Rape-aXe the Condom With Teeth Created to Prevent Rape

The “Condom With Teeth” – female condom with internal ribs akin to jagged teeth that capture a man’s penis was designed by Sonnet Ehlers, a South African physician, to counter rape.

Sonnet Ehlers, who is white, got the idea to develop the device 40 years ago when she was a medical researcher at a hospital. A rape victim said she had wished she had had teeth in her vagina.

Called the “Rape-aXe,” the Condom With Teeth is made out of latex. The prophylactic is inserted like a tampon by a woman who fears rape. If a man takes a woman by inserting his penis in her vagina which is equipped with the Condom with Teeth, his penis will be hooked by the stiff internal ribs, which Ehlers says are like jagged teeth. It is akin to getting one’s penis caught in a zipper, only worse.

Only a surgeon can remove the device. Ehlers believes this will bring a rapist to justice in a country where rape goes under-reported.

Ehlers developed the Rape-aXe with input from engineers, gynecologists and psychologists. The design supposedly is safe for women to wear during an act of sexual intercourse. Ultimately, it will not mutilate the man, but will mightily discourage him. It will not wind up circumcising the rapist as it does not break the skin, but if the man tries to get it off, it will get stuck even more to his penis.

“It hurts, he cannot pee and walk when it’s on,” Ehlers had said of the Rape-aXe. “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.”