India government says criminalising marital rape 'excessively harsh'

[DavidDvorkin]

The Indian government has opposed petitions in the top court that seek criminalisation of marital rape, saying it would be "excessively harsh".

A number of petitions have been filed in recent years calling for striking down Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code, which has been in existence since 1860. The law mentions several "exemptions" - or situations in which sex is not rape - and one of them is "by a man with his own wife" if she is not a minor.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80r38yeempo

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Ha! Indian splitting hairs on who's legally

and morally allowed to rape you.

[lark]

2. I never have wanted to visit India. They hate women so aren't worth visiting, to me. nt

[Hekate]

3. When did US law on the subject change? Only when I was already an adult, iirc...

So yes, we can deplore that India hasn’t caught up yet. But we shouldn’t be so proud that we can’t admit that we ourselves were late to the table, and that a small but significant chunk of America’s men want “tradwives,” who are not allowed to even control their own fertility.

[republianmushroom]

4. India government says criminalizing marital rape 'excessively harsh' only, if,

you are the one doing the raping and not the one being raped.