top that wives, yes, you have to sleep with your husbands and you have to do it probably more than you do. If we just clear — if we just set that one off for a second, we — yes, we all agree on that now. Think about the point Lila's making. She's saying men don't need sex, look at priests. Priests are celibate and have vocations. To disagree with that point, you're gonna fall into the liberal modern trap of denying the celibate priesthood that has existed for two thousand years.