Vagina Dentata becomes a reality in South Africa

Dr. Sonnet Ehlers shows a spiked female condom, whose hooks she says stick on a man during rape.

From CNN:

“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 was born.

Ehlers is distributing the female condoms in the various South African cities where the World Cup soccer games are taking place.

The woman inserts the latex condom like a tampon. Jagged rows of teeth-like hooks line its inside and attach on a man’s penis during penetration, Ehlers said.

Once it lodges, only a doctor can remove it — a procedure Ehlers hopes will be done with authorities on standby to make an arrest.

“It hurts, he cannot pee and walk when it’s on,” she said. “If he tries to remove it, it will clasp even tighter… however, it doesn’t break the skin, and there’s no danger of fluid exposure.”"

This guy is an absolute genius. I can’t wait to see how this will revolutionize cinematography for the music video for Lady Gaga’s “Teeth.”

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Vagina dentata all over the place

In case you aren’t familiar with the myths of the Vagina dentata (Latin for toothed vagina), which have several iterations across the globe, a few designers have decided to illustrate the fables right on their clothing. It’s basically like Aesop’s for grown fashionistas with plenty of disposable income.

Folk tales about Vagina dentata are designed to be cautionary tales warning against sex with strange women, as well as the downfalls of rape. It’s also important to psychoanalysis because it’s just another way men can blame castration anxiety on anyone except themselves.

Perhaps bored with the usual winter clothing, it’s refreshing to see designers depending on those classic stories to present a message in a subtle, refined manner right on their clothes.

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