Seldom do we hear the stories of sexual violence when a victim of domestic battery first comes for help.  It is more usual for the victim to talk about the name calling, the put-downs, the threats, pushes, hits, and punches long before we hear things like, "He would force me to have sex with him after he beat me.  He called it 'make-up sex.'  I guess that was his way of making the abuse go away."  Or, "He told me I didn't have the right to say no.  I'd married him and that meant I had to do anything, anytime, and any place he wanted me to, including sex."  Yet, both of these women who told about the emotional and physical abuse very early on, finally told of the sexual violence in their marriages.  Others have told about being forced to perform sexual acts with other individuals brought to the marriage bed, about pictures and videos made of the acts and then threatened with showing them to family,  and even being told "If you don't have sex with me, I'll go get your daughter."  Read more...