“Furious South African women have called for a controversial new anti-rape device, dubbed a ‘rat trap’, to be banned by the Government. The tampon-like device, invented by a woman, supposedly protects women from rapists by cutting into a man’s penis. It has sparked an empassioned debate over the high number of rapes committed each day in the country and the authorities’ apparent failure to tackle the issue. Activists are outraged and want to stop it going on sale alongside tampons in chemists and supermarkets next month. Charlene Smith, a leading anti-rape campaigner, said: ‘This is a medieval instrument, based on male-hating notions and fundamentally misunderstands the nature of rape and violence against women in this society. It is vengeful, horrible, and disgusting. The woman who invented this needs help.’ The device, which Sonette Ehlers, its inventor, has patented, is worn like a tampon but is hollow. In the event of a rape, she said that it would fold around the rapist’s penis and attach itself with microscopic hooks. It is impossible to remove the clamped device without medical intervention. ‘We have to do something to protect ourselves. While this will not prevent rape, it will help identify attackers and secure convictions,’ Ms Ehlers told the Johannesburg Star.” —Times Online (US)

(Thanks to Catherine for the heads up.)

The idea behind an anti-rape device is nothing new. Just recently a Swedish inventor came out with FemDefence, a sort of tampon with a spike. (Go have a look at the picture — ouch!) And back in the 1980s writer Emily Prager published a not-bad volume of short stories called A Visit from the Footbinder. This tome included the story “The Lincoln-Pruitt Anti-Rape Device,” which imagined a servicewoman whose mission was to infiltrate Vietnam and engage the enemy in the only way in which they could be killed by an intra-vaginal spike. And it was a random encounter with this story that inspired PervScan to invert the idea and write a little piece called “The He-Man Rape Enhancer.” This proposed a prosthetic device for any man who hesitated to rape women for fear that the victims would laugh at his tiny penis. This was published in the now unavailable CD-ROM BLAM! 3.

Anyway, this anti-rape tampon is an obviously bad idea. In the first place, all it’s going to do is cause an epidemic of ass-rapes and coercive blowjobs. Even if you stuff needle-bearing tampons into your mouth and rectum, rapists will just fuck your tits or jerk off in your hair. Strategically speaking, you can’t protect yourself from getting raped just by covering one orifice and leaving the rest of you exposed. And in the second place, do you really want something in your vagina that will cause your rapist’s penis to bleed? Do you really want his blood inside you, where it can transmit all sorts of infections — including lethal ones? And in the third place, don’t you think that the very existence of this device will encourage society to blame the victims? When you dress skimpily and forget to wear your anti-rape device, expect to hear taunts that you “asked for it.”

All that being said, it’s still a great idea for women to find ways to protect themselves against rapists. The moment little girls are potty-trained and give up their diapers for pink panties, they should be taught jiu-jitsu and the fine art of blinding somebody with pepper spray. They should be made to understand that their crotches are a battleground and that, to protect it, they should all make like Uma Thurman in Kill Bill. In other words, they should understand that the best anti-rape device is not something you stick in your twat. The best anti-rape device is martial arts training.

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