[King Herald]

It isn't just some cute custom, but involves breaking the bones of the foot, when a girl was very young, and years of agony, making it almost impossible to walk.

It started off something to do with an emperors wife having small feet and it just grew and morphed from there. Disgusting and savage 'custom'.

[**butterflylove**]

christ that looks painful

[Cancun78]

I read somewhere the gimpish hobble made this practice sexy as well. If I remember correctly, Miss Monroe or some other famous sex pot had her heels on one side shortened so she could get the hobble down for attraction. Mentioned in the same article.

I have no interest in in this stupid human shit.

[chizdog]

That looks so painful and unattractive. Not my cup of tea

[DParga21]

Its best to keep in mind the reason behind the custom. As with any society, it has to do with the connection between wealth and beauty. Wealth IS beauty, from a societal standpoint. Therefore, a wealthy (and thus attractive) Chinese woman would have her feet bound to demonstrate that she was so wealthy she didn't even need to walk properly.

It's similar to the way tanned, muscular bodies were considered undesirable in Renaissance European culture, since anyone with wealth would not need to go outside and work hard. Now, in our modern society, the people with the tan, toned bodies are the wealthy ones who have both time and money to devote to the practice.

So with that in mind, it's easy to see why footbinding was considered so sexy and desirable.

[Adora]

Originally Posted by September Tea ↗

Footbinding continued long enough for there to be some women alive today who still have bound feet. Seeing these full colour photos makes me disgusted to think that this was actually a sexual fetish for some men. They liked to LICK and SUCK bound feet.

Those feet in the last picture look like fucking hooves.

[durt]

i'm down with piercing etc. but this is just fukin' stewpid shit

[aleatharhea]

The practice had a practical application, but it wasn't about demonstrating the *woman's* wealth at all. It kept female property, including wives, of rich men from fleeing slavery. Walking is excruciating, but they are trained to bear it dispassionately. However, running is impossible. The aesthetic fascination developed over time from there, as DeParga21 has suggested, like tanning. It became a sign of beauty because the wives of rich men did it. But it wasn't because she was demonstrating she didn't have to walk. In fact, they did walk, and served their husbands when called upon.

[AnaleFaust]

They look like pig trotters... How is that sexy?

[Shylock]

Trotters