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Quite the selection :) Ta.

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Neil Stephenson got there first; see the "dentata" in Snowcrash

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sepheri.livejournal.com

Love that book

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It's my favourite book... I thought the days when a book could grab me that hard were lost to my teenage years, until I bought Snowcrash. I was up all night turning the pages, despite having to be up early for a training course :)

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So women are meant to just walk around wearing these things all the time just in case they get raped? I can hardly imagine a scenario where the rapist will stop to let her insert it.

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So women are meant to just walk around wearing these things all the time just in case they get raped?

I assume so, yes. From the sound of it, the odds are pretty high where the inventor lives.

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the words Toxic Shock syndrome come to mind.... oh and how exactly would the woman get it out when they didn't want it in??? nice idea but not for real, surely... i liked the harpoony idea too.

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sepheri.livejournal.com

TSS is caused by bacteria that latex cannot support

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Dentata?

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lovelyoliver.livejournal.com

sounds like a very south african product from the same stable as the in-car flamethrower to thwart carjackers.

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I so need one of those. Not so much to deter carjackers, but to outdo the boy racers with glow-kits under their cars :-D

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I thought "Jack Rolling" was all the rage in SA - and if you have dragged her off the street and back to your den then you have plenty of time to take care of such countermeasures.

and like they mention on the article - it is likely to enrage the attacker further resulting in an even worse attack.

make the inventor wear it inside out!

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Hadn't heard that phrase before, but the meaning is obvious enough. Yeah, that would seem to be a problem, as are the other points. Still, it's an interesting idea.

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Its been mentioned a lot in articles relating to that gang in Northampton.

Zoo (mens weekly mag) had a good point to make - if women walk down the road on the side facing traffic then no one can sneek up on them in cars... to quote the mag "Women in South Africa wouldnt dare do anything different"

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it is likely to enrage the attacker further resulting in an even worse attack

However the fact that it requires hospital treatment to remove (thus alerting the authorities) may ultimately provide a sort of herd immunity.

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I am guessing the device isnt superglued in - so now that the world knows they exist - one assumes that the attacker would make an attempt to check....

...would rather put me off picking up southa african girls in bars - what if they forget they have it in! *clutches groin and winces*

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Dude, I've met your girlfriend. If you go picking up any nationality of girls in bars you'll be clutching your groin and wincing :)

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... you may have a point there... :P

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kagero.livejournal.com

You make me sound so violent.....but yeah I would rip his nuts off if he went out picking up girls :)

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Not violent, of course not... just um, territorial, right? :)

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kagero.livejournal.com

A bit of both, he is all mine!! And I would seriously maim anyone who came on to him..but I am not violent..nope not me, no sir not at all..well not unless I am provoked!

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ergotia.livejournal.com

As a female domme I am intrigued by uses other then the anti rape one....

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I think "requires surgery to remove" goes beyond most people's idea of a fun toy...

Perhaps she could market a 'no permanent damage' version?

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Is it just urban myth that female canines have the ability to do this naturally? I seem to remember that if they are unhappy during *cough* coitus, they sorta 'lock up' and the poor dog is left with one helluva bruised and crushed member...

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I heard it was male cats with the barbed {rooster} to stop the female running away....

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The male cat's barbed member is due to female cats being what it referred to as 'shock ovulators'. This is why cats do the 'orgy' thing, the first male to mate with the female actually has very little chance of fertilising her, because she doesn't ovulate until after he withdraws, which is when his barbs spike her, it's the second and third participants who are likely to father the kittens.

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No, the canine member swells to ridiculous proportions after mating to lock him in thus preventing another male from mating with the female until his sperm have had the oppertunity to 'do their stuff'.

I'm not sure how far down the canine tree this goes, but it's certainly true of wolves.

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