Within my lifetime, it was the law in Italy that a charge of rape would be expunged if the perpetrator managed to coerce the victim into marrying him, and there was immense social pressure on these “damaged” women to do exactly that, as they were no longer “marriageable virgins” anyway.
(This is in addition to the still-happening evil of pressuring the child victims of pedophiles into marrying them once they got pregnant.)
(And this wasn’t just Italy — but that’s the only place I saw where it was enshrined in law.)
I read elsewhere today about Franca Viola, who became infamous in Italy for refusing to marry the stalker who raped her and pressing rape charges instead; her family was ostracized and their home and farm were burned down.
For everyone who claims they want to get back to old-school values — this is one of the values they are talking about.
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Sometimes reality is just stunning, such as this time, today.
Coming to the United States, sooner rather than later.
Artemisia Gentileschi was another Italian woman who was raped and refused to marry her attacker. She was also a well-known renaissance painter whose works are still on display today, in museums such as the Chicago Art Institute and the Louvre. I personally consider her Judith Slaying Holofernes to be the best depiction of that scene ever painted, better even than Caravaggio’s painting of the same event.
A Brave woman.
I want to note that the guy she refused to marry wasn´t just a randon rapist, it was the son of the local mob boss, and raped her specifically because he wanted to marry her and was counting on the rehabilitating marriage, meaning the law actually incentivesed rape.
It’s still common practice in other countries around the Mediterranean.