Hi, I've decided to write a thread instead of repeating the same concepts again and again.
This writing applies only to situations in which parents demand/enforce/convince offspring to wear a belt or cage.
This post excludes:

  • independent adults
  • Couples, married or not.
  • Everyone who is his or her keyholder
  • Fetish and BDSM users
  • People explicitly asking for it
  • People completely willing

This post includes:

  • Young adults still dependent economically and/or emotionally from parents
  • Adults that for any reasons are dependent from parents, unless initiative cames from beltee.
  • Minors (of course)

This applies to all genders. I can miss the correct gender pronouns, but it applies to both sons and daughters
IMPORTANT. I will gladly discuss them and I'm ready to change my position or view if I think that I'm wrong, but please provide sound arguments.

1) Getting emotional independence from parents. Opposing, even in strong ways, parents, is a necessary passage in becoming independent adults. It is of course very difficult to oppose someone who takes genitals hostage. This leads to an attachment that by itself is not healthy. And since they need to ask for very simple activities to be unbelted, this leads to more and more attachment to the keyholder.

2) Losing control of part of own body. As already explained, it's a basic instinct in mammals to get access to your own body, because it has been useful for survival. This is why dogs get mad with elisabethan collar, or human suffers when put in a cast.

3) moral violence. It's very difficult to believe that when a parent asks something the consent is freely given. I also see that somewhere around the world this is done under the menace of kicking out from home. This is not free. It is violence and I'm pretty sure that in almost any part of the world, parents can be sued for this.

4) Preventing masturbation[1]. I will share on request various studies on the fact that masturbation is not only pleasurable and harmless, but beneficial, and losing the possibility can lead to anxiety and depression. It's also a way to know the body. If you think that preventing young adult masturbation is a good thing, please provide arguments that are not "because it's wrong", or at least justify it.

5) Prevents making experiences. Becoming an adult is a process involving making errors and mistakes, and dealing with consequences. While some mistakes can have very long-term effects (like pregnancy), other ways prevent it. With a belt, it's impossible to get intimacy, and thus impossible to grow emotionally, because it's physically prevented from doing so.

6) Parents involved in offspring sexuality. It's unhealthy that an adult offspring has to ask permission from her parents to have a sexual life. I think that it's about common sense, but will provide scientific proof if needed

7) Logistic issues: with a belt a lot of activities normally tied to being young, like traveling, going to the beach, to the communal pool, etc, are prevented. It needs to be cleaned, needs maintenance, lot of problems that can be solved just by avoiding using it.

8) Bad parenting: Youth should be a time of life where one discover the world, and his place in it. Parents should help the young in this discovery, not close them away from it. I strongly think that no mindful parent chooses to belt his/her offspring for their good but for selfish ease of mind, if not worse. This is a personal view that can't be proven, but still, it's here.

9) Interfering in life choice: the presence of a belt interferes with life choice: getting married early to get out of the belt, staying at home instead of getting out, etc

10) Secrecy: It's very difficult to keep a belt a secret, and people, friends, etc outside the inner circle will probably freak out, or at least think it's very very weird. Staying in the belt is socially unacceptable in most Western countries

11) Accessories: Being in a chastity belt opens to the possibility of even more restrictions, like tight bands, and chastity bras that normally will be laughed at, and can make things even worse and more difficult to endure.

12) Suffering: On a personal view, being in a chastity belt prevents having a positive view of sexuality, and if you read through the forum there is a lot of suffering, tears shed, fighting, bad time, etc. All of this can be avoided by not using it.

[Edit. Additional points added]
13) heightened libido. A chastity belt block the physical part but the frustration increases the emotional needs, so that once out it is very difficult to stay focused and to avoid bad experience

14) covert invest. I will not explain this.

15) invasion of private sphere. We have all a very private area that is both physical (our intimacy) than mental (our privacy). The keyholder can easily, and often do, invade both.

[End of editing]

[EDIT: 12/10/23]
16) vulnerability to abuse
As we can see from Carlos's story:
Normalizing infringements on bodily autonomy makes the victim vulnerable to future abusive relationships. A person raised to not be in charge of their own body may find it more difficult than most to resist an abusive partner.

[End of edit 12/10/2024]

[EDIT: 20/10/23]
17) Crime that could lead to prison
Based on a suggestion from @Sasha (thank you!). A very angry daughter can report her parent because in USA forcefully imposing a chastity belt is a sexual assault and counts as such, including bad treatment in jail. Finding proof is not difficult at all (going belted to the police will be enough)
[End of edit 20/10/2024]

[EDIT: 23/10/23]
18) Social awkwardness: Wearing a chastity belt will heavily impact on dating due to weirdness involved, the need for secrecy, fear to be discovered and judged, will reduce the sociality and will make harder learning how to manage social situations
[End of edit 23/10/2024]
That's all for now. Others can eventually come.

[1] As per @Avery suggestion: In case of male excessive masturbation, where it is pathological and negatively impacts life and on the son's request, parents could perform the role of keyholders. I still think it's a bad idea, and much better to get specialized help (in health issues I always prefer to go to professionals instead of relying on do-it-yourself (no pun intended) solutions), but I think it's still better than losing life to masturbation.

    WriterAlexis If they aren't belted.

