Media’s role in marital rape


Date: June 7, 2011
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Several months ago I wrote a piece on marital rape in Kenya. Two editors working with a respected
Kenyan newspaper refused to publish it.”There is nothing like marital rape, what are you trying to tell people,” one editor told me. His reaction surprised me because my story was not based on hearsay or uncorroborated assertions, but rather on the findings of the respected 2008-2009 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey. The study had revealed disturbing figures showing that at least 14% of married women said their current husband or partner had forced them to have sex in the past year, while another 37% had been subjected to sexual violence at some point in their relationship.


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