A survey commissioned by the End Violence Against Women Coalition found that a third of people in the UK think it isn’t usually rape if a woman is pressured into having sex but there is no physical violence.
The survey with a sample size of approximately 4000 people carried out by YouGov. Laws against rape in marriage have been in place since 1991. The report revealed a stark generational gap in attitudes – with more than a third of over-65s believing that in most cases sex without consent with your wife or partner was not rape, compared with just 16% of 16- to 24-year-olds. The results come at a time when Jeremy Corbyn had warned that the country was facing a “rape crisis”, and as MPs welcomed a survivor of Rotherham's child exploitation scandal to the Commons.
