Turns Out Chastity Belts Were Just Fake News From The Middle Ages

In reality, chastity belts were a misogynistic medieval joke that the sex-obsessed Victorians took a little too literally

By Genevieve Carlton

Source: Robin Hood: Men In Tights/20th Century Fox

The chastity belt: thick, iron underwear fastened with a sturdy padlock, impenetrable without a key. But…