Nbadan
09-16-2005, 04:37 PM
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KLEINMOND, South Africa (AFP) - A female condom-like device that latches on to a rapist's penis with fish-tooth-like hooks is stirring controversy in South Africa, where the incidence of sexual assault is high.
Called "Rapex", the latex device inserted in the vagina is the brainchild of South African Sonet Ehlers, who has been thinking about an anti-rape device since 1969, when she met a young rape victim."If you have seen a woman that has been raped, she is alive yet she is dead," Ehlers told AFP from her home in Kleinmond, a holiday town some 120 kilometers (75 miles) east of Cape Town.
"My biggest drive is to help the woman out," says Ehlers, 57, a mother of two daughters.Rapex attaches itself to the shaft of the penis and can only be removed by a surgeon, forcing a rapist to go to a hospital, where the crime would presumably be uncovered.
"He has got to turn himself in at the nearest hospital and then the police will catch him," said Ehlers, who added that the device does not cause any permanent injury to the man's penis.
"This is not a tool to punish men, but a device to empower women," she said
Yahoo News (http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/lf/090205antirapecondom)
Since rape is a crime of violence I would think that the violent rapist would get even more violent when he realizes he has been trapped. So if the woman wasn't already going to be killed this might do it.
thoughts?
KLEINMOND, South Africa (AFP) - A female condom-like device that latches on to a rapist's penis with fish-tooth-like hooks is stirring controversy in South Africa, where the incidence of sexual assault is high.
Called "Rapex", the latex device inserted in the vagina is the brainchild of South African Sonet Ehlers, who has been thinking about an anti-rape device since 1969, when she met a young rape victim."If you have seen a woman that has been raped, she is alive yet she is dead," Ehlers told AFP from her home in Kleinmond, a holiday town some 120 kilometers (75 miles) east of Cape Town.
"My biggest drive is to help the woman out," says Ehlers, 57, a mother of two daughters.Rapex attaches itself to the shaft of the penis and can only be removed by a surgeon, forcing a rapist to go to a hospital, where the crime would presumably be uncovered.
"He has got to turn himself in at the nearest hospital and then the police will catch him," said Ehlers, who added that the device does not cause any permanent injury to the man's penis.
"This is not a tool to punish men, but a device to empower women," she said
Yahoo News (http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/lf/090205antirapecondom)
Since rape is a crime of violence I would think that the violent rapist would get even more violent when he realizes he has been trapped. So if the woman wasn't already going to be killed this might do it.
thoughts?