Addendum: A serious community chastity law would have to address gender in some way; there are those who believe chastity is for women only and I can sympathize with that position, but it’s not exactly workable. I would propose that such a law have the following parameters for all residents of Chastity Colony Alpha:
unmarried adults are subject to the belt at the behest of their authority figures, in the hierarchy determined elsewhere.
Anyone living alone must be under authority.
In married couples, any gender arrangement is acceptable. However, one member of the marriage must be designated the authority and the other under their charge. There does not have to be a belted person in the house, but there must be the knowledge that one half of the couple is subject to belting at any time.
Social pressure would, of course, make it likely that belting authority is almost always used in marriages. Unbelted couple would be considered “weird” or “un-mutual” by their peers. There’s a part of me that wonders if further controls should be exercises on the charges, such as needing spousal approval for major purchases, but this is about chastity belting, not creating a new underclass (which the belt law will do sufficiently well enough on its own.)