Chastity Belts in Literature

Submitted by: Bill

Altairboy:

I came across the following recently, and wondered if it might be of interest. Perhaps a new page dedicated to Chastity Belts in Literature?

Extracted from: - "THE RAIDERS" - by Harold Robbins

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"Mexican businessmen wore gaudy gold jewellery: heavy rings with star sapphires, glittering diamonds, emeralds, also gold wristwatches set with gems, even gold chains hanging inside their open collars. Their women wore furs, necklaces, bracelets, rings, anklets. They also wore - Jonas had heard this sworn to but could not confirm it - exquisitely jeweled but wholly non-functional chastity belts."

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"The chastity belts Jonas had heard rumoured were in fact worn by a few very traditional, typically very wealthy, Mexican women. Sonja wore one.

It could not have prevented her having sex with a man not her husband, if she wanted to. All it did was identify her as the wife of Virgilio Diaz Escalante y Sagaz and was more in the tradition of the name-embroidered silk ribbons some Islamic women wore around their waists in the Middle Ages than the iron belts some Frankish women were condemned to endure.. It was exquisitely crafted, forbiddingly expensive, and entirely comfortable to wear. Two fine and flexible diamond-studded platinum bands circled her upper legs, another circled her hips, and a supposed shield joined these three bands. Nothing guarded her rear. She could easily have broken the thin metal and taken it off, and if she had, virgilio would almost certainly not have suspected anything ill. On the other hand, if she didn't break it she could not have removed it; it was locked on her. Virgilio took it off when they had sex, or whenever she asked him to. She had worn it for more than twenty years and was proud her husbandhad never had to return it to the craftsman to be enlarged - as did most husbands who had fitted their wives with these belts.

The man sitting with her, Jonas Cord, could not have understood why she consented to wear the belt. Such a thing was beyond his norteamericano comprehension. A Yankee, he was deficient in the warm, sympathetic understanding, man for woman and woman for man, that so much characterised the Latin peoples."

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Unfortunately thats all there was in the novel.

Best wishes and keep up the good work.

Bill


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