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Monday Mini: A Brief History of Chastity Belts · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha, and welcome to stuff
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  Speaker 1: I've never told your protection if iHeart radio. So, Samantha,
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  Speaker 1: is there a computer virus that you've ever ever experienced
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  Speaker 1: that comes to mind? Like one that was really annoying
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  Speaker 1: or funny? Oh see, I think way back when, and
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  Speaker 1: I mean way back when, probably my first laptop that
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  Speaker 1: I got, which was in college, which is twenty years ago,
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  Speaker 1: probably when I had all the ad blocks, like all
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  Speaker 1: the pop up ads that would happen that wouldn't never
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  Speaker 1: go away, and I was like, what is happening? Ended
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  Speaker 1: up being porn stuff because it was I think linked
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  Speaker 1: with Napster if I if I remember correctly, and I
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  Speaker 1: just kept getting one right after another. This is my
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  Speaker 1: really religious phase when I wouldn't even watch TV because
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  Speaker 1: I was trying to stay away from all of the
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  Speaker 1: anti Jesus stuff and everything was anti Jesus apparently during
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  Speaker 1: my first year of college. Year of college, and it
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  Speaker 1: just kept popping up and I couldn't get rid of it.
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  Speaker 1: That's all I can think of. Because outside of that,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I've had many viruses. So I have
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  Speaker 1: two that come to mind, and I will say I've
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  Speaker 1: had I've had my fair share of viruses, and I've
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  Speaker 1: seen my my friends go through some, and they can
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  Speaker 1: be just sprendous and painful, so totally understand. I had
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  Speaker 1: one in high school. I got a message from I'm
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  Speaker 1: assuming a dude, but I don't know what that it was.
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  Speaker 1: But I got a message that said, if you don't
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  Speaker 1: send me all of your like information plus this amount
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  Speaker 1: of money plus some random stuff, I'm going to delete
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  Speaker 1: everything on your computer. And at the time, I was
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  Speaker 1: so busy I forgot about it. And there was this
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  Speaker 1: countdown clock and the like it would count down and
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  Speaker 1: I just kept forgetting and nothing happened. It got to
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  Speaker 1: zero and nothing happened. I've never had that people it
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  Speaker 1: was called. It was called the doomsday virus. I think
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  Speaker 1: I've heard of it, but yeah, no, because you weren't
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  Speaker 1: clicking on the sites, the fan fiction site I was,
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  Speaker 1: I guess not. I wasn't enough for any of that,
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  Speaker 1: because I'm like, if they had a doom's clock, I
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  Speaker 1: think I would have like thrown my computer that it
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  Speaker 1: was going to explode. Not that that would take things,
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  Speaker 1: but I was going to explode. Yeah, I wish. I
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  Speaker 1: wonder if I could find that message. I still have
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  Speaker 1: that email my box. Anyway, my friend Marissa got this
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  Speaker 1: virus where it would count down years, so I know
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  Speaker 1: my inbox uh is sorted by dates like most people's are,
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  Speaker 1: and it kept showing unread messages and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: where are they? And I clicked on it and I
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  Speaker 1: had gotten messages from like eight teen seventy seven from
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  Speaker 1: Marissa because the virus count impact computer. That's amazing. I
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  Speaker 1: think I would want that virus just to mess with
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  Speaker 1: everyone else. It was pretty funny because it was I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it was relatively harmless. It's annoying. It was definitely annoying
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  Speaker 1: for her. But of the viruses you could get, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that made me laugh that I was getting these emails
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  Speaker 1: from hundreds of years ago from her. But okay, so
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  Speaker 1: I know you might be thinking, how on the world
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  Speaker 1: does this relate, because I am Yes, the topic that
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  Speaker 1: we were discussing, which is chastity belts, which we mentioned
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  Speaker 1: we would be talking about in our episode on Virginity
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  Speaker 1: or episode would excuse me, So it relates to that.
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  Speaker 1: It also relates to our episode on cyber stocking. So okay,
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  Speaker 1: chasty cages have been on my mind since there was
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  Speaker 1: this recent news story, and by recent I mean like
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  Speaker 1: within this past year. This was pretty a couple of
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  Speaker 1: months back at least, about men wearing Internet connected chassis
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  Speaker 1: devices that were hijacked by a hacker who told victims quote,
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  Speaker 1: your cock is mine and demanded a ransom and bitcoin
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  Speaker 1: to unlock them. So, in this case, the chasti cage
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  Speaker 1: is a sex item that can be placed on a
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  Speaker 1: penist to prevent erections and can be unlocked remotely. I
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  Speaker 1: did learn because I was curious. There's a little hole
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  Speaker 1: for peeing. That's what I was worried about. It is
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  Speaker 1: frequently used in the b D s M community. Um
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  Speaker 1: other stories have reported on men that wear them if
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  Speaker 1: they are constantly distracted by sex. Some say that they
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  Speaker 1: find it challenging and empowering. So this was due to
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  Speaker 1: a security flaw in the item. Fortunately, many of the
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  Speaker 1: people contacted weren't wearing the device at the time, so
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  Speaker 1: you had a huge relief. I was honestly worried about
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  Speaker 1: these folks, And also the company and Questions says that
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  Speaker 1: they've updated their security so that this will not happen again.
