I have been asked to speak on several occasions about rape prevention. As much as I would like to fill an hour or two about how to prevent rape I honestly have nothing to say on the subject except, you cant you can only change the way the justice system handles those who commit the crime.
As much as people pass out whistles to blow (literally whistles that say know
before you go as if blowing a whistle is going to stop a rape from happening), or
teach self defense tactics to prevent rape, or tell you never to walk alone rape
really cannot be prevented. It can happen at any point, at any time, to anyone,
anywhere. Obviously, with life in general be safe. But if you really want to
prevent rape here are ways to avert it from happening to you: dont drink, (not
even water because date rape drugs can disintegrate in that as well), dont go
out (not even to a parking lot because parking lots have reported high raped),
dont sleep (many rapes happen at night, and there are even home invasion
rapes that can occur in your own bed), and always be with a group of friends
(but acquaintance rape is the most common type of rape so maybe you
shouldnt go with a group of friends). So essentially if you truly want to prevent
being raped, lock yourself in a closet.
BUT
. Thanks to a new device, called the Rapex, you, too can now prevent
rape!
A perfect example of rape prevention gone bad is that of South African inventor
Sonette Ehlers. She cares enough about rape victims getting raped that she has
developed an anti-rape female condom which will hook onto an attackers penis.
This device, called the rapex is worn continuously by the victim to prevent
rape. In fact, the device should be worn at all times, because a rape can occur at
any point.
In general, society must stop putting restraints on the victims, and start
addressing those who commit the crime. The best way to prevent rape is to send
the perp to prison, and elongate the sentences. More importantly, stop letting
rapists (especially child rapists) out early for good behavior. There are no
children and no women in prison, so of course the criminal will be reformed.
The best way to prevent rape is to go after the source not those affected by the
source. Since when is it the victims responsibility to not get raped? This devise
is a repulsing throwback to the 1400s when women were forced to wear chastity
belts.
Production is to start next year on the rapex, and personally, I am afraid of the
repercussions of wearing such a device. If a woman wearing this were to be
raped wouldnt the rapists first instinct be to beat, hit, or even kill the woman
who currently has his penis pricked full of shafts and barbs? The act of
committing rape isnt just a one time thing; usually there is a history of rape in
the criminals past, and history has a way of repeating itself. Inevitably, criminals
would catch on quickly and the rate of sodomy rape will inexorably rise.
I am unsure how they will market this, whether or not governments will pass
these out, or it is up to women to purchase these. But could you imagine
receiving a bullet proof vest in the mail and being asked to wear it to prevent a
possible homicide? Why do we treat rape differently? I can see right now a
defense attorney questioning a woman who wasnt wearing her rapex, Ladies
and Gentlemen of the jury this wasnt rape! This was sex! She wanted it and
you know this because she wasnt wearing her rapex.
If the rapex starts being handed out, or even on drug store shelves, expect
bullet proof vests soon to follow. This device inevitably says that your
government can no longer control those who commit criminal acts. Essentially,
your country is in a state of nature and not the Emerson view of the state of
nature that of Hobbes, one of complete civil unrest and anarchy. If that is
where our world is going, I may just have to take that bullet proof vest
and a
gun.
To learn more about the rapex: http://www.rapestop.net/index.asp
