Sexual conduct of a person that is deemed praiseworthy and virtuous

Half-clothed Tilottama flying in the sky playing with a red ball. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.

Iron chastity belt, possibly 16th Century

A virgin and a unicorn; representing chastity. Oil painting.

A knight who has returned home from the Crusades sits in his bedchamber bemoaning the fact that he has left the key to his wife's chastity belt in Jerusalem. Ink drawing by B. Roy, c.1900.

The happy man : and the true gentleman.

xxvi, 148 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm (8vo)

A lecture to young men on chastity : intended also for the serious consideration of parents and guardians / by Sylvester Graham.

109 pages, 1 unnumbered bl. leaves ; (8vo)

Hadriani Beverlandi. De fornicatione cavenda admonitio, sive, Adhortatio ad pudicitiam et castitatem / [Adriaan Beverland].

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The happy man : and the true gentleman.

A knight who has returned home from the Crusades sits in his bedchamber bemoaning the fact that he has left the key to his wife's chastity belt in Jerusalem. Ink drawing by B. Roy, c.1900.

A lecture to young men on chastity : intended also for the serious consideration of parents and guardians / by Sylvester Graham.

Half-clothed Tilottama flying in the sky playing with a red ball. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.

Hadriani Beverlandi. De fornicatione cavenda admonitio, sive, Adhortatio ad pudicitiam et castitatem / [Adriaan Beverland].