IT IS NOT LOVE!
Standing in front of the television, watching the news, her husband cussed aloud at yet another man who raped a woman. Kamala, cooking in the kitchen, wondered how different this stranger who raped someone really was from her husband she’s been living with for half her life now, the man she’s been giving her body away for every single night without her consent. She almost laughed at the irony of it all. This problem is not just Kamala’s. It is the problem of millions of other women living across 36 countries on this planet where marital rape is considered legal under its jurisdiction. Kamala and all these women do not even have the faintest idea that what their husbands are doing to them is a crime. This is because their countries’ courts and legal systems still believe that a married woman is not to be considered as an independent legal entity. She is rather a mere chattel of her husband. All these men who commit marital rape are immunized against their crimes over the fact that ...