Posted on 08/31/2005 9:47:51 AM PDT by Mike Bates
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," she told reporters in Kleinmond, a small holiday village about 100km (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.
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Going to turn a lot of rape cases into murder cases.
"I feel your pain." -Bill Clinton
I have a better idea. Let's make them wear it for the duration of their prison sentences.
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.
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Yikes, something out of a bad Stephen King novel...or something the street girls in SIN CITY might have had for protection against non-paying customers...scary!!
Cruel and unusual pinishment, the ACLU would conclude.
Thanks for the pointed observation. :)
Venus fly trap!
Leave it to liberals to ignore the obvious solutions.
The American Criminal Lobbies Union would consider police defending themselves with poison ivy to be cruel and unusual, not to mention excessive force.
Or simply provide it to male prisoners.
Excellent reporting, Master Bates!
Best not get amorous with a forgetful woman.
South Africa has very strict gun control. It should be crime-free, right?
They don't need women to wear spiked tampons - how would that protect babies, anyway? They need to KILL RAPISTS.
It isn't made for catching ons. It's made for catching ... bada boom
Seriously, if it should, someone will get rich by making a successful vagina, pre-coitus rapex de-mining device. ;)
Hello? Is there anything in there?
I sticky thingy that sticks your thingy.
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