I Let My Husband Rape Me, and Here’s Why…
If you consent once, you’ve consented forever, right? I mean, how is he supposed to know if I don’t want to anymore? If someone had told me that just because I’m sleeping in the same room with a penis, that doesn’t make me obligated to have sex with it—or that I could actually say yes one time, no the next time, and yes another time—I would have thought they had lost their marbles. Men have uncontrollable, biological needs. I knew that much.
Shortly after, I found out I was pregnant. I didn’t love the guy. I hardly knew him, really, but ...
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