OVER THE PAST CENTURY, women’s rights movements have traversed from a freedom struggle to asserting meaningful equality, which necessarily must include sexual equality. If women’s rights are a serious issue for the state, there can be no debate that a husband raping his wife is as much a crime as a man raping a woman who is not his wife.
Those who are against criminalisation of marital rape will not confess the deeper truth, that they are reluctant to release women from the last bastion of patriarchal control—the conjugal duty of women in deference to conjugal right asserted by men as a symbol of physical strength, and social and economic power.
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