An “anti-rape” condom has been invented in South Africa
“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 . . .
. . . 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 . . .
. . . 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.”
I wonder how the “live man” tests will be done. (picture via Yahoo! News)
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Time to buy south-african dildo stock.
Just an addendum:
If you were a man concerned about the possibility of mantrapment, yet quite willing to rape, would you have much compunction about resorting to object penetration to defeat a condom-a dentata?
I just don’t get it…how do you get the guy to put it on in the first place?http://journals.aol.com/lsk49rs/CatholicThoughts/
Are you supposed to wear this thing inside you 24/7 just in case you get raped?
Hmmmm. Looks, well, bloody. Seems like this would increase the chance of HIV transmission significantly, rather than decrease it. I think the concern about increasing the perpetrator’s non-sexual violence is valid, as well- he’ll still be conscious, and he’ll be even more angry.
A cyberpunk author, Neal Stephenson, described a similar device (which he called a ‘dentata’- ha!) in his fantasy novel, Snow Crash. In that device, the disabling mechanism was a small needle that injected a bucketload of barbituates into the dorsal vein. Better living through chemistry?