The Mikado
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« on: May 14, 2011, 02:32:54 AM » |
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I'm not sure that existed marital rape existed as a legal concept in Griswold's time (though it of course existed as a reality). That said, I don't think it does mean that any more than it means that spousal abuse or spousal homicide are protected in the sacred grounds of the marital bedroom. There's a significant difference between ridiculous and unenforceable victimless crimes like the Connecticut absurd ban on marital couples using contraceptives, or, in a more recent example of the rhetoric of privacy of bedroom relations, Lawrence v. Texas, and what you're talking about.
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