Essay on Marital Rape
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Rape is the most heinous crime committed against women. It not only destroys a victim physically but also psychologically. It affects body as well as soul; the act of using and abusing a women’s body for sexual pleasure without her express or implied consent is violative of not only individual’s dignity but also of the society as a whole. Its revolting to one’s thought that your body is being used forcefully for someone’s sexual pleasure.
We have stringent laws in place to protect women from the crime of rape and serious punishment has been provided therein for the offender. But the rate of commission of such crime is still very high and in fact it’s on the rise in our society.
Apart from rape in general, marital rape or forceful sexual intercourse by a man with his own wife is a bitter reality of our society. Though the general consciousness of the society might consider marital rape as a morally and ethically wrongful act but it does not regard it as a serious crime; and in fact, directly or indirectly gives it a social sanction in the name matrimonial necessity. The worst part is that the law of the land also, till now, has failed to recognize marital rape as an offence and in a sense gives it a legal sanction also.