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Marital rape is still not outlawed in India. Changing that would be ‘excessively harsh,’ government argues (www.cnn.com)

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Criminalizing marital rape would be “excessively harsh,” the Indian government has said, in a blow to campaigners ahead of a long-awaited Supreme Court decision that will affect hundreds of millions of people in India for generations.

In India, it is not considered rape if a man forces sex or sexual acts on his wife, as long as she is over 18, due to an exception in a British colonial-era law.

Most Western and common law jurisdictions have long since rectified this – Britain outlawed marital rape in 1991, for example, and it is illegal in all 50 US states.

But across the world, about 40 countries do not have legislation that addresses the issue of marital rape – and among those that do, the penalties for non-consensual sex within marriage are “significantly lower” than other rape cases, according to the United Nations Population Fund’s 2021 State of World Population review.

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[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 22 hours ago

.. only for up to half the population.

Up to.

And apparently the half that matters. :-(

[-] ValiantDust@feddit.org 41 points 1 day ago

In Germany marital rape is punished in the same way as any other rape since 1997 (which to me always seemed horrifically late). But one of the guys who voted against it is his party's candidate for the post of Chancellor in the election next year.

Maybe we are not as far beyond these misogynistic worldviews as we like to believe.

[-] emax_gomax@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Friendly reminder MLK was killed in 1968. One year before the moonlanding. I always thought open and legal racial segregation was a century or more ago. It hasn't even been 100 years since the holocaust and bloody nazis are popular again. Wtf.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 0 points 22 hours ago

moonlanding

That's two words, and your cohort is showing.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

It was still punishable as coercion. Corporal punishment (i.e. what you'd do to coerce) of wives was outlawed in the early 1800s (and somehow only on the books since the late 1700s), it stuck around quite a bit longer for serfs, for underage apprentices and I think at schools it stuck around until 1956, your own children until 2000.

There's much more to it than misogyny it was a culture of coercion in general.

[-] asciimage@sh.itjust.works 74 points 1 day ago

I fucking hate this so much. For context, I'm an Indian, living in India. I can't believe people here value these archaic "customs" so much that they can go on record downplaying rape to protect the "institution of marriage".

Fuck all of em and fuck their customs. Worst part is that I found out about this because of western media. Maybe the local media did cover it, I should start reading more...

[-] recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago

Worst part is that I found out about this because of western media. Maybe the local media did cover it, I should start reading more...

The best thing we can do is cover each other's back by holding each other responsible✊

By calling out (reporting) the attrocities in all nations (instances) it's easier to isolate bad actors and clean up our environment🌻

[-] recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeessh

still one of the worst places to be especially if you identify as a woman it seems

[-] rippersnapper@lemm.ee 2 points 22 hours ago

One of my Indian friends said she felt invisible when visiting France. Apparently being stared at just for being a woman is common in India.

[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 day ago

"excessively harsh" against who?

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

Relevant Indian Metal (there's subtitles).

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

Sick band

[-] eodur@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Thank you for that! Wicked

[-] WhatThaFudge@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago

That was.. fucking awesome!

[-] Ginja@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

I would never set foot in India.

[-] 5in1k@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Beautiful country…

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 22 hours ago

The best thing we can do is cover each other’s back by holding each other responsible✊

That's an excellent way to say that. We can be our sibling's keeper.

[-] EdanGrey@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Who gives a fuck about the women eh

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