Rape Escape Options:
Ultimate Prevention
Ultimately, Rape Escape Options include knowing that a woman facing rape can never be sure if the rapist intends "only" to rape her without further harming or even killing her afterward. If a rapist does become violent with a submissive victim, the escalation is usually sudden and explosive.
If posturing isn’t working, fleeing isn't possible, and outsmarting is falling short, you have two options left: surrendering or fighting
Dare you risk surrendering and putting yourself fully at the mercy of a criminal – or fighting? Only your intuition can guide you. If you do choose to fight, then attack him as described in Fighting Options - Overview.
Ultimately, responding to any violent rapist with an
eye-gouging, throat-bashing, testicle-shredding kill-or-be-killed fight
for your life may well be your best chance for survival. See Optimal Mindset.
Research from the Australia Institute says
that some cultures may share rape-supportive attitudes toward Western
women, that there are two types of women – good girls and sluts. And
sluts deserve to be raped for dressing in revealing ways or accepting an
offer of a lift.
Beware of exposing yourself to some barbaric males when
certain clothes impede your running and fighting. Or,
think how you would fight in those clothes – such as kicking off your
high heels to run or kick (or using them as hand-weapons for striking him). However, that's just the beginning of a new
attitude – which requires your absolute willingness and desire to cause severe injury to an attacker to enable your escape.
POETIC JUSTICE
A man ambushed a woman on a Chicago street and forced her to perform oral sex. She bit off his testicles. Police arrested him at a nearby hospital. Doctors were unable to re-attach his testicles. See Painful lesson just beginning for rape suspect
A nurse lopped off a man’s penis with scissors when he tried to rape her in Papua, New Guinea.
A serial rapist’s tongue was bitten off during a rape. Fallbrook CA police found Ronald Douglas McGowan Jr.’s severed tongue at the crime scene, but doctors could not re-attach it.
Abi Grant (author of “Words Can Describe”) awoke with serial rapist Greig Strachan on top of her. He threatened to kill her and began punching her. She punched back. He pinned her arms and stuck his tongue in her mouth. She bit hard. He lurched back and she grabbed his penis, squeezed, twisted, and dug in her nails. He went berserk and began punching her again until she used his penis to haul herself up into a sitting position and head-butted his face with all her might. He fled.
See a Google search for: attack rapist's penis .
THE ULTIMATE RAPE ESCAPE - GRIP & RIP
Even when erect, a penis is merely soft tissue that's attached to a man's body only by weak, blood-engorged spongy tissue, skin, nerves, and blood vessels – not by bone, cartilage, ligament, tendon, or anything at all sturdy. The same is true for the testicles and scrotum. Thus, a man's genitalia are extremely vulnerable - especially his ultra-sensitive testicles.
A rapist's genitalia is within reach of the (unbound) victim – either from behind or in front – and many martial artists claim that it can be easily torn off his body. However, a lack of volunteers to test this theory forces it to remain part of martial arts’ lore. Nevertheless, if you think about it, this very same lack of volunteers makes it blatantly obvious that it's far too dangerous for anyone in his right mind to try testing this theory as a guinea pig – even a failed attempt would be excruciating and could permanently maim him.
So it's a safe bet that a woman ferociously grabbing, squeezing, and wrenching a rapist's genitalia like wringing out a washcloth - even one-handed - and not letting go, may well seize control of the encounter (even if he's clothed). With the utmost irony, his fragile tool of crime suddenly becomes his undoing – truly poetic justice.
Many women don’t realize just how extremely delicate testicles are, so here’s an insight:
Target his Eyes, Testicles, and Throat
Eyeballs and testicles are very similar in sensitivity. Think of how extremely delicate anyone’s eyeballs are – even an air-borne speck in your eye is distressing. Close one eye and lightly tap your eyelid and feel how vulnerable your eyeball is. Then imagine how excruciating any more force would be. The sensitivity of testicles is virtually identical. Thus, a rapist's most vulnerable targets are his weakest body parts: his eyeballs, testicles, and throat [punching his "Adam's Apple" (thyroid cartilage) in the middle of his throat - will make him gag and choke].
