Historically, when it comes to cruel inventions to imprison women, the chastity belt should be at the top of the list. This cruel invention originated in the European Middle Ages, around the 12th century, and has been used until the 18th century, which can be said to have a long history.
The chastity belt, also known as the chastity lock, is a kind of clothing used to prevent sexual intercourse or self-masturbation. It was popular in Italy in the 14th century, so it is also called the “Florentine Belt”. Of course, this chastity belt can also be used to protect the wearer from being raped. There are chastity belts for women as well as men. In most modern societies, forcing another person to wear a chastity belt is considered a form of abuse.
But there are also people who use chastity belts as props for sexual abuse, which is what we often call SM. A chastity belt is a tool for sealing off the genitals without hurting the flesh. It is usually connected by a metal belt and a longitudinal metal belt that passes through the crotch and covers the genitals. Lock at the junction of the two metal straps. Once locked, the longitudinal metal band bends towards the crotch and cannot move, preventing sex from occurring.
After talking about women, it’s time to talk about men. A male chastity belt that completely covers the external genitalia when used. Modern male chastity belts also have a vulva-covered type, and the design of the cage is more appropriate, usually made of stainless steel. But compared to women’s chastity belts, men’s chastity belts appeared very late.
During the time of Queen Victoria of England, the queen realized that compared with girls, boys had more significant masturbation problems. Some doctors invented chastity devices that teenagers had to wear even to sleep to stop masturbation, and male chastity belts began to appear.
In 1956, the first chastity belt company appeared in the UK to provide practical use to contemporary people. Up to now, there are 129 chastity belt production companies from various countries on the Internet. Due to the secrecy of chastity belt commodity trading, it is difficult to make comprehensive statistics. However, 70% to 80% of the chastity belts sold in Western countries are male chastity belts.
The chastity belts sold to Arab countries and Japan are almost exclusively for women. 70% to 80% of the articles about wearing chastity belts on the Internet are written by men; even among the many online novels about chastity belts, 70% to 80% are about women or the same sex controlling male chastity belt wearers.
In the online survey of chastity belt users, 85% of the respondents were men. As of 2005, the vast majority of chastity belts in the world are designed for men. Obviously, the concept of using chastity belts in the West has undergone fundamental changes, and has lost the meaning that men dominated women in the social and political sense.