A feminist critic (source forgotten) labels all marriage "legalized rape", reflecting the extreme difficulty of prosecuting rape within a marriage, as well as her belief that it occurs often.
Assume this to be true, and then consider the problem of whether to rationally accept a marriage proposal: are the costs (including expected future incidents of rape) outweighed by the expected benefits of marriage?
You would have to estimate the cost, the pain, of being raped by your potential husband, an experience which will likely be different for each bride (why?). This suggests running some very strange experiments prior to accepting a marriage proposal. Do women already do this?
Similar advice has already been (jokingly?) given: "Lie back and think of England."
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