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South African doctor invents female condom with 'teeth' to fight rape.

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Deozaan:
If the title sounds like something from a really bad horror movie, you must be thinking of Teeth (2007).

However, truth is often stranger than fiction. This condom has been in the making for 40 years.

The woman inserts the latex condom like a tampon. Jagged rows of teeth-like hooks line its inside and attach on a man's penis during penetration, Ehlers said.

Once it lodges, only a doctor can remove it -- a procedure Ehlers hopes will be done with authorities on standby to make an arrest.-http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/06/20/south.africa.female.condom/
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They'd better be paying the (male) test subjects a lot of money!

Renegade:
It's also a form of "enslavement," said Victoria Kajja, a fellow for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the east African country of Uganda. "The fears surrounding the victim, the act of wearing the condom in anticipation of being assaulted all represent enslavement that no woman should be subjected to."

Kajja said the device constantly reminds women of their vulnerability.

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South Africa has one of the highest rape rates in the world, Human Rights Watch says on its website. A 2009 report by the nation's Medical Research Council found that 28 percent of men surveyed had raped a woman or girl, with one in 20 saying they had raped in the past year, according to Human Rights Watch.
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Let's do an informal poll here... How many people here are rapists?

WTF? That's from a survey with people volunteering answers! "Are you a rapist?" "Sometimes." Wow. The reality must be much higher.

Seriously --- that's very, very messed up.

As for complaining about "enslavement", geez... It's like they're upset that they can't run around raping anymore. "Enslavement"??? It's a really bad situation. Seems like it's needed there. Badly.

And as for the movie, "Teeth" -- it was REALLY bad. :P

From the article, the inventor quoting a rape victim:

"She looked at me and said, 'If only had teeth down there,'"
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The product name is even scary: Rape-aXe

That something like that would ever be needed it extremely sad. And the inventor is drawing out critics! Just how completely FUBAR is that?

Deozaan:
As for complaining about "enslavement", geez... It's like they're upset that they can't run around raping anymore. "Enslavement"??? It's a really bad situation. Seems like it's needed there. Badly.-Renegade (June 20, 2010, 08:21 PM)
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I agree. If this device is necessary then women are already "enslaved" by the fear of needing one anyway.

I'm reminded of an argument against "gun control" (read: gun prohibition), that defines gun control as the idea that a woman being brutally raped and murdered is somehow morally superior to a woman with a gun who can defend herself against would-be rapists/murderers.

Not having a deterrent for these crimes is more enslavement than having the deterrents available, IMO.

Renegade:
The lesser of 2 evils...  :(

Eóin:
Interesting that this story seems to have cropped up all over the interwebs today, the device itself was developed 5 years ago and I remember seeing it mentioned in an Encyclopedia Dramatica article at least 3 years ago.

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