• stoly@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    marital rape was both tolerated and legal 100 years ago.

    In the US, this argument only started to fall apart in the early 1990s when a big case came into the public light. People argued that legally a husband can’t rape and has marital rights. As I recall, the idiot was still convicted and this was a big shift in public perception.