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New Invention: South African anti-rape tampon hooks male p*nis

Women in this country are desperate. Rape is reaching epidemic proportions. Gang rape is also occurring often. Child and baby rape is not even something that causes us to raise our eyebrows any more.

Some time back, I noticed some African Americans on a forum discussing Baby rape in South Africa. I saw an African American woman posting a question: "But how does a grown man get his wee wee into a small baby?" I didn't belong to the forum, but I can answer that: He tears into the baby's innards, and the baby normally dies from internal damage and bleeding afterwards. Some lucky babies survive if the surgeons are good enough - but even then, the babies will never be normal.

But knowing how violent our rapists are, I wonder if they won't end up strangling the women to death or something? I wonder how it will work in practise. We'll have to see - maybe some men will have their family jewels damaged and will then kill the woman afterwards? We'll have to wait and see.

A rape victim once wished for teeth "where it mattered". Now a device has been designed to "bite" a rapist's penis. The patented device looks and is worn like a tampon, but it is hollow and attaches itself with tiny hooks to a man's penis during penetration.

Ehlers, of Kleinmond, who has worked for the South African Institute for Medical Research, said she had been seeking a way to help women since meeting a rape survivor 20 years ago who commented that she wished she had teeth in her vagina.

"Over the past three years I have been working on this device. It is now completely safe and ready to be manufactured and distributed," she said.

In the event of rape, the device folds itself around the rapist's penis, attaching to the skin with microscopic hooks. It is only when the rapist withdraws that he will realise the device is clamped around his penis.

'He will have to be put under an anesthetic to have it removed'

As it is impossible to remove the device from a penis without medical help, hospitals and clinics will be able to alert police when assistance is sought.

"This will rule out any possibility of the rapist's escaping arrest and speed up conviction."

If the rapist tries to remove the device, it will only embed itself further.

"He will have to be put under an anesthetic to have it removed. He will not be able to leave it as he will be unable to urinate."

A woman would have to wear the device every day

Last year, there were 52,733 reported rapes. In a study, the Gender-Based Violence Programme at the CSVR analysed 162 rapes in Johannesburg's inner city and found that one in four had been a gang rape. The study found that 56 percent of the victims had been raped by two men and 23 percent by three.

"Women would have to wear this every minute of their lives on the off-chance that they would be raped," Vetten says.

"I am concerned at how normal rape has become that we would even consider a device like this."

Mitchell is also concerned that the device might lead to further violence against victims.

"Once the rapist realises this device is attached to him, he is more than likely to take his anger out on his victim."

"It will be available at supermarkets, chemists, anywhere where one would be able to buy tampons," she says.