Manufacture
Most modern chastity belt designs are descended from Hal Higginbottom's designs from 1956. Sometimes modern Florentine-style belts are described as "Tollyboy-style" or "Tollyboy-type" belts as references to his company's original design.
Human anatomy varies very widely from person to person and steel belts intended for long-term use are bespoke (custom-made) items. The manufacture of such belts, being quite a specific niche, is necessarily a cottage industry. Many firms have come and gone over the years.
In 1969, Time Magazine and various newspapers in 1978 ran stories about David Renwick, a British chastity belt maker who claimed to have a thriving business making belts for a worldwide clientele.
In 1971, the Hugessen firm of Halstead, Essex that made chastity belts, applied for tax exempt status on the basis that their products were birth control devices. In 1974, a story was widely published in magazines and newspapers about the firm's bankruptcy.
Notable amongst those who have stopped manufacturing chastity belts since the 1980s are:
- Access Denied (Paul Tooker of New York; closed after his death)
- Herbert Rossmann (Austria)
- In Discretione Fortitudo (Nifrik Scylla of the Netherlands)
- Kastley (Germany) (reseller; original manufacturer unknown)
- Pourquoi Pas (Germany)
- Atelier Mode (Cologne, Germany)
- Reinholds (Germany, resin composite material belts)
- Locked In Steel (New Hampshire, USA)
A.L. Enterprises, that sells the CB series of chastity cages, was started by Doris and Frank Miller in the late 90s, and claims to own 71% of the market.
Although no reliable statistics are available on the use of chastity belts, anecdotal reports from manufacturers suggest that most belts sold in Europe and the US are for men, and that of the female belts ordered, relatively few are used as rape prevention devices.
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