Both are extreme measures to protect women from sex. Why do we have to be protected from sex? Too many predatory men?
From South Africa we have this example:
New device gives women teeth where it matters
‘It is a terrifying thought that women are being made to adapt to rape’
More below:
A rape victim once wished for teeth “where it mattered”. Now a device has been designed to “bite” a rapist’s penis. The patented device looks and is worn like a tampon, but it is hollow and attaches itself with tiny hooks to a man’s penis during penetration.
“We have to do something to protect ourselves. While this will not prevent rape it will assist in identifying attackers and securing convictions,” claims Sonette Ehlers, inventor of the device.
Not everyone, however, is convinced of its usefulness.
Lisa Vetten, of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) says: “It is like we are going back to the days where women were forced to wear chastity belts. It is a terrifying thought that women are being made to adapt to rape by wearing these devices.
A woman would have to wear the device every day.
Then we come to America and have this way:
Teens’ rings are pledge of purity
TOLEDO, Ohio — When Katie Chromik put a silver ring on her finger and promised at church to save sex for marriage, her junior high school friends giggled.
“Some people have made bets on me that I’m not going to make it,” she said. “It just makes me more determined.”
Even if pledging purity draws snickers, it’s still gaining acceptance among some teens, especially those who attend Christian schools and churches. They say they’re standing up to a barrage of sex-related messages.
“It comes at you in every direction,” said Kayla Ballmer, an eighth-grader at Toledo Christian School. “Movies, TV, radio, magazines. Even on clothing.”
The movement is driven by Christian educators and religious groups promoting abstinence education.
These are extreme examples but women have to live like this everyday, always on guard, protecting the essence of our virtue and life from sexual predators or boyfriends.
It would be nice if women really were free to be human beings, every day every where.
I saw the story about the dentata devices a couple of days ago, and have had some discussions with friends. “It is like we are going back to the days where women were forced to wear chastity belts” – I disagree with that point. Chastity belts were frequently used on women against their will. A quibble really, but every time I read the article, it makes me twitch a little. I think the concern about increased violence is a valid one; man realizes he has device on his penis, beats victim to death. But I also think that women can… Read more »
Oh yeah, I forgot. How are abstinence rings supposed to help a girl be safe?
That’s my thought but I suppose it’s a reminder to the wearer that she vowed to not have sex with her boyfriend- so she ‘won’t’ be responsible for allowing her impulses to encourage her boyfriend…
It made me think of the nuns’ rings and how they were ‘married’ to God.
That women have to do anything daily, to protect ourselves is my real issue.
but the “silver ring thing” might even work as an enticement for a rapist… a sick society we live in…
The “taboo” makes it all the more enticing.
fitfully laughing my self till ribs hurt….Girl you have a point on that one. As well, getting infection and enlarged testicles and major pain involved there…I can just imagine! Maybe the HIV they carry around to pass on too will think differently of passing on too…:o)
I think the whole ring ceremony with your father is sick.
The teeth? It’s sad that this is even an idea worth considering. When did we stop evolving? Shouldn’t rape be something man-kind has outgrown by now?
I think the teen ring ceremony is sick too. It suggests incest to me, not sexual incest but some kind of psychological incest. Also, it’s quite the obvious product of capitalism, which I don’t believe could exist without patriarchy.
It isn’t just the ceremony with the father. The other part is that the removal of the ring is an act of passing this bit of chattel — oh I’m sorry, the daughter — from the father to the husband.
I feel so sorry for the woman who worries about rape so much she would insert such a device on a daily basis.
Dumb question: couldn’t the rapist just take it out before insertion?
My guess since there’s no foreplay before the rape how would he know it’s there??
It was developed in South Africa, were in the cities there were more than 50,000 rapes last year. So I suppose there would be many women that worried about it.
Not sure that’s a dumb question at all – I didn’t see it addressed in the article. Off to research!
It’s no wonder the rapist, and thugs in the world are getting worse, have we evolved?
Well, just take a look at the world leader’s, and you’ll see that they get away with: raping the people of the world, and murdering whoever gets in their way.
Regardless of its merits or deeper meanings, I’m trying to think what reasons the right-wing in this country would use to try to forbid the use of such a device if women over here decide they want it. Right-wingers would surely be opposed to it, given that it gives a woman a measure of control and protection against unwanted sex and it’s a threat to male sovereignty. So what would they claim, I wonder? They’d fabricate a health claim, maybe: causes cervical cancer. Under age girls would have to get parental approval. I wonder if they’d find a pro-life… Read more »
Expected response from the right… (none / 0) and men’s groups. Cruelty to animals comparisons. Like the steel-jaw traps used for years by trappers in the wilderness. Men, in some cultures, rather than being shamed (or prosecuted), will limp off and have “back-alley removals” performed. Or die from blockage of their bladders. But, “quid pro quo”, for aeons of abuse and torture. Perhaps even law enforcement would get involved, in that a womean would have to register with the pharmacist, who in turn would have to notify law enforcement if one of these devices was found “in a state of… Read more »
LibertyPost.org: Anti-Rape Device Must Be Banned, Say Women
Un-F-Believable.
Gun Control Must Be Overturned, Say Lions
Anti-Traps Must Be Banned, Say Mice
ask me if I am suprised!!?? I think the men on these spots are too afraid to discuss such a thing. Maybe they wold bea afraid to pursue thier ambutions on the whole…what egos they have…:o(
This reminds me of that Science Fiction “Snow Crash” where it was common for woment to, um, wear a needle with that injected a tranquilizer.
That is exactly what it made me think of, as well. Wonderful book.