Anti-Rape Nail Polish Stumbles Into Ideological Mine Field

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Four undergraduate students at North Carolina University came up with a fashionable attempt at preventing violence against women, and stumbled into a broader, fiery debate about rape and how society addresses it

The students, Ankesh Madan, Tyler Confrey-Maloney, Stephen Grey and Tasso Von Windheim, created a nail polish that detects chemicals commonly used to facilitate sexual assault. To use the product, the wearer of the nail polish simply stirs her drink with a painted finger, and the color of the nail polish will change if it detects common date rape drugs like Rohypnol, Xanax, and GHB (Gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid) Read more...

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