Thursday, September 01, 2005

New Meaning To The Jaws Of Death...

Anti-rape condom aims to stop attacks

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 as 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.

Now THIS is one of the dumbest ideas to come along the pike in quite some time. Not to be confused with giving women the rights to PROTECT themselves, we find the European-type mindest that identifies women as helpless victims incapable of doing anything but scratching an attacker's thrust, thus assuring that not only will she be raped, but most likely severely beaten or outright killed by a wounded, vengeful rapist.

The "inventor" of this atrocity hasn't the slightest idea of how the human pain cycle is initiated, the level of pain the average man can tolerate when angered, nor the response such a device is certain to provoke. Why not implant a reusable shaped-charge of explosives designed to blow outward? Yeah, okay, that'd come close to, if not outright killing a rapist, and from there it's a small slippery slope to those ghastly firearms that'd assure ALL people are equal.

A woman inventor who's obviously never been around an aroused OR angry man. Sublime recipe for disaster.

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