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Meaning of cinturón de castidad



Jorge Luis Tovar Díaz. Image
Jorge Luis Tovar Díaz.

cinturón de castidad
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It was a belt or braga of iron or other heavy duty metal, which closed and opened with a key, which in the Middle Ages was placed the suspicious woman of infidelity; Thus was avoided, supposedly, that this woman had a sexual indiscretion in the absence of her husband.

  










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