(May 8, 2014 at 12:07 am)Deidre32 Wrote: I'm sorry to hear of this. I was in an abusive relationship, and forced sex was usually what was on the menu. I never looked at it as rape per se, but looking back, if it isn't consenting, then.......it most definitely IS rape. It IS sexual assault. I can only imagine that people still think otherwise due to an outdated cultural (mis)understanding of an issue and similarly outdated cultural belief that a man is by default the "master" or otherwise the superior in any relationship with a woman and therefore need not treat her as an equal. This can work both ways, in that a man who is assaulted by his wife (sexually or otherwise) is under tremendous social pressure to either retaliate or accept it quietly.
Marriage is not a license to abuse another person.
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