Wiktionary
n. 1 A belt-like garment, designed to be worn over the genitals and locked to prevent sexual intercourse, typically for long periods of time, to maintain chastity, or to enforce BDSM submission. 2 (context figuratively English) For a woman, refusal to have sex.
Wikipedia
A chastity belt is a locking item of clothing designed to prevent sexual intercourse or masturbation. Such belts were historically designed for women, ostensibly for the purpose of chastity, to protect women from rape or to dissuade women and their potential sexual partners from sexual temptation. Modern versions of the chastity belt are predominantly, but not exclusively, used in the BDSM community, and chastity belts are now designed for male wearers in addition to female wearers.
According to modern myths, the chastity belt was used as an anti-temptation device during the Crusades. When the knight left for the Holy Lands on the Crusades, his Lady would wear a chastity belt to preserve her faithfulness to him. However, there is no credible evidence that chastity belts existed before the 15th century (over a century after the last Middle Eastern Crusade), and their main period of apparent use falls within the Renaissance rather than the Middle Ages. Research into the history of the chastity belt suggests that they were not used until the 16th century, and then only rather rarely; they first became widely available in the form of 19th-century anti-masturbation medical devices.
Renaissance chastity belts were said to have had padded linings (to prevent large areas of metal from coming into direct prolonged contact with the skin), and these had to be changed fairly frequently, so that such belts were not practical for uninterrupted long-term wear. Uninterrupted long-term wear could have caused genitourinary infection, abrasive wounds, sepsis and eventual death.
Chastity belts in BDSM may be used as part of a practice of orgasm control, to prevent the wearer from engaging in sexual intercourse or masturbation without the permission of the dominant, who acts as "keyholder". Chastity belts may be worn by both men and women as part of BDSM play. A chastity device may be worn for the duration of a sex play, for a limited period or as a long-term arrangement.
Chastity Belt is an American indie rock and indie pop band consisting of Julia Shapiro, Lydia Lund, Annie Truscott and Gretchen Grimm. The band plays a style of alternative rock, rock and roll, noise pop, and pop rock music. Chastity Belt was established in Walla Walla, Washington in 2013. The group have released two studio albums, No Regerts, in 2013, and Time to Go Home, in 2015.
Usage examples of "chastity belt".
There are, however, several instances of women's remains being disinterred with chastity belt still in place.
So an expensive custom-made chastity belt had to have some other reason.
He must surely know that Osaka's locked tighter than a jealous crusader's chastity belt.
When she saw the harrow, she summoned up enough energy to fight the valet and his wife as they bound the hideous, spike-loaded cones over her unwieldy breasts and clamped the brass chastity belt on to the vulva, wrenching vindictively on the straps.
After first making exact copies of the five disks using a program called CHASTITY BELT, he had Bright store the originals while he went to work on the copies.
Returning to the strongroom he unlocked a bizarre metal casket to which he alone possessed the combination and extracted from it a red hand-bound volume similar in weight and portent to a ship's log, and encompassed by a kind of iron chastity belt, the two ends of which met in a second lock which Osnard also opened.
Tabitha stood stiffly by the table, biting her bottom lip to keep from wishing for an iron chastity belt.
I wished there were nails to put in it, like the iron maiden or a chastity belt she would not soon forget.
You'll have to wear a chastity belt just to get your grocery shopping done.