Rapes have become topics of heated debates now a days, and I feel, marital rapes, that is non-consensual sex between a husband and a wife should be more strictly punished that non-married rapes. I feel so because this is the outcome of Chauvinism and the idea of having dominance over one's wife in the man. They feel, everything they do and say is the truth. Once having married a woman, they feel they have acquired her, and can treat them like their property, doing anything they wish like. It's a sad state that our Constitution does not even recognize the need for consent by the wife before having sexual intercourse as important, and vital.A marriage is between a man and a woman, an affair of equal, partnering people. And if one says No, I don't feel like, the other should understand, be it the husband or the wife. Raising awareness about the same is important, and I feel, before laws, we have to alter perceptions about the equation between the married couple.
You have chosen a very fine topic, and this needs to be voiced over.
-Niv