Chastity Glossary

Chastity Glossary


There’s a lot of information out there about chastity—and even more buzzwords. To help you navigate what’s real, what’s fantasy, and what’s trending, we’ve refreshed this glossary with updated terms, modern cage styles, and evolving dynamics in the chastity lifestyle.

While many chastity terms overlap with BDSM, the two don’t always go hand-in-hand. Chastity can thrive in vanilla relationships, long-distance arrangements, or solo exploration—no dungeon required.

This glossary includes an alphabetical index for quick lookup, followed by grouped definitions organized by theme—like device types, relationship roles, psychological play, and community and challenges—to help you explore related concepts.

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Clusters and Definitions

Device Types & Materials

Chastity Cage

A chastity cage is a device worn over the penis to prevent erections, masturbation, or sexual access. It’s the cornerstone of male chastity play and comes in various materials and styles. Cages are used for discipline, denial, often in a relationship or as part of a power exchange dynamic.

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Nub Chastity

Nub chastity refers to ultra-short cages that offer minimal space for the penis to extend. These designs, like the V4 Nub, are favored for long-term wear, stealth, and advanced denial. The term “nub” implies a small, stumpy shape that keeps the wearer in a constant state of frustration and control. (Check out our collection of Nub Chastity Cages.)

Cobra Cage

Cobra Cage is a lightweight chastity device made from ABS plastic with a mesh-like design. It’s popular for travel, beginners, and long-term wear due to its comfort and discreet profile. It doesn’t trigger metal detectors, making it the ideal stealth chastity device for traveling.

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Flat Chastity Cage

A flat chastity cage is designed to keep the penis completely flush against the body, with little to no protrusion. These cages are typically used by advanced wearers or those with smaller anatomy. They’re ideal for stealth wear and often used in sissy or feminization play to minimize the appearance of male genitalia.

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Holy Trainer

One of the most popular and recognizable modern chastity cages styles. The Holy Trainer is known for its ergonomic design, use of body-safe resin or plastic materials, and its distinctive aesthetic that is often referred to as "stealth" or "discreet." Its key feature is the internal lock system and comfortable, rounded structure, making it a frequent choice for those engaging in long-term chastity or seeking a lightweight, visually appealing device.

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Small Chastity Cage

A category of chastity devices characterized by their minimal length, designed to house the penis in a significantly shrunken, retracted state. These short cages are a popular choice in long-term chastity dynamics due to their enhanced discretion and comfort under clothing. They are also frequently used in Sissification and small cock humiliation play, where the small size of the device visually and physically emphasizes the wearer's complete surrender and lack of sexual agency, sometimes leading to the use of terms like "chastity clitty."

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Cock and Ball Cage

A cock and ball cage is a device that restrains both the penis and testicles. It’s more restrictive than standard cages and often used in bondage, discipline, or advanced denial play. It can cause discomfort during arousal, reinforcing control and submission.

Cock Restraint

An umbrella term for any method or device that limits the penis's ability to move, gain a full erection, or be stimulated. Cock Restraint devices include chastity cages, cock rings, straps, and certain urethra chastity cages. Used heavily in chastity play and BDSM, the purpose is to enforce orgasm denial and reinforce the power exchange by subjecting the wearer to forced chastity or intense sensation.

Crucial Note on Use: For cock restraint devices to be safe, comfortable, and effective in a long-term chastity dynamic, proper sizing of the base ring and cage is absolutely essential. Failure to choose the correct size can result in discomfort or injury.

Need help finding the right fit? Check out our comprehensive guide on proper chastity cage sizing.

Cock Ring

A cock ring is worn around the base of the penis to maintain erections or delay ejaculation. While not a chastity device on its own, it’s often used alongside cages for aesthetic or functional enhancement.

Biometric Locking

Biometric locking refers to chastity devices that use fingerprint scanners or app-based authentication to unlock. These high-tech cages add a layer of digital control, allowing remote keyholders to manage access securely. It’s popular in long-distance dynamics and tech-savvy kink setups.

Chastity Anal Plug

A chastity anal plug or simply butt plug, is a plug that’s either built into or worn alongside a chastity cage. It adds physical stimulation, discomfort, or control to the experience. Often used in femdom, sissy play, or full-body restraint scenes, it reinforces submission and prevents unauthorized pleasure.

Electric Cock Chastity

This refers to chastity devices equipped with electrostimulation (e-stim) features. These cages can deliver controlled electric pulses to the penis, either for punishment, teasing, or sensory play. They’re typically used in advanced BDSM scenes and require careful use to ensure safety.

Vibrating Chastity Cage

A vibrating chastity cage includes built-in or attachable vibration features, often controlled via Bluetooth or remote apps. These cages are used for teasing, punishment, or sensory overload while the wearer remains locked. Vibrating cages add a dynamic layer to chastity play, allowing keyholders to stimulate or frustrate the submissive without granting release. They’re popular in long-distance dynamics and tech-enhanced kink setups.

