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Lifestyle => Tha G-Spot => Topic started by: white Boy on September 10, 2005, 06:38:58 AM
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South Africa anti-rape condom aims to stop attacks
Wed Aug 31, 3:00 PM ET
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 because 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 by surgery, which will alert hospital staff, and ultimately, the police, she said.
It also reduces the chances of pregnancy or HIV infection 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 is 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.
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Ouch.
It could be used by ex girlfriends as a way to get revenge.
Other critics say the condom is medieval and barbaric -- an accusation Ehlers says should be directed rather at the act of rape.
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Yea i think its a graet idea, but its unrealistic as most women wont know exactly when its gonna happen, plus the guy could get violent afterwards and attack her.
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id beat the fuck out of a bitch , if some metals went itno my dick after fuckin her.
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It wouldnt be after it it would be when you put it in.
And i think the guy would be too worried about getting the thing off.
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na, id still bitch slap a hoe with that shit in my dick.
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Yea i think its a graet idea, but its unrealistic asmost women wont know exactly when its gonna happen, plus the guy could get violent afterwards and attack her.
ya but there are some that wake up in the morning and think to themselves "oh todays the 13th im getting raped today...better wear clean panties" ::)
peace
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girls can abuse man wit this
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^exactly
Imagin it got stuck in your tounge?
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so is a bitch always gonna wear this thing or what? thats stupid and its not gonna sell.
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this is stupid as fuck.
how would you even know it's only used against rapists?
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I don't want a bear trap on my dick. Fuck that.
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sounds like a good idea for south african women but no way for the USA
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Yeah what if you forgot to take it out when havin regular sex, its kinda unrealistic, but good!