The 21st century has proven to be more regressive...  ...gruesome yet effective form of birth control- the chastity belt .Okay, obviously I'm exaggerating about societal r...  ...ession, and nobody's in a hurry to bring back the chastity belt , except for one artist/inventor/mad genius named...  ...of social com...

You’ve heard of medieval nobles going off to...  ...ng off to the Crusades and leaving their wives in chastity belts . After all, they’d be gone for years. Or th...  ...ht Classen wrote a book to dispel the myths about chastity belts ."As a medievalist, one day I thought: I cannot st...  ...artment....

In 1908, Ellen E. Perkins of Beaver Bay, Minnesota, was appalled the side effects of masturbation (which was actually a vast improvement over the accepted medical view a few decades earlier) It is a deplorable but well k...