By Amanda Bailly (Boston University) Student Correspondent Corps
Published: April 11, 2010 07:27 ET
BOSTON — Sonnet Ehlers looked into the eyes of the rape victim and saw nothing.
“Her eyes looked like marbles, totally dead,” said Ehlers, who had worked as a medical researcher at a hospital in the Northern Cape of South Africa when a 20-year-old South African woman was being treated for rape injuries.
But Ehlers remembers clearly one sentence the young woman uttered: “If only I had teeth down there.”
South African Ehlers made a promise to herself to "do something about this.” Forty years later, the result is the Rape-aXe, an anti-rape device with "teeth."
Rape-aXe is a flexible polyurethane condom-like tube that fits into the woman's body. Rows of jagged plastic hooks line the inside of the tube — bent backward like teeth in a shark’s mouth. The Rape-aXe lodges in a perpetrator's penis upon entry. The perpetrator can withdraw from the woman, but the Rape-aXe remains clamped on. Trying to pull it off will cause discomfort.
Though the device causes great distress, it does not draw blood, Ehlers says, which is crucial in areas where HIV/AIDS rates are high. A man must seek medical attention to have the Rape-aXe removed. Until then, he cannot urinate, essentially tagging him until he gets to a hospital. Ehlers says she consulted an engineer, gynecologist and psychologist on the design.
source: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/study-abroad/100326/south-africa-rape-axe
source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/35484.html
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Published: April 11, 2010 07:27 ET
BOSTON — Sonnet Ehlers looked into the eyes of the rape victim and saw nothing.
“Her eyes looked like marbles, totally dead,” said Ehlers, who had worked as a medical researcher at a hospital in the Northern Cape of South Africa when a 20-year-old South African woman was being treated for rape injuries.
But Ehlers remembers clearly one sentence the young woman uttered: “If only I had teeth down there.”
South African Ehlers made a promise to herself to "do something about this.” Forty years later, the result is the Rape-aXe, an anti-rape device with "teeth."
Rape-aXe is a flexible polyurethane condom-like tube that fits into the woman's body. Rows of jagged plastic hooks line the inside of the tube — bent backward like teeth in a shark’s mouth. The Rape-aXe lodges in a perpetrator's penis upon entry. The perpetrator can withdraw from the woman, but the Rape-aXe remains clamped on. Trying to pull it off will cause discomfort.
Though the device causes great distress, it does not draw blood, Ehlers says, which is crucial in areas where HIV/AIDS rates are high. A man must seek medical attention to have the Rape-aXe removed. Until then, he cannot urinate, essentially tagging him until he gets to a hospital. Ehlers says she consulted an engineer, gynecologist and psychologist on the design.
source: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/study-abroad/100326/south-africa-rape-axe
source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/35484.html
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2 comments:
It's really a good idea!
Luke
http://www.ashesaid.com
Yes, it is. This is one way a women could prove that she was raped.
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