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Thwart "sex maniacs" with chastity belts: Malaysian Muslim advisor
Fri Feb 16, 1:02 AM ET
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - A respected Malaysian Muslim religious advisor has suggested that women wear chastity belts to thwart "sex maniacs" who rape and commit incest, according to a report.
Abu Hassan Din Al-Hafiz said cases of rape and incest were rampant and that chastity belts would help reduce sex-related crimes, the Star daily reported.
"We have even come across a number of unusual sex cases, where even senior citizens and children were not spared. The best way to avert sex perpetrators is to wear protection," he was quoted as saying in the newspaper.
"My intention is not to offend women but to safeguard them from sex maniacs," he said.
Elaborating on his idea, he said there would be other positives to donning the belts.
"Husbands could also feel more secure, if you know what I mean," he said, adding chastity belts were worn as recently as the mid-1960s.
Abu Hassan has served as a religious advisor to Malaysia's king and written books on Islamic studies.
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'Let men wear chastity belts, instead' 17 Feb 2007
KUALA LUMPUR: A day after creating an uproar among women across the country, a well-respected Islamic religious figure said that his comments on chastity belts for women was just a joke.
"Joke aje. It was not seriously meant," said Datuk Abu Hassan Din Al-Hafiz yesterday.
Newspapers had carried reports yesterday that Abu Hassan, a well known ulama, had said women should wear chastity belts to thwart rape and incest and "to protect themselves from sex maniacs".
At a Maal Hijrah forum in Kampung Pelandan, Hulu Terengganu, Abu Hassan had told the audience that "the best way for women to avert sex perpetrators is to wear protection".
He also said that while his intention was not to offend women, by wearing chastity belts, husbands could also feel more secure, adding "if you know what I mean".
However, he changed his tune yesterday and said his comments at the forum were not meant to be a suggestion.
"It’s not practical to wear a chastity belt in this day and age. It can’t be done."
In an immediate response to yesterday’s news reports, Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Jalil said the government was not interested in an idea from the pre-Islamic age of "jahiliyah" (ignorance).
She said it was more important for Muslims to have a stronger faith.
"It is better to have a steel-like iman (faith) rather than wearing the belt. If a person is bent on doing it (rape), he would find a way to do it even if one’s whole body is covered with metal," she said.
Jemaah Islah Malaysia chief Dr Harlina Halizah Siraj said it was an insensitive suggestion.
"The comment was very much outdated. We have to change the mindset that any violence against women is caused by women themselves."
She also hoped Abu Hassan would withdraw his statement and apologise to the public.
Malacca Islamic religious department enforcement head Rahimin Bani said wearing chastity belts to prevent rape was not the right way.
"If the rapist already has the intention to do it, he will do whatever it takes to do it."
Such a comment seems to imply that women want to permit the rape and therefore have to be constrained, said Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism vice-president Harcharan Singh.
"Why blame the women?" he asked.
Women’s organisations also felt Abu Hassan had indirectly insulted the male gender.
"His comment gives an impression that all men are beasts of passion," said Women’s Aid Organisation executive director Ivy Josiah.
Such sexist comments from influential leaders shows the need for gender desensitisation programmes, she added.
Sisters in Islam (SIS) concurred with Josiah on Abu Hassan’s insult to men.
"We hope he realises that he is definitely insulting all men by suggesting women have to be restrained because men are incapable of controlling their lust," SIS said in a Press statement.
"Why don’t these people suggest instead that the men wear chastity belts?" asked National Council of Women’s Organisation president Datuk Dr Sharifah Hapsah Syed Hasa
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Its an antiquated gadget made of metal that was locked onto a woman and only the man with a key could get in.
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personally I think men should wear them, they are the ones that seem to have the problems.
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The first known mention of chastity belts in the West is in Konrad Kyeser von Eichstätt's Bellifortis, a ca. 1400 book describing the military technology of the era. The book includes a drawing that is accompanied by the Latin text: "Est florentinarum hoc bracile dominarum ferreum et durum ab antea sic reseratum." ("These are hard iron breeches of Florentine women which are closed at the front.") [1] The belt in this drawing is described by Dingwall as "both clumsy and heavy", having "little in common with the later models which served the same use" (Dingwall, 1931, p.34). The Bellifortis account is not supported by any evidence or corroborating documents.
The period of the chastity belt's diffusion to Europe beyond Italy, and of its relatively most common use (though this was still quite rare), was the 16th century and the 17th century — so that the classical historical chastity belt can be more accurately described as a "Renaissance" phenomenon, rather than "Medieval". They were probably employed more by a few rich and jealous husbands married to much younger wives (a common upper-class practice at the time) — as seen in the 16th century German woodcut at right — than by soldiers going off to war.
In 1889, a leather-and-iron belt was found by A. M. Pachinger—a German collector of antiquities—in Linz, Austria in a grave on a skeleton of a young woman. The woman was purportedly buried sometime in the 16th century. Pachinger, however, could not find any record of the woman's burial in the town archives. The belt itself, along with most of the rest of Pachinger's collection, has been lost.
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The Germans have a great reputation for making things that offer quality and reliability, Batman.
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i want say the german is the inventor of that belt to lock the women cuz they was jelos
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exactly they think they r keeper and maintainer of women but the womn r the keeper and maintaniner of men
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quote:Originally posted by Batman, non-stop, righteous machine: exactly they think they r keeper and maintainer of women but the womn r the keeper and maintaniner of men
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quote:Originally posted by Batman, non-stop, righteous machine: it's german made
Huh? Where did you get this from? The paragraph you posted says that it was a German who first mentioned it, not that he invented it. And apparently he came across them in Florence. What I gather from this text and a quick look around the net is that it's not entirely clear where and when it was invented.
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