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yeah its not a very common practice these days but there are still some areas in china that still practice it.

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Pretty stupid ideas...

I heard that men liked to stick womens feet in there mouths and it was a huge turn on...apparantly

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Originally posted by love_child Pretty stupid ideas...

its stupid now when we have more medical knowledge. back then they didnt know anything so it was a good idea at the time. look at those women that put rings around their necks to make themselves look like giraffes. pretty fucking stupid idea there too.

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yeah I read somewhere that girls would be put into those shoes from very young age
small feet was a sign of beauty back in a day.. plus girls would walk with small steps, which was supposed to make them look more lady-like

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are those toes under her foot in the last pic??!

holy shit lol.

Oh so thats where the fashion of pointed shoes came from......

I'm still trying to figure out what the fuck I'm looking at...

so those lumps UNDERNEATH her foot are her toes? It appears she has no toes on the pointed looking thing.

So her heel is an ACTUAL heel?

I wanna see some x-rays of that shit!!

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Originally posted by chinamon its stupid now when we have more medical knowledge. back then they didnt know anything so it was a good idea at the time. look at those women that put rings around their necks to make themselves look like giraffes. pretty fucking stupid idea there too.

Yes, that is also stupid.

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Originally posted by FunkyCrew yeah I read somewhere that girls would be put into those shoes from very young age small feet was a sign of beauty back in a day.. plus girls would walk with small steps, which was supposed to make them look more lady-like

Ya...wasn't it also a sign of wealthy or royalty or something?

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I wanna see some x-rays of that shit!!

voila!



The practice is called Chinese Foot Binding... Wiki article after the jump;

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Originally posted by *~LiSa-LoO~* Ya...wasn't it also a sign of wealthy or royalty or something?

not sure! I think it mentioned that this would get the girls married quicker or something

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