# How do chastity belts work?

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [April 27, 2009, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-chastity-belts-work/494472 "2009-04-27T05:41:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![basophil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@basophil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/basophil)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-chastity-belts-work/494472/1 "2009-04-27T05:41:41Z")

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From Cecil’s answer:

“Some Asian and African cultures practiced female infibrillation, in which a woman’s labia were bound together with rings or wires or the like.”

That would be “infibulation”. Infibrillation means…actually, I have no idea what it means.

[http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/61/how-do-chastity-belts-work](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/61/how-do-chastity-belts-work)

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**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-chastity-belts-work/494472/2 "2009-04-27T16:11:03Z")

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Making the heart beat in an unsteady rhythm?