chastity belt

Definition

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! '