Chastity belt
A chastity belt is a locking item of clothing designed to prevent sexual intercourse or masturbation. Such belts were historically designed for women, ostensibly for the purpose of chastity, to protect women from rape or to dissuade women and their potential sexual partners from sexual temptation. Modern versions of the belt are predominantly, but not exclusively, used in the BDSM community.
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A chastity belt is a locking item of clothing designed to prevent sexual intercourse or masturbation. Such belts were historically designed for women, ostensibly for the purpose of chastity, to protect women from rape or to dissuade women and their potential sexual partners from sexual temptation. Modern versions of the belt are predominantly, but not exclusively, used in the BDSM community, and chastity belts are now designed for male wearers in addition to female wearers. According to modern myths, the belt was used as an anti-temptation device during the Crusades. However, there is no credible evidence that chastity. belts existed before the 15th century, and their main period of. apparent use falls within the Renaissance rather than the Middle Ages. They first became widely available in the form of 19th-century anti-masturbation medical devices. Many designs were made for women as women, but since sanitary and hygiene reasons prevented this before the invention of stainless-steel belts, some women may have used belts for protective reasons, such as to obstruct sexual assault from predatory male colleagues or to protect themselves from sexual assault by their bosses or colleagues.
The authenticity of these belts as medieval devices has since been called into question. Many contemporary historians accept that these alleged \” artifacts\” date from the 19th century, and are inauthentic. From the 18th century until the 1930s, masturbation was widely regarded as harmful in Western society. Numerous medical journals found in medical journals of the time of use of belt-like devices to prevent masturbation were filed in the US Patent Office until the early 1930s. In 1889, a leather-and-iron belt was found by Anton Pachinger—a German collector of antiquities—in Linz, Austria, in a grave on a skeleton of a young woman. The woman was reportedly buried in the 16th century. Two belts have been exhibited at the Musée de Cluny in Paris.
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