Marital Rape - Why India's Laws Must Change?

[ProbeIndia]

India's laws on rape, rooted in antiquated principles, continue to exempt marital rape from criminalization, leaving millions of married women vulnerable to sexual violence by their spouses.

Marital rape is not criminalised in India. For years, women's rights activists have tirelessly campaigned on the streets and in the courts to have it recognised as a crime. The absence of criminalisation has left millions of women vulnerable to legal rape within their marriages.

Chitra Awasthi's RIT Foundation is among the petitioners in the case before the Delhi High Court. The petition argues that "without the right to refuse sex, married women are legally reduced to mere sexual and reproductive subjects."

[JacobJordan]

Well to change that part of the law first they have to change the arranged marriage situation. Both parties are forced into a marriage to further political, financial or social goes and naturally they are expected to provide offspring. Men being the more rational being typically see it in a logical and dejected fashion. Basically "fine guess I'll marry and have kids" women being the more emotional typically see the relationship from whether there is or isn't love and that also determines willingness to be intimate.

[ProbeIndia]

what a ice way to look at.. appreciate your thoughts.

[thisAppIsGarbage]

I'm tired, drunk amd it's late. My wife spiked my drinks with a sleeping drug for 2 years. We had a daughter at 40 because of it amd I had a stroke. I would have never known if my doctor didn't tell me I couldn't take these drugs with my high BP pills because it would cause a stroke. She caused both High BP and the stroke. It was wrong but my daughter was a blessing. Anyway my wife went missing shortly after and in another year or two if the bloodhounds don't find her she will be declared dead and we can all move on

[ProbeIndia]

Thank you for sharing your personal story. you have been through a lot.

[Agape93]

And they wonder why I'd never visit.

If you force your partner like that, you're a rapist and deserve to die screaming.

[worldscolide]

There are a lot of countries that are like that, India, And most of the middle eastern countries. Its sickening.

[Agape93]

Yeap, and people wonder why im no longer neutral. When it becomes so fucking prevalent, and I see almost no condemnation from their own people, then I see em as an enemy.

[worldscolide]

you and me both my friend. There is a song that fits this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-2AOSIUpUE

[Agape93]

I wish I was able to glass them all. I'm genuinely tired of their tyrannical, parasitic existence.

That fits

[worldscolide]

Preaching to the choir.

[Agape93]

Yeap

[Anonymous]

India is full of rape, gang rape, even raping goats

[TadCurious]

And don't think for a minute that the multitudes of Indians we're importing into our country aren't bringing these views with them.

[OtterMan68]

so you think they'll try to change US law?

[TadCurious]

I think they would if they could. My understanding is that India has a prevalent rape culture.

[Agape93]

Oh, they'd definitely change it if they could

[Anonymous]

Withholding sex in a marriage must also be regarded as a crime of betrayal of your vows. Given they both had made such vows the act of forced sex is assault not rape.

[Dargil]

India will me a principal world superpower late in this century. It will have to fix cultural issues like Marital Rape and Suttee. It will.

[snowboarder720]

That’s legal? Woooow my mind is honestly blown. Imagine how many forced pregnancies happen. 🤯

[worldscolide]

Thats just evil. Did not know their laws were so damn backward. On that same token, Most countries in the middle east are the same.

[JonCobretti]

What's the question? You just wanted to podcast yourself

[TonyMetal___86]

There is not such thing as marital rape, change that to wrong marriages!

[msmissydc]

Why is the marriage wrong and not the rape? 🤔 maybe I missunderstand what you are saying though.

[Chazmatazz269]

You are tragically mistaken. First, more than 90% of marriages are still arranged in India. So it’s not like either person has much of a say in the matter. Even in the US, that suggestion is wildly inappropriate. Consider swapping the crime. ‘There’s no such thing as MURDER within a marriage! They just married the wrong person!’
Marriage or none, people do terrible things to other people. Especially in the heat of confrontation. And confrontations always happen in marriages. That doesn’t make it okay for people to rape and murder their spouses.

[diversethought]

Seen a video, sort of gory, where a man chopped off his wife's head with an axe in India... and he got away with it. Speaking of murder.

[diversethought]

Oh, he did it because she was sleeping with another man, the report said.

[Chazmatazz269]

Lorena Bobbitt chopped her husband’s head off, the little one, and got away with it.

[diversethought]

That's what happens when you rape and abuse your woman for years

[TonyMetal___86]

@diversethought @chazmatazz269 @msmissydc you can check my answers and opinions about marital rape on every related question about this topic on the site so i don't have to repeat myself and i guess that you already know my opinion on the subject!

Marital rape and murder are different!
Don't mix everything together!

[msmissydc]

I found one and you think there is no rape in mariage. Why? I didn't see an explanation.

[TonyMetal___86]

@msmissydc i did a take on it, if you'd like to read it, you will fully understand my opinion about marital rap

My opinion about "Marital Rape"... ↗

[msmissydc]

Thats fucked up. Rape is rape. Being a husband or wife doesn't make the same action not rape! Would on the flipside every consesual sex outside marriage be rape as well? Because your definition isn't based on the action but on the relationship.

