Anti Rape

**NightRock** · September 2nd, 2005 05:29 PM

KLEINMOND, South Africa (Reuters) - 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 ***ual assault in the world.

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"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.

It also reduces the chances of a woman falling pregnant or contracting AIDS and other ***ually 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.

**mazdamazda** · September 2nd, 2005 05:33 PM

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.

Any volunteers? :bwahaha:

**NightRock** · September 2nd, 2005 05:38 PM

Originally Posted by mazdamazda

Any volunteers? :bwahaha:

Mahirap mag volunteer dyan hehehehe baka mamaga ng husto si manoy...

**zero** · September 2nd, 2005 05:40 PM

pass muna tayo dyan.

**BlueBimmer** · September 2nd, 2005 05:50 PM

para sa mga lasing na rapist sapul agad ouch! hahaha

**RedHorse** · September 2nd, 2005 05:57 PM

pugot! bwa ha ha ha

**jim** · September 2nd, 2005 05:58 PM

yaiks!!! sakit nyan!!! wag nang dalhin yan dito sa pinas.

**badkuk** · September 2nd, 2005 06:14 PM

hmmm...if the thing does latch on to the rapist's penis...di ba me chance na masangit un sa loob ng vagina?

what happens when the woman arrives home, forgets to remove the thing, and then proceed to have *** with her husband?

in any case...i think a lot of women would rather not have such a close encounter with a rapist