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Rape-aXe is a device which latches itself
to the skin of the attacker, causing immense discomfort, allowing the
victim to escape.
Women using a female condom to turn their lady parts into a penis fly trap? Could be the most awesome news I’ve heard all year.
According to the New York Daily News, a South African doctor named Sonnet Ehlers has developed a new contraceptive that does more than prevent pregnancy and HIV – it could also prevent rape. Rape-aXe is, no joke, a female condom complete with sharp, painful, teeth-like hooks that fasten to a potential rapist’s penis faster than you can say “penetration.”
As if this device didn’t make me blissful enough, it gets better: Once a man’s junk is snared by the barbs, according to the doc, he cannot pee, walk or even remove the trap himself.
“If he tries to remove it, it will clasp even tighter,” she said.
Though the condom is inserted simply into a woman – like a tampon – it can only be removed by a doctor when latched onto a man.
For a country that Human Rights Watch says has one of the highest rape rates in the world, I say this is a blessing. And so does Ehlers: She is distributing 30,000 of her condoms during the World Cup.
Some, like Victoria Kajja of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Uganda, argue that the act of wearing the condom in anticipation of rape subjects women to a kind of enslavement, but that, while true, is another issue entirely.
Every country needs to work toward eliminating the threat of rape, but in the meantime, I’m a single girl, living alone in a metropolitan city. I’ll take my pocket mace and the penis-pinching condom, thank you.
If that makes me “vulnerable,” so be it.
But if I do get attacked, at least I’ll know enough to say I got the guy by the balls, er, penis.
New anti-rape female condom, Rape-aXe, debuts at South Africa’s World Cup [NYDN]