Marital rape or spousal rape is the act of sexual intercourse with one's spouse without the spouse's consent. The lack of consent is the essential element...

This article provides an overview of marital rape laws by country. Marital rape is illegal in many countries. Throughout history until the 1970s, most...

Marital rape (a form of partner rape, of domestic violence, and sexual abuse by a spouse) is illegal in all 50 US states, though the details of the offence...

above definition excluded marital rape, same sex crimes and considered all sex with a minor below the age of sixteen as rape. After 3 February 2013, the...

include date rape, gang rape, marital rape, incestual rape, child sexual abuse, prison rape, acquaintance rape, war rape and statutory rape. Forced sexual...

to criminalize marital rape; the law defines marital rape that happens at the time the spouses are cohabiting more narrowly than rape in other circumstances;...

to the criminal offense of rape as it relates to marital status: the criminalization of rape between spouses ('marital rape'). the removal of the stipulation...

therefore a hadd offence. There is a lack of recognition of marital rape by mainstream jurists. Rape is considered a serious sexual crime in Islam and can be...

In France, rape is illegal, and marital rape is also illegal. In recent years there has been increase of reported rape cases in France. Rape has been documented...

consensual marital sex can lead to issues with reproductive health, unsafe sex, as well as unwanted pregnancies. Studies show that marital rape continues...

testified in court that he repeatedly drugged his wife, raped her, and invited strangers to rape her while she was unconscious. Over a period of nine years...

Criminalisation of Marital Rape and Law Reform in Canada: A Modest Feminist Success Story in Combatting Marital Rape Myths in The Right to Say No: Marital Rape and Law...

assault. Spousal rape also known as marital rape, wife rape, husband rape, partner rape or intimate partner sexual assault (IPSA), is rape between a married...

for rape. As of 2002, Saudi Arabia reported 0.3 rapes per 100,000 people per year. There is no prohibition of marital rape in the country. Rape is regarded...

or combinations of these. It can range from subtle, coercive forms to marital rape and other violent physical abuse, such as choking, beating, female genital...

rape is a form of acquaintance rape and dating violence. The two phrases are often used interchangeably, but date rape specifically refers to a rape in...

violence and rape victims, marital rape victims, male rape victims of both male and female rapists, female-female rape victims, parental-rape incest victims...

the rape conviction, declaring that a marital rape exemption did not exist in English law and that therefore, it is possible for a husband to rape his...

Marital rape can be classified into one of three types: Battering rape: This includes both physical and sexual violence. The majority of marital rape...

Indian Penal Code, marital rape is not criminalised. Nigeria: Although marital rape is explicitly excluded from the definition of rape in the Northern Nigeria...

The Phulmoni Dasi rape case was a case of child marriage and subsequent marital rape in India in 1889, which resulted in the death of the 10-year-old girl...

Marital rape generally refers to non-consensual sexual intercourse between married spouses. In Singapore, there used to be a partial immunity for marital...

violence may also include gang rape and rape with objects. It is distinguished from sexual harassment, sexual assaults and rape committed amongst troops in...

custody, alimony and marital property distribution), reproduction, suicides, domestic violence against men, false accusations of rape, circumcision, education...

residents. Marital Rape Nundy has represented women's rights organisations in petitions advocating for the criminalisation of marital rape in India. These...

report described the status of marital rape in the Philippines as illegal but added that enforcement is ineffective. Rape between two persons who are parties...

A rape fantasy (sometimes referred to as rapeplay) or a ravishment is a sexual fantasy involving imagining or pretending being coerced or forcefully coercing...

effective in such moments of characterization like the morning after the marital rape scene. Flinn also found Leigh suited to the role physically and felt...

in the 1980s and 1990s. In England and Wales, marital rape was made illegal in 1991. Although marital rape is being increasingly criminalized in developing...

Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013, regardless of gender. In 1892, the marital rape and subsequent death of a 10-year-old girl, Phulmoni Dasi, caused the...