Poll on sexual regulations

[nclib]

Option 6 for me.

Marital rape should be criminalized because it, unlike adultery and sodomy, is a non-consensual act.

[KEmperor]

None.

[Brambila]

Marital Rape-- in rape's real definition. That's all.

[Lunar]

Six.  Everything that is consensual shoul be legal.

[opebo]

None.

[bejkuy]

None.  

[John Dibble]

Option 6 for me.

Marital rape should be criminalized because it, unlike adultery and sodomy, is a non-consensual act.

Same reason. Those who say 'none', I'm thinking you don't know what marital rape is.

[specific_name]

marital rape should be considered rape just the same, if by rape you mean... forced, non consentual sex. No one should be forced to do something just cause of marriage. (note: I could imagine how this law would be abused, but overall I agree)

[Josh/Devilman88]

All

[opebo]

Option 6 for me.

Marital rape should be criminalized because it, unlike adultery and sodomy, is a non-consensual act.

Same reason. Those who say 'none', I'm thinking you don't know what marital rape is.

I'm thinking of the difficulty of enforcement.

[bejkuy]

Option 6 for me.

Marital rape should be criminalized because it, unlike adultery and sodomy, is a non-consensual act.

Same reason. Those who say 'none', I'm thinking you don't know what marital rape is.

I'm thinking of the difficulty of enforcement.

Ditto.

[Posterity]

Option 6 for me.

Marital rape should be criminalized because it, unlike adultery and sodomy, is a non-consensual act.

Ditto.  But why is marital rape not covered by the current rape laws?  Rape is rape.

[John Dibble]

Option 6 for me.

Marital rape should be criminalized because it, unlike adultery and sodomy, is a non-consensual act.

Same reason. Those who say 'none', I'm thinking you don't know what marital rape is.

I'm thinking of the difficulty of enforcement.

Ditto.

It's sometimes difficult to enforce laws against people abusing their spouses, but that doesn't mean it should be legal.

[English]

Marital Rape. It's not consentual.
The only sexual acts that should be illegal are those where consent is not possible (because an animal or child is involved), or those cases where consent is not given (rape).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Legal Comparison: In the U.K, Marital Rape is illegal as is sodomy between non-homosexuals (called "Gross Indecency")
Adultery is legal, but is grounds for divorce (unsuprisingly if there's a dispute during the divorce, Judges almost always rule against the adulterous party)

Oh and rape is defined as no consent. People under the age of 16 cannot consent so all sex with under 16's is rape.

[??????????]

None. All these acts are impossible to be fairly enforcable by the police. The cops have bigger fish to fry.

[migrendel]

It would belie the reasonability of a modern civilization to criminally proscribe sodomy and adultery. Those are things that consenting individuals do, and it would dramatically abridge their privacy if they were crimes.

But marital rape is a different matter. I'm aware some husbands feel that women should expect to have sex with their husbands, but the law is blind to such an implication. It realizes that the ability to consent to sex does not end when the vows are taken, and refuses to accept the proposition that a wife is a form of property that can be forced into sex. I cannot countenance that the law condemns as heinous an act committed by a poor, confused young man, but finds it acceptable that the man who vowed before God to love and honor his wife could do the same thing. If I'm going to support the prosecution of rape, perhaps the most unconscienable crime after murder, I'm not going to give these so-called husbands an exception.

[??????????]

Migrendel,

Again, wouldn't you agree that all of these above mentioned acts are pretty much unenforcable 90% of the time? I do think however that adultery should HURT the offending party in a divorce settlement. Fair is fair.

[migrendel]

Marital rape laws would be no more difficult to enforce than rape laws in general. A woman could go and have a test done, which would show whether or not her husband's sperm is in her body, and see if there are signs of physical struggle.

I fully anticipate someone to ask me whether I would agree that it is possible that a married woman is claiming consensual sex with her husband was rape. Isn't that true of any rape case? Why should there be a presumption of consent in one case and not in another?

[MarkDel]

Marital Rape should obviously be criminal. Sodomy and Adultery are victimless CHOICES.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Marital Rape should obviously be criminal. Sodomy and Adultery are victimless CHOICES.

Adultery is a choice, but it isn't exactly victimless

[ilikeverin]

6

[The Dowager Mod]

#6

[Bogart]

Six.  Everything that is consensual shoul be legal.

I agree.  While marital rape is difficult to prove, if a spouse wants to pursue it, it should be no more difficult to prove non-consenual marital sex from consenual than it is to prove non-consensual non-marital sex from its consensual form.

[ilikeverin]

Martial race needs to always be criminalized.

I dunno... the poor Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans could not practice their martial arts

Typo of the day!