Backlash after Filipino MP says husbands have 'sexual rights'

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Backlash after Filipino MP says husbands have 'sexual rights'

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Robin Padilla made the remarks during a senate probe into sexual harrassment in the media industry.

A senator in the Philippines has come under fire online after he asked in parliament whether husbands have “sexual rights” to their wives.

Robin Padilla, a former actor, posed the query to a prominent human rights lawyer, who was invited as a resource person to a hearing on sexual harassment in the entertainment industry.

He also asks what husbands should do if they are “in the mood” and their wives are not - to which lawyer Lorna Kapunan replies that they can “watch Netflix”.

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Welp, if I’m a women in a country that thinks like that, I’m not getting married
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  Also the only country besides the Vatican (which arguably isn’t even one) where divorce is straight up illegal.

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