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How to Rape Your Wife (legally)

A newsletter on protecting the sanctity of marriage.

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Anthony Dream Johnson
Jan 25, 2025
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Future US president John F. Kennedy and first lady Jackie Kennedy on their wedding day in 1953. It was legal for him to rape his wife that night.

What’s up man.

After yesterday’s seminal newsletter on women going to work, I wanted to expand on marital rape which was explored in the second half of that newsletter.

For any bird brains that have been living under a rock or otherwise skipped history class, for most of American history it has been fully legal to rape your wife. Indeed this is true for most of world history, not just the United States.

The first country to criminalize marital rape was the communist shithole Soviet Union in 1922. In other words and in terms of its origination it is a historically communist idea to criminalize the act of marital rape - to deprive a man the sacred right of raping his own wife.

The first American state to criminalize marital rape was Nebraska in 1975. So it took a bit over 50 years for this communist idea to sink its claws into American law. Notably…

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