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Did People in Medieval Times Really Wear Lockable Chastity Belts? (2016x61)

Udgivelsesdato: Mar 28, 2016

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut How Did Jeans Become Popular? https://youtu.be/O1eUwpO76Pw?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3XRa-w_G0dy_aMMXj0Uq-k The Numerous Bodies Recently Found in Ben Franklin’s Basement https://youtu.be/tp61Yrj5lTA?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3XRa-w_G0dy_aMMXj0Uq-k In this video: The lasting images of what most of us perceive to be the “medieval times” includes heroic knights, stampeding horses, court jesters, giant turkey legs, ruling kings, and pure maidens wearing chastity belts. But the fact is that, besides the more obvious of those that aren’t accurate, most scholars believe that the chastity belt didn’t actually exist during medieval times, but rather is a product of 18th and 19th century obsession with masturbation as a societal ill and safeguarding women in the workplace. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/05/chastity-belts-never-actually-used-medieval-times/ Sources: http://www.semmelweis.museum.hu/muzeum/kiallitasok/erenyov/reszletes_en.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/place-lancashire/plain/A2430118 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/houghtonmodern/2013/05/10/fact-or-fiction-chastity-belts/ http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/egp/summary/v108/108.1.bornholdt.html http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/you-it/201205/the-truth-about-chastity-belts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Kyeser http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=chaste http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=41046&partId=1&searchText=Chastity%20belt http://books.google.com/books?id=66u24WAyO_YC&pg=PA517&dq=&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dPzTUu_4Cc_TqQHunoDADA&ved=0CFgQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false h