    🤭

    I guess that is sort of his point. Others can eventually come. The belted ones cannot, but the other ones can.

      youdontknowme I take @WriterAlexis and yours as a joke, but to be totally clear, everyone here is welcome to discuss the points. That's why I numbered them, to make easier reference to them. But everyone is welcome. I would really like to have someone contesting, and even convince me I'm totally wrong.
      As a life philosophy, I think that an idea to be valid must be able to resist other's criticism.

      Milord human suffers when put in a cast.

      Hot

      @Milord Just to attempt to provide some serious feedback I wonder if #4 might need an asterisk. I've learned in this forum that a number of men seem to have or develop an addiction to masturbation and seek to control it with a cage. But many struggle to find a keyholder. So I wonder if there is a place for parents to enforce the wearing of some device to attempt to cure what is apparently a very real problem.

        Avery

        Thank you for your point
        Excessive masturbation is a pathological issue and can be addressed as such, with a therapist. For example, see here .
        Never read about chastity cage as a solution. Normally blocking the symptom almost never cure the problem, and I still advice against involving parents in adult sexuality. Anyway I take your suggestion and will edit accordingly the point, but still only if it is done on son's request, not from parent.

          @Milord Again, to try to provide some serious feedback. I don't believe religious or cultural influences are mentioned. I would fear that someone might say "Well, our religion or family tradition or cultural tradition forbids sex before marriage thus we must put our young people in belts." Is it worth mentioning that 1/4 of the world (the Muslims) forbids sex before marriage and manages it without people using belts?

            Avery Again, to try to provide some serious feedback. I don't believe religious or cultural influences are mentioned.

            Thanks again. I tried to avoid political, religious, ideological reasons, and reduced to minimum my personal ideas.

            Avery Is it worth mentioning that 1/4 of the world (the Muslims) forbids sex before marriage and manages it without people using belts?

            For sure it is worth mentioning. But most religion talk about countenance, not physically removing the possibility.

            Avery Well, our religion or family tradition or cultural tradition forbids sex before marriage thus we must put our young people in belts."

            There is not a belting culture or tradition. How it can be? it's a pretty recent invention. Probably this is the second generation wearing it, no more. Older one will probably causes infections and impossible to wear 24/7 as the modern one. Or this is my idea, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

            Milord Normally blocking the symptom almost never cure the problem

            Hooray

            Why Milord is so totally against parents using a chastity device on offspring?

            What Milord is doing on this forum?

              Renita I find a lot of interesting points and a world I’ve never imagined.

              Milord I think masturbation can be excessive without being considered pathological. Issues become pathological when they interfere with normal daily activities. If you masturbate so much that you don't go to work, that's pathological. If you would rather stay home and masturbate than go to a movie with friends, it might be excessive but not pathological. Not being able to masturbate keeps me from being distracted from other things that might be better for me to do. I find I focus better when I am mechanically restricted. I also find I eat less cookies and junk food when I have a glucose monitor to remind me of their effects. I find I exercise more when I have someone remind me every day that I should. I think maybe #4 needs and asterisk or some rewording.

                Tjc you are right, still we are talking about totally preventing it. Totally preventing it is, in my opinion, but I’m not alone, bad.
                Using the belt to “cure” excessive masturbation is at least debatable. I added a note on @avery suggestion, still for me it’s like suggesting that putting a muzzle on my son is good because this way we prevent excessive eating. It’s still bad.
                moreover since you are an adult and freely use a chastity device to prevent touching, the whole thread is not applicable to you. You are welcome of course, but this is about parents enforcing it

                  Milord I agree. Being belted cannot cure excessive masturbation but I do think that after a period of wearing, the desire diminishes somewhat. When it is again allowed, then the craving to continue returns in full force.
                  Total preventing is bad but controlling is of some value.
                  Used properly, it does not have to be like putting a muzzle on your son to prevent excessive eating. It can be more like wiring the jaw shut to limit eating choices. (I am not suggesting a parent do that to a child either) But masturbation prevention does not have to be an all or nothing situation. It can be about helping to learn moderation.
                  I understand that you list was not to apply to adults or voluntary involuntary wearers but I do think that someone under 18 who recognizes that they have a problem, perhaps pointed out by parents, may choose a chastity belt as a solution. In that case, the parents are probably the best choice as keyholders.

                    Tjc

                    I can agree, but of course it’s totally out from the perspective of this topic. I still don’t believe it’s a good solution. I mean, if my 14yo (my son is 12, not 14, but he has no puberty, so bad example) son ask me help for something like this I will ask for a specialised help, not allow a chastity belt for various reasons
                    1) not sure long term effect on his grow
                    2) if someone discover it, it will have catastrophic effects (even if voluntary wearer)
                    3) while I want him to be happy, he has to learn to control. I provide the tools, removing possible is the contrary of what should he do. Should he have issues been with other people you help him overcome or you close it at home?
                    4) Anyway I don’t think that get involved in offspring genital is a good idea

                    In any case thanks for contributing

                    Milord

                    it’s like suggesting that putting a muzzle on my son is good because this way we prevent excessive eating.

                    41.9% of adults are clinically obese. Is surgically reducing the size of the stomach to reduce eating a bad thing?