Shoes For Bound Feet (Image obtained from WikiMedia Commons)
Women have spent thousands of years trying to be as beautiful as possible. Sometimes, they’ll even go to the extreme of causing themselves pain in order to appear beautiful. In today’s society, we women wear shoes that hurt our feet, but make us look gorgeous. But, ours is not the only society to have done this.
Since the 7th century AD, Chinese women practiced the art of foot binding. In essence, they wrapped their feet in such a way as to make them as small as possible. There are many legends as to why this was done, including the idea that men found them to be erogenous. Experts believe the real reason was so men could better control their wives. It wasn’t until the early 20th century that this practice was outlawed.