Marital Rape Marital rape, a frequent occurrence, is seldom discussed and is reported even less.
Research indicates that one out of every seven women has been raped at least once by their husbands.
Rape by force includes forced sex ranging from pushing, pinning, and being held down by her husband's weight so that his wife can't move, to imposed sex accompanied by physical violence. Rape by threat of physical force includes froced sex through her husband's verbal threats of killing, maiming the wife, her loved ones, or her pets or threats with a weapon. Rape when a wife is unable to consent includes forced sex while the wife is unconscious, drugged, intoxicated, asleep, tied up, or in some way unable to give consent. Rape by coercion includes forced sex by the husband through threats and intimidation, emotional abuse, tricks, bribes, and blackmail. As a wife, know that you have the right to control your own body and to make your own decisions concerning sex and pregnancy.