Gangs of beautiful women pickup male travellers have
sex and harvest their sperm in condoms in a
dizzying mix of taboos, rituals and downright bizarre.
- Three women picked up a hitch-hiker and forced him to have sex, then harvested his semen' in latest 'sperm collector' attack to
hit Zimbabwe
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Bulawayo (pictured) has grappled with illegal 'sperm collectors' before.
Around 2010 and 2011 there were dozens of incidents of such assaults
believed to be fueled by demand for semen in rituals
"Now, men fear women. Young hitchhikers offered a lift by a lady , 19, told her: 'we can't go with you because we don't trust you',"
Bulawayo police spokesperson Precious Simango told The Chronicle they picked up the man at an illegal hiking point on 6th Avenue in the city.
'Their
victim was traveling to Cowdray Park and while on the way they changed
the route prompting him to inquire where they were taking him. They
told him they were taking a short cut.'Share
They are alleged to have then parked in a semi-rural area where they took turns to sexually assault him.
'One
of the women used a condom while the others had sex with him without
protection. They then took away his semen before dumping him.'
The
inspector did not explain why they were harvesting semen, but the case
bears strong similarities to a spate of attacks across the country in
2011 and 2012.
Local
media have reported victims of the highway prowlers being drugged,
subdued at gun or knife point - even with a live snake in one case -
given a sexual stimulant and forced into repeated sex before being
dumped on the roadside.
The three women linked to the case, meanwhile, have
stirred much attention and public anger. Audiences pack into the dreary
courtrooms each time they appear in the dock, and one of their lawyers
said they have received death threats
No law in Zimbabwe criminalizes rape by women so the trio, arrested with one man, face 17 counts of aggravated indecent assault, though no trial date has as yet been set.
Form of witchcraft
"It's really an issue which is mind boggling," said University of Zimbabwe sociologist Watch Ruparanganda, who believes it is a lucrative business. "It's quite a big mystery. Obviously we know [it is] being used for rituals."
Ruparanganda said he was astonished to discover seven years ago that semen appeared to have become a viable commodity, while doing research for his doctoral thesis among Harare street youth who told him that businessmen would take them to hotels, give them new clothes and ply them with booze.
They were then told to pick a prostitute and to hand over the used condom after sex. "It just shows there's some big racket somewhere, some big guys driving everything, but they are in the background and using these ladies," said Ruparanganda.
The headline-grabbing reports have not shocked Tende Marahu, 24, who tells of men and "sugar mamas" picking up young men from the streets in his neighborhood to collect their sperm secured in a knotted condom after sex.
"It started a long time back," Marahu said, adding he had not yet partaken but would happily do so for the money. "To me, I didn't get shocked because I already knew it was happening."
The Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association slams the practice.
"We believe that this is a form of witchcraft. So we are totally against the idea," said spokesperson George Kandiyero.
"It has really frightened people," he said. "It has really brought in a bit of shock because normally it was the other way round, normally we know of men raping women, not women raping men."
No law in Zimbabwe criminalizes rape by women so the trio, arrested with one man, face 17 counts of aggravated indecent assault, though no trial date has as yet been set.
Form of witchcraft
"It's really an issue which is mind boggling," said University of Zimbabwe sociologist Watch Ruparanganda, who believes it is a lucrative business. "It's quite a big mystery. Obviously we know [it is] being used for rituals."
Ruparanganda said he was astonished to discover seven years ago that semen appeared to have become a viable commodity, while doing research for his doctoral thesis among Harare street youth who told him that businessmen would take them to hotels, give them new clothes and ply them with booze.
They were then told to pick a prostitute and to hand over the used condom after sex. "It just shows there's some big racket somewhere, some big guys driving everything, but they are in the background and using these ladies," said Ruparanganda.
The headline-grabbing reports have not shocked Tende Marahu, 24, who tells of men and "sugar mamas" picking up young men from the streets in his neighborhood to collect their sperm secured in a knotted condom after sex.
"It started a long time back," Marahu said, adding he had not yet partaken but would happily do so for the money. "To me, I didn't get shocked because I already knew it was happening."
The Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association slams the practice.
"We believe that this is a form of witchcraft. So we are totally against the idea," said spokesperson George Kandiyero.
"It has really frightened people," he said. "It has really brought in a bit of shock because normally it was the other way round, normally we know of men raping women, not women raping men."
Courtesy: DailyMail/bulawayo24
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