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Originally Posted by sworkhard
As for Peterson's tweet above, I'm still not sure what he meant by that. It seems given the limited context that he is referring to the risks of being accused of assault are higher if you have sex out of marriage (probably true), not that sexual assault rates are high if you have sex out of marriage.
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Yeah, it's just a bizarre assertion. A) it's hard to know if that's even true given that spousal rape wasn't considered a crime for a very long period of time so it would be pretty hard to gather accurate statistics on it, and B) that a traditional marriage would somehow be better at preventing sexual assault than a modern cohabitation or common-law relationship. Also, in the context of the celebrity cases, many of these incidents occurred in the workplace and were committed by married men, so I'm really not sure how traditional marriage would have prevented that. Just seems like a very roundabout way to get to a victim-blaming position.