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PRIMA DI GIUDICARE LA FOTO, LEGGETE!!!!
Pare che sia vero (ennesimo strumento particolarmente pragmatico arrivato dal Sud Africa): La violenza sessuale è diventata endemica nel sud dell’Africa, così una dottoressa di nome Sonette Ehlers ha sviluppato un prodotto che ha attirato subito l’attenzione nazionale. Ehlers non poteva dimenticare una vittima di violenza che le disse con tristezza: “se solo avessi avuto i denti laggiù”.
Qualche tempo dopo, un uomo entrò in ospedale dove lavorava la dottoressa con un dolore insopportabile perchè il suo pene era rimasto incastrato nella cerniera dei pantaloni.
Ehlers fuse queste immagini e creò un prodotto chiamato RAPEX. Assomiglia a un tubo con all’interno delle spine. La donna lo inserisce come un tampone, con un applicatore e qualsiasi uomo cerchi di stuprarla si imbatte nelle spine e deve andare a un pronto soccorso perchè il RAPEX sia eliminato.
Quando i critici asserirono che questo era un castigo medievale, la Ehlers rispose: “Uno strumento medievale per un atto medievale”…
| S. Africa anti-rape condom to stop attacks (Reuters) Updated: 2005-09-02 07:00
KLEINMOND, South Africa – A South African inventor unveiled a new anti-rape female condom on Wednesday that hooks onto an attacker’s penis and aims to cut one of the highest rates of sexual assault in the world.
“Nothing has ever been done to help a woman so that she does not get raped and I thought it was high time,” Sonette Ehlers, 57, said of the “rapex”, a device worn like a tampon that has sparked controversy in a country used to daily reports of violent crime. Police statistics show more than 50,000 rapes are reported every year, while experts say the real figure could be four times that as they say most rapes of acquaintances or children are never reported. Ehlers said the “rapex” hooks onto the rapist’s skin, allowing the victim time to escape and helping to identify perpetrators. “He will obviously be too pre-occupied at this stage,” she told reporters in Kleinmond, a small holiday village about 100km (60 miles) east of Cape Town. “I promise you he is going to be too sore. He will go straight to hospital.” The device, made of latex and held firm by shafts of sharp barbs, can only be removed from the man through surgery which will alert hospital staff, and ultimately, the police, she said. It also reduces the chances of a woman falling pregnant or contracting AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases from the attacker by acting in the same way as a female condom. South Africa has more people with HIV/AIDS than any other country, with one in nine of its 45 million population infected. Ehlers, who showed off a prototype on Wednesday, said women had tried it for comfort and it had been tested on a plastic male model but not yet on a live man. Production was planned to start next year. But the “rapex” has raised fears amongst anti-rape activists that it could escalate violence against women. “If a victim is wearing such a device it may enrage the attacker further and possibly result in more harm being caused,” said Sam Waterhouse, advocacy co-ordinator for Rape Crisis. Other critics say the condom is mediaeval and barbaric — an accusation Ehlers says should be directed rather at the act of rape. “This is not about vengeance … but the deed, that is what I hate,” she said.
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