How does the general public in Singapore regard marital rape?
A 1993 report “Social Definitions of Family Violence in Singapore” by Choi, A. and Edleson, J L, surveyed the attitudes of 510 Singapore residents and found the following: – 95% disapproved or strongly disapproved of the use of force by a husband if his wife refused to have sex. – 74% considered having sex with one’s wife against her will to be assault. 93% considered assaulting one’s wife to be a crime. – 69% considered having sex with one’s wife against her will to involve the ‘major’ use of force. An overwhelming majority — 83.8% — favoured police intervention (ranging from warning to charging to arresting the husband) in even a first-time ‘major’ assault. – Only 11.7% considered that judges should treat wife assaults less seriously than other personal assaults. 53.4% thought they should be treated equally seriously, and 34.6% thought wife assaults should be treated more seriously.
