Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Marital rape is now officially legal in Lebanon provided a stick is not used

I am not making this up.  The Lebanese parliament yesterday passed a new family violence law (that refused to accept the category of battery of women) which makes it perfectly legal and sanctioned by the court for the man to rape his wife provided the rape does not harm the woman--the man is not encouraged to use sticks during the rape.  Worse, the civil law in Lebanon now accepts that the wife has sexual "obligations" toward the husband.  Furthermore, to prove rape in marriage, there has to be witnesses to prove the deed. For that, all acts of sex and rape in marriage will now be monitored by a special team of sexual police.