Talk:Marital rape in the United States

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Updates to South Carolina section, and trimming update to intro section.
'' User Enthusiast01 added details about North Carolina's legislation to the introduction, that was too specific to not have a citation, but was also a duplication of the information already in the North Carolina section. I opted to slightly reword the opening paragraph instead, to mention that North Carolina is one of the states which do still treat marital and non-marital rape differently - continuing with the earlier passage in the paragraph about that being more common back in the 90s - without giving unnecessarily repetitive details.
 * ''note: the discussion is about the section on South Carolina, not North Carolina. (I haven't edited the talk page, because I can't change another editor's edits on talk page).2A02:2F01:51FF:FFFF:0:0:BC1B:4448 (talk) 03:51, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

I also felt the language in the existing North Carolina section was too vague and subjective - with phrases like "represents the most extreme situation," and "marital rape punished less severely." So, I added several details, with citations, that specifically outlined the extreme differences between the non-martial and marital rape laws in the state. For example, I replaced "punished less severely" with details on the maximum penalty for first and second degree sexual assault being 20-30 years, while it is only 10 years in the case of marital rape. And because there are two separate pieces of the law related to married rape victims/perpetrators, 16-3-615 for married and living together and 16-3-654 for those married but no longer living together, I opted to remove the block quote of 16-3-615 and just quote the one section that specifies it must include highly aggravated assault. With the idea obviously being to just provide the necessary details and let readers draw their own subjective conclusions.

There are other sections that could use similar cleanup, and if I have time, I'll work on them. CleverTitania (talk) 19:51, 18 July 2019 (UTC)


 * You are referring to South Carolina, not North Carolina. 2A02:2F01:51FF:FFFF:0:0:BC1B:4448 (talk) 03:51, 19 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Corrected the title of this section. Thanks for catching my mistake, random user id. :)CleverTitania (talk) 04:44, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

to do by someone more experienced please
Not sure how to edit stuff on the main page so just wanted to post it here for someone more experienced but this section : "In Iowa, for example, subsection (2) of article 709.4 Sexual abuse in third degree, excludes sexual acts committed by adults with children as young as 12, provided the parties are "cohabiting as husband and wife"." with link 56 which is https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/2016/709.4.pdf This appears to be not true directly from the link provided. How I read this is you can be charged for sexual assult in the 3rd degree if any of the following are true. "The act is done by force or against the will of the other person, whether or not the other person is the person’s spouse or is cohabiting with the person." I think someone should re-read this source and then edit the page to reflect that there is no exemption for any reason listed in 709.4 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.58.84.248 (talk) 06:22, 12 November 2021 (UTC)


 * That section is not about a spouse being allowed to force sex on their partner, but about how statutory rape can be deemed legal when cultural norms allow adults to marry minors.


 * I do think the description of what section is being referenced could be more accurate. It's more a subsection of a subsection. I'll try to get that fixed tonight. CleverTitania (talk) 05:31, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: History of Sexuality in the U.S.
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