Comments on: Rapex Anti Rape Device Has Teeth in It

By: Michelle Hager

Michelle Hager — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:32:04 +0000

Well say the ‘bad guy’ knows these things are going around. The vagina is not the only way of having sex! Someone needs to devise a plan for preventing sodomy! Yeah, good luck there! I love this idea, but I am saying we are going to have to protect both ‘areas’!

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:18:27 +0000

Let me get this straight. Its primarily tailor made for the women in Africa where aids is highest. So they create a device which causes them to bleed massive amounts of their aids into the victim? Smart.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:37:37 +0000

What happens when the penis isn’t erect anylonger and the device falls off you fools.

By: NA

NA — Sat, 24 May 2008 21:57:36 +0000

Subjectively, I feel this idea certainly has some merits, especially in linking the perpetrator to the specific crime. Objectively however, I think we should be a bit cautious about the claim that the attacker will “obviously be too pre-occupied or sore,” allowing the victim to escape. Yes, we certainly IMAGINE that it would be painful, but as far as I can tell it has only been tested on plastic replicas of genitalia. In fact I don’t see how it could ever be ethically tested on humans to learn the true response. If the claim that it will not cause permanent injury to the attacker is true I would think that the penetration of the barbs must not be too deep (otherwise the attacker would lose MASSIVE amounts of blood). What if the sensation caused by this particular device is more “irritating and annoying” than “debilitatingly painful?”
I suppose maybe they will be able to get a guy to test it out, but unless he’s of the martyr mentality they’re going to have to pay him quite a hefty fee.

By: Johnathan

Johnathan — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:12:04 +0000

I totally want to shove my penis in to one of these just to see what it’s like.

By: lfred

lfred — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:11:32 +0000

All tool can be used for good or bad. But this thing isnt a tool. It is a lab designed and evaluated idea. It has too may shortcomings to be used in the real world.

An female condom would be more appropiate. Rape is terrible but the aftereffects of resulting pregnancy can extend the suffering to another newborn life.

It might not prevent rape. But it goes someway towards helping the aftereffects.

As for rape itself. That’s up to us guys !. Let’s control our advantages, it’s just the right thing to do !, simple as that, really.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:37:49 +0000

No way this thing will work. It has to be designed to be removed easily by the woman, so even if the thing isnt visable on the outside a quick finger would be all thats needed to check and remove the device, effectly enraging the rapist.

This thing could also be left in and result in the worst imaginable accident ever.

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:54:38 +0000

I support this idea.

To those who worry that it would only further enrage a rapist, understand that the pain it causes also temporarily immobilizes him so that the woman can escape. If you merely numbed a would-be rapist’s penis, he would still have the ability to batter his victim.

To those ”worried” men who think their angry girlfriend’s would do this just to hurt them, perhaps you should 1. figure out what you’re doing to upset them so much and stop it, and 2. stop sleeping around. Those in healthy relationships do not intentionally harm one another.

Also, the device can be removed by the wearer safely with a tool that comes with the package.

This does not put the responsibility upon women to stop rape, it gives them freedom to not feel afraid! If you lived in a place where you felt unsafe fequently, this would be a way to reclaim some of your freedom.

One thing I’d like to see: serial numbers imprinted on the device and in the packaging so that we could easily match the rapist to the attack.

And finally, to those who believe all rapists should be murdered: I am a Christian, and I do not believe God wants us to do that. We are under a new covenant with Jesus. He tought forgiveness, not retribution. God says, ”revenge is mine. I shall repay.” We are ALL sinful, fallen beings deserving the worst- hell! It is through the grace of God that any of us are forgiven. We are to model our lives after the grace that has been shown us. (And, yes, I do have personal experience with abuse like this. I am not speaking from safe ignorance- I am speaking from experience.) Bitterness, anger and rage only hurt those who harbor it. Let us protect and defend ourselves while remembering the grace that has been lavished upon us!

By: MARC

MARC — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:02:57 +0000

THE KEY ABOUT ALL THIS IS THAT THIS DEVICE EMPOWERS WOMEN!

NOW THE RAPIST IS THE HORRIFIED AND VILIFIED ONE, NOT THE WOMAN.

RIGHT ON!

By: JD

JD — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:02:16 +0000

To Zainol, not everyone on the planet is a Christian/Muslim. Stop trying to bring religion into this.

I agree with certain aspects of this product, but any idiot with a computer has probably already found out about this thing, and if they’re a rapist, they’ve already thought up a way around this.

And whoever said that this “could be used by a vindictive ex-girlfriend” is right on the money. Same thing for whoever said “this thing could be turned around and used as a tool for rape”

I cringe to find out just how many men are getting busted for rape when they really didn’t do anything.