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    Default Whoo-haa!! Anti-rape condom!

    Ha ha haaaa! Try this one on for size...

    Posted Apr 12th 2007 5:03PM by Angela Bronner
    Filed under: AIDS: 25 Years and Counting
    The adage "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" has taken on new meaning.

    And with the RapeX anti-rape female condom, that pound is coming out of somebody's johnson.

    RapeX is a female condom that damages a rapist's penis after penetration with sharp microscopic barbs that hook into the skin.

    After the man is incapacitated, this ostensibly gives the woman time to escape. The condom can only be surgically removed (thereby catching the perp redhanded), but supposedly will not cause major damage if removed immediately.
    Invented by Sonette Ehlers, a blood technician at the South African Institute for Medical Research, RapeX has been in existence since August 2005 and is to be inserted and worn when a woman is "on a train, working late, going out on a date with someone you don't know too well, going to clubs, or in any situation that you might not feel comfortable or even just not sure."
    Rape plays a significant role in the high prevalence of HIV among women in South Africa.
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    eek. Looks like a way for a male attacker to get pissed off and kill someone... :\

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    Default Re: Whoo-haa!! Anti-rape condom!

    so wait, you have to time it just right for when you are going to get raped as to when to put it in? riiiight.

    Love it!

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    ^ It seems like you're supposed to have it in all the time. D:

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    Yeah..I'm not so sure its a great idea. I mean..The sudden shock and pain might be enough distraction to allow the girl time to fight and get away...but if she isnt able to get away, she will have one very pissed off crazy man attacking her.

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    Default Re: Whoo-haa!! Anti-rape condom!

    Quote Originally Posted by Chrissy68 View Post
    so wait, you have to time it just right for when you are going to get raped as to when to put it in? riiiight.
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    Years and years ago I read a story about a place called Haven, it was a very rough place. One particular character was known to wear a diaphragm embedded with a knife, just in case she was attacked. She would of course kill the attacker, Haven was just that kind of place.
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    Default Re: Whoo-haa!! Anti-rape condom!

    No, you wear it when you find yourself in a situation where the likelihood of an attack is high, which is, for some women, always.

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    ^ try and guess that one.. and also, that doesnt look very comfortable to wear in those situations.. ill just pass on it and be smart about who im with and where i am.

    Love it!

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    Default Re: Whoo-haa!! Anti-rape condom!

    Hmmm, I was shooting for comedy. Unfortunately, I caught you guys in a serious mood. I just thought it looked funny with the spikes inside!
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    Quote Originally Posted by cherryripeboy View Post
    Years and years ago I read a story about a place called Haven, it was a very rough place. One particular character was known to wear a diaphragm embedded with a knife, just in case she was attacked. She would of course kill the attacker, Haven was just that kind of place.

    Female Viet Cong sympathizers/prostitutes were known to wear corks with embedded razors in their vaginas to injure & spead disease to American soldiers during the Vietnam War....I though it was some crazy story until I met a vet who claimed he'd been injured that way. I guess if the women were bitter about catching diseases from G.I.s, a razored cork coochie didn't seem such an outlandish tactic.

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    The rape statistics in South Africa are through the roof; something like 25% of adult women are raped or something. I'll look it up and report back. As you can see, it was invented by a South African company... I think it's one of those desperate attempts to do something. And fuck, who could blame them. I suppose that if I felt as though I was at a constant risk of being raped, I'd want to try anything. I don't imagine that such a device would fly in the US, though.

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    ohh yea that's right mad max! i saw something about razor blades in the mouths of pros in Vietnam on hist channel i think.

    Love it!

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    Default Re: Whoo-haa!! Anti-rape condom!

    ^^^^^DAMN!! That's a whole different level of guerilla warfare! It makes me proud and frightened at the same time!
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    Uhhh... why won't the links show up? Okay new plan, no links, just addresses. This sites talk about how widespread rape is in South Africa:

    http://web.amnesty.org/report2005/zaf-summary-eng

    http://www.csvr.org.za/articles/artrapem.htm

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1703595.stm

    So I guess I was wrong about adult women being the most common victims. But I imagine the AIDS epidemic makes a device like a spiky condom even more useful.

