Angelina but it's not easy to separate one from the other. social change always has legal implications, so i'm not a fan of clearly separating the two, at least not for me.
Which is why I am also in favor of splitting it not by legal or social aspects, but by different fantasy worlds, this topic for a world that is nice to belt wearers and the other topic for one where sexual self-determination is not a fundamental right.
Angelina we should not criminise teenage relationships (in which a chastity belt can also occur).
I agree that we should not criminalize the vulnerable. Punishing a 14-year-old for acquiring a chastity belt is bad, no doubt about that, but nobody over 21 should have a hand in that. I believe all our suggestions on that issue revolved around adults knowingly providing minors with chastity cages, due diligence and stuff like that. And there is so much fun stuff that minors do not have access to because the state wants to protect them, whether they want that protection or not.
Of course, with chastity belts there is the mater of what happens if the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. A chastity belt can simultaneously be not a toy and not an oppression either, and even one ill-advised sex fling can mean harm (STDs, pregnancy, and virginity still means something to many people as well). But again, allowing adults to have a hand in those teens getting their hands (and other body parts) on them opens up a certain risk, and so does accepting their use as normal and not as reason for an investigation. Again, girls may be complicit in their own abuse by hiding the fact that they are enduring this involuntarily because they fear the consequences.
