"How to Avoid getting Raped"

[TorchTheWitch]

105. there's no such thing as a legal marriage ceremony

The ceremony isn't what makes the legal marriage and never has in this country. The government legalizes the marriage and also legislates that one half of a married couple who forces sex on the other is guilty of rape. Certain religious groups have only been recognized to officiate a marriage ceremony where certain individuals from those groups are granted the power to sign off on the governmental marriage contract and put it to the government for processing in the same way a Justice of the Peace is granted that authority by the government. The contract is a government contract, not a religious one. There is no legal marriage without the government contract regardless if any ceremony is conducted.

I know of no religion that has any marriage vow that one half can rape the other either. This society has long since recognized that a woman is not the property of the man within a marriage to do with whatever he likes including forcing sex on her at those times she doesn't want to have sex.

There are and always have been legal marriages with or without any ceremony where the couple is not going to be having any sex with each other... marriages of "convenience" and marriages where one or both in the partnership are not physically capable of having sex. Those people are still permitted to marry by both religious groups and the government. No one ever asks whether or not the people in the partnership are going to be having sex or not - it's not their business and why no marriage contract stipulates that there must be sex at all. It is only society that makes the assumption concerning which couples who marry are likely or not likely to be having sex with each other.