"Marriage used to be understood as permanent consent to the needs of your spouse--at least to the extent that one was able to satisfy them."
Uhhhh........
Well, I'm not sure whether male or female FReepers are going to tear into you first, for that little tidbit of idiocy.
Seriously, that's sick.
your post is sick.The Bible says to deny your spouse nothing!
You are right
What is sick is a society that has become so bamboozled by Feminist cant, that it has forgotten the whole purpose of marriage, which is to sanctify human mating. It is not rape or sexual abuse to have sex with your mate. The whole concept of the "I do's." is to consent to being mated for life.
For a thousand years, under the British and then American legal systems, there was no such thing ever recognized in the law as spousal rape. You would have been laughed out of Court, even suggesting the idea. But, of course, NOW has a deeper understanding than 30 generations of legal and ecclesiastical scholars! Or do you really believe that they do?
This lunacy started with an Oregon, I believe, statute, adopted around 1970. It is hardly something that should simply be accepted. Again, to understand the Feminist Lunacy: The Feminist Absurdity.
William Flax
I agree with you. It is sick to rationalize what this nut did. He did this even after he was told not to do it by her. He also took pictures of her without her consent. If he was not happy with their sexual relationship, he knew where the door was. But instead he forced himself on her and he got himself arrested. Being against rape or any variation thereof is not "feminism."