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marital rape  

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  • Marital rape (also called “wife rape” or “spousal rape”) is forced, nonconsensual sex in which the perpetrator is the victim's spouse. Marital rape was criminalized in all U.S. states by 1993 with the deletion of the “spousal exemption” that had defined rape as forced intercourse without the consent of the woman other than one's wife. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Problems; Rape, Marital]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/marital_rape

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