First of all you made a few mistakes in your definitions. Sexual assault is every act where you do any type of sexual act on someone without the consent of the victim, whereas rape is a specific form of sexual assault, where you penetrate the victim, i.e. get with something into his body. This two are not equivalent, rape is just a specific type where penetration is involved. [According to modern western law]
We are discussing the act where a husband forcefully penetrates the body of his wife, correct ? So is this sexual assault ? Yes because the husband has forced the wife to perform a sexual act without her consent. Is it rape ? NO, even though the husband has penetrated her body it is NOT rape, because the two persons are married. This was a unanimously agreed upon law until recent western law makers chnages their opinions in the 20th/21th century. A husband cannot RAPE his own wife.
In other words let us differentiate between three cases:
1. Sexual assault is every sexual act which is performed without the consent of the victim.
2. Rape is, If you additionally penetrate the body of the victim.
3. If the victim (wife) gets penetrated by her husband against he will, than it cannot be classified as rape, because they are married. It is a form of sexual assault, but which type it is, should be a question for law makers.
The simple reason why case three is not Rape is, the legal consequences are complelty different, which you agreed in your last paragraph as well. In case two (Rape) the perpetrator will most likely face the death penalty, whereas I do not think anyone would say the perpetrator in the third case (penetrating the wife without her consent) should get the same penalty.
Now to respond to a few of your arguments. When I say martial rape does not exist it does not mean sexual assault does not exist. Martial rape implicates that the perpetrator (husband) is a rapist and should face the same legal consequences as a rapist (death penalty), which is complelty non sense. As for sexual assault it means any type of sexual act was performed on the wife without her consent and this is the case when her husband forces her to sleep with her, i.e. penetrates her. I already called this wrong, but calling this rape is delusional.
Another point. A wife should NOT and doesn't have the right to deny her husband his right for sex (and vice verca). No human being forces his wife for sex when she is in a bad mood or sick. I would advise any brother who is a married to such an evil woman ( who constantly denies his right for sex) to either marry a second wife or get rid of her.
As long as you understand that a husband has no right to sexually abuse/assault his wife. I cannot be asked to argue with you over semantics. So lets leave that to the side.
The bit in bold is a mad stretch. Many people in this world, emotionally and physically abuse their wives. What makes you think some also don't sexually abuse her for the exact reason they physically abuse her?
At the end of the day abuse is abuse, usually the motive is the same which is to humiliate. Many battered women have tales of husbands beating them and then forcefully sexually assaulting/raping them as a way to degrade them further.
Therefore my point is, abusers do not usually rape because they are so horny they can't control themselves, it is usually because rape/assault is a tool that oppresses and subjects the victim. It is a power trip and a way to illustrate their extreme disrespect for the individual. Hence, people need to stop having that simple analogy in their heads that the wife must have been denying him for no reason and that is the case all the time, because lets be real a normal man would talk to her to find out what is wrong and if that fails he would divorce.
Also, when a man is not the type to see a woman's humanity and ability to give 'consent' in the first place, sex is not something they will see as a union of two people freely enjoying each other. Some men have an unhealthy attitude to sex and the industry has made it worse. Violence and force within sex is a growing fetish.
Saying 'no humanbeing' is ridiculous considering humans are oppressing each other day in and out. Look at the world around you.
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