chastity belt
noun [C]Definition
› a device that some women were forced to wear in the past to prevent them from having sex. It had a part that went between the woman's legs and a lock so that it could not be removed.Sexual devices and the sex industry
(Definition of chastity belt noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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