Urethral Chastity Cage

A urethra chastity cage includes a urethral insert—a tube that fits inside the penis’s urethra while the cage is worn. This design adds an extra layer of control and restriction, often used in advanced chastity or medical kink play. Urethral cages require strict hygiene and experience, as improper use can lead to injury or infection. They’re favored by wearers seeking intense physical and psychological restraint.

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Travel Cage

A travel cage is a chastity device designed for discreet wear during travel. Typically made from non-metal materials like medical-grade resin, ABS plastic, or silicone, these cages are lightweight and won’t trigger airport metal detectors. Travel cages prioritize comfort, stealth, and hygiene, making them ideal for long-term wearers who want to maintain chastity while on the move.

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Penis Lock

A penis lock refers to any device that restricts access to the penis, including chastity cages, belts, or plugs. It symbolizes control, denial, and submission. Some penis locks are decorative, while others are functional and secure, used in long-term chastity or BDSM play.

Hygiene and Sizing

Essential practical considerations for anyone wearing a chastity cage. Sizing refers to accurately measuring for the correct base ring diameter and cage length to ensure comfort, prevent injury, and guarantee security. Hygiene involves the necessary daily cleaning protocols to prevent skin irritation, odor, and infection during long-term chastity wear.

If you’re confused about how to get the right sizing for you, worry not, as we have the complete guide suitable even for beginners.

Chastity Belt

A locking garment, often made of metal or rigid materials, designed to cover and restrict access to the genitals. Historically, the Chastity Belt was purportedly used to enforce female fidelity, though its historical use is debated. In modern kink and BDSM contexts, the Female Chastity Belt is used consensually as a form of sexual restriction and power exchange, ensuring forced chastity by preventing penetration or masturbation. Modern belts are often highly secure and symbolize the wearer's surrender of sexual agency to the Keyholder.

Cock Bondage

A broad term for various bondage techniques, restraints, and devices (including chastity cages and cock rings) used to restrict or manipulate the penis and/or testicles. It is used to create heightened sensation, enforce denial, or visually emphasize sexual power dynamics.

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an artists impression of male chastity cages

Psychological Play & Erotic Rituals

Chastity Play

A consensual kink practice centered on orgasm denial and the physical or psychological restraint of sexual access, typically enforced through a chastity cage or chastity belt. Chastity Play is a form of power exchange where the wearer surrenders control over their sexual urges and release to a Keyholder, often for extended durations (see long-term chastity). It creates sexual tension, heightened anticipation, and reinforces the Femdom or dominant/submissive roles within the dynamic.

Orgasm Challenge

An orgasm challenge is a structured game or ritual where the submissive must earn the right to orgasm through tasks, obedience, or endurance. Challenges may be set by a keyholder or self-imposed, and often include teasing, edging, or denial. They’re used to reinforce discipline and deepen the psychological impact of chastity.

Orgasm Denial

Orgasm denial, also known as Tease and Denial, is the practice of preventing climax, either through physical restraint (like a chastity cage) or psychological control. It’s a core element of chastity play and can be used to heighten arousal, reinforce submission, or build erotic tension. Denial may be temporary, prolonged, or indefinite depending on the dynamic.

Ruined Orgasm

A Ruined Orgasm (or "edge") occurs when the climax is allowed but is intentionally manipulated to be incomplete, frustrating, or unsatisfying, often while the wearer is locked in a chastity cage.

Enforced Chastity

Enforced chastity is a consensual kink dynamic where the submissive is kept locked longer than they might prefer. The keyholder may deny release, ignore pleas for unlocking, or impose strict rules around when and how the cage is removed. It adds a psychological edge to chastity play, emphasizing control and power exchange.

Forced Chastity

Forced Chastity refers to the state where a partner is locked into a chastity cage by a Keyholder, surrendering all control over their sexuality to the dominant. While the term “forced” implies lack of choice, it’s rooted in mutual agreement and trust, often used to heighten erotic tension, reinforce power exchange, and deepen psychological submission. The dominant may impose strict rules, extend lockup beyond the submissive’s comfort zone, or deny release entirely, making the experience both physically restrictive and emotionally intense.

Chastity Humiliation

Chastity humiliation involves teasing, mocking, or exposing the submissive’s locked status. It may include verbal taunts, public display, or rituals that highlight their lack of control. This kink blends erotic denial with psychological play, often used in cuckold, sissy, or FLR dynamics.

The Wall

The "Wall" refers to the intense mental barrier or breaking point often experienced by submissives during orgasm denial or forced chastity. The Chastity Mindset is the psychological shift where the submissive mentally accepts their restricted status, finding peace or pleasure in the constant denial and surrender of their sexuality to the Keyholder.