Those targets are banned by martial arts tournaments because they’re too devastating. And they’re easy to attack. That’s exactly why they’ll give a woman the best chance of escaping an attacker - especially if used with fury. (See Acting to flip from fear to fury.)
To Stun & Run, use Finger Whips as a Sucker Punch (a sudden attack) to attack his eyes (even just one of your fingertips striking just one of his eyes will snap his head backwards, thus exposing his throat to your punch). Then knee-strike his testicles. You can also add a heel-stomp on his foot to further deter his pursuit when you suddenly flee.
If he grabs your hands to protect his eyes, then knee-strike his testicles (which will draw his hands to his groin) - and resume attacking his eyes with Eye Gouges (grab his head and plunge your thumbs into his eyes - see the quick video link below).
Practice attacking the eyes, throat, testicles, and foot for one minute daily so you'll react more quickly if ever needed (attack an imaginary killer - as in shadow-boxing). Remember eyes, throat, testicles, and foot (though you may need to attack only his eyes and maybe his foot).
Or, if he tries to force you to perform fellatio, his penis and/or testicles can easily be fiercely bitten off. Either biting off or tearing off or otherwise harming his genitalia will cause a rapist to suffer severe pain, blood loss, reactive shock, and panic! In all likelihood, he'll frantically scramble to get away from you – especially if you keep furiously attacking him until you suddenly flee – Stun & Run. And the police will easily find him when he desperately seeks attention at a hospital.
If he tries to kiss you, bite into his lips until your teeth meet – chomp down as hard as possible – then cause maximal damage by vigorously shaking your head side-to-side like a vicious dog shakes its prey. Do the same if he sticks his tongue in your mouth. Use that with the Clinch Attack described in Self Defense Techniques. Then immediately attack him with furious Mixed Strikes to ensure your rape escape. See Fighting Options - Strategies and Facing Danger.
YOUR ULTIMATE RAPE ESCAPE OPTIONS
STUN & RUN (for when you and your attacker are both standing and facing each other).
This Stun & Run is for your 1-minute daily practice both for "refexive memory" and for flipping from fear to fury – see Acting.
►Finger-Whip his Eye (see Sucker Punch).
►Punch his Throat (if available - he might have turned away due to your Finger-Whips).
►Knee-Strike his Groin (if available - he might have turned away due to your Finger-Whips).
►Heel-Stomp the top of his Foot.
(You might need only the Finger-Whip and Heel-Stomp to Stun & Run – but alsways do all 4 in your 1-minute daily practice.)
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CLINCH ESCAPE (for when your attacker is holding you or on top of you).
►Gouge his Eye (or Eyes) – see Eye Gouge Tactics - video 43 seconds |.
►Grip & Rip his Genitals (whether he's clothed or exposed – see above).
►Bite his Skin ferociously anywhere – lips, tongue, nose tip, cheek, ear, finger, penis, testicles.
His Bodily Fluids
Any time a victim fights back against a rapist, they may cause each other to bleed, thus she risks exchanging her blood or other bodily fluids with his. But few rapists have HIV/AIDS (less than 1% of the general population does). Further, a woman biting a rapist with HIV/AIDS/STDs – or fighting back at all – has no more risk of becoming infected than if she were raped by him (again, exchanging bodily fluids). Besides, the rapist may decide to murder a victim after raping her so she can't identify him later.
Only Your Intuition Can Guide You
You may feel that maiming a rapist is too gruesome an act for you. That, of course, is your decision – though you may feel very differently during an actual attack. Yet you still have a very powerful option: grabbing his genitalia with a crushing/wrenching grip and holding on until you can maneuver him into a situation from which you can safely escape – as did Curtescine Lloyd in Rape Escape Options - Overview.
It's not uncommon for a rapist to murder his victim afterward to eliminate the only witness. So you may be fighting for your life as well as to prevent rape. Thus you may need to fight like a maniac – see Stress Control - Optimal Mindset.
PERSONAL SAFETY DEVICES
To deter a predator - beforehand - carry a Personal Security Alarm (screamer or noisemaker) & Pepper Spray in plain sight. Those pages tell you how to use them most effectively.
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