Let us have the study of the men who know that their spouse cheated, to balance things.

I can safely say that the real percentage of woman who KNOW their husbands don't cheat is 0%. Now I can accept that 46.7% of woman BELIEVE that their husbands aren't cheating, but nobody knows for sure unless they keep their husband locked up in the cellar.

It is not clear from this whether or not the woman who experienced non-consensual sex, if they experienced it with their husband or with another man. I would really like to see how the questions were worded.

This report is biased and leave much questions to be answered.

1. How many many married women have cheated on their husbands at least once?
2. How many married women are living in an adulterous relationship being the adulterer?
3. How many married men have been forced to have sex with their wives?
4. How many men have been physically or mentally abused by their spouse?
7. How many unmarried women have cheated on their boyfriends? probably rhetorical
8. How many women have wrongfully accused their boyfriend or husbands of cheating?
9. How many men have had non consensual sex with their girlfriends?
10. How many men cheated on their girlfriend or spouse because of denial of sex from their girlfriends or spouse?

I am no genius, but these are a few questions that need to be answered to balance this debate. For the record, I do not support abuse of any kind in a relationship. If you want to talk about abuse, then talk about abuse because there is this insatiable appetite for men in our country to be locked up on allegation of 'marital rape', whatever that is. At the very core of marriage is sex as all sex outside of marriage is unlawful, whether forced or consensual. We get married so we can have sex without a guilty conscience.

Now we have the various first Human Rights, organizations, then, 'Women's Right', then 'Equal Right' then 'Gender Neutrality Rights', 'Gay Right's', 'Lesbian Right's', now we have the 'LGBTQ and LGBTQI and God knows what else we can expect. The sanctity of marriage will be lost and so does the value for the selfish ambition of a few over the many.

So they get what they want, then we have civil unions, where any two people, mam and man, woman and woman, man and woman and I guess LGBTQ and LGBTQ or I, can agree to be spouse and may live together and seek recognition from the masses of us. Then they will want insurance rights, benefits and pension rights, banking rights and rights to have or adopt other children to be brought up in their lifestyles.

So what is the true reason for this urgent call marital rape legislation, when many of those who are calling for it are not married themselves. The research is flawed and the premise for the requested legislation is flawed.

The Bahamas signed on to the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which was adopted by the United Nations in 1981 and ratified by The Bahamas in 1993.

Perhaps the spirit of the CDAW convention needs to be revisited, because every time this discussion is held it seems, one faction over another wants to reign supreme. I contend that although the research by UB seems to focused primarily on the abuse of married women by their spouse, perhaps a holistic review of the issues affecting the abuse or mistreatment of men by their girlfriends, husbands by their wives, or those in LGBTQ relationships have not been adequately addressed or perhaps are lost at sea.

Why does The Tribune continue to publish these garbage juice, non/scientific but self serving and clearly to support marital rape laws? FIRSTLY, the sample size of married women who took part in the survey was 60. Does this or can this accurately represent the diverse cross section of married women in The BaHAMAS, representing different cultural, economic and social backgrounds?
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. SECONDLY the report says 2 in every four married Bahamian woman KNEW that their husbands cheated/were cheating. What false inaccurate garbage. If one in four married women knew their husbands were cheating, then what percentage of Bahamian men cheat? ALL ay? International surveys say between 15 and 30 percent of marriage partners cheat. That includes husbands and wives. AND less than Fifty percent, less than fifty percent of married individuals know that their spouse had cheated. Less than half of the 15-20 percent of the spouses of married individuals who cheat know about the affair. And many find out, when the cheating spouse confessed, sometimes years and even decades later. This article is clearly not just about mischief making but is purely an insult to married Bahamian women, and married Bahamian men, who are portrayed as violent spousal rapists. So how many Bahamian men are raped or cheated on. How many Bahamians have a decent or even good marriage, according to your numbers? Not many. If ANY! Immigration should yuck the work permits from these people who are doing the devils work and escort them to the airport never to return to the Bahamas.

We need a diversion from the realities that our country is failing on every other metric.

Typo: International surveys say between 25 and 30 percent of married men cheat, not 40 percent. Also the garbage juice survey said 2 in every 4 or 35 percent of (Bahamian) married women,knew their husbands cheated. UB needs to redeem its credibility by firing these research clowns. Forthwith.

25 percent… correction again.