Articles for tag: Chastity

Karla News

A Brief History of Chastity Belts

The chastity belt has become a sort of stock concept in today’s society. When someone says that someone needs to “take off their chastity belt,” it typically refers to an unwillingness to embrace a new idea, not even necessarily a sexual idea. Other times it can refer to a general prudishness and unwillingness to discuss ...

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The Strange History of Chastity Belts

The history of one of human culture’s more interesting and sometimes erotic devices is the female chastity belt. History that stipulated that wide use of the chastity belt by men bond for the Crusade on their wives has largely proved to be false. Romanticized i use of the chastity belt was promoted in medieval poetry. ...

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Amethyst, Gemstone of the Color Purple

Amethyst is yet another silicate gemstone. Simply silicon dioxide, SiO2, amethyst is the violet variety of quartz, which is white. So what causes the purple color? The subject of much debate, amethyst’s purple color was believed to be from manganese. Also from sulfur. Perhaps also from ferric thiocyanate. The purple color had many postulated origins. ...

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Purity Balls: Smart Thinking or Creepy Ceremony

Have you heard of these ceremonies called Purity Balls? If not you might in the coming years as they are getting quite popular, especially among the Evangelical Christians. According to Leslee Unruh, the founder of Abstinence Clearinghouse, there were more than 1,400 Purity Balls in 2006 and they are expecting that number to double by ...