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Thai soaps trigger outcry over romanticizing rape

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Thai soaps trigger outcry over romanticizing rape

BANGKOK (AP) — In a famous scene from Thailand’s award-winning soap opera “The Power of Shadows,” the handsome protagonist gets drunk and rapes the leading lady. He later begs her forgiveness, and they live happily ever after.

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