Why? Because criminalizing such a thing would be un-Islamic.
A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “If a husband calls his wife to his bed [i.e. to have sexual relation] and she refuses and causes him to sleep in anger, the angels will curse her till morning” (Bukhari 4.54.460).
And: “By him in Whose Hand lies my life, a woman can not carry out the right of her Lord, till she carries out the right of her husband. And if he asks her to surrender herself [to him for sexual intercourse] she should not refuse him even if she is on a camel’s saddle” (Ibn Majah 1853).
“Bangladeshi women’s rights proposals face Islamist backlash,” by Akanksha Saxena, Sardar Ronie, and Beenish Javed, DW, May 29, 2025:
A women’s rights commission in Bangladesh has proposed reforms to Bangladesh’s interim government, calling for the criminalization of marital rape and equal rights for all women. But the plans have met resistance from Islamic organizations.
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abu taleb says
Yes, it is true. Forcing sex to a wive (or sex slave) is not a rape according to Islam, because she is halal for the man.I guess, the man can beat the wives (or sex slaves) to the death for refusing the sex until the poor women give in.
And it is the women’s fault because the man has bought them with dowries which can be very cheap.
That is how Islam protects and values women.