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So I have a bard in my game who wears cestus to keep from suffering attacks of opportunity while making unarmed spell touch attacks.
(Do spell touch attacks provoke unarmed AoO?)
He also uses them to make attacks of opportunity on bad guys provoking AoO from moving in threatened squares.
Can someone cast spells while wearing cestus?
By RAW it looks like all 3 of these things are totally legit.
Why doesnt every player do this to avoid AoO and get their free AoO on others while being unarmed for the most part?
http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/advanced/advancedGear.html#cestus
Cestus: The cestus is a glove of leather or thick cloth that covers the wielder from mid-finger to mid-forearm. The close combat weapon is reinforced with metal plates over the fingers and often lined with wicked spikes along the backs of the hands and wrists. While wearing a cestus, you are considered armed and your unarmed attacks deal normal damage. If you are proficient with a cestus, your unarmed strikes may deal bludgeoning or piercing damage. Monks are proficient with the cestus. When using a cestus, your fingers are mostly exposed, allowing you to wield or carry items in that hand, but the constriction of the weapon at your knuckles gives you a –2 penalty on all precision-based tasks involving that hand (such as opening locks).
Yes to everything, and you don't provoke AoO's for making the touch attack with a spell (but you do for casting said spell if you cast it while in a threatened area)
(Do spell touch attacks provoke unarmed AoO?)
Touch Attacks: Touching an opponent with a touch spell is considered to be an armed attack and therefore does not provoke attacks of opportunity. The act of casting a spell, however, does provoke an attack of opportunity. Touch attacks come in two types: melee touch attacks and ranged touch attacks. You can score critical hits with either type of attack as long as the spell deals damage. Your opponent's AC against a touch attack does not include any armor bonus, shield bonus, or natural armor bonus. His size modifier, Dexterity modifier, and deflection bonus (if any) all apply normally.
The touch attack itself doesn't provoke. It's the act of casting the spell that provokes. Unless it has special rules I don't know about, a cestus doesn't help with that.