The pictured device has never been marketed or made available for purchase. In 2012, internet users began forwarding a description of a South African anti-rape device known as Rapex: Sonette ...

South African inventor Sonette Ehlers demonstrates her new anti-rape female condom in Cape Town, South Africa August 31, 2005. [Reuters] "Nothing has ever been done to help a woman so that she ...

The Rape-aXe, introduced by inventor Sonette Ehlers in 2005, is inserted into the vagina like a diaphragm. It is a latex sheath lined with microscopic barbs which snag a rapist’s penis as ...