Norway Spousal Rape

• 1 out of 10 women in Norway are raped.
• Norway is one of 127 nations that does not explicitly outlaw marital rape.  12 of these nations are members of the EU.
• Norway and other Scandinavian countries got there relatively early, in the 1960s and 1970s. But Germany only removed its spousal exemption in 1997. In 1993, North Carolina became the last U.S. state to do so. Until 1992, Britain had a common-law principle that assumed the marriage contract implied consent.
• Despite the law the social pressures are against wives coming forward.[NYT]