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Rape AxeAccording to Human Rights Watch, South Africa has one of the highest rape rates in the world, and many women in the country live in constant fear of being attacked. One South African doctor, Sonnet Ehlers, is saying enough is enough -- she sold her house and car to finance and invent a female condom laced with sharp tooth-like hooks that clamp onto an attacker's penis upon penetration. The design is controversial, with many saying that the device is a "medieval" solution, but Ehlers believes it's a way to make rapists think twice about the crime they're about to commit.1
