A German company now sells high-waisted “anti-rape shorts” with a combination lock at the waist and plastic-reinforced seams that supposedly resist knives. In Sweden, SafeShorts have sold out repeatedly since 2017. In Canada, a crowdfunded pair of locked underwear equipped with a 130-decibel siren and GPS tracker raised more than $80,000 in under a week.

These are not niche products for ultra-marathon runners worried about deserted trails. They are being bought by ordinary men—fathers in Cologne for their first-year university daughters, husbands in Malmö for wives who finish night shifts, adult sons in Toronto slipping a pair into their elderly mother’s Christmas gift bag “just in case.” Men who grew up believing the state, the police, and basic common sense would keep their families safe are now scrolling Amazon at 1 a.m. comparing Dyneema weave ratings and siren decibel levels.

The fact that such garments exist is enraging. The fact that they are on permanent back-order is a gut punch no father ever recovers from.

The Night the Music Stopped—and Fathers Stopped Believing the News

New Year’s Eve 2015–2016, Cologne central station. Over 1,200 women reported sexual assault or rape in a single night. The attacks were coordinated: groups of young men surrounded women, groped, robbed, and in dozens of cases penetrated with fingers or worse while others formed human walls to block police. Almost all identified perpetrators were recent arrivals from North Africa, Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Initial police press releases described the attackers only as “men between 18 and 35.” It took five days of public fury before authorities admitted what every smartphone video had already shown.

Every man who watched those videos pictured his own daughter, wife, sister, or mother in that square. For millions of European and Canadian men, that was the night abstract politics became visceral terror.

The pattern repeated: Rotherham (1,400+ British girls trafficked while authorities feared “racism” accusations), Oulu in Finland (a wave of child rapes by asylum seekers), the “taharrush gamea”-style mass assaults in Swedish festival grounds, the suburban train cars in Paris where women now travel only in packs. Each time, the same script: initial media silence or euphemism, followed by leaked court documents, followed by another father discovering that the country he was born in no longer feels like home.

The Numbers No Man Can Unsee

Germany, Federal Crime Office (BfJ) 2024: Non-citizens = 13 % of the population, 58 % of rape/sexual-assault suspects.

Sweden, Lund University 2023: Foreign-born men 5.1× more likely to be convicted of sexual offenses than native-born men (age- and income-controlled).

England & Wales, Ministry of Justice grooming-gang data (finally released after Freedom of Information battles): Men of Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Afghan, Iraqi, and North African heritage over-represented by factors of 20–50 in group-based child rape cases.

British Columbia, Canada 2017–2020: 42 % of men charged with sexual offenses were foreign-born (foreign-born = ~25 % of the male population in the Lower Mainland).

Greater Toronto Area court monitoring 2022–2024 (independent researcher): In stranger and gang sexual-assault cases, men with Middle Eastern, North African, and sub-Saharan African names over-represented by factors of 8–12 relative to population share.

These are not “far-right” statistics. They are police data, court records, and government reports—numbers that only appear when officials finally stop deleting the nationality column.

Documented Over-Representation in Sexual Offences (2023–2024 data)

Canada’s Vanishing Statistics and Official Silence

In Canada the concealment has been quieter but more systematic.

Statistics Canada and most provincial police forces stopped publishing the immigration status or country of origin of suspects in sexual-assault cases years ago. When pressed through Access to Information requests, agencies claim the data is “not collected in a retrievable format.” Toronto Police removed ethnicity and immigration fields from their public crime maps after 2017.

What has leaked out is stark:

• An internal 2019 RCMP report showed non-citizens (roughly 4–5 % of the population) were charged in 18.7 % of sexual assaults between 2014 and 2018.
• In British Columbia’s Lower Mainland, 42 % of men charged with sexual offenses from 2017–2020 were foreign-born.
• Court monitoring in the Greater Toronto Area in 2022–2024 shows men with Middle Eastern, North African, and sub-Saharan African names over-represented in stranger and gang sexual-assault cases by factors of 8–12 compared to their population share.

When nine Syrian and Iraqi migrants were charged in Edmonton in 2023 with the prolonged gang rape of a 15-year-old girl, the Crown asked media not to publish nationalities. Most outlets obliged.

In Parliament, when asked for national figures on crimes by asylum claimants, the government replied that releasing such data “could stigmatize certain communities.” Campus safety offices now hand out anti-rape shorts at frosh week alongside free condoms. The message is clear: the state will not protect you; protect yourself.

