You Will Feel a Little Prick

I'm not big on vigilantism, but self-defense is another matter. Kudos, then, to Anita Ingmarsdotter, a Swedish woman who has patented an anti-rape device, FemDefence (click on the image for a closer look, if you dare).

The basic idea is that the woman carries the protective device in her vagina. In it there is a sharp pin which has a penetrating effect on the perpetrator’s penis in the event of a rape. The construction is such that the pin still cannot injure the bearer.

One uninvited penetration deserves another — works for me. Ingmarsdotter describes the penis-puncturing contraption as "both interesting and thrilling." A rapist, however, will call it "Oww oww what the fuck man that hurts."

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P.S.  I suddenly remembered the stories that vengeful Vietcong prostitutes somehow inserted razor blades into their vaginas before they went cruising for American johns. Yikes — talk about getting bush-whacked! Some believe it's just a nasty folklore tale:

The Vagina Dentata [explanation and explicit pictures here — RvB] is a mythopoeic artifact as ancient as narrative itself, and its revisionment employing the grammar of Vietnam attests to the variety of human imagination more than a correlation to that particular war as an historical event.

That's academese for "didn't happen." But hey, if you've had your johnson sliced and diced in the manner referred to here, well, in the interest of the historical record, Nobody's Business wants to hear from you!

Comments

[John Palubiski]

I thought at first that this was a hoax.

Never mind a penis; looks like it could puncture a tire!

[Phil]

Personally, I think they should invent some kind of device that penalises a would be rapist by injecting them with an especially nasty strain of the ebola virus that makes a huge RAPIST tattoo appear in phosphorescent red on their foreheads.

Also I just can't wait for the first story where a guy thought he was getting some "make up sex" with a girl he curbed not long before, only to be met with Mr. Pointy, there.

[Poustman]

"Also I just can't wait for the first story where a guy thought he was getting some "make up sex" with a girl he curbed not long before, only to be met with Mr. Pointy, there."

Assault with intent to cause bodily harm.

[Blenda]

This is a fictive product, not patented and not availible in stores. Although there is at least one similar US patent from 1976.

[Charles]

The novel Snow Crash has a similar device, except it's a needle that delivers a sedative. The wearer, in the novel, forgets to take the device out for a consensual session.