The Medieval Chastity Belt

The Medieval Chastity Belt
Author: A. Classen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2007-03-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230603092

The chastity belt is one of those objects people have commonly identified with the 'dark' Middle Ages. This book analyzes the origin of this myth and demonstrates how a convenient misconception, or contorted imagination, of an allegedly historical practice has led to profoundly flawed interpretations of control mechanisms used by jealous husbands.

Chastity Belts

Chastity Belts
Author: Esar Levine
Publisher:
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2011-05-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781258016067

Containing Numerous Explanatory Excerpts From Curious Facetious And Erotic Books.

I Can't Date Jesus

I Can't Date Jesus
Author: Michael Arceneaux
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2018-07-24
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1501178865

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Featured as One of Summer’s most anticipated reads by the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, ELLE, Buzzfeed, and Bitch Media. From the author of I Don’t Want to Die Poor and in the style of New York Times bestsellers You Can’t Touch My Hair, Bad Feminist, and I'm Judging You, a timely collection of alternately hysterical and soul‑searching essays about what it is like to grow up as a creative, sensitive black man in a world that constantly tries to deride and diminish your humanity. It hasn’t been easy being Michael Arceneaux. Equality for LGBTQ people has come a long way and all, but voices of persons of color within the community are still often silenced, and being Black in America is…well, have you watched the news? With the characteristic wit and candor that have made him one of today’s boldest writers on social issues, I Can’t Date Jesus is Michael Arceneaux’s impassioned, forthright, and refreshing look at minority life in today’s America. Leaving no bigoted or ignorant stone unturned, he describes his journey in learning to embrace his identity when the world told him to do the opposite. He eloquently writes about coming out to his mother; growing up in Houston, Texas; being approached for the priesthood; his obstacles in embracing intimacy that occasionally led to unfortunate fights with fire ants and maybe fleas; and the persistent challenges of young people who feel marginalized and denied the chance to pursue their dreams. Perfect for fans of David Sedaris, Samantha Irby, and Phoebe Robinson, I Can’t Date Jesus tells us—without apologies—what it’s like to be outspoken and brave in a divisive world.

Locked-In Love: How Two Weeks in Chastity Can End the Barter System, Renew Courtship and Make a Better Husband.

Locked-In Love: How Two Weeks in Chastity Can End the Barter System, Renew Courtship and Make a Better Husband.
Author: Key Barrett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2018-09-24
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781723974014

Author Key Barrett started out writing a journal for chastity. He decided that he wanted to be locked up in chastity for seven days in order to better understand the motivation behind chastity and the emotional aspects so he could write about it with greater understanding in both his fiction and nonfiction. So he spoke with his wife and she agreed to let him go seven days in chastity with her holding the key, only unlocking him if he needed it for safety reasons, to make sure everything is working properly, or if she had sexual interest in freeing him. What started as a simple one week journal quickly blossomed into something else entirely. By the third day he was feeling butterflies just when his wife touched his hand. By day four, she noticed he was much more engaged in their household and being an active and proactive partner. What started as a week for him quickly became two weeks for them both to journal. Through chastity and communication, they identified a sexual trade-off that existed in their marriage, a 'barter system' wherein every action he engaged in had an undercurrent of sexual pressure, a literal tat-for-tit. Freed from it through a chastity device, they were able to enjoy each other on a more meaningful and trusting level. And in lowering the quantity of sex, they raised the quality. This book takes what they learned, plus surveys and research derived from male chastity users, and shows couples how they too can end the barter system, increase communication and bring back the courtship phase, butterflies and all. Learn what you can do to improve your marriage, increase intimacy, feel more connected emotionally, and make her daily life easier with a simple, sexy, fun exercise in chastity.

The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women

The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women
Author: Rosalie Gilbert
Publisher: Mango Media Inc.
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2020-10-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1642503088

A “wickedly entertaining, informative and thought-provoking” look at romance, courtship, and other intimacies behind closed Medieval doors (Dr. Markus Kerr, PhD, MDR). Were medieval women slaves to their husband’s desires, jealously secured in a chastity belt in his absence? Was sex a duty or could it be a pleasure? Did a woman have a say about her own female sexuality, body, and who did or didn’t get up close and personal with it? No. And yes. It’s complicated. The intimate lives of medieval women were as complex as for modern women. They loved and lost, hoped and schemed, were lifted up and cast down. They were hopeful and lovelorn. Some had it forced upon them, others made aphrodisiacs and dressed for success. Some were chaste and some were lusty. Having sex was complicated. Not having sex, was even more so. Inside The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women, a fascinating book about life during medieval times, you will discover tantalizing true stories about medieval women and a myriad of historical facts. Learn about: The true experiences of women from all classes, including women who made history The dos and don’ts in the bedroom Sexy foods and how to have them All you need to know for your wedding night, and well as insider medical advice How to get pregnant (and how not to), and more “Quite compelling and hilariously funny. I have been chuckling out loud and my husband says he thinks he ought to read it if it’s such a tonic. God forbid!” —Susanna Newstead, author of the Savernake Novels

