What associations do you have when you hear the phrase "chastity belt"? For sure, the imagination takes you into the Middle Ages and the Crusades. Indeed, it was then that they became very popular. But do you know what else used these infernal devices? And so it really is a relic of the past, as we think? In this and other matters versed version of the site Kolobok.ua.
The first chastity belt made from bovine skin, appeared in ancient Greece. They were created to protect slaves from unwanted pregnancy, because otherwise they will not be able to perform their duties, which is absolutely not part of the plans for the slaveholder.
Active dissemination of this tool from the male attacks really got into the dark Middle Ages. It is said that it has entered into use the German emperor, who, being a terrible jealous, ordered the blacksmith's wife put on a chastity belt whenever went beyond the boundaries of their possessions. And upon arrival from a trip personally I shot him.
Unlike Greek invention, this belt was present instrument torture - made of a heavy metal with a plurality of locks and a small hole in order to relieve themselves. Of course, out of the question about personal hygiene, and the only key it was in strict husband.
The innovation of the German monarch was to the taste of European men. Special distribution they received in Italy, made of leather and coinage, precious metals and inlays. Some of them looked like a work of art. Especially prized belt, made in Venice and Bergamo. Even there was a saying: "lock his wife in Bergamo way."
It costs these "contraceptives" expensive and were only available to the nobility and wealthy merchants. We put them not only jealous husbands to their wives, but also parents to daughters. Bride, who wore a childhood "Venetian bars" were considered a real treasure and enjoyed great demand. Key to the castle vigilant mother passed on her wedding day to his son-in - now he was responsible for the treasure.
Very popular it is the protective underwear was during the Crusades. Going to foreign lands, husbands put their wives, and they had to wear them for a few years. It did not pass in vain for their health: there were blisters, sores, and sometimes the figure deformity. In such cases, by the court could remove the belt ahead of previously notifying her husband.
Although, as we know, no hopeless situations. Normally, manufacturers make belts in case a duplicate. One key was handed over to her husband, and the other (for twice the cost) faithful little wife and her lover. In this regard, in those days there were a lot of funny stories and anecdotes. For example, in the Museum of Grenoble hanging tapestry, which depicts a warrior who is sent to the campaign, and on his neck hangs the key. Tearful wife waving his handkerchief box. And from behind the bushes peeping young man with the same little key around his neck.
And in our time? It is good that this brutal custom is not extant, most likely, you think. But it is not so. In Europe, there are still craftsmen that manufacture such "protective underwear" commissioned contemporary jealous. However, now they have become much easier and more comfortable, and are carried out with the use of advances in technology and electronics. In the year of such workshops are made up to 200 zones.
In Indonesia today, some women wear a belt on their own, because they fear rape. In addition, such devices are mandatory dress code in some massage parlors country. They put on a masseuse to show visitors that intimate service in the cabin does not have.
In 2007, at the National Museum of decorative metal in the US city of Memphis, an exhibition of "impenetrable devices". Designer Ira Sherman specializes in creating tehnoustroystv body. To create a chastity belt she was inspired by conversations with women who have been abused. They are sometimes difficult to again feel safe, so that the belt - real means of self-defense. For example, the belt "Injector" equipped with special needles for hypodermic. They remain the paint, which "marks" the rapist, and a sedative for his "calm". A belt "Intimate elektrozagrazhdenie" - a real electric shock.
Chastity Belt for the stronger sex. Although the special distribution received for the safety belt female chastity, but there were also their analogues for men. They appeared much later and with a slightly different purpose - in Victorian England, they were invented for teenagers. The first zone appeared in the late 19th century. In those days it was believed that self-gratification can lead to several diseases, such as blindness or insanity, and even sudden death. A nocturnal erections in adolescents was made to cure by electricity. The construction put on the boy before going to bed and attached to the pubic hair. If you experience an erection and vegetation stretched teenager woke up in pain.
In the early 20th century it came into use so-called "cowards conscience." The male organ was placed in the spring with electrical sensors. When the circuit is closed and erection bedolagu zapped directly causal in place. Further more. Exactly 100 years ago, all in the same England, came up with "antimasturbatsionny suit", which was used in mental institutions for juvenile masturbation. They were leather shorts with a metal ring. Remove them yourself is not possible. Body "patient" was placed in a special nozzle. Defecate possible, but more "sin" in any way. You trust in a relationship, and fun night!
