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February 2, 2019

Did People in Medieval Times Really Wear Lockable Chastity Belts?

Filed under: Europe, Health, History — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Today I Found Out
Published on 28 Mar 2016

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The lasting images of what most of us perceive to be the “medieval times” includes heroic knights, stampeding horses, court jesters, giant turkey legs, ruling kings, and pure maidens wearing chastity belts. But the fact is that, besides the more obvious of those that aren’t accurate, most scholars believe that the chastity belt didn’t actually exist during medieval times, but rather is a product of 18th and 19th century obsession with masturbation as a societal ill and safeguarding women in the workplace.

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