Satire (Not)

When Nice Ladies Wore Chastity Belts

It ain’t woke but then neither is slave trading

Art Nouveau chastity belt. Ted Noten, Source: Museum Van Boijmans Beuningen collection.

Author’s warning: The subject matter and images contained in this essay may offend some readers.

Readers may have noticed a proliferation of articles by woke writers on the patriarchy’s use of various restraints to control women’s urges and secure…