Female Anti-Rape Condom
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Many of the people that are infected by AIDS go to their witch doctors to seek a cure. There is a legend, started by the witch doctors, that if you have sex with a virgin, you will be cured. These virgins usually aren't willing, and so are raped. And then the original AIDS infected man is still infected, so figures that the victim mustn't have been a virgin and looks for someone younger. And so the vicious cycle of rape and AIDS continues.
Hopefully these things help some girls. Although instead of catching AIDS, they might just get killed by the rapist instead. It is a horrible, violent world in South Africa (and sadly - one of the most beautiful countries in the world, too).
BTW - My wife is South African and got out almost 15 years ago. She still has extended family there.
This risks getting the victim killed. It also may find its largest audience not among women freely choosing it for self-defense, but traditional fathers in some cultures forcing it on their daughters -- the same men who sometimes 'honor kill' their daughters or nieces who've had premarital sex, whether that sex was consensual or rape.
Women are often advised to use non-aggressive
strategies against sexual assault[3]. Research
suggests that this is a poor advice.According to one
study, women who used non-forceful verbal
strategies, e.g, crying or pleading with the assailant
were raped about 96% of the time[4].
Forceful verbal resistance, including loud screaming
was more effective than non-forceful verbal
resistance. These strategies were associated with
completion of rape from 44%-50% of the time[5].
Running works even better than verbal resistance.
Researches indicate that only 15% of women who
attempted to flee were raped[6].
Forceful physical resistance is an extremely
successful strategy. The completed rape dropped to
14% when the rapist’s attempt was met with violent
physical force. Striking was more successful than
pushing or wrestling. Physical resistance also
appeared to be more effective when assault occured
outdoor[5].
Women who used knives or guns in self-defence
were raped less than 1% of the time. Defensive use
of edged or projectile weapons reduced the rate of
injury to statistical insignificance[7].
Whether this particular strategy will be effective or not, I don't know. But I can easily imagine the class of rapists who give up when the woman merely yells at them might decide they really don't want to deal with this.
Naively, if I wanted to reduce the incidence of rape, I'd make switchblades standard issue for young girls and tell them to seriously attempt to do maximum damage when threatened.
Though it might work differently in South Africa.
*I had read this before, but had to google for the paper. It looks good to me, but I cannot vouch for its reliability.
And of course, kids handle kitchen knives and pocket knives from a very young age. It depends on the household, but six or eight isn't unusual; it can be as young as three in some cultures.
Even in this culture, early elementary school kids are taught serious things like when to dial 911 and when not to. Learning when to use a weapon isn't that much harder.
If rape is a serious problem, arm the dang girls. Or at a minimum teach them to fight and run.
http://www.stephenhalbrook.com/article-knabbenschiessen/pic1...
Women and girls are not, by nature, killers. It's not politically correct to say that but it's true.
This is also likely to enrage the attacker to the point where he kills his victim.
And walking around with plastic all day is likely to cause infections.
Regarding infections, women walk around all the time with tampons/birth-contol devices, etc. in and infections are not a concern for most as far as I know.
Though I do agree that if it became widespread an attacker would simply check first.
Tampons are changed out relatively frequently and are not generally worn every day. Self-applied birth control devices are not generally worn all day, every day -- there is something just a little bit more predictable about opportunities for voluntary sex than there is for sexual assault.
There was a past where IUDs and tampons (not even just high-absorbency, but the materials used for certain ones...) caused TSS and more, and the risk factor is still kinda there, but nowadays it's almost unheard of. And just keeping something in a vagina doesn't mean it's about to turn into a toxic breeding ground like it did in the past. Not that I support this condom much, but it's probably not unimaginable for a woman to keep it inserted for most of the day if she wishes to, no worries about TSS or whatever else.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_rape_drug
"flunitrazepam, also known as Rohypnol or "roofies""
Gah. Ass-backwards. Even if the condom is effective, technically and in all other ways, you still get raped.
"It not only presents the victim with a false sense of security, but psychological trauma," said Victoria Kajja, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Uganda.
But Ehlers said that she had taken the proper research and development steps before launching the product.
"I consulted engineers, gynecologists and psychologists to help in the design and make sure it was safe," she said.
Well, yeah, but that's not what that particular criticism was about.
Ehlers also pointed out how women take extreme measures such as placing razor blades in their nether regions to prevent rape in South Africa.
...that's pretty bad. I wonder if it actually helps any?
Sounds like a valid question the woman using this should no. I could increase the likelihood of infection
I don't buy this at all. Doctor's aren't going to have some super secret method of Rape-axe removal, they're just going to cut the device off carefully.
And I have a feeling they are significantly exaggerating the pain level. I wonder if they tested it on an actual person.