Anti-rape female condom
Main article: Anti-rape female condom
In 2005, inventor Sonette Ehlers introduced The Rapex, an anti-rape female condom which can be inserted into the vaginal canal like a diaphragm. The product is lined with microscopic barbs which attach to a rapist's penis and which must be surgically removed. In an article about the Rapex, Ehlers stated that she was inspired to invent the device after meeting a victim who told her, "If only I had teeth down there."[4]
A somewhat similar device (referred to as a "dentata") that injects narcotics into the man's penis appears in the novel Snow Crash.