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Another beautiful morning in America, another Republican with fun, fresh opinions about rape: this week’s first-place winner in the “You Can’t Possibly Mean That” Olympics is Donald Trump’s attorney Michael D. Cohen, who told The Daily Beast, “You cannot rape your spouse. And there’s very clear case law.”
Ex-Iowa legislator Henry Rayhons has been found not guilty of felony sexual abuse. A jury of seven women and five men acquitted Rayhons today on charges that he’d had sex with his wife Donna while she was in the late stages of Alzheimer’s disease and unable to consent.
Utah State Representative Brian Greene is totally against rape, of course. Who wouldn't be? Rape bad. But, you know, he wonders, totally earnestly, is it really rape if you have sex with someone while she's unconscious? What if she's your wife? What if you're pretty sure she'd be totally into it? Shouldn't there be an…
Today's daily dose of Vitamin Rage: a man in Indiana will serve no prison time despite being found guilty of drugging and raping his wife repeatedly and over the course of years. The judge even suggested that the woman forgive her now-ex husband who, let me remind you, had drugged and raped her repeatedly over an…
If a husband penetrates his wife while she's sleeping, is that rape or simply "sleep sex?" That's the question raised by a recent advice-column letter-writer, and the columnist's questionable response.
In the ongoing War on Women, it's hard for a member of the political He Man Woman Haters Club to distinguish himself above other the suit wearers with side parted hair who think they know what's best for women. That's why Virginia Delegate Dick Black is special.