[TonyMetal___86]

@msmissydc yes because a real husband would never rape his own wife and sex if a part of marriage, only a marriage grants the couple the right to have sex with each other at will while everything outside marriage should be given a consent!

A husband can come home and strip his wife naked, it's perfectly normal, a boyfriend cannot do this without asking for his girlfriend's permission and if there's no relationship at all than he ain't allowed to do such thing at all and will be arrested for it!

It doesn't mean a wife is forced to accept it, but she can easily tell her husband "not now honey and she will exaplain to him why"

That's what i believe in!

You might tell me: " what if i said now, explained to him why and he forced me to have sex" at this point it's up to you to decide if you wanna remain with this man or not and believe me a lot of wives accepts it but a real husband won't do such things!

When these women who were forced by their husbands to have sex were asked what if the man was not your husband, they all said that they will sue them or kill them and considers it 100% rape!

I once asked a wife, haven't you cried or pushed him away or screamed and cried? She told me no, he's my husband, i'm not affraid of him, i was just frozen like a statue, had 0 feelings and waited him to finish than we had a chat about it and he promised to never do it again because he was unhappy since he felt like he's f*cking a statue!

That's why there is no such thing as marital rape unless she was pushing him away and he started physically assaulting her than that's a physical assault!

No sane husband would beat his wife for sex!
These actions will take his rights away from him and the wife can file for divorce and even sue him!

All i'm saying is that things are totally different between a married couple and others who aren't married or strangers to each other!

[msmissydc]

You think too high of rapists. "No sane husband", yes. But rapists are terrible humans to begin with, saying they wouldn't do it is just wrong and you defend them by saying there is no rape in a marriage. Do you know the fries consent definition? If no "real" Husband would do that, that would mean every rape from a husband would result directly in a lawful divorce. That is just not the case. Some real husband rape their wives.

[TonyMetal___86]

@msmissydc you're focusing too much on the "husband rapes his wife" tell me how can a husband rape his wife, you're just repeating it over and over again without saying how while i'm giving you detailed answers and informations...

It's all about what you believe in!

Rape is a sexual act forced on someone who refused to have sex or did not give consent to it!

Between a married couple there is no consent or being refused unless there was a good reason for the spouse to say no, so this leads to this question: how can there be smoke without fire? 😄

Unless you consider a married couple are just strangers who have no rights over each other and live their lives under the married banner but in reality are just two strangers under one roof and all this thing called family, love, husband, wife, sacred laws of marriage given to us from god are all fake and do not exist!

[msmissydc]

You literally said it yourself. "Rape is a sexual act forced on someone who refused to have sex or did not give consent to it". A wife can say no, and its rape. It's as easy as that. Have you heard of fries consent? Of course you have not: freely given, Revocable, informed, enthusiastic, specific: saying any marriage is specific enough and revocable at any given time is just not true. A husband can rape his wife (or the other way around) simply by the partner not agreeing to what sexual act the other is doing to them at the given moment.

[TonyMetal___86]

@msmissydc if you believe in this than there is no need to get married in the 1st place, if you and your husband are going to act like strangers with each other than no need for marriage in the 1st place 😄

Also you won't be even a family, what sane husband or wife is going to ask for permission for everything he/she wants to do with their spouse? 🤣🤣

You're just not willing to understand that a husband and wife have their own rules and different life from being strangers or any other sort of relationships!

It's not us who makes the laws of marriage, it's god and that's why it's called a sacred marriage and that's why god makes the married couple as one physically and spiritually!

You're beliefs are different than mine, you have you're right to choose what kind of life you want to be in and me too i have my own beliefs and my own lifestyle!

If a girl tells me that she believes in marital rape after all my explanation to her than i'll surely won't marry her, i don't wanna marry s girl who keeps considering me a stranger living with her and that i have to ask for permission like a little kid for everything that i want to do with her and if not than i'll turn into an instant criminal 😏

[msmissydc]

So you are only marrying so you can rape her, or in your words not being able to rape Her? Because the deed is literally the same. I am married to my husband and not to any god. I completely trust him to not rape me. That doesn't mean its impossible. Most rapes statistically are from people the victim did trust.
There is no belief in laws. Thats one of the purposes of laws. Bringing your imaginative friend who apperantly condons rape, into any kind laws is crazy. What crazy god do you follow who would allow that? That sounds like slaanesh.

[TonyMetal___86]

@msmissydc see, i told you that we are different, you trust human's laws while i trust god's laws...
It's up to you to think of whatever you like about me, if i'm going to marry for rape or if i'm not going to rape my future wife!

There is no further explanation that i can give you, now it's up to you to believe in whatever you want to believe about me 😏

[Anonymous]

If you don't want to have sex with your husband, don't get married.

[JacobJordan]

Most marriages in India are arranged

[Babygirl_S]

I didn't know this 😱

[Bklynbadboy12]

Wow! I'm shocked didn't even know this

[Anonymous]

Cool man--get on that then.

[Anonymous]

Talk to your lawyer today