Anti-rape condom with TEETH ready to hit market - and rapists

I agree.

Frankly, Gwenny, perhaps you should look into some different friends.

Though looking through the FAQs, I found this one kind of funny:

Does this mean I cannot have sex with my husband or partner?
Yes you can, but you will not wear it when you are with your husband or partner in bed, unless you are in a violent relationship and you do get raped by your husband or partner. The choice is then yours whether to wear it or not.

Translation: If your husband's an @!$%#, feel free.

Jeez, Gwenny, OMG is right. Your friends are little strange. Why on earth would you give that sort of access to someone with whom you were pissed off?

Feel free to survey your own friends. I think you will find my friends do not fall outside the norm, but that is it you and I, who would never consider it, who are not normal. ::sigh:: Like I have said in the past, I'd be a lesbian, but women are freaking CRAZY.

Frankly, Gwenny, perhaps you should look into some different friends.

Always looking. LOL

LOL, and the breasts get in the way.

ROFLMAO.

Sorry, Gwenny, but because a few psychopaths will use the product for bad doesn't mean everybody else shouldn't have the right to use it. Would your friends stab their boyfriends they were mad at? Then let's not have knives anymore...

Sorry, Gwenny, but because a few psychopaths will use the product for bad doesn't mean everybody else shouldn't have the right to use it. Would your friends stab their boyfriends they were mad at? Then let's not have knives anymore...

We aren't talking psychopaths, here. We are talking "normal" "average" women. Career women. . .from 20ish to middle age. All said they would consider it. I was floored. And then I thought back to some of the stuff I've seen in my life bouncing between classes and races. I think a majority of lower middle to lowest lower class are capable of this. ::sigh::

And there's a BIT of difference between outlawing tools that have many uses and my saying I don't support the use of a device intended for only one purpose. NOW, if you had said "would your girlfriends try to strangle their boyfriends with their sanitary napkins . . ."

But that is not my only fear. I feel that these would not, ultimately, provide that much protection. Especially in a society that devalues women. I've been raped, by someone I knew in my own bed when he broke into my house. I can guarantee you that if I had used one of these, based on the total lack of support by the police at that time, I would be dead now because the rapist would have come back and killed me.

And this is my personal choice. If other women want to use it, oh well.

All the more reason for some serious digital foreplay.

I am all for the device, and I am male. I really, highly doubt the women that say they would use it against their boyfriend, would actually use it. Most people talk a big game about hurting other people, but when it comes down to it, most people can't stomach the reality. And, if you end up with a women like that in bed, that is your own damn fault for not being more perceptive of people.

I really, highly doubt the women that say they would use it against their boyfriend, would actually use it.

Loreena Bobbitt.

@Gwenny,

Man, you'd have had to have done something PRET-TY nasty to get someone to use this as a retaliatory device!

It's perhaps hard for us to imagine in this country just how prevalent rape is in other parts of the world, so although it's an extreme alternative if it gives someone some comfort I suppose it's an alternative. I wouldn't like to think how someone experiencing this device would react, though.

Man, you'd have had to have done something PRET-TY nasty to get someone to use this as a retaliatory device!

But now nasty? Are we talking physical violence or does lying or cheating justify a woman, in a fit of rage, mutilating her lover?

It's perhaps hard for us to imagine in this country just how prevalent rape is in other parts of the world, so although it's an extreme alternative if it gives someone some comfort I suppose it's an alternative.

Perhaps it's hard for you to imagine. I've been raped twice in addition to years of being molested by my stepfather. I can tell you, this not only would not have protected me, it would have gotten me killed in the long run. I've also been in a number of survivors of sexual violence support groups, even in this country that claims to have equality for women, women are victims at a much much higher rate than men. Here's a few US stats for you.

• Every two and a half minutes, somewhere in America, someone is sexually assaulted.
• One in six American women are victims of sexual assault, and one in 33 men.
• In 2004-2005, there were an average annual 200,780 victims of rape, attempted rape or sexual assault.
• About 44% of rape victims are under age 18, and 80% are under age 30.
• Since 1993, rape/sexual assault has fallen by over 69%.

so although it's an extreme alternative if it gives someone some comfort I suppose it's an alternative.

