chastity belt
Medieval fidelity device
A chastity belt is a lockable garment designed to prevent sexual intercourse, traditionally depicted as a metal device fitted around a woman's waist and genitals.
Medieval examples are largely mythical or satirical, though the concept persists in BDSM culture as a consensual restraint device.
Figuratively, anything that enforces sexual abstinence: Her parents treated curfew like a chastity belt.
Absence of carnal experience
- purityUncontaminated quality
- celibacyAbstaining from intimate relations
- abstinenceVoluntary forgoing of indulgences
- virtueMoral goodness or merit
modesty · innocence · fidelity · sanctity · honor · decency · temperance · continence
Mechanism requiring a key
- keyLock-opening device
- restraintControl over impulses
- confinementState of being restricted
- fidelityLoyalty or exactness
ownership · possession · patriarchy · dominance · subjugation · jealousy · guarding · enclosure
virginity
Absence of carnal experience
- purityUncontaminated quality
- celibacyAbstaining from intimate relations
- abstinenceVoluntary forgoing of indulgences
virtue · modesty · innocence · fidelity · sanctity · honor · decency · temperance · continence · unblemished
lock
Mechanism requiring a key
- keyLock-opening device
- restraintControl over impulses
- confinementState of being restricted
fidelity · ownership · possession · patriarchy · dominance · subjugation · jealousy · guarding · enclosure · padlock
iron
Element twenty-six
forged · padlock · hinged · riveted · waistband · smithing · buckle · fastening · fitted · crafted
crusades
Aggressive advocacy campaigns
nobility · maiden · courtly · jousting · heraldry · manor · troubadour · dungeon · damsel · virtue
- chastitycelibacy, virginity, abstinence, purity, sexual abstinence
- bondage gearhandcuffs, collar, cuffs, gag, blindfold
- waist wearsash, obi, cummerbund, cincture, girdle
- Victorian odditiesphrenology, freak shows, cabinet of curiosities, human zoos, resurrection men
- torture devicesrack, iron maiden, thumbscrew, thumbscrews, pillory
chastity beltaphrodisiac
Arousal-inducing substance
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chastity beltwedding ring
Matrimonial finger ornament
garter · negligee · red light · come-hither look · open marriage
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