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  Speaker 1: Other more setting takes of the modern chastis belt have
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  Speaker 1: been advertised away for women to prevent sexual assaults. So
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  Speaker 1: that's also a thing that we could probably come back
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  Speaker 1: and talk about in a future episode, but not this one.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. The fact that they exist today
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  Speaker 1: has shocked me a little bit, so so happy I
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  Speaker 1: could give you a news story about that. You didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: I did not know that this was the thing, and
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  Speaker 1: the fact that it is online and connected to the
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  Speaker 1: internet whole different level. I feel like like I could
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  Speaker 1: believe it a thing and being used in other ways,
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  Speaker 1: but the fact that is online. M hmm. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: be thinking about this all weekend, just so you know.
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  Speaker 1: But let's take a step back, okay, And then I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back to what I knew, okay, when
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna step back in the medieval chastity belts. And
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  Speaker 1: we talked a little bit about this in the Virginity episodes,
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  Speaker 1: as you mentioned earlier, Annie, And it turns out our
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  Speaker 1: more myth than reality, and we didn't say that. So
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  Speaker 1: the first known we're drawings that come from fourteen oh
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  Speaker 1: five and a treatise on Instruments of War and Torture Devices,
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  Speaker 1: an item that was meant to be satirical or a joke. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we said that, though they are alluded to in European
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  Speaker 1: texts as far back as the first century CE. And
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  Speaker 1: here's a Latin example, meant for women. Quote, hold the
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  Speaker 1: helmet of salvation on your front, the word of truth
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  Speaker 1: in the mouth, true love of God and your neighbor
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  Speaker 1: in the chest, and the girdle of chastity in the body.
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  Speaker 1: Yes it is. It actually exists. And I've heard this
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  Speaker 1: before we even started these episodes. That doesn't shock me.
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  Speaker 1: Just so, these belts were depicted and are in the
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  Speaker 1: fifteen hundreds, woman with a middle belt around her waist,
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  Speaker 1: a man holding the key. They were meant to make
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  Speaker 1: sure women stayed loyal when men went to war or
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  Speaker 1: things like that, because what we know is women like
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  Speaker 1: to have sex, women are at war. Just kidding. However,
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  Speaker 1: there's no proof that these actually existed, So then why
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  Speaker 1: is this smith so prolific male fear? According to Professor
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  Speaker 1: Albert Klassen, who is also the author of the Medieval
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  Speaker 1: Chastity Belt, a myth making process, most of the art
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  Speaker 1: that depicts chastity belt shows another man with a duplicate key,
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  Speaker 1: implying that these devices are useless and women are going
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  Speaker 1: to find ways to be unfaithful. I think it's also
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  Speaker 1: a part of this. It was something to be laughed at.
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  Speaker 1: The few chassis belt on displaying museums were made in
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  Speaker 1: the Middle Ages. Yes, it's sort of like a curiosity
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  Speaker 1: item or a joke. Here's the British Museum's description of theirs.
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  Speaker 1: It is probable that the great majority of examples now
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  Speaker 1: existing were made in the eighteenth and nineteen centuries as
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  Speaker 1: curiosities for the prunient or as jokes for the tasteless.
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  Speaker 1: The advice of keeping on your chastity belt was not
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  Speaker 1: meant to be literal, so it's just kind of a
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  Speaker 1: saying that's hilarious because we also have seen it haridied
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  Speaker 1: in so many films. So yeah. In the actual spoof
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  Speaker 1: of Robin Hood, which was Kevin Costner and Alan Rickman,
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  Speaker 1: Robin Handmann entice carry always, as well as Richard Lewis,
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  Speaker 1: who plays with the character, he's the one trying to
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  Speaker 1: get the chastity belt. I think a made marian who
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  Speaker 1: now goes to like carry always. By the way, this
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  Speaker 1: is a mel Brooks movie, so you should know it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be completely inappropriate, probably very outdated, but that's
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  Speaker 1: where I remember the chastity belt so vividly is because
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  Speaker 1: of that. Yeah, I mean, if this was a joke,
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  Speaker 1: then it was a very successful one. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that's that's telling of Yeah, we believe that women are
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  Speaker 1: unfaithful and always got another man in the wings. But
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  Speaker 1: I think of Scream in the first Scream, ski l
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  Speaker 1: Rich tells Nev Campbell like, oh your chastity built or
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  Speaker 1: something like that in the very beginning of the movie.
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  Speaker 1: And I remember at the time thinking that that was
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  Speaker 1: a real thing and not understanding like a real modern thing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I honestly don't know how many people well I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that I would didn't think it was a modern
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  Speaker 1: but I assumed it truly happened way back when. So
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  Speaker 1: whoever created this joke, kudos, it has lasted hundreds of years.
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  Speaker 1: Kudos and screw you because you play it into this
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  Speaker 1: idea of purity and women being you can't believe them
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  Speaker 1: and they're just property for you to protect. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: Also just to be clear and not kink shaming the
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  Speaker 1: people at the top. No, I was just realized the
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  Speaker 1: whole like wireless bit was like, oh, that's dangerous. That's yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, in general, the Internet of things can be
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  Speaker 1: a little risky, as we talked about in our cyber
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  Speaker 1: stalking episode. Yes, but all right, that's a very brief
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