Chastity Belt

Chastity Belt
Author: Helen Havens
Publisher: Helen Havens
Total Pages: 23
Release: 2017-07-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This book contains Very Naughty Erotica themes of First Time Romance as well as BDSM Domination and Submission, Bondage, Punishment, Humiliation and the use of BDSM devices... “Today's Saturday," said, as I had finished up. "Yes, Master," I replied, the feeling of excitement starting to build from within me. What I wanted or preferred was of no importance. Not to him. I watched as he went over to a small wooden chest to unlock it, then he came back to me with a key placed in the palm of his hand. The key to my chastity belt. As he bent down to unlock and to set me free, I could feel his light touch of his warm body brush against my own. Oh my god… at that moment, I would’ve given anything for him to take me. The heavy chastity belt fell down with a clumsy thump to the floor. I was at last freed! My caged imprisonment was just long enough for the anticipation to simmer. "Mmmmm nice," he said, “you’re so naughty!“ He reached down and to my surprise, he began..... After a few moments he said, “Remember when told you that a woman on the edge is one who could be easily controlled.” I simply nodded my reply. “Turn onto your stomach.” he ordered, he reached under the bed to pull out a box with a special pair of shoes he had bought just for me. A pair of 5-inch black leather boots with spiked heels. They weren't the normal pair of 4-inch heels I’ve seen most at the club girls prancing in. Rather, these were obviously, an inch higher and looked more like ‘working gal heels’ and were much more difficult for a woman to master walking around in without looking like she was going to tip over. He slipped the heels slowly onto my feet before buckling the leather straps around my slenderly, gorgeous ankles. Then I felt something, it was warm and yet strange, like a gel. "What was that?” I wondered to myself, knowing better than to dare ask my Master. The next thing I felt was cold, hard steel around my waist. I tried to turn over, but then my Master shouted, “What are you doing? “I said to stay on your stomach, you're mine!” He continued however, as I felt an overwhelming tightening of the steel he had carefully attached around my waist and I welcomed this. It was hard to tell though if it was the sensuousness of her fingers, or something else… “Now what am placing on you, slave, is a steel chastity belt. The waist-band locks and this thin 'thong' band that is going from the front, down between your legs, and up the back. Where it will lock onto the back.” He is denying giving me the pleasure I so desperately need, but is this only the beginning? Download "Chastity Belt" right now!

Chastity Belt

Chastity Belt
Author: Shos Evers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2013-12-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9780988753785

Georgia Hearn has found the perfect way to make easy cash-performing an interactive BDSM-flavored stage show at the exclusive Gentlemen's Club. When handsome GC client Jonathan Syler goes up onstage and locks her into a chastity belt, it's all supposed to be part of the fun. But Jonathan makes it clear he won't be unlocking her anytime soon. Now she's at his mercy-and has no choice but to see him again, since he holds the key to her pleasure. Literally.

Love Magic and Control in Premodern Iberian Literature

Love Magic and Control in Premodern Iberian Literature
Author: Veronica Menaldi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2021-07-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000421767

This book explores the complexity of Iberian identity and multicultural/multi-religious interactions in the Peninsula through the lens of spells, talismans, and imaginative fiction in medieval and early modern Iberia. Focusing particularly on love magic—which manipulates objects, celestial spheres, and demonic conjurings to facilitate sexual encounters—Menaldi examines how practitioners and victims of such magic as represented in major works produced in Castile. Magic, and love magic in particular, is an exchange of knowledge, a claim to power and a deviation from or subversion of the licit practices permitted by authoritative decrees. As such, magic serves as a metaphorical tool for understanding the complex relationships of the Christian with the non-Christian. In seeking to understand and incorporate hidden secrets that presumably reveal how one can manipulate their environment, occult knowledge became one of the funnels through which cultures and practices mixed and adapted throughout the centuries.

The Fires of Lust

The Fires of Lust
Author: Katherine Harvey
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2022-11-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1789144884

An illuminating exploration of the surprisingly familiar sex lives of ordinary medieval people. The medieval humoral system of medicine suggested that it was possible to die from having too much—or too little—sex, while the Roman Catholic Church taught that virginity was the ideal state. Holy men and women committed themselves to lifelong abstinence in the name of religion. Everyone was forced to conform to restrictive rules about who they could have sex with, in what way, how often, and even when, and could be harshly punished for getting it wrong. Other experiences are more familiar. Like us, medieval people faced challenges in finding a suitable partner or trying to get pregnant (or trying not to). They also struggled with many of the same social issues, such as whether prostitution should be legalized. Above all, they shared our fondness for dirty jokes and erotic images. By exploring their sex lives, the book brings ordinary medieval people to life and reveals details of their most personal thoughts and experiences. Ultimately, it provides us with an important and intimate connection to the past.