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The happy man : and the true gentleman.

A knight who has returned home from the Crusades sits in his bedchamber bemoaning the fact that he has left the key to his wife's chastity belt in Jerusalem. Ink drawing by B. Roy, c.1900.

xxvi, 148 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm (8vo)

A lecture to young men on chastity : intended also for the serious consideration of parents and guardians / by Sylvester Graham.

Chastity Belt: drawing of Italian girdle. MS Kyeseus Bellfontis

Chastity Belt, Italian

<p>Tilottama was originally a Brahmān female but caused offense by bathing at an improper season, she was condemned to be born as an Apsaras. She was used for the purpose of the mutual destruction of two demons, Sunda and Upasunda. She is also sent to test the strength of yogi's vows of chastity</p>

Half-clothed Tilottama flying in the sky playing with a red ball. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.

109 pages, 1 unnumbered bl. leaves ; (8vo)

Hadriani Beverlandi. De fornicatione cavenda admonitio, sive, Adhortatio ad pudicitiam et castitatem / [Adriaan Beverland].

<p>In the coffered vault of an arch behind is a painting or relief of the continence of Scipio, which is clearer in the present etching by Desplaces than in the painting but not necessarily accurate. The etching shows Scipio resting his hand on a shield, and another figure behind him (Gould op. cit. p. 327)</p>

Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France.

1 print : etching, with engraving ; platemark 34.7 x 33.6 cm

A man tempted by Cupid to rape a sleeping woman renounces the act out of respect. Etching by Louis Desplaces after Paolo Caliari, il Veronese.

Iron chastity belt, possibly 16th Century

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Disgraceful matters : the politics of chastity in eighteenth-century China / Janet M. Theiss.

1 painting : oil on wood ; wood 46.8 x 38.4 cm

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The happy man : and the true gentleman.

A knight who has returned home from the Crusades sits in his bedchamber bemoaning the fact that he has left the key to his wife's chastity belt in Jerusalem. Ink drawing by B. Roy, c.1900.

A lecture to young men on chastity : intended also for the serious consideration of parents and guardians / by Sylvester Graham.

Chastity Belt, Italian

Half-clothed Tilottama flying in the sky playing with a red ball. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.

Hadriani Beverlandi. De fornicatione cavenda admonitio, sive, Adhortatio ad pudicitiam et castitatem / [Adriaan Beverland].

A man tempted by Cupid to rape a sleeping woman renounces the act out of respect. Etching by Louis Desplaces after Paolo Caliari, il Veronese.

Iron chastity belt, possibly 16th Century

Disgraceful matters : the politics of chastity in eighteenth-century China / Janet M. Theiss.

A virgin and a unicorn; representing chastity. Oil painting.

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A knight who has returned home from the Crusades sits in his bedchamber bemoaning the fact that he has left the key to his wife's chastity belt in Jerusalem. Ink drawing by B. Roy, c.1900.

A lecture to young men on chastity : intended also for the serious consideration of parents and guardians / by Sylvester Graham.

Chastity Belt, Italian

Half-clothed Tilottama flying in the sky playing with a red ball. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.

Hadriani Beverlandi. De fornicatione cavenda admonitio, sive, Adhortatio ad pudicitiam et castitatem / [Adriaan Beverland].

A man tempted by Cupid to rape a sleeping woman renounces the act out of respect. Etching by Louis Desplaces after Paolo Caliari, il Veronese.

Iron chastity belt, possibly 16th Century

Disgraceful matters : the politics of chastity in eighteenth-century China / Janet M. Theiss.

A virgin and a unicorn; representing chastity. Oil painting.

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