Marital Rape -  The hidden truth behind Feminist lies

Non-consensual sex in marriage, now bottled by female chauvanists as ‘marital rape’ can be committed by both husbands as well as by wives. If this has to become law, then it follows that such a law has to be gender neutral.

Some female chauvanists questions the government of India, thus “Is it not a violation of  a woman’s fundamental right, when her husband can be exonerated of raping her simply because there is no law to prosecute him?” May we ask, if non-consensual sex in a marriage is rape, then isn’t a husband also being raped when an unwilling husband is forced to perform sex? Isn’t the right of a man violated then? Should  the dignity of a man as a human being  evaporate just because he is married?

It is true that Marital rape has been criminalized by several countries. But in all such, the crime is addressed as a gender neutral one. Let us take the case of the USA, in the state of Ohio, marital rape is addressed thus  “No person shall engage in sexual conduct with another when the offender purposely compels the other person to submit by force or threat of force."  See, it is completely gender neutral. Similarly, Maryland law states that, if the spouses are living together, a prosecution can take place only if the accused "uses force or threat of force and the act is without the consent of the spouse."

Domestic violence act and cruelty against woman law i.e IPC  498A are one sided and biased legislations which have resulted in the ruining of entire families. This is due to false cases being hoisted on the husbands by wives since 498A has the unique position in law where a man is pronounced guilty until proven innocent - on the mere unverified words of a woman. The supreme court has come down heavily on the misuse of this law by women and had ruled that any complaint apart from one which sites grave injury should be cleared by a citizen’s council first . So much so for the image of Indian woman as truthful angels.

Also, in both DV act and 498A there is adequate protection for woman against any kind of violence by husbands. Then, why this new marital rape law? In India where woman have been known to blatantly misuse woman favouring laws which do not have any penal clause for misuse, criminalising non-consensual sex in marriage as rape,  termed as 'marital rape' is a regressive step.

There has been a sudden spurt of activity in the online media immediately after the government had filed an affidavit in High court stating that criminalizing marital rape was neither necessary nor possible in the current scenario. The ‘Indian Express’ itself had published close to 10 articles on the same generally voicing the demands of the feminists. The Quint, The wire, Firstpost etc have been hyper active immediately after this and have published reams and reams of publications supporting the criminalization. Is there an agenda in it? I am reminded of what Swathi Maliwal, the chairperson of DCW had to say about funding of protests after the Nirbhaya incident. She stated in a letter, generally commenting on the work of her predecessor thus, that  "a staggering Rs 2.9 lakh was spent just to ferry crowds to the event in a manner which is befitting only of political parties and not a statutory body”. MHA reports also has accused Indira Jaisinghs’s NGO of using foreign funds for lobbying with parliamentarians for making woman leaning laws and had banned the NGO for misusing foreign funds spending them on  non intended purposes.  Is foreign money  being spent on this campaign also by feminists ?

This sudden hyperactivity of feminists for criminalizing non-consensual sex in marriage is a direct result of the diminished harassment value of 498A towards men due to the recent supreme court ruling. A better way of harassing husbands would be to criminalise non-consensual sex in marriage, since as the law stands today, only woman can file such complaint and  the jail term for this is  seven years, whereas for 498A it is only three. For a country reeling under false cases hoisted on husbands by wives due to biased and ill framed laws on which even the Supreme court is critical about, one more such law will totally break the family structure in this country with dire consequence for future generations.