Criminalizing marital rape would be “excessively harsh,” the Indian government has said, in a blow to campaigners ahead of a long-awaited Supreme Court decision that will affect hundreds of millions of people in India for generations.
In India, it is not considered rape if a man forces sex or sexual acts on his wife, as long as she is over 18, due to an exception in a British colonial-era law.
Most Western and common law jurisdictions have long since rectified this – Britain outlawed marital rape in 1991, for example, and it is illegal in all 50 US states.
But across the world, about 40 countries do not have legislation that addresses the issue of marital rape – and among those that do, the penalties for non-consensual sex within marriage are “significantly lower” than other rape cases, according to the United Nations Population Fund’s 2021 State of World Population review.
Beautiful country…
The best thing we can do is cover each other’s back by holding each other responsible✊
That’s an excellent way to say that. We can be our sibling’s keeper.
In Germany marital rape is punished in the same way as any other rape since 1997 (which to me always seemed horrifically late). But one of the guys who voted against it is his party’s candidate for the post of Chancellor in the election next year.
Maybe we are not as far beyond these misogynistic worldviews as we like to believe.
“excessively harsh” against who?
I would never set foot in India.
I fucking hate this so much. For context, I’m an Indian, living in India. I can’t believe people here value these archaic “customs” so much that they can go on record downplaying rape to protect the “institution of marriage”.
Fuck all of em and fuck their customs. Worst part is that I found out about this because of western media. Maybe the local media did cover it, I should start reading more…
Who gives a fuck about the women eh
… only for up to half the population.
Up to.
And apparently the half that matters. :-(
