Just a few quick questions about chastity belts?

Question

What did people do with them once they were used? And if all of the cute chicks wore them back in the midieval times, then why aren't there a bunch of them laying around? What if the cute chicks never got married? Were they just on forever?

Answer 1

well... they were worn till the girl/girls were married off for wealth, power, land, or a union of kingdoms.  So girls had to keep them on till the prince or whatever of the other family married them then they just probably kept them to pass onto they're female children.

I suspect some ladies had they're belts melted down into something else and that's why there aren't many around.

Being not married? not possible see in the medieval ages arranged marriages were common as I said for political or financial reasons so a girl and a boy HAD to get married no questions asked. think of it as... The Swan Princess! when the princess that got turned into a swan got married and will have kids she and her husband will decide who her kin marry and which family will rule where or how much will be traded and so on and so forth from one generation to another.

Answer 2

haha I am sure they were kept and passed down to their daughters (eww.) The reason there are none laying around is because metal can be salvaged and melted into something else useful.

that would be terrible to wear those all the time! Good riddance to that awful tradition!

Answer 3

The use of chastity belts was extraordinarily rare--not every woman wore one.  As I recall, they were supposedly worn a lot by wives whose husbands went off to the crusades--though they were also supposed to prevent masturbation, which was seen as a sin in the Middle Ages.  There were also chasity belts for men.  They were seldom made solely of metal because it was inpractical to wear and expensive to manufacture.

I can't say what they did after they were worn, but there are still some chastity belts in the collections of museums, although few are on display.