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By Joanna Bourke, published 10/9/2007In bedrooms all over the country, women are still subjected to sexual violence from their spouses.
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I also think that Col Rouge's comparison of sexual violence by men with "verbal assaults" by women indicates an essential misogyny in his view of male-female relationships. Show me anyone who would rather be raped than yelled at.
As for runner's weird comment that "if we evolved from animals their (sic) is no such thing as rape!", I can only conclude that his experience of sex - whether between animals or humans - is very limited indeed. Rape is sex without consent. It happens all the time in the animal kingdom and all too frequently among humans.
While it's quite laughable to read the woefully ignorant runner's assessment of someone else's scientific understanding, it's no surprise that he trots out the old fundy patriarchal admonition "for wives to respect and submit to their husbands".