Rape

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“No,” isn’t a line of defense when it comes to marital rape. In our society marital rape is not considered a huge issue because your body belongs to who you marry. Rape is defined as being forced into enduring sexual actions without consent. As for marital rape, it is being forced into having sex with who the victim is married to. Raping a stranger is considered unlawful but as for raping a marital partner, it is technically okay according to the law and the bible. Only 27% of victims who are raped do not know their attackers in anyway. This means that 73% of the victims knew their attacker, and 28% of them were raped by their marital partner (RAINN). With these kind of statistics, it creates several discussions throughout the years with the topic of marital rape. The talk of how the legal system doesn’t defend victims as well as they should and how it displays an extreme example of sexism not only in todays world but also hundreds of years ago. Even the holy Bible does not condemn against marital rape. Sense marital rape is not frowned upon as much as other types of rape, it becomes known as an unacknowledged crime.

Rape is recognized everywhere throughout the world and is extremely frowned upon. When is comes to marital rape, the idea of it i overlooked and tolerated by our society. The legal reasoning behind this is that when people agree to marry someone, they are becoming each others property. Obviously with inanimate objects, if it a persons property they could do whatever they wanted to it. Sadly the same idea continued through with having property over a person, condoning marital rape. There were actual laws that defended the idea that marital rape was okay to commit such as the Marital Rape Exemption. The law created a...

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...ature (men have a biological need to have sex and if there is a woman next to them in bed when they are in the mood they just cannot help it), we may see it as a misunderstanding (although I told him I didn't want to, maybe I gave him the wrong signals somehow), we may have religious issues which question our right to refuse intercourse (I have got to submit myself to him and accept his will above mine as my Lord and Master)” (Hidden Hurt).
What Hidden Hurt was trying to show is that sexism can manipulate even the mind of the victims. Women are making up excuses for the husbands when they are raped by them, because they don’t accept the fact that it was rape, rather they see it as their duty to just take it. So do all men and women think that marital rape is okay? When it came to interviewing several subjects on this matter, the answers and beliefs were surprising.

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