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(IN PHOTO) Sperm samples, each individually numbered, rest in a tank of liquid nitrogen, which is seen coming from the tank, at California Cryobank headquarters in Los Angeles January 30, 2003. California Cryobank has offered to military personnel one year free sperm storage as precaution against the possibly harmful effects of vaccine or chemical weapons exposure on their fertility. More than 40 members of the military have taken up the offer, with the threat of United States military action against Iraq. Reuters

A South African man is now wary of women asking for directions. His trauma comes from allegedly being raped by three women in BMW who initially forced him inside the vehicle at gunpoint.

The 33-year-old victim was kidnapped on May 5 from Port Elizabeth and brought to Kwazekhele township where the women allegedly fondled him. However, they could not arouse him, so the women drugged him by forcing him to drink an unknown substance which resulted in the three repeatedly raping him, reports Elite Readers.

The purpose of the sexual molestation was to collect his sperm in a plastic bag which they placed in a cooler box. After raping him, the women left him in an open field, disclosed Constable Mncedi Mbombo.

The incident shocked South Africa because although one in 30 South African males have been raped, according to the Medical Research Council, their perpetrators were men, not women. Even police officers who learned about the victim’s story mocked and laughed at him, said Mbombo.

The constable believes the women belong to a syndicate that sells semen. The sperm are sold to sangomas, or traditional healers, at the border of Zimbabwe, for use in rituals.

Martin Pelders, founder of MatrixMen, a support group for males who have experienced sexual abuse, attributes the mocking at the victim to cops in South Africa lacking knowledge how to address cases of males being the rape victims. There had been reported cases of male rapes in Johannesburg, particularly in Diepsloot and Tembisa. But not all victims were raped for their sperm, some were just sexually assaulted by women.

To make it worse for the victim, he was told that his rapists are HIV positive. He was advised to undergo medical tests, reports Cosmopolitan UK.

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