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Spousal Rape

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Spousal Rape
Rape of a woman by her husband or common law partner, which is often part of battered wife syndrome

spousal rape
Forensic medicine Rape by a husband or common law partner, a violent crime and a component of battered wife syndrome. See Assault, Date rape, Domestic violence, Rape.


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But the article on Hamza's IISNA website suggested a Muslim wife could choose to "laugh off'" sex without consent or that spousal rape was hard to define and could just be a case of being married to a "pushy husband".
Spousal Rape: In 2005 AAW and FFW also ran a campaign to remove the exemption on spousal rape under article 276 in the Thai Criminal Code, which states "Anyone who rapes other woman who is not his wife will be punished by being imprisoned from 4 to 20 years".
The state Web site doesn't list sex offenders convicted of crimes including incest, spousal rape or possessing child pornography.
 
 
 
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