 In many countries, it is not clear if marital rape may or may not be prosecuted under ordinary rape laws.In the absence of a spousal rape law, it may be possible to bring prosecution for acts of forced sexual intercourse inside marriage by prosecuting, through the use of other criminal offenses (such as assault based offenses), the acts of violence or criminal threat that were used to obtain submission.Consent may be complicated by law, language, context, culture and sexual orientation.