From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 31 May 2009<P>

Ok here's an odd thing I found on someones xanga page...thought you all might be entertained by it for a moment..haa<BR>
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Courses/CS 461/Museum of unintended consequences/Rape as a marriage proposal<BR>
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In Europe in the Middle Ages and into the Early Modern period it was often the law or custom that a man who raped a woman was forced to marry her. This law was frequently turned on its head by couples who could not otherwise get married&#151;because of differences in their social status, for example. The man and woman would stage a rape, which would produce a social imperative requiring them to marry. 
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