Anti-rape device

[stan1980]

I came across this the other day: http://www.rapestop.net/index.asp

If I've got this correct, this device when inserted inside the female will hook onto the skin of the penis once penetrated by a rapist.

Anyway, is it a good idea for females to wear these? Anyone here tempted? Could it turn rapes into murders?

 

[keith99]

Rape is much more a crime of power than of sexual desire.

If somethign like this becomes common enough to influence things it is likely to result in rape by foreign objects, perhaps with rather brutal trists.

Not to mention what happens when someone forgets before consensual sex.

 

[HannahBanana]

I don't really know what to think of that. Part of me thinks that it's a good idea, and part of me thinks that it would just cause the rapist to want to attack me in return to being attacked by the condom.

 

[WorldIsMine]

Rape is much more a crime of power than of sexual desire.

Why do people always act like these are dichotemous things? A rapist could very well be motivated by the desire to have power over people in order that he may take what he likes from them. Power IS a distinctly material-external motivation, to have power over someone is to have control over their persons and property. I think that, logically and psychologically, terming rape 'not sexual' in nature is dubious. The very fact that the rapist is aroused is very much indicative of its sexual quality.

Here's an anti-rape device:

 

[RealDealNeverstop]

Why do people always act like these are dichotemous things? A rapist could very well be motivated by the desire to have power over people in order that he may take what he likes from them. Power IS a distinctly material-external motivation, to have power over someone is to have control over their persons and property. I think that, logically and psychologically, terming rape 'not sexual' in nature is dubious. The very fact that the rapist is aroused is very much indicative of its sexual quality.

Here's an anti-rape device:

Rape is about power so the nature of it isn't sexual. It is an accident sexual activity is the most brutal mode of exerting control and power over others. This is why hetero men will rape other men in prison. Rapists aren't driven by sexual activity because if they were they wouldn't be rapists.

The device sends mixed signals and it seems like a great idea to have the option available but if it becomes a prevalent product won't that reinforce the idea men can't help themselves? Also, if rapists are aware of the product what prevents them from checking for the device prior to raping their victims?


This seems like a contribution to the Protection Racket and as a society shouldn't we explore the main causes of rape instead of hoping technology will prevent it? Take away causation and the rate of rapes would drop dramatically.

 

[The Princess Bride]

It's a wonder to me that no one has come out with anything like this sooner.

I think it's a sick world we live in when the responsibility to avoid being raped is pushed off onto the woman herself. Sad when our judicial system isn't cracking down strongly enough on convicted rapists in order to dissuade other pervs from following the same path.

Because of that, I believe if a woman feels having the "anti-rape device", mace, or a gun to protect herself is fully within her right to not be victimized.

 

[jcook922]

I came across this the other day: http://www.rapestop.net/index.asp

If I've got this correct, this device when inserted inside the female will hook onto the skin of the penis once penetrated by a rapist.

Anyway, is it a good idea for females to wear these? Anyone here tempted? Could it turn rapes into murders?

If by murders you mean the rapists killing the woman in anger, yes. I think the poster above me has the right idea.

 

[Autumnleaf]

Back in Vietnam some women would take box cutters and wrap tape around the handles and insert them up in their vaginas with the blade pointing toward where the penis enters. Some GI's got hurt bad on those things.

 

[SallyNow]

It's incredibly depressing that rape is such a common occurance that women have to go to these extremes to protect themselves.

 

[cantata]

I came across this the other day: http://www.rapestop.net/index.asp

If I've got this correct, this device when inserted inside the female will hook onto the skin of the penis once penetrated by a rapist.

Anyway, is it a good idea for females to wear these? Anyone here tempted? Could it turn rapes into murders?

I'm pretty sure I'd already feel violated if a rapist had got as far as being injured by this device.

It's not an anti-rape device. It's a stopping-a-rape-in-mid-flow device. Which is not really good enough.

 

[JCFantasy23]

This would just totally pi*s the rapist off and I don't see how it could help much of anything.

 

[RealDealNeverstop]

I'm pretty sure I'd already feel violated if a rapist had got as far as being injured by this device.

It's not an anti-rape device. It's a stopping-a-rape-in-mid-flow device. Which is not really good enough.

Excellent point...rape occurs upon penetration...not how long the crime happens.

