Marital rape exposes our society’s inherent misogyny | VIEW
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In 2005-06, the National Family Health Survey found out that of the 80,000 women they had interviewed, 93 per cent said that they had been sexually abused by their current or former husbands.
Payal is an upper-middle-class educated woman who got married to a successful lawyer who hit her, raped her and forced objects inside her while having sex with her. She tried to leave her husband, but didn’t get the support she was looking for from her parents and only found the strength to walk out when he started physically abusing her child. Her lawyer advised her not to mention rape when she filed for a divorce. Unfortunately, Payal’s story is not an isolated case.
In 2005-06, the National Family Health Survey found out that of the 80,000 women they had interviewed, 93 per cent said that they had been sexually abused by their current or former husbands.
