'No husband has the legal right to demand sex — without consent, it's rape'
ONLY last week I was marvelling at the fact that marital rape has only been recognised as a criminal offence since 1991.All too often rape is perpetrated by someone you already know
We don’t know all the details of the case, they haven’t been released. All we know is that there has been enough concern about this woman from social services for them to bring the case to the court of protection, which hears cases involving people who lack the mental capacity to make their own decisions.
Their lawyers suggested that a judge might have to bar the husband from continuing to have sex with his wife in order to ensure that the woman is not raped.Many people’s perception of rape is that it is something that happens when women are walking alone at night looking for a cab. But all too often rape is perpetrated by men who women know already. And yes, that includes their husbands.
But what about the fundamental human right to have autonomy over your own body, and who has access to it? But if marital rape is illegal then it is a contradiction for him to declare that sex is a human right.
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