Gangs of beautiful women in Zimbabwe have been picking up male hitchhikers to have sexual intercourse and harvest their sperm for use in traditional luck-enhancing 'juju' rituals, according to local media reports.
Local woman, Susan Dhliwayo, claims she pulled her car over recently to pick up a group of male hitchhikers and they refused to get in, because they feared they were going to be raped.
'Now, men fear women. They said: 'We can't go with you because we don't trust you',' Ms Dhliwayo, 19, said.
[Sisters Sophie Nhokwara, 26, Netsai Nhokwara, 24, and Rosemary Chakwizira, 28, leaving Harare's Magistrates court after a pre-trial hearing for attacking male hitchhikers ]
According to reports, victims of the freeway femme fatales are drugged or subdued at gun or knife-point - one man was even forced to perform at 'snake-point' when his rapists brandished a live snake.
The male victims are then given a sexual stimulant and forced to have sex repeatedly, sometimes unprotected, before being dumped on the side of the road.
In November, three sisters and one of their boyfriends were charged in a Harare court for attacking male hitchhikers and harvesting their semen for rituals.
The Nhokwara sisters were caught when they were involved in a car accident and police found 31 used condoms in the boot of their car.
The women face 17 counts of aggravated indecent assault, as a woman raping a man is not a criminal offense in the country. The three sisters have claimed that they were merely hard-working prostitutes.
'Obviously we know (it is) being used for rituals,' said University of Zimbabwe sociologist Watch Ruparanganda, who believes semen has become a lucrative commodity in Zimbabwe.
Dr Ruparanganda said street youth in Harare have reported being given a hotel room and booze by businessmen, told to pick up a prostitute and then to hand over the used condom.
The Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association have criticised the practice, saying they believe 'this is a form of witchcraft'.
'We are totally against the idea,' said spokesman George Kandiyero.
The attacks have not abated since the arrest of the Nhokwara sisters, and police admit they've lost count.
'We do not have the exact number of confirmed cases,' said national police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena.
Mr Bvudzijena also encouraged young Zimbabwean men to 'use public transport' to avoid being targeted by sperm-hunters.
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