 

[Robbie_James_Francis]

Why do people always act like these are dichotemous things? A rapist could very well be motivated by the desire to have power over people in order that he may take what he likes from them. Power IS a distinctly material-external motivation, to have power over someone is to have control over their persons and property. I think that, logically and psychologically, terming rape 'not sexual' in nature is dubious. The very fact that the rapist is aroused is very much indicative of its sexual quality.

Here's an anti-rape device:

Of course you're right, but I think the reason people say it's about power not sex is because it's more about power. Any of us can sleep in bed next to someone we're attracted to who doesn't feel the same and you'd never dream of touching them because the idea of non-consensual sex is sickening. So surely it must be about power or something as well as sex (if it's even about sex) because any normal person loves sex but would never dream of forcing someone in to sex.

 

[keith99]

Why do people always act like these are dichotemous things? A rapist could very well be motivated by the desire to have power over people in order that he may take what he likes from them. Power IS a distinctly material-external motivation, to have power over someone is to have control over their persons and property. I think that, logically and psychologically, terming rape 'not sexual' in nature is dubious. The very fact that the rapist is aroused is very much indicative of its sexual quality.

Here's an anti-rape device:

Why do people complain about their own creation?

Saying that rape is MORE about power than it is about sex does NOT say it does not have a sexual component.

You are the one creating the diacotomy, not me or the words I wrote.

 

[lawtonfogle]

I came across this the other day: http://www.rapestop.net/index.asp

If I've got this correct, this device when inserted inside the female will hook onto the skin of the penis once penetrated by a rapist.

Anyway, is it a good idea for females to wear these? Anyone here tempted? Could it turn rapes into murders?

My question to this, though I can understand why no one even thinks about it, is how would a virgin use it?

 

[stan1980]

My question to this, though I can understand why no one even thinks about it, is how would a virgin use it?

The same way anyone else would.

 

[stan1980]

Because of that, I believe if a woman feels having the "anti-rape device", mace, or a gun to protect herself is fully within her right to not be victimized.

Personally, I think anyone who is found with weapons that could be potentially life threatening, such as guns or knives, should be thrown in prison, no excuses, not that I expect a lot of people to agree with me. I think I could find it acceptable for someone to carry a can of mace on them, although I'm not entirely comfortable with the thought of everyone doing this.

 

[cantata]

Personally, I think anyone who is found with weapons that could be potentially life threatening, such as guns or knives, should be thrown in prison, no excuses, not that I expect a lot of people to agree with me. I think I could find it acceptable for someone to carry a can of mace on them, although I'm not entirely comfortable with the thought of everyone doing this.

On the recommendation of a self-defence course I attended at school, I have a keyring which allows one to use one's keys as a flail. (The keyring doubles up as a bottle for a urine sample in case you happen to think your drink has been spiked.)

I hope you won't advocate my arrest! To be honest, anything could be used as a weapon... I wouldn't recommend arresting everyone carrying an empty glass bottle, for example. I agree that guns and knives are way excessive, though.

 

[keith99]

Personally, I think anyone who is found with weapons that could be potentially life threatening, such as guns or knives, should be thrown in prison, no excuses, not that I expect a lot of people to agree with me. I think I could find it acceptable for someone to carry a can of mace on them, although I'm not entirely comfortable with the thought of everyone doing this.

A knife can be and usually is a tool more than a weapon. Same for a box cutter. Heck, I'm a fair sized guy, anything compact, hard and over a kilogram or so is a life threatening weapon in my hands. Oh wait, so is rope. Oh gosh (hate the censor here), I wear a belt, replacing it with suspenders does not solve that problem and I'm not going out with my pants falling down.

 

[Robbie_James_Francis]

Personally, I think anyone who is found with weapons that could be potentially life threatening, such as guns or knives, should be thrown in prison, no excuses, not that I expect a lot of people to agree with me. I think I could find it acceptable for someone to carry a can of mace on them, although I'm not entirely comfortable with the thought of everyone doing this.

I used to carry a six-inch Stanley knife and now carry a razor blade. I'm a pacifist and would never dream of deliberately hurting another human. But I also have clinical depression and use cutting myself as a coping mechanism, which is why I always carry a blade...should I be locked up, or can I brandish my Prozac prescription as proof that I have a legal reason to be carrying a blade?