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Originally Posted by LovelaceF
Perhaps that is an accurate statement where you live. However, it is inaccurate as applied to many states in the U.S. For example, in the state in which I live, a court can order a rapist to counseling and put no mark on his permanent record if he happens to be married to his accuser.
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That small caveat does nothing to the fact that the government does not interfere with or intervene in consensual sexual relationships, as a rule.
Moreover, it actually strengthens the government's stance on non-interference with consensual sexual relationships, because the government (the judicial system is a branch of the government) recognizes the fact that the status of being married speaks to the
original intent of the aggrieved spouse to have sex with the other spouse, so as a
compromise, as well as a reflection on the difficulties with the collection of evidence, the judicial system first goes a more lenient route in the cases of married spouses.
To reiterate, it
confirms that consensual relationships need not be intervened with, and thus confirms that the OP's BF's having "slept around" in the past was not in any way criminal.
The point was that you compared criminal and non-criminal behavior, without regard to the apples/oranges situation. You can eat however many apples and yet they will not turn into oranges (unless, of course, by magic - there is always that possibility).