»Anti-Rape condom from South Africa«

South African inventor Sonette Ehlers demonstrates her new anti-rape female condom in Cape Town, South Africa August 31. Ehlers unveiled a new anti-rape female condom on Wednesday that hooks onto an attacker's penis and aims to cut one of the highest rates of sexual assault in the world. Ehlers said the "rapex" hooks onto the rapist's skin, allowing the victim time to escape and helping to identify perpetrators.

Police statistics show more than 50,000 rapes are reported every year, while experts say the real figure could be four times that as they say most rapes of acquaintances or children are never reported.

Ehlers said the "rapex" hooks onto the rapist's skin, allowing the victim time to escape and helping to identify perpetrators.

"He will obviously be too preoccupied at this stage," she told reporters in Kleinmond, a small holiday village about 100 kilometres east of Cape Town. "I promise you he is going to be too sore. He will go straight to hospital."

The device, made of latex and held firm by shafts of sharp barbs, can only be removed from the man through surgery which will alert hospital staff, and ultimately, the police, she said
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But the "rapex" has raised fears amongst anti-rape activists that it could escalate violence against women.

"If a victim is wearing such a device it may enrage the attacker further and possibly result in more harm being caused," said Sam Waterhouse, advocacy co-ordinator for Rape Crisis.

They look like fantastical, high-tech chastity belts — with teeth.

But these unsettling art objects — constructed from stainless steel plates, padlocks, razors, electrodes and hypodermic needles — are meant to convey an empathy for victims of rape.

Artist Ira Sherman calls his creations “impenetrable devices,” and they are currently on display through March 18 at the National Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis, the show’s only stop.