The device is a female condom with inner blades that sink into the penis and can only be taken out surgically.
Sonnet Elizabeth Bryant – inventor of Rape-aXe. Her career as a Blood Technologist at the South African Institute for Medical Research (SAIMR) opened up the doors due to her involvement with rape victims. Over the past 12 year she has worked in this field while researching and gaining valuable insight into different rape scenarios.
Video demonstration with sex toys:
https://videopress.com/v/mI4p4jC5
Website:
GoFundMe:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/65eu5c
This project has been going on for years but it's still being prototyped. No wonder. For me it is a proof that men prefer rapists not to damage THEIR organ instead of actually punishing rapists. I don't know, maybe they think: "you never know, I might rape a woman one day, I don't want to be tagged as a rapist" 🤮
I don't know...
I'm the first person to cheer and clap when a rapist's dick gets mutilated but what do they think he'll do to the woman who used the device? It may hurt him but it does nothing to actually protect her from him retaliating or to help her flee. And ultimately all a rapist needs to do to avoid it is to use his fingers first to check if his victim has one of these inserted.
And... with the world being as shitty as it is... it's more likely for her to go to prison for assault after that than for him to go to prison for attempted rape.
If you want to stop rapists, give women guns and legal immunity if they shoot someone who harrasses them.
When I first read this, I misunderstood and thought the device could only be removed from inside the woman surgically, not the penis. Thankfully that’s not the case. 😂
I like the idea, but I think in the US it would be outlawed almost immediately. There’d be a massive outcry claiming that scorned women would “trick” men into consensual sex just to mutilate them and/or tag them as a rapist.
Hopefully I am wrong.
Theres some issue with this idea.
1. It doesn't protect the anus. Rapists would just choose a different area to violate if this became popularized and the rapists were scared of injury.
2. Another issue I have is that realistically a man would likely try to pull out once he feels the first row of spikes. Women tend to tense up their pelvic floor when they're being violated. When a man tries to forcefully penetrate a woman when she's frightened its very unlikely he'll "shove it in so fast that he doesn't have time to react until its too late." Instead the very first spike that hits him or "off feeling" would just make him angrier and he'd pull the device out anyway and attempt to assault her more severely than he initially intended.
3.Another issue I have with the spikes is that the man would likely draw blood inside the woman and around her genitalia. This would further increase the likelihood of her catching an std or all sorts of blood borne diseases from him. (HIV, Malaria, Yellow fever, hepatitis, lyme disease, Syphilis ect.) Even if I'm generous as possible with this product being an effective foolproof deterrent the disease prevention argument doesn't hold up. It actually increases the possibility. Blood borne diseases are especially common in third world countries so women in poverty would have a higher likelihood of getting infected.
4. Finally this product looks very uncomfortable to wear daily. What if the woman is on her period and she prefers tampons or menstrual cups? What if the woman has vaginismus? What if the woman works a lot and doesn't have time to clean, insert, remove, clean and dry it daily?
I don't believe very many women would feel motivated to add this device to their daily routine or be willing to sleep in it. Especially women in third world conditions or homeless women that don't have consistent access to clean running water and the necessary cleaning supplies this product would need.
5.Courts will likely argue her self defense method was "premeditated" due to the impracticality of this product for every day use. She might end up being charged with assault and her attacker will be seen as a victim.
6..Women in poverty would be more likely to use unsanitary or reused stagnant water. There was a case when lot of infants got sick in third world countries when powdered formula was handed out to women for free (because the water mixed in the formula wasn't sanitary enough.) This product could lead to bacterial and yeast infections. This would be very stressful or even deadly for the women, especially if they can't access proper medical care or antibiotics.
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I know there was once a campaign that attempted to make rape resistant underwear. This would be much more practical. I think it's discontinued though. I do think feminists could band together and create something similar again.
https://youtu.be/VlRDBr6pvfE?si=9TEqFkDthSTS9Lby
I was excited when I first heard about it...12 years ago.
I checked back a few years later. Still not out. Then a few years later I checked back again. Still not out.
If she can't figure out how to make it in 12 years, she's not going to.
Same story with the anti-rape underwear. It's been 9 years already.
Edison invented the lightbulb in 14 months. The Wright brothers invented their airplane in 4 years.
These woman can't figure out how to make a condom with teeth in it in 12 years? Or combination lock panties in 9 years?
These products are never going to see the light of day. At this point I think they're just living off the donations.
I like the idea of this in theory, however in war torn countires women are often gang raped and this would only work one time and then be much worse off for the woman after dealing with the consequences.
But for a night out on the town, if it felt like a tampon, why not have it as an option as a little extra security. Money would be better spend processing rape kits and prosecuting sexual assault heavily.
Important info, update, see this post.
https://www.thefemaledatingstrategy.com/forum/cultural-misogyny/these-rape-prevention-products-are-being-kept-from-market
This reminds me of a poem by chris wind that I read years ago (it's in "dreaming of kaleidoscopes" which I see is free at her website, chriswind.net):
evolution
i wince to hear the sudden yowl, that feline scream
i was never convinced was the sound of orgasmic ecstasy
and i know now how the hair on a tom’s cock
has evolved into tiny bristles
growing backwards from tip to shaft
so they tear at the walls
as he pulls out
when he is through:
no puss will want to pull away–
needless to say, it helps the species to survive.
some humans have gone beyond
such quantitative criteria for success.
so now it is i who have the bristles:
well-oiled by my desire
they are but tendrils
to tickle you as you come;
but otherwise,
the barbs will puncture, pierce,
incise streaks along your prick–
needless to say, you will never again
come this way.
1986
Wouldn't you be afraid the guy will hunt you down and kill you for that? It's the reason I think self-defence that does serious damage would have to be accompanied by a move and a new identity.
it looks like a door stopper, lol.
looks very uncomfortable
I'm not fucking wearing one of these. I'll go fund an invention that puts the onus on the rapist to stop raping. Also these have existed in Africa for several years now, don't know why this is being portrayed as some brand new thing, and why it wasn't already patented. I'll go fund guns for women, as other commenters have said.