Decriminalizing Rape

So at Brett Stevens's Amerika blog he says legalize rape. Read the whole thing, because he makes a very insightful point. The criminalization of rape was based on a different (i.e. traditional) understanding of the role of women & sex. Once upon a time a woman's virginity was her honor and to be bereft of that made her nearly untouchable. To disuade men from forcible defloration in an era when easy virtue (among the elite & middle classes) kept women from marriage.

Now since we no longer hold such rational Puritanical opinions the laws are a sad monument to a long lost era of sexual probity. As we say a farewell to old institutions so too should we say adieu to this archaic tradition.

I am persuaded, but I don't think feminists will be.