Breach of promise to marry is rape.
If you love her and leave her, you've raped.
If you marry her and divorced her
You've not committed a rape of her.
A rape charge hinges on the absence
Of free and unequivocal consent.
How is the consensual sex, not led
To marriage, to be tried as a rape?
Sex has been yoked to marriage by culture
And outside sex is a stigma to women.
Now sexual autonomy is available to them.
She can live in a live-in relationship.
Breach of to promise is no rape;
Failure of marriage is no rape.
Divorce of marriage is no rape.
Sex by force or threat alone is rape.
To try a man for rape for failure
Of marriage following consensual sex
With a knowledgeable woman is bad.
The rape charge is a last stab of justice.
08.02.2016
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