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"  A new company hopes to crowd source funding for\u00A0anti-rape\u00A0underwear. As they say, it&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;confidence and protection that can be worn.&amp;quot; Currently they&amp;#039;re working on a range of wearable items\u00A0resistant to pulling, tearing and cutting while being comfortable to wear during everyday activities. So far they&amp;#039;ve got underwear and running shorts.\u00A0 They write: &amp;quot;We feel very strongly about women&amp;#039;s safety and believe that we have successfully combined technology and fashion to help solve a problem that has not been adequately addressed in our society. We hope to work with organizations that combat violence against women and which offer support to those who have been violated.&amp;quot; Well, these products are definitely less invasive than the anti-rape underwear that came out\u00A0earlier this year, but there are still some issues. You might think that anything that stops rape is a good thing (and you&amp;#039;d be right),\u00A0but may also wonder about the\u00A0possibility of increased violence from frustrated attackers. A 2005 United States Department of Justice report found that rape victims&amp;#039; self-protection actions significantly reduce the probability of rape completion and do not significantly affect the risk of serious injury. Although the report does acknowledge that larger bodies of better data are needed to confirm whether female victims&amp;#039; self-protection actions decrease the risk of injury. It&amp;#039;s a complicated issue, especially if you consider that the underwear may actually\u00A0encourage passive resistance to rape because the garment is doing the resisting. Plus, whose responsibility is it to stop rape \u2014 the victim&amp;#039;s or the rapist&amp;#039;s? In the meantime, maybe we should focus on raising everyone&amp;#039;s awareness of rape culture \u2014 and not on stop-gap measures such as 21st century chastity belts.      You can find the campaign on\u00A0Indiegogo,\u00A0Twitter\u00A0and\u00A0Facebook. What do you think? Follow Laura on Twitter.   Image via Thinkstockphoto "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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