Pro-life vid of day: Students create “shocking” anti-rape underwear
by LauraLoo
Following the violent gang-rape of a New Delhi woman last year that made international headlines, engineering students in India have created anti-rape underwear that they say will prevent sexual assault.
Called Society Harnessing Equipment, or SHE, the device will deliver up to 82 electric shocks of 3,800 kV to an attacker, according to The Times of India. To prevent the wearer from being shocked, SHE’s inner side is “insulated with a polymer,” according to creators Niladri Basu, Manisha Mohan and Rimpi Tripathy, students at SRM University, Chennai.
The device is also equipped with GPS that can deliver alerts to police and the victim’s parents.
It’s reported that the ladies plan to mass produce their products for rollout this month.
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Do you think this anti-rape underwear would be effective in preventing sexual assault?
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I guess it depends on the attacker. If it’s a single person, then the victim might buy some time to get away. But if it’s a gang of people who are attacking someone, it might take out one of them but infuriate the rest.
**sarcasm alert!
It’s much too difficult to convince people of India that women are not less valuable than men, or that female babies should not be killed or aborted at a higher rate than males*, causing a similar demographic problem (too many young men, not enough young women) in China. Naw, let’s just travel back in time to those charming Middle Ages and slap a chastity belt on the female because, duh, the problem is obviously hers..
*of course neither female nor male children should be aborted.
Well, it’s not like rape is ever going to go away, though I think it can be lessened quite a bit. There will always be POS people who do these kind of things. I know this one girl who was raped and now has a concealed carry firearm at all times AND a knife strapped to her leg AND a switchblade she keeps in her bra (yes, she’s got pretty bad PTSD). Makes her feel better to be protected. I wonder what she would think about these underwear things.
Given that this is not a lethal protection like a gun or large knife, and not even truly a crippling protection like an asp, pepper spray (the real stuff), or a tazer (controlled from afar) I think they sound like a really good way to turn the horrific experience of a rape into a near death experience (or real death) because you just ticked off a *rapist* who already has you subdued. It’s like those ‘rape condoms’ in Africa a few years back that have barbs that latch onto the man’s penis when he tries to penetrate a women. Sounds like a really good way to truly infuriorate a person already more than willing to do significant physical damage to you.
If I’m going to carry protection against a criminal as serious as a rapist then it better either 1) scare him off before he get’s his hands on me or 2) cripple or leathally wound him.
Perhaps they should castrate rapists? I know. Silly me.
cuedenisenoe
Let the female population fend for themselves while savages continue their war on women.
I think the GPS in the underwear may have more value than their shock value. Though I suppose underwear like this couldn’t hurt. Well, they could hurt a potential rapist. I am concerned it might just anger them, but people who rape people are already pretty angry, and dangerous.
I suppose it’s asking too much that we quit slapping rapists on the wrists and start slapping their…well, castrating them.
Or at least putting them and keeping them where they can’t rape anyone.
Rape is not treated like the very serious and horrid crime that it is. I believe rape is a crime requiring life in prison without parole, because rapists are usually repeat offenders, given the chance–and they usually are given the chance.
And I’m tired of hearing how this would overcrowd our prisons. How about streets overcrowded with prowling sex predators? Seriously punishing rapists would help potential rapists think twice.
The easier we go on crime the more crime there is, and it’s time to put a stop to it.