Then in the early years of the 20th century the female raised her head and demanded more involvement. Her early struggle was epitomised by the fight for the vote in the UK. Then the outbreak of war lead her into the workplace and opened her eyes to the fact that she could do the work as well as any man.

The feminist movement was born and strived for female equality and freedom from male oppression. We are now in the start of the 21st century and we have an interesting situation. Male power in politics and finance is still here. But on analysis you will see that this is controlled by the older generation of males, where male graduates were outperforming their female counterparts. If you look at the current levels of graduates, you will see that their cream is predominantly female. These are the leaders and top executives of the future. Males are increasingly year by year falling behind their female rivals.

Female domination has been around as a male fantasy, hedonistic activity for the kinky rich even in Victorian times. Hidden from everyday women and certainly out of the reach of the masses, who were trying to survive in a tough society. In the 1960s during the feminist movements growth years, often female domination images were used as a backlash to warn men of what women really wanted. However this no doubt aroused a fantasy in some men too, and again the richer members of society were able to indulge in femdom play and no doubt with chastity play of some sort.

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In the 21st century with the advent of mass internet use, all sorts of sites popped up to do with femdom and specialied parts of it... It suddenly became easier for people to stumble upon these femdom activities for both males and females. It has lead to devices such as the CB2000 family of devices becoming internationally sold in large numbers. When you look at the numbers of people on various sites you can see each year, more people are discovering femdom flavours of sex.

... Male chastity has an interesting position because it isnt just a femdom activity. It is less extreme than most femdom activites and attracts many vanilla users. In fact the majority of users are probably vanilla.

More and more places are becoming available to purchase the devices. New devices are released each year, more comfortable, more discrete, and more secure, allowing for longer durations. As sales increase, prices fall and it becomes available to more to experiment with. Couples discovering male chastity and experimenting with it are now in their 20s, 30s, 40s and older so it is cutting across all generations.

The 20 year olds are interesting as they will form couples break and reform, taking with them their toys and sexual activities thus spreading the use of male chastity play more quickly. The 40 year olds do this to some extent through divorce too.

With male chastity, what starts off as play for a day or so, generally quickly leads to longer term wear. What was the originally the male's fantasy turns to the females fun...

What I have noticed over the past 2 years, is that there are more women who are interested in male chastity and who are initiating it in their relationship. Women of varying ages. Many of these women think that it should be more widespread in society and even in their family, one I know even encouraging her brothers to be locked by their patners.

This year I noticed that WH Smith, the biggest UK high street newpaper/magazine stall is selling a book on keyholding of male chastity devices. On YouTube and myspace website, you can see amateur videos of men in chastity belts...

In summary, society is changing, current female graduates are better educated, and this will lead to better jobs and better pay than their male counterparts. Sexually they are discovering sex for themselves from all sorts of sources including the internet. They are discovering male chastity devices too. These devices are becoming and will become cheaper, better and more easy to buy. The amount of male chastity device wearers has increased dramatically in the last 5 years and we should expect the increases in the next 5 to make the last 5 look unimpressive.

Anne Summers high street sex shop - marketed at women, now stocks a cheap rubbishy toy male chastity belt for 20 UK pounds. How long until they sell serious male chastity devices at a similar price? No doubt a male chastity device would become a standard toy given to a bride on her hen night or engagement present. And it wouldnt be long before the groom or fiance was wearing it fulltime.

There is no doubt in my mind that women of the future will have the political and financial power and will be making the decisions. And one of those decisions is that their male partner will wear a male chastity device. How much further this will go, how much oppressed males will become only time will tell.

As for the erect penis as a symbol of power. It is already less potent than it was. The feminist movement made it into a symbol of male aggression and a tool to be used against women. It is very hard to see what it can be replaced with. A vagina is not easily built to form an image. I think we may see the erect penis rise again as a symbol to represent female power as females will control the erections through the use of chastity belts. But in the age old battle of the sexes, we are seeing the fall of the penis. And we will probably see it totally defeated and caged within the next 20 years.