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Answer to Case Study #3:Marital rape law protects a woman’s basic human rights of maintaining bodily and psychological integrity and enjoying freedom, which includes deciding when and with whom to have sex. Marital rape law also equalizes the balance of power between men and women within a marriage; it is society’s way of communicating that violence against a woman is not acceptable and is therefore punishable. However, to be effective, the law must be enforced, law enforcement personnel must themselves refrain from perpetrating violence against women, and women who use the law to protect themselves or seek punishment of their attackers must not be victimized or discriminated against. “The right to security and dignity of the person requires at a minimum that there be no coercion in sexual relationships.” [UNFPA World Population Report, The Right to Choose, 1997; Chapter 3, “Violence Against Women”]
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