"Pillow Talk"

Rape has been a consistent problem all across the world for a very long time. The idea of the "Pillow Talk" app is to help combat this problem. This app is supposed to be a very discreet way for rape victims to alert authorities that they are being or are potentially about to be sexually assaulted. The app has three different buttons, but the one that is most prominent is the button that alerts authorities, In order for this button to work, the user must hold down the button for a certain amount of time before it actually sends out an alert. Following this alert being received by police, the police will wait a certain amount of time, and if there is no follow up message sent to let them know that the situation is not threatening, police will be sent out to the location that the warning was sent from.

"Pillow Talk" is a very creative idea, and though it may not stop all rapes from happening, it is a good way to make women feel more safe. The main flaw that I see in the app is that the main goal of making an app like this is to make it popular among women. We can't make something popular among women since women are commonly the people who are being raped. However, we can't make this app popular among women and not expect men or rapists in general to know about it. Even though the app is supposed to be discreet, it cannot be discreet if everyone knows what it looks like. Therefore when a rape victim goes to reach for the app, the rapist will already know what they are trying to do. I do think that this is a better method than having to actually call the police because it would be a much more quick method, but I don't think that we could make an app this popular "discreet".