:/ By someone, you mean some woman? And what is the price of this "comfort"--if you can call walking around with a device like that in your vagina can be called a "comfort"? How is this going to heal the violence of men? How is this going to improve the communications between the genders?

When are we going to learn that negative reinforcement might be okay for training your dog (I don't agree, necessarily) but that it TOTALLY FAILS to produce constructive, long term change in humans?

It will scare the @!$%# out of them and the more women that have it the less chance that the men will think it's just all so easy to do it.

What communication is there when they are getting raped remember this country believes men are above women and that's not goinhg to change soon so dn't you think alot of women have suffered enough to have to wait another century or two? Bc this problem is not solving istself nor is it going to change soon.

There's a scene in the book Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson where one of the main characters is wearing something like this except it injects the invading penis with a fast acting tranquiliser, she's a delivery girl. She forgets. It's an interesting scene.

Maybe this should come with a tranquilizer too, given all the comments here along the lines of "the guy will just knife/shoot her when he finds it the hard way".

What crazy books Stephenson wrote. I think Zodiac was my favorite.

I did like Zodiac. Played into all my 70s ecoterrorist treehugging fantasies. LOL But Snow Crash is still my fav.

vagina dentata

Thanks, agio - I think you just came up with the name of the next James Bond beauty! lol

a possible non rapist, ex boyfriend revenge scenario?: "ha ha, APRIL FOOLS!, NEVA GONNA GET IT." the woman taunted, as the man rolled on the ground in pain taking the fetal position in a pool of blood, "oooh, good one!"

Seriously though, I don't know, I am skeptical that this would be much of a deterrent. For one, the woman would have to wear it ALL THE TIME.... And secondly, after rapists learned about this device, don't you think they would check to see if it was there before insertion?

I was thinking the same thing.

And secondly, after rapists learned about this device, don't you think they would check to see if it was there before insertion?

And more importantly, what would they do after they safely discovered it?

Or more more importantly, what they would do if they unsafely discovered it... Like Steve Watts says below, let's say the rapist has a gun or a knife, and he is already violent, then several teeth jab into the shaft of his penis...this would certainly escalate the situation. I think the victim would get stabbed or shot before they could escape.

I also wonder what would happen after the rapist discovers this thing during penetration and if the subsequent anger and rage would actually place the life of the victim in more danger.

That would concern me too, actually. The FAQ on the page asks "wouldn't you get killed?" and the answer is less than satisfying ("uh, yeah maybe"). The real issue comes up in that light with there being no way to turn it "off."

If you have the device ready to go, and then you're attacked by a man with a gun, do you really want to use it? I would think it would be wiser not to at that point. But by then it's too late, and you'll probably be shot, unless you tell the guy to hold on while you remove it...

And if the rapist knows there is a possibility of it being installed, then I would think many would have no qualms about threatening the victim with additional bodily harm or death if they didn't disclose or remove it, or perhaps do some initial probing with other objects.

Exactly Rollie. It also occurred to me that if a woman removed it (to keep herself from being shot), the rapist could argue that she was receptive to sex and it was therefore consensual. It just seems to open up a whole mess of implications, really...

Uhm, er, I feel uncomfortable asking this, but what do you mean by, (and I guess men for that matter?"

Well.....women are not the only ones who get raped. It's the ole prison joke/warning about "don't bend over to pick up the soap".......

The old Anal Dentada trick.

*bweep bweep*

electronic female voice:

Rapex armed

*the sound of a garbage disposal running* "Enter at your own risk" label on panties. I'm not gonna check to see if it's real.

"I want this guy to be identified. I want a way that will prove that penetration took place," said Ehlers.

Another quick comment: in cultures where women's accusations of rape often fall on deaf ears, this could help bring rapists and potential rapists to justice.

by the look of it, it wouldn't bleed into anything except the condom itself.

Put salt in it. I don't care how "lively" he is after that, he won't be thinking about beating her! And after you catch the bastard, he should have his penis permanently nailed to a rail road tie. Unfortunately, ladies, the only thing that really stops rape is life in prison without possibility of parole. Sex offenders (all of them) are unredeamable, uncureable preditors on human society.

I agree you can't see it like a diaphragm so they'd learn to look in a different way. I think it should be a shock and/or tranquilizer that will be enough damage to make it so he can't get it up again, cause once they start they don't stop.