> There's nothing unethical about it.

In many countries, the husband has a legal right to demand sex from his wife and rape in a marriage is not a crime either - in fact, even "civilized" countries such as Germany had it until recently, it took us Germans until 1998 to finally make marital rape a crime. One of the politicians in favor of keeping it legal actually ended up being our current Interior Minister but ah well, I digress... point is, the line between arranged and outright forced marriage is thin, very thin.

But it has nothing to do with arranged marriages. I know Indians in the US who have gotten into an arranged marriage, and obviously the local rules apply. OTOH if marital rape in not a crime in some country, it might as well be committed whether or not it was an arranged marriage.

Yes, and from experience when South Asian people (especially women) get to experience this free-agency dating thing we have in Europe and America they suddenly become very reluctant to switch back to their arranged spouse. Strange how these things go.