Anti-rape condoms

[Phlegm]

From Reuters:

KLEINMOND, South Africa - A South African inventor unveiled a new anti-rape female condom on Wednesday that hooks onto an attacker’s penis and aims to cut one of the highest rates of sexual assault in the world.

“Nothing has ever been done to help a woman so that she does not get raped and I thought it was high time,” Sonette Ehlers, 57, said of the "rapex," a device worn like a tampon that has sparked controversy in a country used to daily reports of violent crime.

Police statistics show more than 50,000 rapes are reported every year, while experts say the real figure could be four times that as they say most rapes of acquaintances or children are never reported.

Ehlers said the “rapex” hooks onto the rapist’s skin, allowing the victim time to escape and helping to identify perpetrators.

“He will obviously be too pre-occupied at this stage,” Ehlers told reporters in Kleinmond, a small village about 60 miles east of Cape Town. “I promise you he is going to be too sore. He will go straight to hospital.”

The device, made of latex and held firm by shafts of sharp barbs, can only be removed from the man through surgery which will alert hospital staff, and ultimately, the police, she said.

It also reduces the chances of a woman falling pregnant or contracting AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases from the attacker by acting in the same way as a female condom.

South Africa has more people with HIV/AIDS than any other country, with one in nine of its 45 million population infected.

Ehlers, who showed off a prototype on Wednesday, said women had tried it for comfort and it had been tested on a plastic male model but not yet on a live man. Production was planned to start next year.

But the “rapex” has raised fears amongst anti-rape activists that it could escalate violence against women.

“If a victim is wearing such a device it may enrage the attacker further and possibly result in more harm being caused,” said Sam Waterhouse, advocacy coordinator for Rape Crisis.

Other critics say the condom is medieval and barbaric — an accusation Ehlers says should be directed rather at the act of rape.

“This is not about vengeance ... but the deed, that is what I hate,” she said.

[Myg0t]

I can see a pissed off girlfriends abuseing this thing...

Ehlers, who showed off a prototype on Wednesday, said women had tried it for comfort and it had been tested on a plastic male model but not yet on a live man.

....the fuck.

[The Kizzy]

think this is a repost

[Gidan]

An old one at that

[Yamori]

Ehlers, who showed off a prototype on Wednesday, said women had tried it for comfort and it had been tested on a plastic male model but not yet on a live man.

Roffle, what poor sap would test THAT out? :P

But yes, kind of a bad idea considering it can easily be abused by angry girlfriends or just plain malicious women.

[mofish]

Good idea. A psycho can poison your cereal and stab you in the kidneys too.

[Myg0t]

I dont fuck psychos

[Yamori]

Not to mention, what rapist is going to give a woman time to put in a condom?

If they put one in pre-emptively, they'd have to put one in every day.

I'd think just keeping a can of Mace would be better.

[Maeya]

If they put one in pre-emptively, they'd have to put one in every day.

I'm pretty sure that's the idea behind it. Use it as a daily precaution, much like sunscreen.

Pretty sad =(

[Captain Insano]

hahah... this is the stupidest idea ever...


Lets take a brief moment to look at the mind of a rapist... Just EXACTLY how fucking engraged is some big black baboon going to be when he realizes this thing is stuck to his dick? I bet more women get beat to death by using this thing than ever before.

A can of mace and a good run sounds like a much better solution.

Now insert the psycho American bitch agenda and this thing is definitely going to be used on husbands and boyfriends for stupid reasons, more than likely leading to a swift ban.

I know if it got used on me for some vengeful reason I would suck up the pain... tie the bitch down... Go to the store, buy a box of those mutherfuckers and turn them inside out and put one in each of the cunt's cavities.

Then I would film her screams of pain and post it on the internetz.

Now that I think about it why not just have more women start carrying guns. If they have a guy trying to rape them just shoot the mutherfucker and save us some court fees.

[Baile]

And what happens when the rapists get smart and switch to anal rape? Doubt women are gonna want to stick those things up there.

[brinstar]

switch?