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Chastity belts

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A young man has no need to find the right key to fit woman's chastity belt, as her Crusader husband has locked it with a combination lock. Photomechanical reproduction.
Reference: 27795i
Archives and manuscripts
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M0001263: Reproduction of an illustration depicting a man attaching or removing a chasity belt on a nude woman sitting on a bed
Date: 19 August 1930Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/11/95
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
Archives and manuscripts
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M0012510: Iron chastity belt, 15th-16th century
Date: May 1952Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/111/82
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
Archives and manuscripts
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M0012514: Steel chastity belt, 16th century
Date: May 1952Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/111/86
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
Pictures
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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.
Roy, Bernard, 1845-1919.Reference: 27798i