Mindful Chastity

Mindful chastity is a solo or partnered practice where chastity is used as a tool for focus, self-awareness, or emotional regulation. It may include journaling, meditation, or rituals that deepen the psychological experience of denial. Mindful chastity emphasizes intentionality and personal growth over purely erotic goals.

Self-Chastity

Self-chastity is the practice of wearing a chastity cage without a keyholder. It’s often used for personal discipline, erotic frustration, or mindfulness. The wearer sets their own rules, such as timed lockups, journaling rituals, or abstinence goals. Some use app-controlled cages to simulate external control, while others rely on sheer willpower. It’s a way to explore denial and restraint without needing a partner.

Long-term Chastity

The practice of wearing a chastity cage for extended periods, sometimes indefinitely, ranging from several months to years. This focus on long-term chastity shifts the dynamic from temporary play to a lifestyle, emphasizing mental control, dedication, and the integration of the chastity device into daily life.

If you’re on the fence about whether long-term chastity is for you, Chastity Cages Co.’s guide page will help you understand its pros and cons.

Negative Chastity

Negative chastity refers to cage designs that push the penis inward toward the body, rather than simply restraining it. These cages often eliminate any visible protrusion and are popular in feminization, sissy play, and humiliation dynamics. They intensify the psychological aspect of chastity by visually erasing the male anatomy.

Chastity Erection

An uncomfortable or frustrating erection that occurs while the wearer is secured inside a chastity cage. This phenomenon is a key part of the experience, as the limited space inside the device prevents the penis from achieving full rigidity, heightening the psychological tension and the feeling of cock restraint.

Abstinence vs Chastity

Abstinence is the voluntary choice to refrain from sexual activity, often for personal, religious, or health reasons. It doesn’t involve physical barriers or external control. Chastity, on the other hand, typically involves a physical device (like a chastity cage) or a dominant partner enforcing sexual denial. It’s often part of a kink or power exchange dynamic, where control and restraint are central to the experience.

Kink/Kinky

A broad term used to describe non-conventional, non-traditional, or fantasy-driven sexual preferences, practices, or predilections that extend beyond "vanilla" or mainstream sexual activity. "Kink" is an umbrella term that encompasses a wide variety of sexual interests, including BDSM (Bondage, Discipline, Sadism, Masochism), Fetishes (such as penis fetishes or latex), role-playing, and structured power dynamics like chastity and orgasm denial. Kink communities emphasize consent (often operating under Safe, Sane, and Consensual [SSC] or Consensual Kink [CK] guidelines) and clear communication between all partners.

Prostate Milking Chastity

Prostate milking chastity involves stimulating the prostate gland while the wearer remains locked in a chastity cage. This can lead to fluid release without orgasm, often used in medical kink, denial play, or as a form of controlled release. It’s a way to explore pleasure without breaking chastity rules.

Panties Chastity

Panties chastity involves wearing feminine underwear while locked in a chastity cage. It’s common in sissy play, feminization, and humiliation dynamics. The combination of soft, feminine fabric and physical restraint reinforces role reversal and psychological submission.

Pegged in Chastity

"Pegged in chastity" refers to a dynamic where a submissive male is locked in a chastity cage while being anally penetrated by a partner using a strap-on. This kink blends physical restraint with role reversal, often used in femdom, FLR, or sissy play to reinforce dominance and submission.

Penis Fetish

A penis fetish is an erotic focus on the penis, which may include admiration, control, denial, or transformation. In chastity play, the fetish often shifts toward not touching or stimulating the penis, creating a paradox of desire and restraint. It’s common in humiliation, sissy, and medical kink scenes.

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Roles, Relationships & Power Exchange

Dominant

In BDSM and chastity dynamics, the dominant (or Dom/Domme) is the person who takes control. They may set rules, enforce discipline, and manage the submissive’s access to pleasure. In chastity, the dominant often acts as the keyholder, deciding when (or if) the submissive is allowed release.

Submissive

A submissive is a person who consensually gives up control to a dominant partner. In chastity play, the submissive may wear a cage to reinforce obedience, devotion, and erotic restraint. Submission can be physical, emotional, or psychological, and often involves rituals, rules, and negotiated boundaries. Submissives may find fulfillment in serving, pleasing, or being denied by their dominant.

Keyholder

A keyholder, also dubbed a "femdom keyholder," is the person who controls access to the chastity cage. They may be a romantic partner, friend, or professional dominatrix. Keyholders enforce rules, grant or deny release, and often play a dominant role in the wearer’s sexual life. Remote keyholding via apps is increasingly common.

Dominatrix Keyholder

A dominatrix keyholder is a professional or lifestyle female dominant who controls a submissive’s chastity. She may offer structured denial, punishment, and reward systems, often incorporating humiliation, tasks, and rituals. Some dominatrixes offer paid keyholding services, including digital control and check-ins.

