{"id":18,"date":"2006-01-30T02:13:39","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T08:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/30\/chastity-belts-gone-feral\/"},"modified":"2006-01-30T02:13:39","modified_gmt":"2006-01-30T08:13:39","slug":"chastity-belts-gone-feral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/30\/chastity-belts-gone-feral\/","title":{"rendered":"Chastity Belts Gone Feral"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IraSeveral major news outlets, including MSNBC<\/a> have reported on the controversial exhibition in Memphis by techno-metal artist Ira Sherman called “Impenetrable Devices.”<\/p>\n

Ira has created a variety of wearable metal objects that are essentially chastity belts mixed with body armor. The belts feature barbed wire, mousetraps, electrified metal, razors and – eep! – “cutlery functions”. He was inspired to make the items after talking with women who had been raped.<\/p>\n

What they wanted, Sherman said, was body armor.<\/em><\/p>\n

“When you talk with someone who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been raped, you start getting details that are just horrifying. That horror I transform into my work,” Sherman said. “But if I were to make pieces horribly ugly and brutal, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no redemption. The beauty of the work has a kind of redemptive quality.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Sherman’s work certainly is exquisite and it has a certain fantastic flair. His homepage<\/a> features more examples of his work, including pics<\/a> of his Impenetrable Devices. There’s also photos at the Memphis Ornamental Metal Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I wrote a post on chastity belts<\/a> a while ago. Sherman’s art is obviously quite different, as it exists to make a theoretical point rather than to be used sexually. His “belts” are also very pro-woman. Whereas chastity belts give power over the woman’s sexuality to another, the Impenetrable Devices are about providing safety and giving control back to the woman.<\/p>\n

All that aside, I’m wondering if the belt fetishists out there are beating a path to Sherman’s door after this bit of publicity. Who needs the standard padlock number when you can get a “Saber Tooth Speculum” or an “Intimate Electric Fence”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several major news outlets, including MSNBC have reported on the controversial exhibition in Memphis by techno-metal artist Ira Sherman called “Impenetrable Devices.” Ira has created a variety of wearable metal objects that are essentially chastity belts mixed with body armor. The belts feature barbed wire, mousetraps, electrified metal, razors and – eep! – “cutlery functions”. He was inspired to make the items after talking with women who had been raped. Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quirky-weird-funny","category-sex-and-women"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}