Why do some people think this is okay ( Trigger warning: rape)

A lot of straight men still think a woman's body is something that can be bought and owned...

 

Marital rape wasn't a crime in the UK until 1992.

Marital rape is still not considered illegal in many countries.

(those who are not red)

The problem is the presumption that everyone is innocent until proven guilty.
The wife has to prove beyond reasonable doubt that she did not consent.
The defence lawyer will discredit her, by saying that she has other motives and wants to throw her man out of the house, or by taking advantage of her emotional state and make her seem like a crazy woman in front of a jury.
The jury, being consisted of men and women with patriarchical ideas such as 'she was asking for it', or 'she's his wife she has to satisfy him', will often acquit the man because they are not 100% sure that it was rape.
It's a common phenomenon, not so much in Western countries, but still.

 

I'm very surprised if this is true. Rape law has been changed in the United States such that there must still be explicit consent between partners in marriage. Marriage does not mean a husband owns his wife and and fuck her whenever he wants. The law is such that he still requires consent. So if they guy got charged and got off, or the county attorney refused to prosecute or whatever, that's an example of the law not being applied correctly or of juries just being stupid. But ya.

As to why do people think it's okay? They don't, not for the most part. We definitely have a rape culture in the US, and it's pretty sick, but it's not this sick.

 

Well, I'd like to believe that the overwhelming majority of straight men don't believe that, but there is a minority of crazy individuals who think they have a right to use and abuse whoever they want.

 

People assume that if two people are married that all sexual intercourse between the partners is consensual. They think that the marriage means total consent, even though it doesn't. People get forced into sex by their partner and everyone assumes that both parties were okay with it, so nobody says anything about it and the person who got raped gets ignored.

 

I that agree with that

Me and everyone I know think rapist are the lowest form of scum

 

The idea that anyone has a "right" to another person's body is sick. Whether in marriage or outside of it, both MUST consent or rape has be perpetrated. End of story.

 

Yep.