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chastity belt

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chastity belt
n.
A beltlike device of medieval times designed to prevent the woman wearing it from having sexual intercourse.


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Although the plug increases the chance of fertilization by preventing semen from leaking out of the vagina, it can also act as a biological chastity belt, thwarting a rival male's sperm from getting through.
Participants had 99 workshops to choose from, with diverse topics ranging from ``How to Create a Web Page 101'' to ``In Chains and Chastity Belts,'' which focused on how women find and affirm personal space, empowerment and creativity within enclosures men impose, according to event literature.
While certain lost devotions go unlamented -- I doubt that veneration of Saint Thomas Aquinas' chastity belt will ever revive -- others, such as ritual gestures, may bear reexamination within a modern spiritual context.
 
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