Posting about rape:
"BUT having been in more than one situation of a forced sexual encounter, I have to say that there is a difference to some degree. I've been forced to have sex with my husband, but it wasn't violent or anything...just wasn't worth the fight to get him off me. I don't think that warrents punshment I don't guess."
Later in the same post:
"I always am reminded of that scripture about my body not belonging to me, but to my husband. That always made me think that I don't really get to keep it from him if he really wants it, even if I don't. No means no unless you are telling someone no they can't have something that belongs to them anyways."
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I've been forced to have sex with my husband, but it wasn't violent or anything...just wasn't worth the fight to get him off me.
As a guy, I think that is sick. I can't tell from your post if he is just unaware of what's going on in your head because you won't talk to him or he's pressured you in the past to the point where you now don't bother. However, you deserve better and you need to stop looking to the bible for help as it's obvious the attitude it is teaching you is harmful for you in the long run.
I really, really hope this woman gets some common sense and a divorce.
If your husband were worth being married to, when you told him NO, he would be okay with it.
You really need help.
if you think your body, which contains your lifeforce, your intellect, and the very essence of your being, belongs to someone else, I truly feel sorry for you.
You may as well be an automaton!
If you're considering fighting him off, it is rape no matter how many repulsive verses you trot out to justify it. And if he beats you for resisting, how is it that you don't recognize what's going on?
Well, I wouldn't necessarily blame the husband. As Detrs pointed out, he might not even *know* what is going on. But no matter what is actually going on here, this kind of self-flagellating behavior is just sickening. Seriously, this girl needs to wake up and get a little self respect. If the guy actually *is* abusive, she should leave him. If he's just ignorant, then there is no need *whatsoever* for this woman to feel this way.
having been in more than one situation of a forced sexual encounter
Lynnmoon, didn't these words scare you when you read them? Maybe in your head that made some twisted sense, but surely you can see how wrong this is now, right?
But this isn't terribly surprising considering the fundie mindset. God punishes you because he loves you. The god of love created hell for most of his creation. You are 'sinful' and bad, because you were born. Stockholm Syndrome, man.
I'm honestly not sure this quote belongs on FSTDT. It's certainly fundie, but I think of this site as somewhere to refute, mock, and laugh at fundies. This post is not funny or mockworthy, though; it is truly disturbing and I feel terrible for lynnmoon. Her husband - or is that her rapist? - is a despicable excuse for a human being.
Sorry dear, but in that same verse they say that the husband´s body belongs also to the wife, so I think that you would be HYPOTHETICALLY allowed to rape him too. Anyway, your last sentence is a non-contradiction award.
God, this always makes me so sad. The scripture says he belongs to you, too. You're allowed to say no to someone who belongs to you. According to scripture, your body belongs as much to you as it does to your husband, and it belongs to God more than anything - and your husband is defiling you.
So sad. *goes to curl up in fetal position*
This is really, really upsetting. I feel absolutely awful for that woman, but at the same time, I just want to take her by the shoulders, shake her, and ask her what the fuck is wrong with her.
Your body is yours only. In the case of the religious types, your body is God's. Therefore, you ought to protect it either way.
So, so fucking sad.
The truly saddest part of this is that she is sharing this with everybody on that forum, and yet,,, I don't know if she's ever shared it with her husband. I mean does he even know that she feels this way?
Fundie Stockholm Syndrome award, clearly. And the saddest part is that, depending on who brainwashed her and when, she may be her own and only jailer/tormenter... (of course, the possibility of her husband being an abusive lowlife also exists)
The feeling I get from this post is that lynnmoon knows, at some deep level, that what's happening in her marriage is wrong. That the idea of her body being her husband's property is wrong, and that being forced to have sex with her husband is wrong. She sounds like she's struggling to reconcile her real life with the Bibble, and she knows she's coming up short.
I feel for her, I really do. Fundies sold her a fantasy about marriage, and it's not working. I don't want to demonize the husband because, as has been pointed out, we don't know his side of the situation. He may be just as frustrated and unhappy and confused as lynnmoon.
It's no wonder that Baptists have such a high divorce rate.
oh, honey. i am so, so, SO sorry. my heart just hit the floor and quivered with pity for you. i hope you've seen reality between this post and now.
So, is it ok to kill wives, for example?, after all, if your body belongs to him.............
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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