Self Defense for Women NOW! » whistles http://www.selfdefense4womennow.com What your attacker doesn't want you to know Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:28:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Whistles as a deterrent against rape and assault? http://www.selfdefense4womennow.com/whistles-as-a-deterrent-against-rape-and-assault/ http://www.selfdefense4womennow.com/whistles-as-a-deterrent-against-rape-and-assault/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:53:41 +0000 Liza Cooper http://www.selfdefense4womennow.com/?p=102 Many people advocate carrying a whistle or personal alarm with you.  A personal alarm is a noisemaker, usually battery-operated, that makes a loud, piercing noise when it is set off. Lung powered whistles, often called “rape whistles” also fall into this noisemaker category.

However, most experts feel that having a noisemaker on your person is an over-rated concept.  When you blow a whistle or set off a siren, you are banking on someone coming to your aid and that is not as likely to happen as you might hope.

The act of activating the alarm or blowing a whistle can take anywhere from 2 to 20 seconds, but the outcome of an attack is usually decided within the first 8 to 10 seconds. So, if the noise doesn’t work, you may be out of time before you can try other options.

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