I'm proving that rapex is real.

Okay, so a few weeks ago I told some people about Rapex, and I wasn't kidding, it's a real product.



Rapex: The Anti-Rape Condom
In South Africa, land of disarmed civilians and baby rape, fifty thousand women report being raped every year. Many more are raped but don't report it. Now an enterprising South African inventor has developed a vaginally-inserted tampon-sized device that acts something like a candiru-it gets its hooks into the attacker's penis, causing intense pain to him and giving the woman an opportunity to escape. Does anyone have a problem with this? Of course they do. Stupid "activists" who reflexively oppose any form of self-defense do.

I think it's a brilliant idea. Possible drawbacks: if he's bleeding in there, he might infect you with something (but he was raping you anyway, so you were already in trouble. I don't think your generic South African rapist troubles himself with condoms). He might also become enraged and beat his victim to death-but being killed was already a risk when you're being raped, and at least you now have caused him pain intense enough to give you the opportunity to make a run for it.

KLEINMOND, South Africa (Reuters) - 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.

http://discardedlies.com/entry/?4548

Still don't believe me? Google search the name of the woman who made it.

I was picturing fishooks.

lol
not yet tested on a live man?

Couldnt pay that guy enough for that kinda testing.

Amazing commentary by the way aidan