This is what I call industrial design!

Rapex, the female condom that prevents rape; invented by Sonnette Ehlers, a retired medical worker in South Africa, where raping women is a national past time. Ehlers was inspired by a rape victim who told her, “I wish I had teeth down there.” I read about it last night in my ID magazine and found this quote from Reuters:

The device, made of latex and held firm by shafts of sharp barbs, can only be removed from the man through surgery which will alert hospital staff, and ultimately, the police, she said.

Yikes. Ouch. Serves the raping bastard right, though. Make forced sex as unpleasurable for men as it is for women and maybe they’ll think twice, no?