Besides Access Denied, which sells stainless-steel models, there are companies such as Jamin' Leather of Myrtle Beach, S.C., which sells leather and brass chastity belts for both men and women. In Nevada for the past two years, Frank and Doris Miller have been selling a chastity belt so light it's supposed to be undetectable under pants. Their belt, the CB-2000, weighs less than five ounces and is made out of plastic. It is guaranteed not to set off the security alarms at airports. We have sold thousands of these chastity belts over this past year, and the number just keeps increasing like crazy.
All styles come with an optional brass padlock.
Jennifer Bass, a spokeswoman for the Kinsey Institute for Research, said she wasn't aware that chastity belts had resurfaced, but that it wasn't all that surprising. The device, the size of a cigarette packet, is attached to the elastic of a pair of underpants. Eventually, Cirillo hopes to market a more advanced version that would ring a partner's cell phone if the mechanism registered an unclothed state for longer than five minutes. Certainly the chastity belt has come along way since medieval times, when it was invented as a way of ensuring that wives stayed faithful when wars kept their knights far from home. Doris Miller marveled that, once again, chastity belts are being purchased to ensure fidelity.