It is wrong to allow yourself to be raped or to actively rape your spouse.
There was a serious disagreement at the Chama meeting last Saturday. The chairperson convened a meeting to discuss marital rape. In keeping with tradition, I was invited to this meeting because topics relating to sex were to be discussed, so that I could offer professional advice.
"I feel it is wrong for a man who purports to love you to force himself on you when you don't want to have sex," she said at the start of the meeting.
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When couples are facing difficult relational problems, they shut off sexually.
It's easy to ask why she didn't speak up. It's difficult to examine how society silences her.
The allegations of rape and sexual assault made by ‘brides’ on the show reflect what many other women experience. Sadly, so do…
"Every woman I know performs some version of this – not just to stay employed, but to stay alive."
Many women have sex with their partners even when they do not want to, out of reluctance to say no, uncertainty about desire, or…
So let’s talk to the men for a second. Calmly. Respectfully. Without anybody opening Excel sheets of “money I spent on her".
