South Africa: Doctor invents female condoms with ‘teeth’ to fight rape

From: Kuria-Mwangi

Oh my God! This is the best invention for women. For 2 dollar a piece, a woman can go to a blind date or walk at night anywhere without the fear of being raped. How does it work? She inserts the condom in her private parts and welcome the rapist. The condoms bites him and sticks into his ninio. The removal from then on can only be done by a doctor or else he will not be able to pee or use his ninio until the doctor assists him. The days when women feared rapists are going to be over, thanks to the SA doctor. I don’t see why some people are opposed to the Rape-Axe condom. This axe will scare the hell out of rapists! This can also be used against a misbehaving boyfriend or husband, just him be axed and next time he will talk to his wife or girlfriend nicely, requesting to know whether shoka liko:)

Kuria

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South African doctor invents female condoms with ‘teeth’ to fight rape

(CNN) — South African Dr. Sonnet Ehlers was on call one night four decades ago when a devastated rape victim walked in. Her eyes were lifeless; she was like a breathing corpse.

“She looked at me and said, ‘If only had teeth down there,'” recalled Ehlers, who was a 20-year-old medical researcher at the time. “I promised her I’d do something to help people like her one day.”

Forty years later, Rape-aXe was born.

Ehlers is distributing the female condoms in the various South African cities where the World Cup soccer games are taking place.

The woman inserts the latex condom like a tampon. Jagged rows of teeth-like hooks line its inside and attach on a man’s penis during penetration, Ehlers said.

Once it lodges, only a doctor can remove it — a procedure Ehlers hopes will be done with authorities on standby to make an arrest.

“It hurts, he cannot pee and walk when it’s on,” she said. “If he tries to remove it, it will clasp even tighter… however, it doesn’t break the skin, and there’s no danger of fluid exposure.”

Ehlers said she sold her house and car to launch the project, and she planned to distribute 30,000 free devices under supervision during the World Cup period.

“I consulted engineers, gynecologists and psychologists to help in the design and make sure it was safe,” she said.

After the trial period, they’ll be available for about $2 a piece. She hopes the women will report back to her.

It hurts, he cannot pee and walk when it’s on. If he tries to remove it, it will clasp even tighter
“The ideal situation would be for a woman to wear this when she’s going out on some kind of blind date … or to an area she’s not comfortable with,” she said.

The mother of two daughters said she visited prisons and talked to convicted rapists to find out whether such a device would have made them rethink their actions.

Some said it would have, Ehlers said.

Critics say the female condom is not a long-term solution and makes women vulnerable to more violence from men trapped by the device.

It’s also a form of “enslavement,” said Victoria Kajja, a fellow for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the east African country of Uganda. “The fears surrounding the victim, the act of wearing the condom in anticipation of being assaulted all represent enslavement that no woman should be subjected to.”

Kajja said the device constantly reminds women of their vulnerability.

“It not only presents the victim with a false sense of security, but psychological trauma,” she added. “It also does not help with the psychological problems that manifest after assaults.”

However, its one advantage is it allows justice to be served, she said.

Various rights organizations that work in South Africa declined to comment, including Human Rights Watch and Care International.

South Africa has one of the highest rape rates in the world, Human Rights Watch says on its website. A 2009 report by the nation’s Medical Research Council found that 28 percent of men surveyed had raped a woman or girl, with one in 20 saying they had raped in the past year, according to Human Rights Watch.

In most African countries, rape convictions are not common. Affected women don’t get immediate access to medical care, and DNA tests to provide evidence are unaffordable.

“Women and girls who experience these violations are denied justice, factors that contribute to the normalization of rape and violence in South African society,” Human Rights Watch says.

Women take drastic measures to prevent rape in South Africa, Ehlers said, with some wearing extra tight biker shorts and others inserting razor blades in their private parts.

Critics have accused her of developing a medieval device to fight rape.

“Yes, my device may be a medieval, but it’s for a medieval deed that has been around for decades,” she said. “I believe something’s got to be done … and this will make some men rethink before they assault a woman.”


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4 thoughts on “South Africa: Doctor invents female condoms with ‘teeth’ to fight rape

  1. william benson

    I have read about that discovery but cant help look at it differently.Here i see a good cause for women to celebrate but i also think it makes a case for the ‘bitten man’ out of pain,shame and guilt to easily think of killing the woman now that you know as i do that murder and rape convicts have similar deterrent sentences.He might as well say he’s got no other life to live so just let me kill her!!

    Just my 5 cents thought and i stand to be corrected.Nevertheless i support anything that can really punish rapists

    W.I.Benson

  2. william

    if a rapist is bitten or axed as you say, and all rapists are sadists, what will prevent them from unleashing more violence after the bite? rape is as serious problem as pirates in somali and there could be no panacea for it, but if it can deter rapist , so be it

  3. Rubus

    Many women will tell u that sometimes the best thing to do in the unfortunate circumstances is to let the rapist in, ajimalizie na akuache hai. Rapists often walk in groups. what will the other members do if they learn that their friend cannot finish and give way?

    How will this solve child rape, which is the biggest problem anyway? will you stuuf that thing inside your daughter as she goes to school every morning?

    How comfortable is a woman walking around wearing condom with teeth under the pants?

    Doesnt this thing leave the anus more exposed to the anger of rapists?

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