Anti-**** condom to stop attacks

Empty_Purple_Stars · 09-05-2005, 01:51 AM

South Africa anti-**** condom aims to stop attacks

Wed Aug 31,11:46 AM ET KLEINMOND, South Africa (Reuters) - A South African inventor unveiled a new anti-**** 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 ***** 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.

"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 through surgery which will alert hospital staff, and ultimately, the police, she said.

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 was planned to start next year. But the "rapex" has raised fears amongst anti-**** 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 co-ordinator for **** Crisis.

Other critics say the condom is mediaeval and barbaric -- an accusation Ehlers says should be directed rather at the act of ****.

"This is not about vengeance ... but the deed, that is what I hate," she said.

http://news.**********/s/nm/oukoe_uk_safrica_****

Spazik · 09-05-2005, 09:28 AM

I'm slow, does **** stand for "fuck"? As in "Anti-fuck condom"?

edible_eye · 09-05-2005, 09:34 AM

read the story again.

MrMaelstrom · 09-05-2005, 09:54 AM

It stands for coerced sex, you know: ****************************************************

edible_eye · 09-05-2005, 09:58 AM

i wanna try this - ****

wow - that's kinda fucked up.

those asterisks say ****.

****, ****, ****, ****, ****, ****, ****

it'ssofuckedupthatyoucan'ttyperape

Empty_Purple_Stars · 09-05-2005, 10:19 AM

Uhh thats not us..

We don't edit out 'curse words'..

Cuz we use alot of them..

FuckYeah!!

MrMaelstrom · 09-05-2005, 10:39 AM

Yup.

So....EPS, are you gonna take up the newb on the flamewar challenge thingie, OR WHAT?

Peter · 09-05-2005, 10:49 AM

Eh, happened here, I used the same trick I did here and it worked for a time, and then was replaced by ****, but there's no "edited by" bit, so you tell me.

MrMaelstrom · 09-05-2005, 10:52 AM

I dunno, maybe it's the new powers that be, or it could be some sort of a software that only turn itself on at some time during the day and scans the threads (but that sounds too spiffy for me)

MrMaelstrom · 09-05-2005, 10:53 AM

So, again, EPS, are you gonna wimp out on Abstract Thought's challenge, OR WHAT?

Empty_Purple_Stars · 09-05-2005, 11:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrMaelstrom

So, again, EPS, are you gonna wimp out on Abstract Thought's challenge, OR WHAT?

Perhaps when I am not so sick with worry that my missing relatives are dead..

I am waiting on phone calls from family members who went to Jefferson Parish this morning to check and see if they are still stranded in their house..

Just trying not to completely freak out right now, and a 'flame war' isn't top on my list at the moment..

MrMaelstrom · 09-05-2005, 11:07 AM

Sorry hun, I should've known better than to bug you at a time like this.

Empty_Purple_Stars · 09-05-2005, 11:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrMaelstrom

Sorry hun, I should've known better than to bug you at a time like this.

It's all good. No worries..

I just know I am not at the top of my 'game' at the moment. It's been a long seven days with no word, and I am beginning to unravel a bit with all that has happened.

Sigh..

edible_eye · 09-05-2005, 12:50 PM

i'm sorry that there's so much sadness and anxiety in your life right now, eps.

and just so manimal doesn't show up at my fuckin' house with a shotgun - that's just a hug. it's not my fault the god damn small, yellow faces melt together. it's a hug.

a hug.

hoping you get some good news soon.

Empty_Purple_Stars · 09-06-2005, 09:22 AM

Thanks E_E,

No good news yet... *Cry*

But Three thousand refugees are going to be here in Portland, at Washington High School and I am going down there to volunteer.

I dont know what else to do...

Empty_Purple_Stars · 09-06-2005, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by eyesofatragedy

And EPS, sorry for all your pain and wish all the best for you. Like edible my hugs will have to virtual. Sorry I don't have a cool smiley for it though. ::hugs::

Thanks Beautiful..

You guys rule..

Thanks so much for all of your caring thoughts..

We're all still trying to hope for the best..