Don’t want your woman to cheat? Try a chastity belt
When you take time off to discuss the origin of female circumcision with some Sabiny elders, you will be told that female circumcision was meant to reduce sexual desires of women and prevent them from having sexual relationships with other men
By Fred Nangoli
When you take time off to discuss the origin of female circumcision with some Sabiny elders, you will be told that female circumcision was meant to reduce sexual desires of women and prevent them from having sexual relationships with other men.
They insist that on several occasions, while the men where busy defending their tribes at the battlefronts, their wives were busy cheating on them back home.
On their return, the men found their wives either pregnant or nursing babies whose origin they never knew.
These men therefore, had to think of a solution, and as a result, they introduced female circumcision, which involved the cutting off of the women’s pleasure-producing parts as a way of reducing their libido.
But it was not only in Africa where men where intruding on other men’s wives. In Europe, a similar problem was going on. However, the Europeans did not take on female circumcision as a solution.
Among the Romans, French and Italians, metallic underpants (chastity belts) were introduced and women were forced to wear them by their husbands as a way of blocking them from having sex with other men.
According to lockmeup.com, the chastity belts contained a padlock and once the woman had put it on, the padlock was locked and the husband pocketed the keys. These underpants had provisions for both long and short calls but did not provide for sexual relation without a key to its padlock.
The duration of how long would a woman put this belt on depended on how long the husband was away from home. This meant that if the men went away for months or years, their women remained locked in these belts until their men returned to unlock them.
The Roman soldiers are said to have used these belts in locking up their wives every time they went to the battlefield.
According to Encyclopedia Britannica, chastity belts were not only used to prevent sexual relations but were also used in tying knots by young couples intending to get married.
It is said that when young men agreed with their girlfriends on their intentions to live together, the boys would tie chastity belts on their lover’s naked body as a symbol of their oath of fidelity.
Other literature suggests that the belts where also used by protective fathers who feared that men would intrude on their daughters.
In areas with war and violence, women deliberately bought these underpants and wore them as a way to avoid being raped. But it is not very clear as who indeed made these metallic underpants or chastity belts.
The Encyclopedia Britannica suggests that a certain Francesco de Carerra, an imperial judge in Padua made some of the first chastity belts in the 15th century. Carerra was however, later charged with locking up all his mistresses by means of the belt.
The judiciary ordered that he be strangled as a result. Today, evidence has emerged in Europe of a female skeleton found by one A. M Pachinger that wore a metal belt between her thighs with the undeniable effect of preventing sexual relations.
This woman had been interred around the end of the 16th century or the beginning of the 17th century.
There are also suggestions that while the belts protected women from rape, paranoid husbands used them in abusive and disrespectful manners that would certainly wound their women and cause infections.
When you take time off to discuss the origin of female circumcision with some Sabiny elders, you will be told that female circumcision was meant to reduce sexual desires of women and prevent them from having sexual relationships with other men.
They insist that on several occasions, while the men where busy defending their tribes at the battlefronts, their wives were busy cheating on them back home.
On their return, the men found their wives either pregnant or nursing babies whose origin they never knew.
These men therefore, had to think of a solution, and as a result, they introduced female circumcision, which involved the cutting off of the women’s pleasure-producing parts as a way of reducing their libido.
But it was not only in Africa where men where intruding on other men’s wives. In Europe, a similar problem was going on. However, the Europeans did not take on female circumcision as a solution.
Among the Romans, French and Italians, metallic underpants (chastity belts) were introduced and women were forced to wear them by their husbands as a way of blocking them from having sex with other men.
According to lockmeup.com, the chastity belts contained a padlock and once the woman had put it on, the padlock was locked and the husband pocketed the keys. These underpants had provisions for both long and short calls but did not provide for sexual relation without a key to its padlock.
The duration of how long would a woman put this belt on depended on how long the husband was away from home. This meant that if the men went away for months or years, their women remained locked in these belts until their men returned to unlock them.
The Roman soldiers are said to have used these belts in locking up their wives every time they went to the battlefield.
According to Encyclopedia Britannica, chastity belts were not only used to prevent sexual relations but were also used in tying knots by young couples intending to get married.
It is said that when young men agreed with their girlfriends on their intentions to live together, the boys would tie chastity belts on their lover’s naked body as a symbol of their oath of fidelity.
Other literature suggests that the belts where also used by protective fathers who feared that men would intrude on their daughters.
In areas with war and violence, women deliberately bought these underpants and wore them as a way to avoid being raped. But it is not very clear as who indeed made these metallic underpants or chastity belts.
The Encyclopedia Britannica suggests that a certain Francesco de Carerra, an imperial judge in Padua made some of the first chastity belts in the 15th century. Carerra was however, later charged with locking up all his mistresses by means of the belt.
The judiciary ordered that he be strangled as a result. Today, evidence has emerged in Europe of a female skeleton found by one A. M Pachinger that wore a metal belt between her thighs with the undeniable effect of preventing sexual relations.
This woman had been interred around the end of the 16th century or the beginning of the 17th century.
There are also suggestions that while the belts protected women from rape, paranoid husbands used them in abusive and disrespectful manners that would certainly wound their women and cause infections.