{"id":717,"date":"2016-03-29T23:20:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T23:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2016\/03\/29\/everything-youve-heard-about-chastity-belts-is-a\/"},"modified":"2016-03-29T23:20:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T23:20:11","slug":"everything-youve-heard-about-chastity-belts-is-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2016\/03\/29\/everything-youve-heard-about-chastity-belts-is-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything You&#8217;ve Heard About Chastity Belts Is a Lie | Atlas Obscura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/everything-youve-heard-about-chastity-belts-is-a-lie\/'>Everything You&#8217;ve Heard About Chastity Belts Is a Lie | Atlas Obscura<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>&ldquo;When one considers the evidence for medieval chastity belts, as Classen did in his book\u00a0The Medieval Chastity Belt: A Myth-making Process, it becomes apparent pretty quickly that there&rsquo;s not much of it. First of all, there aren&rsquo;t actually all that many pictures of or accounts of using chastity belts, and even fewer physical specimens. And the few book-length works on the topic rely heavily on each other and all cite the same few examples.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;You have a bunch of literary representation, but very few historical references to a man trying to put a chastity belt on his wife,&rdquo; says Classen. And, any literary reference to a chastity belt is likely either allegorical or satirical.&ldquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything You&#8217;ve Heard About Chastity Belts Is a Lie | Atlas Obscura &ldquo;When one considers the evidence for medieval chastity belts, as Classen did in his book\u00a0The Medieval Chastity Belt: A Myth-making Process, it becomes apparent pretty quickly that there&rsquo;s not much of it. First of all, there aren&rsquo;t actually all that many pictures of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2016\/03\/29\/everything-youve-heard-about-chastity-belts-is-a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Everything You&#8217;ve Heard About Chastity Belts Is a Lie | Atlas Obscura&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4eTPU-bz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}