Penis-Multilating Tampon Puts Rapists Out Of Business - Forever January 25, 2002 8:00 CDT
You could call it an "attack tampon". Dr. Jaap Haumann calls it one of the best reasons in the world for keeping your penis safely in your pants and thinking twice about raping someone. Rape in South Africa has risen to epidemic proportions, and he thinks if women used his invention it would go a long way towards providing men with an incentive to think twice before risking the symbol of their manhood.
How exactly does it work? The woman inserts the penis-mutilating tampon just as she would any other. If vaginal penetration happens while the tampon is in place, the point of the penis presses against the section of the tampon containing a spring blade, and a portion of the top of the penis is summarily sliced off.
Addressing the risk of so much blood during a rape resulting in a greater risk of HIV, Haumann said that because of the violent nature of the crime of rape, the danger of infection was high regardless of the amount of blood involved. In fact, because women wearing this device would not resist their attacker he feels it may even reduce the chance of infection for the woman, since there would be less tearing and internal damage to the rape victim.
Shockingly, rape has risen to such high level in South Africa, that many South African women already habitually carry antiretroviral medication with them to prevent HIV-transfer in case of a rape.
Dr. Haumann's device is still in the design stage, but he fully expects to continue the process and bring his invention to the market. It is estimated that at least a million South African women would be willing to buy and wear it.
Source: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Cosmiverse Staff Writer
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