(January 4, 2014 at 2:04 pm)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: Ah, footbinding. Yes indeed. As you may suspect its entirely sexual. There are three elements. One is that the lotus foot, placed together, forms an analogue of a ladies hoo hoo, and men were thought to use it for the traditional purpose (foot fetishes are nothing new). The second is somewhat more esoteric. Crippling the feet in that way means the feet are inherently unstable and painful to walk on. The muscle tensions required to walk like that involve massive tensions through all the extrinsic stabilisers right up to the pelvic floor. In short, a lady with bound feet will have a very tight vagina. Just for fun, try flexing your big toe so you walk on the tip of your toe and your heels, and notice what the muscles around your butt and pelvis do. Now imagine what those muscles would be like if you walked like that ALL the time. Right? Right. Finally, a woman with crippled feet is not able to do any kind of manual labour. As such it was an indication that one did not expect to have to work, a mark of social prestige.
So if I had just bound my feet, I wouldn't have to work and a man would take care of me? Wish I would have known about that!
