Public Interest In Private Affairs: A Nonclinical Survey Of Social Construction Of Spousal Rape Among Egun Women Of Badagry, Lagos State, Nigeria.
Dr. Mohammed D. Enaikele , Adeniyi Taofeeq Adeleke
Volume 19, Number 2 (2020) 19 (2): 63-75
Keywords Public interest, private affairs, social construction, spousal rape, Egun women
Abstract
Spousal rape commonly manifest in non-consensual sexual intercourse. This study explores the prevalence of spousal rape among Egun women, the strategies adopted to avoid or cope with their husbands’ sexual aggression and their social construction of spousal rape. A simple random sampling technique was used to select the sampled population. A total of eighty (80) married Egun women (respondents) were sampled with structured interview while fifteen (15) additional women were also purposively selected for the focus group discussion (FGD). The result shows prevalence of spousal rape. The issue of spousal rape is strange to the women. Even when the sexual aggression of their spouse can be defined as spousal rape, the women socially construct their non-valid consent to sex as marital obligation. The test of hypothesis shows that there is no relationship between the women’s experience of non-consensual sexual intercourse and spousal rape. The study concludes that the issue of spousal rape is capable of having serious implications for the social and cultural distortion of the sacredness of sex and sexuality in marriage.
Dr. Mohammed D. Enaikele
Adeniyi Taofeeq Adeleke
Published January 1, 2020
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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