• ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
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    Justice Gurpal Singh Ahluwalia pointed to India’s marital rape exemption, which does not make it a crime for a man to force sex on his wife, a relic of British rule more than 70 years after independence.

    “When rape includes insertion of penis in the mouth, urethra or anus of a woman and if that act is committed with his wife, not below the age of fifteen years, then consent of the wife becomes immaterial

    Holy shit…

  • jlow (he/him)@beehaw.org
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    7 months ago

    Blocked in EU because the website wants to do unnatural levels of spying on its users.

    Welp, how am I gonna find out what unnatural sex is now … 😓

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      7 months ago

      From reading the article I would expect this quote is from the definition

      When rape includes insertion of penis in the mouth, urethra or anus

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      The offense includes non-consensual “carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal,” and was historically used to prosecute same sex couples who engaged in consensual sex, before the Supreme Court decriminalized homosexuality in 2018