BREAKING THE SILENCE ON MARITAL RAPE AND DEMANDING JUSTICE
This research paper comprehensively analyzes marital rape, focusing on its legal and social implications. Non-consensual sexual actions carried out by one spouse against the other while still married are referred to as marital rape. The study addresses the social attitudes and perceptions surrounding marital rape, stresses the difficulties in addressing this issue, and looks at the historical background of marital rape laws. It also evaluates case studies and international legal systems to see how far we have come in defining and outlawing marital rape. The study intends to add to the continuing conversation about marital rape by highlighting the necessity of societal and legal change in order to end this form of abuse.
Marital Rape, Marriage, Violence, Social Change.