This sounds like joke, but it is serious business. A Doctor in South Africa has invented a female condom with teeth to thwart would-be rapists. Rape is epidemic in many African countries. Not only does the condom prevent rape, the attacker has to go to the emergency room to have it removed. Ouch...
(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 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...Read more here.