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Gruesome way of reducing Africa's rape epidemic

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This is a terrible idea. Does the inventor suppose the rapist is going to let the woman go after she's just maimed him with this thing?

Rape is awful. Murder is worse.

(Although it's odd to see this after just reading about the Snow Crash film adaptation - 'dentata', anyone?)

Trying to think about it rationally, I can't see the rapist being overly concerned with what happens to the woman, while his penis is trapped in that contraption.

That said, after he gets out of hospital, and is recovered, I can imagine all kinds of horrible things being done in revenge :(

That's not a safe assumption (rationally). People often falsely assume that pulling a gun in a confrontation will intimidate the other party. It does not, but instead escalates the scenario beyond recovery.

I've heard/read about that (drawing a gun) before alright, but find it genuinely difficult to equate it to getting my penis stuck in one of these contraptions.

I really don't think that, if in this situation, I'd be too concerned about what happens to the woman in question - I would absolutely be thinking about how on earth do I get out of this thing ASSOONASPOSSIBLE without inflicting any lasting damage.

Upvoted.

(OT) Talking about dentata, Teeth(1) is a very weird and surprisingly deep movie.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780622/

There is no "rape epidemic" in Africa. Not according to the U.N statistics anyways: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics#UN_Statistics

You should be a bit clearer that you are talking about South Africa and perhaps Congo, and you should also differentiate between reported rapes and extrapolations from small survey samples.

This is old news: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1456632

I think that's a horrible invention pretty much designed to infect women with HIV

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