India government says criminalising marital rape 'excessively harsh'

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Cynixxx on October 4th, 2024 at 13:17 UTC »

FunFact: here in germany marital rape wasn't a crime until '92 and even then some CDU politians (like our future Chancellor Merz) were against criminalizing it. Beating your kids wasn't illegal until 2000 too.

chillywanton on October 4th, 2024 at 12:53 UTC »

Unconscionable.

Marital rape is outlawed in more than 100 countries, including Britain which criminalised it in 1991.\ But India remains among the three dozen countries - along with Pakistan, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia - where the law remains on the statute books.

Drink_Deep on October 4th, 2024 at 12:45 UTC »

The only thing harsh about rape is what happens to the victim