circa 1920: A chastity belt on exhibition. This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally ...
A satirical 16th-century print showing a chastity belt Heinrich Wirrich/British Museum (Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons) A German print from the late 1500s, now at The British Museum, depicts a ...
Chastity belts might sounds as though they belong in the Middle Ages, but this week an Italian woman was forced to enlist the help of local firefighters after she became stuck in her own iron number.