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Posted: 3/7/2007 10:54:15 AM | This little device oughta make the incidence of rape drop.... unless, of course, the refusal to wear one of them gets turned into an argument for "she wanted it..."
It's being billed as an "anti-rape condom." It is a rubber device lined with barbs that is inserted into the vagina and worn "just in case." It looks damned uncomfortable.
Don't go here if the words "vagina dentata" make you cringe.
http://www.rapestop.net/gallery/folderview.asp?folder=Anti-Rape+Condom+in+open+position | |
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Posted: 3/7/2007 10:57:36 AM | "vagina dentata"
Wasn't that a Police album back in the 80's? ..........No...sorry that was Zenyatta Mondatta.
If women would actually consider using this, maybe it's time we brought back the chastity belt. A little more bulky....but less....invasive. | |
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Posted: 3/7/2007 11:04:35 AM | I've read about this years ago.
More uncomfortable for the rapist I imagine. | |
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Posted: 3/7/2007 11:08:53 AM | | It looks very interesting...however, I have to wonder about the chances of you actually having it in when you are raped...being a survivor of rape I would of loved to have this....it would so take away the he said she said.... | |
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Posted: 3/7/2007 11:15:26 AM | I think it's a good idea...and a bad one.
There's women out there that are pure evil and would use it on any unsuspecting male.
On the other hand the fuckers got it coming to them! | |
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Posted: 3/7/2007 11:30:59 AM | Ok, call me Naive, BUT:
How are you going to insert a "condom" with barbed wires in it, into your vagina, without being uncomfortable, or worse? It would have to be made of pretty solid material, as to not cut the woman.
If an enraged rapist, gets his wee wee cut inside of someone, what might his reaction be?
"Ouch, ok time to go home?"
Or, since rape is supposedly not about sex but violence and control, he might just remove the offending object and do the deed anyway, or worse. | |
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Posted: 3/7/2007 11:35:35 AM | Feeling a bit misanthropic, are we, dorkfully?  (j/k)
I also remember hearing about something like this years ago and thinking it was BS, probably during a drunken party in college. We probably thought we were being original. But now someone's actually got patent pending on it and is manufacturing them!
Yeah, I can see any number of ways in which this is a near-totally-useless device. I mean, rape isn't about sex - and many of the women who are raped aren't going to be sexually active, and no virgin is going to walk around wearing one of these! Most rapes are committed by someone the victim knows, and who's going to want to deal with one of these on a date or in the presumed safety of their own home? On top of that, if a potential rapist suspects the object of his actions might be wearing one vaginally, he's just going to aim elsewhere - and it would likely do much more damage to HER than to him. And think about the sheer SIZE of the damn thing! If it's got to be big enough to accomodate an average guy, plus the walls appear to be at least 2 cm thick, there's no way it's getting inside MY hoo-ha and hanging out there all day. yikes. ow. (You can argue about the merits of size all you want, but there. is. a. limit!)
And yet... I can see this being pressed on young women "just in case." I can see the marketing campaign clearly.... A beautiful woman alone in a bad neighborhood at night. She strides along with an air of complete non-chalance. The voice-over: "Walk when you want, where you want, with confidence. You've got: dentata." (cue badass music.)
ETA: x-posted with Geneso, who said everything I was thinking, but better! | |
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Posted: 3/7/2007 11:45:38 AM | The design is better than I originally thought. I heard about these things a few years back. They were developed in Africa (I think) Where rape was a huge issue.
These aren't something that you would advertise as a deterent. These things (or at least the ones I originally heard about) are brutal.
notice the barbs go point upward (into the female). When there is a rape, the man inserts and doesn't realize until he starts to pull back. You can't simply remove the device, it has reverse barbs... it would have to be cut free.
The idea is that it stuns, and probably panics the rapist, allowing the vicitm a chance to escape. I can't imagine it being worn all the time. But if you found out that your neighborhood had a 50% rape rate... you might consider it.
I think of it more as a deterent than something that would be actively used... I mean you are not going to know it is there... unless you stick your little wee-wee in... and if it's there.... owie.. owie... owie...
You can't just feel for it either really. The vicitim would have a better chance of escaping, and even feeling for it, you run the risk of it sticking hold of your fingers...
brutal little device...
I love it... so long as I never feel it. | |
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Posted: 3/7/2007 2:07:51 PM | I actually think it's a good device...I checked out the website and it looks like it might actually have some benefits. I wouldn't advocate for wearing it ALL the time of course, but when you are in high risk areas it would be good.
I know many people have said "well, is he just going to sit there and let it scratch him?"...ummm, I actually took the time to read the full work up on it and these are actually little jagged barbs that dig into the penis shaft and have to be removed by a doctor. The "condom" comes out after the man enters the woman and stays attached to the man, who at that point, would probably be in sooo much pain he might temporarily forget what is going on, giving the woman an opportunity to escape. Also, the condom prevents the transfer of STD's.
I think the fact that it would be uncomfortable is a risk I'd be willing to take if I was in a high risk area as I think the benefits outweight the risks.
JMO | |
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Posted: 3/11/2007 11:37:51 AM | | I've heard about this too, and it is a bad idea IMO. So, the rapist gets cut, is beeding, and chances are more likely that the labial folds and just outside the vagina of the victim is torn from him forcing himself in her....he pulls out, blood meets open wound....what a way to transmit HIV, or any other STD the creep has. | |
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Posted: 3/11/2007 7:37:20 PM | ^^The condom gets stuck on him when he pulls out. The average females labia is not long enough to reach the plastic barbs on the inside, if there's any blood it'll be inside the condom.
I think I'd rather take the chance with the little bit of blood that may come out of it on me then semen and pregnancy. | |
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Posted: 3/11/2007 7:52:47 PM | ^^^Thanks for the info, but I still think the risk is great. When a woman is forcefully entered, she is torn at the opening of her vagina. I'm thinking that since blood is liquid, there would most certainly be the transfer of his blood on her open wounds as well as he exited.
It's not as bad a I originally thought, but the idea of blood mixing with blood in such copious amounts scares me. True, I'd rather know that the device tore him up pretty frikkin good, and it does assauage some of my earlier worries about him removing himself from her if the device is now locked onto him....still. At least he couldn't remove himself and then use the device to hurt her.
I am going to research this some more to see if there have been any cases where a victim did employ this method and what happened. | |
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Posted: 3/11/2007 8:31:32 PM | I think women should be outraged !!! I most certainly am. We are supposed to wear some wear a device like this so it becomes more difficult to be raped or to prove we weren't "asking for it" ? The most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. My God a women should have the ability to walk down a street, or any other situation and not have to worry about being raped, much less prove that she wasn't "asking for it". Instead of such a medieval torture device for women how about we have some type of device for a man's di_k so he can prove that he has no intention of raping a women.
Also rape is more about power than sex. There are many ways for a person to be raped than vaginal penetration. Such a device could serve to infuriate the rapist even more and cause him to become so infuriated that what might have started out as rape could turn into something even worse.
It seems to me this device is taking the blame off the rapist and making it a women's responsibility if she is raped. The whole thing smacks of some 3rd world country were women are blamed if they are raped. This idea sets women back 100 years.
How about instead of putting the blame/responsibility on women we put it were it belongs, on the rapist. How about stiff jail sentences for rapists, with no parole ? | |
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