Angelina My impression was that @WriterAlexis was an adult who was choosing to remain in her belt for various benefits, something more akin to answer 3 (or 4)

WriterAlexis While my views are plainly known to my family, it is my intention to leverage my situation for maximum personal benefit. We are all dealt hands we do not choose, be it our families, our economic status, place of origin, and cultural instruction. The bedrock principle of all waves of feminism is grounded in personal choice. My choice is to engage with my local representatives of the Patriarchy in such a way as to 1) reap any benefits available, 2) improve my situation to a personally tolerable level, amd 3) refuse to cede my philosophical viewpoints by acknowledging that it is necessarily a temporary state of affairs and I will ultimately prevail over them in short order.

@WriterAlexis Am I misunderstanding your situation?

        Bryan My impression has always been that she viewed what her parents are doing as wrong, but that she has made the tactical decision not to fight them on it because she believes the consequences of doing so would be worse for her than complying. Especially since she thinks she will be in a stronger negotiating position in the future.

          Bryan

          In one poll you write you are belted by your parents and in this poll you vote it is never acceptable to be belted by ones parents?

          Yep.

            Bryan My impression was that @WriterAlexis was an adult who was choosing to remain in her belt for various benefits, something more akin to answer 3 (or 4)

            in my opinion, she tolerates the belt so as not to unnecessarily burden the family peace, but she does not wear the belt voluntarily and considers it unacceptable to do it to other children

              5 days later

              Milord

              What would have to happen for you to change that view?

                  Owl I will not change my mind. Exactly as nothing can happens and convince me that whipping, closing in basement, genitals inspection to check for hymen integrity, and similar abuses are right.

                  In extreme situations, but really extreme, I can accept it. I can't remember where I read of a girl in psychic ward used to masturbate so much that she actually self mutilate her genitals, and have to be restrained. In case like this I think that a belt, under medical surveillance, can be an acceptable solution.

                    General remark: We face the situation again, that the word "children" in English (as in some other similar languages, AFAIK) is unfortunately ambiguous. It conflates the attribute of being someone's offspring with the attribute of being young.

                    It makes however a difference in my evaluation, if we face a situation of a grown woman and her mother, e.g. Renita's, or an adolescent.

                    This just as to better reflect my own considerations in this or similar threads. Will think about the rest later again.

                      Owl What makes it worse is that some people use machine translators that map "children", intended as the word for "offspring", to the word for "pre-teens". Often in strongly-gendered languages as well where "child" as a gender-neutral equivalent to "son"/"daughter" does not exist.

                          youdontknowme

                          Jeez, that's even worse. Adolescence is one thing (and difficult a topic enough), but if a generator made some pre-teen sh*t of it ... :-(

                          (For the records: My personal age of consent for chastity would be the same as for sexual relations. I categorically reject anything earlier. Even above every individual case needs to be considered very well if pre full legal age. Actually, every case should be considered well :-), but the more mature the person, the more I assume the persons is actually able and accountable. And being able to account for bad decisions or being responsible to end a situation, as well.)

                              Milord

                              That would make it more clear, indeed.

                                Owl Let's take for granted that all the belted people are adults. While this could not be the case, these are forum rules, and anymore, almost anyone (including the law) considers belting of minors as abusive.

                                  Owl It makes however a difference in my evaluation, if we face a situation of a grown woman and her mother, e.g. Renita's, or an adolescent.

                                  it makes a big difference, but when i talk about children, i always talk about children of their parents. for children under 18 i would say for clarification that we then talk about underage/minor children.
                                  of course there can always be confusion, so we should try to be clear about what we mean and clarify if there are problems of understanding

                                    8 days later

                                    Helena Welcome. Are you angry at your parents for making you wear a belt, or is it something you agreed to?

                                      Helena

                                      hello,
                                      may i ask why you wear the belt? what are your rules?