In the rites to Bona Dea, a goddess of female chastity, Venus, myrtle and anything male were not only excluded, but unmentionable.

Still others argue that it's necessary to maintain female chastity.

More likely, monogamy arose together with patriarchal social structures that require proof of paternity (and hence female chastity).

Traditional Confucianists disapproved of heqin because of its negative effect on female chastity.

In pre-contact Tonga, female pre-marital chastity was the ideal, if not the norm.

Vindice, the revenging protagonist, explicitly links economic problems with the issue of female chastity in several of his speeches.

A high value is placed on female chastity (not to be confused with celibacy).

Mr. Lawes, the missionary of Savage Island, told me the standard of female chastity had declined there since the coming of the whites.

Regard for female chastity is the usual excuse for these disabilities that men delight to lay upon their wives and mothers.

But of course these rights were contained within an ideological framework which stressed domesticity and in many ways, as we know, worked to restress the importance of female chastity.