August 31, 2005
— Ace A South African woman has invented the "Rapedex," a circle of burr-like teeth, that will bite into the penis of a rapist, and can't be removed without surgery.
"It will make the men think twice," she told Sapa of the invention that grew from "filing away" passing comments over the years.A client she was consulting when she was a blood cross-matcher for a transfusion service, remarked one day "if only I had teeth down there", she related.
And while on call in hospitals and privy to corridor talk, she overheard a surgeon joking about a man who had caught his penis in his trouser zip.
"I filed the teeth and the zip away (comments) in my mind and played around with it," she said.
After conducting research on rape, she eventually selected an engineer and a developer. Only identified as "Bert" and "Piet", they came up with the polyurethane device.
The product was tested on models of penises and vaginas and then given to women to test for comfort.
Presumably there were no tests on men to test for comfort.
Cool idea... although some chick in the fantasy book Thieves' World had a similar device. Although I think that one was an interuterine penile guillotine. Now thats' old school justice.
One question: what if a woman is willing to have sex but forgets to take it out? I can really see that "ruining the mood."
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Posted by: Tony B at August 31, 2005 11:44 AM (QBrm4)
Posted by: ace at August 31, 2005 11:45 AM (W7JEQ)
Posted by: at August 31, 2005 11:47 AM (Ehvu2)
Posted by: ace at August 31, 2005 11:47 AM (W7JEQ)
That was meant as a deterrent? I thought it was, you know, a kink.
Posted by: Slublog at August 31, 2005 11:50 AM (Zy8kP)
Posted by: speedster1 at August 31, 2005 11:50 AM (vypFj)
Posted by: BrewFan at August 31, 2005 11:50 AM (Byr3j)
Posted by: Dman at August 31, 2005 12:00 PM (m2CN7)
... Am I thinking about this a little too much?
Posted by: The Comish (sic) at August 31, 2005 12:16 PM (oCJ1y)
Posted by: at August 31, 2005 12:21 PM (Ehvu2)
Posted by: Dave at Garfield Ridge at August 31, 2005 12:22 PM (y1hCN)
Kind of hard to rape somebody that way either when you have teeth stuck in your unit, no?
Posted by: lauraw at August 31, 2005 12:28 PM (0+tK7)
Posted by: at August 31, 2005 12:30 PM (Ehvu2)
In the Neil Stephenson book Snow Crash, a character accidentally did just that. In that version, the dentata were loaded with a narcotic that knocked out the bitee.
Life imitating art and all that.
Posted by: Ayes of Death David at August 31, 2005 12:30 PM (Hj9yW)
As is raping the other way when you have an ill-tempered badger stuck on your unit.
Posted by: at August 31, 2005 12:33 PM (Ehvu2)
Posted by: Dianna at August 31, 2005 12:39 PM (qrFCz)
So basically, he's going to have some kind of little fish hooks stuck in his worm. The fish, worm, tackle jokes abound.
If these things get caught in skin, how will they not get caught in her skin? Or in a tampon?
Her: I wouldn't do that if I were you. There might be a little prick.
Him: Have we met before?
ad infinitum
Posted by: compos mentis at August 31, 2005 12:40 PM (xHpUK)
I was only thinking of the well read rapist who would skip the teeth and go straight to the pooty.
Posted by: Dman at August 31, 2005 12:48 PM (m2CN7)
Posted by: Megan at August 31, 2005 01:04 PM (s22mC)
That sounds like a way to get a lot of dead rape victims.
Or does this thing pop off and stay attached to the guy?
Posted by: Iblis at August 31, 2005 01:07 PM (9221z)
Posted by: S. Weasel at August 31, 2005 01:20 PM (6ed4W)
I just can't wait for the spam for little Kevlar dick helmets to hit my inbox.
Posted by: Rob C. at August 31, 2005 01:25 PM (Ft+og)
Posted by: bullwinkle at August 31, 2005 01:26 PM (AZvIl)
"In a related story, volunteers for UN peacekeeping forces are expected to drop sharply in the near future"
Wonder if these things can be adapted to sheep?
Posted by: at August 31, 2005 01:31 PM (Ft+og)
Posted by: Captain Ned at August 31, 2005 02:18 PM (TV7Hr)
Aside from any issues of maintenance and removal, I believe a tranquilizer would be much more effective than this "fish hook" nonsense. It's not like a rapist is likely to simply shrug off such damage and proceed to walk away and find an easier target. "Maiming of the member" (ooh, that's catchy) would seem to make any man really angry and violent. It all sounds like just desserts until that first rapist sues the woman and the device manufacturer for an outrageous sum of damages and emotional suffering.
Posted by: Joe Ego at August 31, 2005 02:34 PM (jIUkC)
Posted by: bob rich at August 31, 2005 02:42 PM (3HQHl)
Self defense, like force in the prevention of a felony. As far as I'm concerned, the likelihood of a rapist murdering his victim is high and a victim would be justified in killing any rapist including one who was walking away, in that he could just be searching for a weapon in which to murder her.
Posted by: at August 31, 2005 02:47 PM (Ehvu2)
Like I said, I'd much rather see the use of a trainquilizer than a maimer mostly because it would usually be safer for the woman to be stuck with an unconcious man on top of her rather than an irate felon directing his anger at those parts of her body that aren't currently biting back.
Posted by: Joe Ego at August 31, 2005 02:54 PM (jIUkC)
Posted by: Dogstar at August 31, 2005 03:04 PM (KgeNY)
Posted by: at August 31, 2005 03:36 PM (Ehvu2)
Regular or Maxxum
Maxxum
Ribbed or non
non
Lubricated or not
Lubricated
Latex or Kevlar
Kevlar.
All right, that'll be 3 pound 5 pence
Posted by: BumperStickerist at August 31, 2005 04:16 PM (AYD8D)
Posted by: at August 31, 2005 04:56 PM (Ehvu2)
Yeah, I'm sure it will, but I imagine the level of pain being inflicted and psychological trauma may hinder his attempts to harm the victim. Personally, I imagine a great deal of screaming and panic ensuing in the aftermath of the device's activation, during which time the rapist is likely to be preoccupied. A little bit of the old "in and out" becomes a distant concern when your equipment is full of fishhooks and reenacting the elevator scene from The Shining.
Considering where the rapists' priorities would be in that situation, I would imagine that the victim could moonwalk away in the company of the Michigan State marching band without the rapist noticing.
Posted by: Alex_fs at August 31, 2005 06:15 PM (PpBGs)
Posted by: Joe Ego at August 31, 2005 06:51 PM (jIUkC)
I was thinking more along the lines of the third album by The Police.
De Do Do Do, De da da Da...
Posted by: Aaron's cc: at August 31, 2005 06:55 PM (ov6Vw)
Posted by: Rob C. at September 01, 2005 06:31 AM (Ft+og)
Posted by: Lanceredstaterantrant at September 01, 2005 09:04 AM (w9wO1)
Posted by: at September 01, 2005 04:41 PM (Ehvu2)
In a related vein, would a woman wearing this device be vulnerable to a lawsuit (or even criminal charges, if in fact it is considered a concealed weapon) if she didn't warn her would-be assailant that she was, um, carrying?
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