Chastity belts became popular in Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. Their functional purposes are well known, but many people don't know that there may have been times when the devices were worn ...

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According to popular mythology, chastity belts with locks in the front were used in the 1100s as a result of the Crusades. Crusaders were said to lock chastity belts on their female partners while the ...

Surely chastity belts are a relic of the Middle Ages? The sort of thing jealous crusaders locked their wives into before they headed off for the Holy Land for a year or two of smiting? In fact, ...

NEW YORK – For many, chastity belts conjure up images of medieval knights storming in from battle, unlocking their women and plunging into passion. Now, hundreds of years after they first became ...

Seattle’s Chastity Belt are currently on tour with Courtney Barnett and Darren Hanlon, and their sold-out three-night Bowery Ballroom run wraps up tonight (5/21). We were at the first show (5/19) and ...

Seattle indie-rock quartet Chastity Belt have released one last single off their forthcoming self-titled album, coming Sept. 20 on Hardly Art. “Drown” is the third and final advance track off Chastity ...

Within each of us lies the tragic ability to remember. As time marches on, we neatly index snippets of the past within the shoeboxes of our brains for safekeeping, only to selectively dig them out ...

March 29, 2024 • Beyoncé's breathlessly-anticipated Act II: Cowboy Carter is finally here, and NPR Music's Sheldon Pearce shares his initial reactions after staying up late to listen to the album as ...

According to popular mythology, chastity belts with locks in the front were used in the 1100s as a result of the Crusades. Crusaders were said to lock chastity belts on their female partners while the ...