Uh... this is BULLSHIT.
RapeX The "Anti-Rape" condom.
BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT.
First of all, if the condom has teeth intended to injure and latch on to a man's penis, PENETRATION HAS ALREADY OCCURED. It's not an anti-rape condom. It's an anti-prolonged attack condom (... or something worse. See below the divider line.)
Despite some of the *coughcough* roleplaying characters I have assumed, I truly believe there are better ways, smarter ways to avoid being raped. Ones that don't involve turning one's vagina into a literal meat grinder.
An anti-rape device should be easily marketed towards ALL women. Which means, the majority of women using this product aren't just women walking to their cars in parking garages. They're being raped by people who know them. Acquaintance rape is the most common kind.
They're assuming women are never in a situation where they might forget their vagina is packing a fucking weapon. Spontaneous sex could be a real turnoff if you have to stop and say "Pardon me, while I remove my anti-rape PENIS SHREDDER from my vagina." Mmm. Sexy AND cuddly.
Will it stop someone on ecstasy? PCP? I know from personal experience, under the influence of MDMA I came | | <--- that close to sticking my hand in a bonfire hot enough to melt my skin off because it was pretty. And my sexually masochistic tendancies are at their peak! Hypothetically, if I'm a date-rapist, or even one of oppurtunity, and I'm fucked up on a drug that eliminates my ability to feel pain or makes it enjoyable is a little thing like a condom hooked into my genitals *really* going to stop me?
I understand the need for such a barbaric anti-rape measure in South Africa - one million rapes a year and most of them resulting in AIDS? Sure. But here? Here, on the family planning aisle, next to the diapers, pregnancy tests, and king-sized condoms?
The true and disgusting fact of the matter is purchasing these condoms will create general attitude that we as women expect to be raped, that we are too stupid to learn how to avoid situations that make attacks more likely, too weak to physically defend ourselves in situations couldn't prevent, and above all that it is acceptable to us to have our vaginas violated EVEN ONCE for the condom to be effective.
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On another, more disturbing side of this argument... A few years ago, when I was much angrier, much more confused about what had happened to me. Men who desired me in a sexual manner were a source of anger and confusion, and it went beyond merely making me uncomfortable when they made advances on me - even when I reciprocated that desire, it felt like something wrong. To be punished and quashed out. It made me feel dirty to the point of irrationality to even be touched.
... I can't say for sure I wouldn't have abused the intent of those condoms had they been for sale. And then I would have been just as guilty of sexual assault as the men they're trying to deter. Every person has the capacity to be sadistic -- the very idea that a man would have to suffer the humiliation of needing an anti-rape condom surgically removed, the power that sort of thing implies, would have been appealing to me back then. I freely admit the reason I write the mostrous thoughts in my head is so I don't act on them, but if I didn't, a valid point on why these supposed "anti-rape" condoms are a horrible idea wouldn't have been made.
Even anyone who has watched Law and Order: SVU more than once can tell you what a tool of terror this product could be if employed by a sexually abusive family member.
*sigh* I don't have a better idea, but I'm hard-pressed to find a worse one.
BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT.
First of all, if the condom has teeth intended to injure and latch on to a man's penis, PENETRATION HAS ALREADY OCCURED. It's not an anti-rape condom. It's an anti-prolonged attack condom (... or something worse. See below the divider line.)
Despite some of the *coughcough* roleplaying characters I have assumed, I truly believe there are better ways, smarter ways to avoid being raped. Ones that don't involve turning one's vagina into a literal meat grinder.
An anti-rape device should be easily marketed towards ALL women. Which means, the majority of women using this product aren't just women walking to their cars in parking garages. They're being raped by people who know them. Acquaintance rape is the most common kind.
They're assuming women are never in a situation where they might forget their vagina is packing a fucking weapon. Spontaneous sex could be a real turnoff if you have to stop and say "Pardon me, while I remove my anti-rape PENIS SHREDDER from my vagina." Mmm. Sexy AND cuddly.
Will it stop someone on ecstasy? PCP? I know from personal experience, under the influence of MDMA I came | | <--- that close to sticking my hand in a bonfire hot enough to melt my skin off because it was pretty. And my sexually masochistic tendancies are at their peak! Hypothetically, if I'm a date-rapist, or even one of oppurtunity, and I'm fucked up on a drug that eliminates my ability to feel pain or makes it enjoyable is a little thing like a condom hooked into my genitals *really* going to stop me?
I understand the need for such a barbaric anti-rape measure in South Africa - one million rapes a year and most of them resulting in AIDS? Sure. But here? Here, on the family planning aisle, next to the diapers, pregnancy tests, and king-sized condoms?
The true and disgusting fact of the matter is purchasing these condoms will create general attitude that we as women expect to be raped, that we are too stupid to learn how to avoid situations that make attacks more likely, too weak to physically defend ourselves in situations couldn't prevent, and above all that it is acceptable to us to have our vaginas violated EVEN ONCE for the condom to be effective.
________________________
On another, more disturbing side of this argument... A few years ago, when I was much angrier, much more confused about what had happened to me. Men who desired me in a sexual manner were a source of anger and confusion, and it went beyond merely making me uncomfortable when they made advances on me - even when I reciprocated that desire, it felt like something wrong. To be punished and quashed out. It made me feel dirty to the point of irrationality to even be touched.
... I can't say for sure I wouldn't have abused the intent of those condoms had they been for sale. And then I would have been just as guilty of sexual assault as the men they're trying to deter. Every person has the capacity to be sadistic -- the very idea that a man would have to suffer the humiliation of needing an anti-rape condom surgically removed, the power that sort of thing implies, would have been appealing to me back then. I freely admit the reason I write the mostrous thoughts in my head is so I don't act on them, but if I didn't, a valid point on why these supposed "anti-rape" condoms are a horrible idea wouldn't have been made.
Even anyone who has watched Law and Order: SVU more than once can tell you what a tool of terror this product could be if employed by a sexually abusive family member.
*sigh* I don't have a better idea, but I'm hard-pressed to find a worse one.