A Freudian nightmare has finally been realised with the invention of an “anti-rape condom,” a device which fits inside a woman’s vagina and ensnares any wayward penises with rows of sharp little barbed teeth.
The South African woman responsible for the device, Sonnet Ehlers, recalls an encounter with a hospitalised r**e victim during her time as a medical researcher 40 years ago – “If only I had teeth down there,” the woman said.
Thus was born her idea for an innovative if grotesque anti-rape device – the Violation-aXe.
The device takes the form of a condom-like device worn inside the vagina, but with the addition of rows of razor sharp plastic teeth, pointed backward to allow entry but then to snare the penis on withdrawal.
An assailant withdrawing will find the sheath attached to his penis by scores of these little barbs, and is unlikely to be able to remove it without medical attention, it is said. A trip to the hospital would then allow him to be pinpointed as a likely rapist.
The device is designed to avoid drawing blood so it does not create hygiene problems.
Assuming it operates correctly and the victim escapes further outrage, the device also eliminates risk of pregnancy or STD transmission.
Critics suggest the device is unlikely to discourage rapists in situations where there are multiple assailants or where there is ample time to investigate the victim, and may in fact provoke them into further acts of violence.
It is also not clear how difficult it would be for an assailant, or the wearer herself if under duress, to simply remove the device.
Others are positive the device will help:
“What people need is this condom. When men hear about this, they will be scared. They won’t know who has protected herself and who not.
Women try to fight, to save themselves, but you can’t fight men. You don’t know when they’re going to r**e you, you can’t walk with a weapon. It comes abruptly… It’s done in darkness.”
South African women face the highest rates of sexual violence in the world, with a quarter of South African men admitting to having violated someone.
Conviction rates are dismal, and the government began drastically restricting gun ownership in 2005, an act which critics contend coincided with a substantial increase in violent crime in a nation already awash with illegal weapons.
A vagina with teeth may indeed be one of the few recourses available to South African women under the circumstances.
Ouch!
Can’t the rapist just pull it out?
I don’t think this will find much attention… it also won’t help against child rapists, because which under 15 year old girl will wear that thing? It also won’t work against anal r♥♥e, and I don’t think that a virgin will avoid being deflowerd, because it “allow entry”. I also think a girl would deflower herself with it, because it doesn’t look very… hymen friendly to say the least.
By the site
“More than 2777 women are raped in South Africa per day – UNISA reported in 2002 that 1 million women and children were raped each year. (South Africa: Focus on the Virgin Myth, 2002)”
Man, it like a war! This invention is ,of course, to make sociaty aware of this.
Wonderful! No mercy for rapists. Might be better it is would cut it off at the root!