Marital Rape Conundrum The so-called marital rape, the act of sexual intercourse with one's spouse, which in popular parlance is without wife's consent has to be contextualized with conjugal rights, ‘especially to sexual relations, regarded as exercisable in law by each partner in a marriage’. Besides, the question of sexual consent in marriage, which is but a ‘legally or formally recognized union of two people as partners in a personal relationship (historically and in some jurisdictions specifically a union between a man and a woman) has to juxtaposed with the sexual violation in rape that is an ‘u nlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim’. Hence, the so-called marital rape in a ‘ legally or formally recognized union of two people’ is an oxymoron for rape is ...