Marital rape (A case of Lebanon)

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Marital rape (A case of Lebanon)

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Write a paper on Marital Rape in Lebanon.

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Marital rape is an action of sexual contact with one’s devoid of the other partner’s permission. Marital rape is termed as a form of sexual abuse and domestic violence.  Nonetheless, even though sexual intercourse in marriage is regarded as the right that a spouse has engaging in this act without the consent of a partner is categorized as rape and a crime and wrong in the society. Lebanese is one of the countries that legally allowed marital rape, however, a campaign against the Article 522 of the Penal Code that advocated for rape-marriage. The campaign was officially referred to as “A White Dress Doesn’t Cover the Rape“.

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