South African police have opened an investigation after a man was kidnapped and raped by three women who collected his semen before dumping their victim.
The unidentified 33-year-old man was reportedly bundled into the back of a black BMW at gunpoint after he gave the three women directions when they pulled over in the Kwazakhele Township, Port Elizabeth.
The women failed to arouse the man during the course of the journey, instead forcing him to drink an “unknown substance” before reportedly individually raping him and placing his semen into plastic bags, storing them in a cooler box.
Afterwards they allegedly ejected the man from the car, approximately 500km from where he was originally picked up.
Police constable Mncedi Mbombo said the victim was “still scared” and added: “This is really confusing to us because we have never heard of such a thing before.
“The man was fully conscious throughout his ordeal and he is still traumatised,”
Mbombo believes the suspects could be working as part of a syndicate dealing in semen sales. Times Live recently reported that prostitutes in Zimbabwe have been drugging their clients and repeatedly having sex with them to collect their semen.
The Zimbabwe prostitutes would then sell semen to sangomas, a group of traditional healers who reportedly use the substance in their rituals. The 250 milliliter bottles, about 8.5 ounces, of semen would reportedly sell for anywhere between $25 and $30.
Daily Mail reported that women in Gauteng have also been forcing men to drink an unknown substance and then stealing their semen. No arrests have been made.
Mbombo said they are taking the investigation seriously. The victim told police the incident left him traumatized, but local newspaper The Herald reported that officers laughed at him when he described the crime.
Martin Pelders, founder of a support group called MatrixMen that deals with men who have been sexually assaulted, said police in South Africa do not know how to address men who have been victims of rape.
“They don’t open cases, or they are encouraged not to open cases,” Pelders told The Star. “We need to change the way that we see rape in this country, there are male victims.”
Irin News reported that more than 25 percent of men say they have been raped in South Africa. Nearly half of those men reported being raped by more than one person, according to a 2009 study by the Medical Research Council
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