The Laws That Already Exist—and the Men Who Refuse to Use Them

Every single Western country already has the legal toolkit:

• Germany § 178 StGB + § 55 AufenthG: any sexual-offense sentence over one year = mandatory deportation.
• Sweden: convictions of two or more years automatically revoke residence permits.
• Canada IRPA Section 36(1)(a): any indictable sexual offense = “serious criminality” → inadmissible + removable.
• UK, France, Netherlands, Denmark—all have similar provisions on the books.

Yet enforcement is a sick joke: Germany deports <2 % of convicted foreign rapists. Sweden ~5 %. Canada has a 44,000-person removal backlog and deports fewer than 9,000 people total per year—many for far lesser crimes.

Judges cite “family ties,” “risk of persecution back home,” or simply “humanitarian considerations.” Politicians cite “community cohesion.” Fathers cite sleepless nights.

The Cruelest Conversation a Man Will Ever Have

Imagine sitting across from your 18-year-old daughter the week before she moves into residence and sliding a pair of locked anti-rape shorts across the kitchen table.

“Here. The combination is your birthday. Wear them when you go out at night.”

Imagine explaining to your wife why you now drive forty minutes out of your way to pick her up from the train station instead of letting her walk six blocks home.

Imagine teaching your 75-year-old mother how to set the siren on the pair you bought her because the evening bus stop is poorly lit and “things have changed.”

No man ever thought he would have those conversations in the country he was born in.

When “Teach Men Not to Rape” Became “Buy Your Daughter a Chastity Belt”

The same political class that spent decades telling men to check their privilege and take responsibility for women’s safety now tells those same men that mentioning immigration status in crime discussions is the real violence.

The same activists who marched with “No Means No” banners now march with “Refugees Welcome” banners—even when the direct, measurable consequence is that your daughter has to wear a plastic-reinforced crotch locker to a music festival.

The same parties that once promised to smash the patriarchy now insist that smashing borders is the greater moral imperative, even when the human cost falls overwhelmingly on women and girls.

That is not hypocrisy. That is betrayal.

What Rape Actually Takes From a Man

You can replace a stolen car. You can install a better alarm after a break-in. You cannot un-rape your little sister.

Fathers speak of driving for hours after court because they don’t know how to go home and face their daughter. Husbands speak of sleeping on the couch for years because their wife flinches at any sudden touch—even from the man she loves. Brothers speak of a cold, permanent rage that never leaves the chest.

Rape is not a “women’s issue.” It is a family catastrophe measured in decades.

The Moment of Truth in the Voting Booth

Many men—out of decency, compassion, or simple belief in the slogans—supported generous asylum policies ten or fifteen years ago. No one should be shamed for wanting to help people fleeing war.

But compassion that ends with your own daughter shopping for a four-digit lock to protect what should never be taken is compassion that has lost its way.

The next election is not abstract. It is a choice between:

• Treating the bodies of your daughters, wives, sisters, and mothers as acceptable collateral damage in a grand moral experiment, or
• Treating borders, vetting, and criminal deportation as non-negotiable components of public safety.

A World We Used to Take for Granted

Imagine telling your grandfather in 1970 that in fifty years young women would need reinforced anti-rape leggings just to go to a concert. He would have laughed, then reached for his shotgun.

That world—where a woman could walk home from the late shift without calculating risk every ten steps—was not a fantasy. It was the world most of us grew up in. It was normal.

Normal can be restored. The laws are already written. The planes are ready. The political will is the only missing ingredient.

Imagine a Western world where:

• A convicted foreign rapist is on the tarmac the day his sentence ends—no appeals, no excuses.
• Police publish transparent, unredacted crime data so fathers know which neighborhoods are actually safe.
• No 19-year-old ever has to Google “anti-rape shorts” before a night out.
• No husband ever has to teach his wife how to arm a 130-decibel crotch siren because “it’s just the way things are now.”

That world is not utopian. It is the world our fathers and grandfathers handed to us. We let it slip away through a combination of naivety, cowardice, and ideology.

We can take it back.

We simply have to decide—once and for all—that the safety of our women is not negotiable. That compassion for strangers must never again be paid for with the bodies of our own daughters, wives, mothers, and sisters. That no little girl should ever need ballistic nylon and a titanium cable to keep what is hers alone.

Until men stand up—quietly, firmly, and in overwhelming numbers—and demand that world back, the locked shorts will keep selling.

And the silence will keep costing everything that ever mattered.

Editor’s note: This is not one of Rico’s usual lighter columns. Some topics are too important for jokes.