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I want to comment on this:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/wellbeing/sex/ive-been-an-agony-aunt-for-a-year-heres-what-ive-learnt/
It's by Rachel Johnson, the Daily Telegraph's agony aunt. She writes:
“I have had to point out that there is no such thing [conjugal rights]. Even the long marrieds have no rights of possession or ownership of their spouse, and marital rape entered the statute book in 1992. In theory – if not in practise – consent attaches to every act, it is not assumed just because you are in a relationship. [...]
There is no entitlement to sex or someone’s body even if you are married to them. In this country, women are equal. We have agency, and can choose whether to have sex or reproduce, even if this choice is unwelcome to the male.”
This—especially the reference to marital rape—is missing the point. I very much doubt that her correspondents are saying: “I have the right to get sex from my wife at any time“. Rather, I expect they are saying: “sex is part of marriage; a wife who never has sex with her husband is in default of her obligations”.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/wellbeing/sex/ive-been-an-agony-aunt-for-a-year-heres-what-ive-learnt/
It's by Rachel Johnson, the Daily Telegraph's agony aunt. She writes:
“I have had to point out that there is no such thing [conjugal rights]. Even the long marrieds have no rights of possession or ownership of their spouse, and marital rape entered the statute book in 1992. In theory – if not in practise – consent attaches to every act, it is not assumed just because you are in a relationship. [...]
There is no entitlement to sex or someone’s body even if you are married to them. In this country, women are equal. We have agency, and can choose whether to have sex or reproduce, even if this choice is unwelcome to the male.”
This—especially the reference to marital rape—is missing the point. I very much doubt that her correspondents are saying: “I have the right to get sex from my wife at any time“. Rather, I expect they are saying: “sex is part of marriage; a wife who never has sex with her husband is in default of her obligations”.