A South African doctor is distributing a female condom with 'teeth' during the FIFA World Cup to help fight rape, CNN is reporting.
Dr Sonnet Ehlers spent 40 years developing the condom, called Rape-aXe, after promising a female rape victim that she would do everything she could to help women in her situation.
The condom is inserted into the woman like a tampon.
Jagged rows of teeth-like hooks line its inside and attach on a man's penis during the act of penetration.
Once the penis is lodged into the condom, only a doctor can remove it.
Ehlers is hoping authorities will be on stand-by to make arrests after the condom is removed off the alleged rapist.
She says the rapist will not be able to pass urine or even walk as long as the condom is on his appendage and if he tries to remove it, it will clasp on even further.
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The doctor, a mother of two daughters, plans to distribute 30,000 free devices under supervision during the World Cup and will be available for about $2.80 a piece after the trial.
Critics of the condom say it is not a long-term solution and say will leave the women being raped more vulnerable to violence from men trapped by the device.
Many CNN readers, while commending the invention, agree with the critics saying incidences of violence may increase toward women wearing the device if caught and even worse could lead to other more extreme forms of rape.
South Africa has one of the highest rape rates in the world, with a 2009 report finding 28% of men have raped a woman or a girl.
