Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case

In your book, you also mentioned The Burning Bed, an iconic film from 1984 about domestic violence and sexual assault starring Farrah Fawcett.

But interestingly enough to this conversation, the write-out story was also told in a TV movie called Rape and Marriage, the write-out case.

I believe that you can find that maybe wherever you stream videos.

I found it on YouTube.

Sorry.

No, no, no.

But just that it meant that people like Laura X and Diana Russell, who wrote the book Rape and Marriage originally in 82 and then revised again in the early 90s, you know, they were doing things like going on The Donahue Show, because even though they had to battle men's rights activists like Sidney Siller on television, you know, they were doing things like going on The Donahue Show.

They knew that they were going to be seen by millions of viewers and this would be the first time they had ever heard about spousal rape and that it was still not a crime in most of the country.