South African doctor invents female condoms with 'teeth' to fight rape
South African doctor invents female condoms with 'teeth' to fight rape Rape has become endemic in South Africa so a medical Technician name Sonette Ehiers developed a product for women to fight back. Ehiers had never forgotten a rape victim telling her forlornly, " if only I have teeth down there. " Ehiers created a product she called Rapex. It resembled a tube, with barbs inside. The woman inserts it like a tampon and any man who tries to rape the woman impales himself on the barbs and must go to an emergency room to have Rapex removed. South African Dr. Sonnet Ehlers was on call one night four decades ago when a devastated rape victim walked in. Her eyes were lifeless; she was like a breathing corpse. "She looked at me and said, 'If only I had teeth down there,'" recalled Ehlers, who was a 20-year-old medical researcher at the time. "I promised her I'd do something to help people like her one day." Forty years later, Rape-aXe...