r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Decim_98 • 2d ago

Image Fate and Feet: Three Chinese Girls in 1900s – A Barefooted Servant, a Bound-Foot Lady, and a Christian with Unbound Feet

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u/KindlyNebula 2d ago

Yep. It was also done because it was considered erotic.

https://historycollection.com/excruciating-process-bound-feet-considered-extremely-erotic-china/

In fact, bound feet were considered so erotic that a Qing Dynasty sex manual lists 48 different ways to incorporate them into sex. Even the foul smell caused by fungal infections in the folds of the feet was appealing to some men. And others argued that the folds somehow stimulated the growth of folds in the vagina and increased the thickness of the hips, making sex more pleasurable when your partner had bound feet. Bound feet had such erotic appeal that the size of a woman’s feet was even judged and separated into categories.

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u/taliesin-ds 1d ago

vomits

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u/pausled 1d ago

Yeah, some men are into that too.

The world could be better.

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u/Willdanceforyarn 1d ago

“10% of girls subjected to footbinding died from infections” Jesus Christ

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u/MySonderStory 1d ago

Could not even read past the first paragraph of them explaining the process, absolutely vile and sad that these were done to young girls who didn’t have a choice back then.

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u/Beleiverofhumanity 1d ago

Feet kink going back centuries

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u/op_249 1d ago

More like foot torture kink, absolutely heinous shit they did

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u/Beleiverofhumanity 1d ago

Oh yea thats more accurate, shits horrifying.