Cat in a Box
- Thread starter Odracir
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i clicked one of those wiki links and ended up clicking several links, somehow reaching foot binding...fuck!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_HIGH_CASTE_LADYS_DAINTY_LILY_FEET.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_HIGH_CASTE_LADYS_DAINTY_LILY_FEET.jpg
yeah men did for some reason. But it also seemed like a way to make the woman completely reliant on men. From wiki:
Bound feet were considered intensely erotic. Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 46 different ways of playing with women's bound feet. [1] Some men preferred never to see a woman's bound feet, so they were always concealed within tiny "lotus shoes". Feng Xun is recorded as stating, "If you remove the shoes and bindings, the aesthetic feeling will be destroyed forever." For them, the erotic effect was a function of the lotus gait, the tiny steps and swaying walk of a woman whose feet had been bound. The very fact that the bound foot was concealed from men's eyes was, in and of itself, sexually appealing. On the other hand, an uncovered foot would also give off a foul odor, as various fungi would colonise the unwashable folds. The other primary attribute of a woman having bound feet was to limit her mobility, altering the means by which females were allowed to be a part of politics and of the world at large. It also gave the woman an irreversible dependency on her family. Thus bound feet became an alluring symbol of chastity, as a bound foot woman was largely restricted to her home and could not venture far without an escort to help her, thus denying any advances upon her and ensuring her total devotion to her husband.
Bound feet were considered intensely erotic. Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 46 different ways of playing with women's bound feet. [1] Some men preferred never to see a woman's bound feet, so they were always concealed within tiny "lotus shoes". Feng Xun is recorded as stating, "If you remove the shoes and bindings, the aesthetic feeling will be destroyed forever." For them, the erotic effect was a function of the lotus gait, the tiny steps and swaying walk of a woman whose feet had been bound. The very fact that the bound foot was concealed from men's eyes was, in and of itself, sexually appealing. On the other hand, an uncovered foot would also give off a foul odor, as various fungi would colonise the unwashable folds. The other primary attribute of a woman having bound feet was to limit her mobility, altering the means by which females were allowed to be a part of politics and of the world at large. It also gave the woman an irreversible dependency on her family. Thus bound feet became an alluring symbol of chastity, as a bound foot woman was largely restricted to her home and could not venture far without an escort to help her, thus denying any advances upon her and ensuring her total devotion to her husband.
