When news of the invention in South Africa of a condom with teeth hit the airwaves, I received it with mixed feelings of great caution and approval.
Having been informed that the condom was is intended to curb incidences of rape that is apparently becoming very common among African states, I approved of the invention knowing that it would go along way in scaring away rapists from committing the vice that continues to tear apart the very fabric of the human society.
Rape by any other name is rape and it is demonic. It is very unfortunate that we are observing an increasing trend of this great vice across our continent. Whereas I may not be in a position to explain why a man or woman takes to raping of a person of the opposite gender, I do believe it is sort of a psychological problem that an individual can be successfully weaned out of through guidance and counseling.
I do not wish to be construed as being lenient with rapists but I want to assert that whereas corporal punishment (castration included) may suffice when it comes to disciplining rapists, it does very little to eradicate the vice. Just like homicide or murder as we would ordinarily call it, death penalty has not stop murders from committing murder.
I think we need to employ a multifaceted approach towards dealing with the perpetrators of this heinous act of sin which should incorporate identification, apprehension, punishment, guidance and counseling, reconciliation, integration back into society, monitoring and character rehabilitation through mentorship programs.
I do believe that such an integrated approach in dealing with the vice may bear more fruits than would be born of a single dose approach of corporal punishment or condemnation.
You may stop and ask yourself, who cares what happens to the convicted rapist after he/she finishes serving his/her jail term? Definitely, he/she will be released back into the human society. But what guarantee do we have that he/she has changed his/her evil ways? What guarantee do we have that he/she will be accepted back into his/her community? How do we deal with the impact of their release from jail on the life of the innocent victim(s)?
All these questions and others that may have not crossed my mind now may only be addressed effectively by an integrated approach as I have suggested here above.
Coming back to my initial reaction, thinking of our society (evil/crazy members of it included) I equally received the news of the invention with great caution. Human beings have been known to derive pleasure or psychological gratification from doing some of the weirdest of things in the planet Earth. A case in point is the recent story about the serial killer who confessed to having killed 17 people (mostly women) largely for psychological gratification. This invention may not be an exception either once it is approved and it hits the market stores.
Now let us look at some of the worst case scenarios that this invention is likely to set forth.
It is not unusual for couples to disagree in their day to life but some people are crazy may take the disagreement too far depending on how grave their judgment rates it.
An irate wife may intentionally lure her husband into the "teethed condom" trap after a disagreement as away of teaching him a lesson. Come to think of it...sounds really out of this planet but it is a possibility.
An enraged girlfriend may wear the dreaded condom without the knowledge of her boyfriend and seduce him into making love - which apparently am told is the best way couples release the stress caused by disagreements among them. The unsuspecting boyfriend will surely go ahead and succumb to her allure and there in lies the trap. Her intention just like in the case of the irate wife would be that of punishing an annoying partner, in this case boyfriend.
Aah! What a pity?
There are numerous of such worst case scenarios that one may think of but due to societal norms I would restrict my argument to the two scenarios here above.
Scary, is it?
The condom with teeth is a good invention but I would advice sobriety and sanity among us and mostly the female folk as we move closer to embracing the new invention. Let it be strictly for rapists.
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