September 28, 2011
Whether you’re married or not, no means no. Rape in marriage is a sex crime that should not be taken lightly. But it seems it means something different in 2011 than it did in the 1960s. Fifty years ago, an Australian woman accused her husband of rape. Today, it looks like the case, which has ...
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June 7, 2011
It’s one thing to agree with the exchange of sex for money and quite another to propose it should be legal for women to be sex slaves. Salwa al Mutairi, a female Kuwaiti politician, has said that men should use women as sex slaves. But there’s more. She adds that prisoners from war-torn countries would ...
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