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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 February 2025. Type of extramarital sex This article is about the act of adultery or extramarital sex. For other uses, see Adultery (disambiguation). For a broad overview, see Religion and sexuality. Illustration depicting an adulterous wife, circa 1800 Sex and the law Social issues Consent ...
The zina and rape laws of countries under Sharia law are the subjects of a global human rights debate. [77] [78] Hundreds of women in Afghan jails are victims of rape or domestic violence. [74] This has been criticized as leading to "hundreds of incidents where a woman subjected to rape, or gang rape, was eventually accused of zināʾ" and ...
Rape was traditionally prosecuted under different legal categories which used normal evidentiary rules. [54] Making an accusation of zina without presenting the required eyewitnesses is called qadhf ( القذف ), which is itself a hadd crime.
The Torah prescribes the death penalty through strangulation [15] for adultery, which is defined as sex with or by a female who is already married to another man.The Torah prescribes strict liability and punishment on the male, but liability and punishment on the female only if she was not raped (Leviticus 20:10).
Sharia law makes a distinction between adultery and rape and applies different rules. [ 214 ] [ 227 ] [ 228 ] In the case of rape, the adult male perpetrator (i.e., rapist) of such an act is to receive the ḥadd zinā, but the non-consenting or invalidly consenting female (i.e., rape victim), proved by four eyewitnesses, is to be regarded as ...
The use of a child for sexual stimulation is referred to as child sexual abuse and, for pubescent or post-pubescent individuals younger than the age of consent, statutory rape. Sexual abuse can be perpetrated against other vulnerable populations like the elderly, a form of elder abuse , or those with developmental disabilities .
Rape is a type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse, or other forms of sexual penetration, carried out against a person without their consent.The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority, or against a person who is incapable of giving valid consent, such as one who is unconscious, incapacitated, has an intellectual disability, or is below the legal age ...
Adultery laws are the laws in various countries that deal with extramarital sex.Historically, many cultures considered adultery a very serious crime, some subject to severe punishment, especially in the case of extramarital sex involving a married woman and a man other than her husband, with penalties including capital punishment, mutilation, or torture. [1]