Femdom

Focuses specifically on erotic control and power exchange. The dynamic typically involves sexual acts like tease and denial, humiliation, and chastity play. While it can happen within an FLR, a couple can practice Femdom in the bedroom without the woman leading the entire household.

Chastity Mistress

A chastity mistress is a dominant woman who oversees a submissive’s chastity. She may set rules, enforce denial, and use the cage as a tool of control. "Mistress" implies a more holistic relationship of ownership and training, often extending the control of chastity play into the submissive's overall lifestyle, wardrobe, or finances.

Female-Led Relationship (FLR)

The woman takes the lead in all major decisions—financial, social, familial, and sexual. Chastity, when included, is one component that reinforces the woman's overall authority in the partnership.

Slave Contract

A slave contract is a formal agreement between a dominant and submissive that outlines expectations, limits, and responsibilities. In chastity dynamics, it may include rules about lockup duration, orgasm denial, punishment protocols, and behavioral standards. While not legally binding, slave contracts serve as a framework for trust, consent, and structure in BDSM relationships. They’re often revisited and updated as the dynamic evolves.

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Sissymaker/Sissification

A complex cross-dressing and feminization kink dynamic within BDSM where the submissive male is trained, encouraged, or forced to adopt a female persona. This process often involves behavioral changes, wearing feminine clothing and makeup, and adopting a submissive sexual role. The Chastity Cage is a critical, symbolic tool in Sissification, as it limits the wearer's access to their masculinity and reinforces their role as a Chastity Sissy by physically shrinking or restricting the penis (often using a flat cage or chastity clitty). The dominant partner guiding this process is often referred to as a Sissymaker.

Chastity Clitty

“Clitty” is a feminized term for the penis, often used in sissy or feminization play. When a submissive is locked in chastity, the penis is referred to as a clitty to reinforce gender transformation, humiliation, or role reversal. It’s a psychological tool as much as a linguistic one.

Chastity Sissy

A chastity sissy is a submissive male who embraces exaggerated femininity while locked in chastity. This may include wearing panties, makeup, or adopting a feminized persona. The cage reinforces their submissive role and prevents masculine sexual expression, deepening the sissification experience.

Digital Keyholding

Digital keyholding refers to the use of apps or online platforms to manage chastity devices remotely. Instead of physically handing over a key, the submissive’s cage is controlled via Bluetooth or cloud-based systems. This is especially popular in long-distance dynamics, where a dominant partner can lock or unlock the device from anywhere in the world, often with features like timed release, emergency unlocks, and activity logs.

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Community, Challenges & Culture

Locktober

Locktober is an annual challenge celebrated in the kink and chastity community where participants commit to wearing a chastity cage for the entire month of October. It’s often shared on forums or social media, with daily check-ins, rituals, and encouragement from keyholders or fellow wearers. Locktober blends endurance, erotic denial, and community engagement.

Want to dive deeper? Visit CC Co.’s ultimate Loctober guide page.

No Nut November

Viral, month-long challenges that intersect with the chastity community. Just like Locktober, which is a challenge focused on wearing a chastity cage for the entire month of October, No Nut November (NNN) is a more general challenge focused on voluntary orgasm denial and refraining from ejaculation for the month of November.

To help you survive the #NNN, Chastity Cages Co. has listed some of their best tips and tricks.

Cuckold Challenge

A cuckold challenge is a ritual or game where the submissive is teased or denied while their partner engages sexually with others. It may include tasks, humiliation, or extended lockup. Often part of cuckold chastity dynamics, it reinforces power imbalance and erotic frustration.

Cuckold Chastity

Cuckold chastity is a dynamic where a submissive male is locked in chastity while their partner has sex with others. It blends erotic denial, humiliation, and psychological submission. The cage symbolizes the wearer’s lack of sexual access and reinforces their role as an observer or servant.

Gay Chastity

Gay chastity refers to chastity play within gay relationships or dynamics. It may involve dominant/submissive roles, mutual denial, or anal play. The cage can symbolize devotion, erotic control, or discipline and is often used to heighten intimacy, tease frustration, or reinforce power exchange between partners.

Male Chastity

Male chastity is the practice of a man wearing a chastity cage to restrict sexual activity. It may be used for self-discipline, relationship enhancement, or kink play. The cage prevents erections and masturbation, reinforcing control, obedience, or erotic frustration. Male chastity can be practiced solo or with a keyholder.

Female Chastity

Female chastity involves the use of devices or rules to restrict a woman’s access to sexual stimulation. Devices may include clitoral shields, belts, or plugs. While less common than male chastity, it’s used in both BDSM and self-discipline contexts, often focusing on control, denial, or ritual.

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Where To Buy

Looking to try out or upgrade your chastity cage? These are some of our top picks.

Cobra Chastity Cages
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Steel Chastity Cages
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