chastity belt:

A lockable device fitted around genital area of a wife to ensure her fidelity or on a daughter to guard her chastity ; in the 19 ^th century, to prevent young women from masturbaring. The chastity belts available today from sex- and mail order shops are sex-toys designed, not to ensure chastity , but rather to thwart sexual pleasure, prolong foreplay , heighten arousal and invite a lovers violation. Synonym: girdle-of-purity . Chastity belts were also known as: drawers-of-iron , Florentine-girdle , full-pudenda , girdle-of-Venus , padlock-of-purity , partial-pudenda .

Quotes:

(1) ' Chastity belts was waist pollution .' From Encyclopedia of Graffiti . Reisner & Wechsler (1974).

(2) The Fool (Woody Allen) trying to open the Queen's (Lynn Redgrave) chastity belt in "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex" *But Were Afraid to Ask* (1972): ' With most grievous dispatch I will open the latch and get to her snatch .'

(3) Maid Marian (Amy Yasbeck) and Robin (Cary Elwes) in Robin Hood. Men in Tights (1993): Marian: ' Oh! I forgot to tell you about my chastity belt . It's an Everlast .' Robin: ' I'll bet! '

See Also: belting, cat rig, chastity, chastity belt, crack-halter, drawers of iron, endless belt, Florentine girdle, full pudenda, girdle of purity, girdle of Venus, new celibacy, padlock of purity, partial pudenda, torture

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