Yeah but cases like this is when garbage laws like age of consent should be re-evaluated and thrown out. Sending somebody to jail for having consensual sex with his wife, “legal wife” or not is about as retarded as charging a 15 year old with ‘sexual abuse of children’ for distributing nude photos of HERSELF. Sure, you can theoretically charge her with distributing child pornography, but for the love of all that is sane how can you charge somebody for abusing themselves?
Now hang on a second. Let’s not throw out the baby with the bathwater and regress to the last century. Of course you can be convicted of raping your wife - if you have forced sex with your wife, you’ve raped her. I don’t care what your wedding vows say, rape is rape, and just because she promised to have sex with you sometimes doesn’t mean she is obligated to spread her legs whenever you want. No means no, even from your wife.
Given that little slippery slope, I do see why *statutory *rape laws extend to “protect” women who married their “statutory rapists.” If a true pedophile found some country to marry him to a 7 year old, should we not prosecute him for having sex with her in our country? By our standards in all 50 states, she is not able to consent to sex or marriage, even with the consent of her parents. Does she not deserve equal protection under the law?
Now, I’m all for radically changing or repealing age of consent laws, but until that happens, I do think that every person should be “protected” by them. The first change I would like to see happen would be that people within a few years of each other not be prosecuted, especially when married and breeding. But the law needs to be changed, not selectively enforced.
WhyNot–I agree.
I should have worded that more clearly.
The couple was less than 3 years apart in age and having consensual sex.
I thought you did, but I didn’t want to leave it lie and have people throw it back atcha later: "What the hell does **iamamoocher **know? He thinks it’s OK to rape your wife! (link) " Just thought we should get it all nice and tidy. 