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Marital Rape
- One out of every seven wives is raped by her husband. (14%) (Source: Diana Russell, Sexual Exploitation).
- Rape in marriage is the single most common form of rape.
- Survivors of marital rape report more long-term negative effects than survivors of any other kind of rape, and report equal levels of feeling traumatized as do survivors of rape by strangers.
- The studies show that women leave marriages as a result of marital rape. One in every four separated or divorced woman (25%) said that her husband had used force, or threats of force, to have sex with him.
- Forcing your spouse to have sex with you is legal in 23 states. In keeping marital rape legal, attorneys cite the 17th century jurist Sir Matthew Hale who said, "The husband cannot be guilty of rape committed by himself upon his lawful wife, for by their mutual matrimonial consent and contract, the wife hath given up herself in this kind unto her husband, which she cannot retract."
- At least 60% of Physically Battered women are also subjected to sexual abuse and assault. Rape is one of the tactics that assailants use to keep control over their partners.
- There is no empirical evidence that exists which shows that women make up marital rape in order to get revenge on their husbands.
- Several studies have demonstrated that a woman leaving or threatening to leave a marriage will often be raped by her husband.
- Many believe that if a man is deprived of sex by his wife, he is justified in assaulting her, raping her, sexually assaulting his children, or in committing other crimes. One psychiatric journal said that the reason that Lee Harvey Oswald murdered President John F. Kennedy was because Oswald's wife Marina was refusing to have sex with him.
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