Locked-In Love: How two weeks in chastity can end the barter system, renew courtship and make a better husband.

Author Key Barrett felt he didn't understand chastity well enough to be comfortable writing about the motivations and emotional aspects behind it in his fiction and nonfiction. So, he spoke with his wife, and together they agreed he should be 'locked up' for seven days to chronicle his feelings. She, in turn, agreed to hold the key (being his 'keyholder'), only unlocking him if he needed it for safety reasons, to make sure everything is working properly, or if she had sexual interest in freeing him. What started as a simple one week journal quickly blossomed into something else entirely. By the third day he was feeling butterflies just when his wife touched his hand. By day four, she noticed he was much more engaged in their household and being an active and proactive partner. What started as a week for him quickly became two weeks for them both to journal. Through chastity and communication, they identified a sexual trade-off that existed in their marriage, a 'barter system' wherein