    Edited again: hey they worked this time.
    Last edited by teeth_of_the_hydra; 04-15-2007 at 07:59 PM. Reason: weird shit.

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    Good, I hope they can be bought cheaply over in SA. I dont particularly care if the condom causes permenent damage either - stiff fucking shit, doesnt rape cause long term and often permenent damage to the people who are unfortunate to suffer it?
    I saw a documentary last week and in some areas 100% of women are raped and the rest of the country has ridiculously high rape statistics too.

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    Okay, even if it DOES damage his penis... he STILL RAPED ME. His penis STILL went inside me.

    It just deters prolonged rape. One thrust and he's down... but you were still raped.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Chrissy68 View Post
    ohh yea that's right mad max! i saw something about razor blades in the mouths of pros in Vietnam on hist channel i think.
    I'm the last woman who likes knowing more trivia about how women were abused to the point of razored corks in the va-jay-jay....but it was an ugly war and it was just another clever form of warfare. Depressing

    (OTOH, my Boss who served in Vietnam as a "river rat" would tell me cute stories about how he would fish with explosives to make his little Vietnamese girlfriend happy...Her whole village got fed with these multitudes of stunned fish he'd conjure up. Not everyone there was hating and killing.)

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    Default Re: Whoo-haa!! Anti-rape condom!

    I forsee a rise in anal rapes.

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    I foresee attackers removing the device anyway )-:

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    Quote Originally Posted by lilithmorrigan View Post
    Okay, even if it DOES damage his penis... he STILL RAPED ME. His penis STILL went inside me.

    It just deters prolonged rape. One thrust and he's down... but you were still raped.
    Exactly. It's only preventative to a point. It's mostly a revenge device.

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    Well, count me in as someone who loves the concept, actually. I know there are other precedents, but the first thing - and the most similar to the execution of it here - that sprung to my mind is the "dentata" (heh heh) device in Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash". Very much like this - when I read this (great sci-fi, if you haven't checked it out), I honestly wondered why there couldn't be something like this in real life.

    You're right that you'd wear it all the time, in theory, and take it out if you're consenting to sex. I know what you're saying about preventing only prolonged rape, but hell, at least after that he's INCAPACITATED. If I have to be raped, I honestly kind of like the idea of (1) preventing, say, my murder after the rape, and (2) being able to positively & EASILY identify the attacker, as opposed to him going unpunished at all. Not such bad ideas, even if they're not best-case scenarios. I think it's a hell of a lot more than just 'revenge'.

    Plus? Knowing that these things are out there? And that women might be wearing them? MIGHT DETER SOME GUYS FROM TRYING IN THE FIRST PLACE. So that's its true PREVENTATIVE function.
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    Yeah, we've seen this one before.
    It's also...
    I mean, crazy?
    I mean, reasonable precautions are one thing. But seriously - how fucking paranoid would you have to be to shove this into your vagina before a date? That is not normal.

    In South Africa - I have serious doubts about the effectiveness of this in changing what is CLEARLY an educational and cultural problem. I mean - who is going to put one of these in their children (a big part of what has engendered the nationwide fear being child rape)? How are they removed? If they become widespread enough to actually impact South African rape stats, will attackers not simply do something else? For example, anal rape or simply removing them? More than that - they use the word "condom" but I would have a serious concern that this is going to FACILITATE the spread of AIDS, not prevent it.
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    Let's also not forget the LAST sentence. "Rape plays a significant role in the high prevalence of HIV among women in South Africa." So this also prevents the victim from the horrible double whammy of contracting AIDS.

    I mean, honestly! No, this device does not eradicate the existence of rapists, but COME ON! Just because it doesn't 100% prevent an attempt, or a first thrust, some of you would reject it even if it prevents a rape victim ALSO GETTING AIDS just because it's not perfect?
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