Reminiscent of the poison-tipped diaphragm stinger worn by YT in Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age Snow Crash, the Rapex anti-rape device for women is set to be—I think it’s appropriate to say—unleashed on unsuspecting attackers in South Africa later this month.
Shaped like a female condom and worn internally, its hollow interior is lined with 25 razor-sharp teeth, which fasten on to an attacker’s penis if he attempts penetration. … If any rapist finds himself hopping with pain as a result - as well as facing the fact that the only way to remove the device is said to be a highly awkward and incriminating hospital visit
As The Guardian’s Kira Cochrane (cock rend?) points out, the problem with the Rapex is that it may leave an already angry man with a painful, bleeding penis, which doesn’t bode well for the woman in question. Even if it gives her time to run, not all rape happens by anonymous monsters. Then again, it’s not like it would be better for a woman to be raped without consequence.
The whole thing—the device, the motivation, the result—is horrible in every way.
Is revenge the best way to deal with rapists? [Guardian via Danger Room]
I gotta admit, this seemed like an awesome idea at first. Finally, a way for a victimized woman to fight back where it counted! Then reason got the best of me.
If a woman is in a position where this anti-rape device is used, that means she’s already overpowered and vulnerable. And since rape is already a violent situation, imagine an enraged man who just got his manhood shredded by a woman who is daring to oppose him. I deeply, deeply hope this never happens, but I’m afraid we’ll see a lot of murdered or beaten-to-a-pulp women who used this device.
YT actually wore that diaphragm in _Snow Crash_, not _Diamond Age_. (just FYI, one Stephenson nerd to another)
Y.T. is actauly from neal’s novel Snowcrash not a Diamond age.
I think that the most frightening thing about this is that a woman is going to consciously be putting this in her when she goes out with the understanding that there is a good chance that she is going to be raped.
It’s a sad world we live in.
I was checking the Rapex out last week, and I thought then as I do now, it’s a great idea, end of story. If a guy is going to rape a woman, the window of whether or not he’ll kill her afterwards is relatively small. I doubt that a rapist who has no plans to kill his victim will be suddenly enabled to do so after all those teeth are biting into his weapon. No, I suspect that most of these guys will be too shocked and freaked out to worry about the woman for at least as long as it takes for her to extract herself from the situation, fight back, etc. while the rapist flees, bleeding and crying. Most rapists are woman hating cowards.
The rest are woman hating monsters. If he’s prepared to kill her before this clever little vagina dentata device, he’ll certainly do it afterwards, and at least the woman gets her little revenge. A stab in the direction of instant karma?
I’ve unfortunately known several women who have been raped; some by men they knew, others by total strangers in extremely violent fashion. The ones who didn’t know their attacker have invariably said that they had wished that they’d been killed instead, which I never understood in the moment, happy that they were still here with us. But I understand the sentiment now. To be that powerless and that violated, degraded,…I can’t imagine anything worse. With a Rapex in place, at least there is some satisfaction that the assailant didn’t take everything scot-free.
It will be interesting to discover over the years after these things are distributed how well it performs as a rape deterrent.
All I have to say is, if you are raping someone and then catch a pirhana on your penis, you are not going to be doing anything else but trying to get it off. That should give plenty of time for the woman to at least run away.
Yeah, but, what the hell!?!?!?
Who the hell is going to walk around with this thing in her vagina?
I mean, do you EXPECT to get raped every time you go out?
It’s like a gag gift!
Wowee…how about a man hating woman luring in unsuspecting men to shred their penises?? Would we approve a battery-acid injecting probe for the penis in the event of women raping men? Unfortunately, maybe? This is just yet another bad band-aid that still doesn’t address why we have men raping women in the first place! Society is truly doomed and this device makes me all the more glad to be gay!
I am a heterosexual man. I say if a guy doesn’t know how to abstain from using his primitive sexual desires for his selfish interest he deserves have his dick destroyed by this black widow device appropriately named the “Dethroner”.
Yes it is a sad state of affair when a woman can’t go out in public without some self-conceited prick who can’t respect another human being because his damned brain is sickly situated in his dick. Any guy who rapes a woman deserves worse if you ask me. If it was my wife that was raped, I’d castrate the son-of-a-bitch. In prison there are three type of people that are hated most. #1 A Child Molester, #2 A Wife Beater, and last but not least #3 A Rapist.
Justice is well served if you are one of these persons behind prison walls.
I feel sad when women have to resort to these kind of tactics, but sometimes these extreme means are necessary. Every two minutes in the United States and Canada
a woman, a child, and even a man can and do get raped. Where’s the damned deterrent ? As for justice in a court of law, you might research how many multi-thousands of female rape victims who have been laughed out of court.
What is this world coming too ? Who ever said the human race was evolved ?