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crazytown

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7. Because the husband owns her body.

Reply to Major Nikon (Reply #5)

Sat Feb 23, 2019, 01:13 PM

Feb 2019

She is property. The father gives her to the husband. He picks up and carries his property into his house on his wedding day. She cannot deny him use of his property. Goes right back to biblical times.

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Her husband was not convicted of drugging and raping her - because it is still legal in Minnesota [View all] riversedge Feb 2019 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author littlemissmartypants Feb 2019 #1

Not sure the law is wrong (read my comments), but if he drugged her, isn't that a crime? lostnfound Feb 2019 #2

That isn't the reason these laws exist Major Nikon Feb 2019 #5

Because the husband owns her body. crazytown Feb 2019 #7

Well before then actually Major Nikon Feb 2019 #8

Law is a blunt instrument: mental incapacity laws were once justified as part of eugenics lostnfound Feb 2019 #12

Are you serious? yardwork Feb 2019 #13

I'm talking about the law in general, not this case lostnfound Feb 2019 #14

That's not what we're talking about at all. We're taking about rape. yardwork Feb 2019 #16

No duh. Why did DU get so hostile to discussions of nuance? No duh. Nt lostnfound Feb 2019 #17

You'd have to prove he drugged her. LisaL Feb 2019 #15

How about looking at the definitions of those terms, shall we? moriah Feb 2019 #18

Something discussed in advance lostnfound Feb 2019 #19

I would make sure this story follows him forever. rainin Feb 2019 #3

More here: littlemissmartypants Feb 2019 #4

didn't know this was still legal Lazy Daisy Feb 2019 #6

Another disincentive for marriage. Ilsa Feb 2019 #9

Since his son was nearby how about child porn charges? cstanleytech Feb 2019 #10

Wow. Sickening and shocking that rape is allowed anywhere, let alone in America. SunSeeker Feb 2019 #11