curious As pointed out before, what is legal or not depends on where you are and can even change over time, depending on laws being changed or interpreted by the courts in different ways. No point in an internationally frequented Internet forum to make such claims, unless you have specific court cases from the respective country you can cite.
It has been pointed out by you. But by following you I can freely suggest that the best way to achieve chastity is female genital mutilation (makes me vomit even writing it) because in some countries it is legal. Also, homosexuality is wrong and a shame (vomit here too) and must be avoided, because in some countries it is. @Ines is it OK for you? Do I need to continue?
A blank statement that any limitation on freedom is abuse is simply absurd. All over the world teenagers get grounded (which is a limitation of freedom), get their mobile phones taken away for punishment (which is a limitation of freedom to communicate at will) or imposed other limitations. And no, parents are not required to ask for consent when they set limits.
Aren't we talking about adults?
In any case You are not a parent, so I will not even start to explain the difference between growing and abusing.
Only because something is wrong in your view, that does not make it so for everyone else.
No, but it's shared by the forum administration and by universal declaration of rights
I admit that requiring someone to wear a belt without their consent MIGHT be problematic in some places. Maybe you are even reasonably right with your assessment of Italian laws. But I am not convonced that a court in a deeply conservative / religious US state would necessarily see it your way.
@Sasha confirmed that it can be filed under sexual assault in the USA. But let me add some point here. If it is just a possibility, why all the secrecy involved? Why not talking openly about this? Try to find a parenting site where you can say something like this without being banned. You will not find them
This is the only place on the internet where it was, and no longer is, possible. That's why we are always talking about adults
About consent, I need to remember you that denying freedom to someone is against the UN declaration of right. The same organization that consider the widespread use of chastity belt in an indian state a blatant violation of human rights.
https://wunrn.com/2007/08/india-rajasthan-state-chastity-belts-violence-against-women-ahrc-news/
And again, this forum is against forced use. I don't even know how this is to be repeated.
Do you know what is truly problematic? That an adult like you have such a poor consideration of consent, that should be the cornerstone of every relationship. This disturbs me deeply. Having someone Wearing a belt without consent is CRIMINAL. The fact that for you is ok is something that you need to work on it. I'm telling for your own good.
Someone, not you of course, that is attracted by forced and non-consensual use is called a sadic and a narcissist. A sociopath. Some dangerous. Because consent is completely necessary. Only government can ignore consent, and only following law, and in specific, designated case
Yes, I'm simplifying, but I hope its clear
I remember some years ago reading about a case where parents had tried to help their drug addicted son and when nothing else worked, they chained him to the wall in his room with a chain that allowed him to do pretty much everything inside the house but not get out or to the phone, so he could not get himself more drugs. When that was later found out, charges were filed but a court actually cleared the parents, because the had acted with the best Intention for the well-being of their son and while considered extreme, their is - at least in some legal systems - quite a lot of disgression in parenting decisions.
I will take this example of yours, even if without knowing more its difficult to express an opinion. Parents have been cleared, but out of very specific situation, because charge has been filed. A crime has been identified as such, then after a process, whose result has not been sure (otherwise it will have been dismissed before) in this particular case, not applicable to others, the charge has been dismissed. This doesn't mean it's not a crime. A similar (not the same) process in Italy ended with jail
https://massimedalpassato.it/sanpa-storia-del-processo-delle-catene-tra-accertamento-giudiziario-e-serie-tv/#:~:text=Dalle%20indagini%20emerse%20che%20anche,il%20%E2%80%9CProcesso%20delle%20Catene%E2%80%9D.
Most European countries take a rather socialist approch where the state closely intervenes and decides how parents are supposed to go about parenting. But that does not necessarily applies to the rest of the world.
But every Western country is against abuse. And again, having already said that we are always talking about adults, the normal law applies.
Take corporal punishment of children as an example. While illegal in most EU countries, it is - as long as it is not excessive - allowed in many other countries. And I am not talking about China or North Korea but liberal countries like Australia.
Even if legal, if pushed so far I'm pretty sure that charge will be filed. Again, from our American friends, if a boy goes to school badly beaten, it will be ignored because the parent has the right to do so. I think it's not.
