- A German firm has invented anti-rape pants with a lock and a loud alarm
- Advert for them reads: 'Scarcely a day passes with out headlines of sexual assaults'
- Feminists have criticised anti-rape garments as being a 'trendy chastity belt'
A German inventor has created rape-proof knickers within the wake of a spate of intercourse assaults.
The underwear comes geared up with a mix lock and a loud alarm which matches off if they're tampered with.
German media has reported the pants are so fashionable some on-line retailers have bought out.
The wearer places a mix lock on and if they're tampered with the alarm is triggered
The producers say they're easy to make use of and provides the wearer a way of safety
Due to the lock, the pants can't be pulled off and they're made with a fabric which is nearly unattainable to chop by means of or tear.
The 130-decibel alarm is mechanically activated if the garment is reduce off.
The commercial for the pants reads: 'Scarcely a day passes with out headlines of sexual assaults.
'Solely just lately, a father in Kleve may barely stop an tried rape of his daughter. Model new in the marketplace of deterrence: underpants with a quantity lock.'
However safety comes with a worth - one pair of the pants prices 100 euros (£87).
The 'secure shorts' are available two totally different kinds - the one on the left might be worn below shorts or a brief skirt, whereas the one on the precise is designed to go below trousers or a gown
There was a blended response to the 'security shorts' on the Web.
One social media person in Germany wrote: 'The concept is nice. One by no means is aware of what's going on in these heads of the perpetrators. But truthfully, it's truly dangerous that one needed to invent such a doubtlessly well-intentioned factor.'
However one other person claimed: 'What if the ladies are instantly threatened with weapons and compelled to open the lock if the perpetrators don't succeed?'
When anti-rape underwear was first mooted in America in 2013 feminist author Louise Pennington described it as a 'trendy chastity belt' and added: 'Let's deal with males stopping rape by not raping moderately than curbing ladies's freedom to exist.'
Related security gadgets, corresponding to small alarm programs for purses, have just lately gone in the marketplace in Germany to guard ladies from doable assaults.
On New Yr's Eve 2015 celebrations in Cologne have been marred by mass intercourse assaults on ladies and final 12 months and in October, Maria Ladenburger, 19, was raped and murdered within the metropolis of Freiburg.
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