LOTUS FOOT, bound foot

Legend has it that lotus or lily foot slippers first appeared in China in the 11th century when Empress Taki was born with deformed feet. To save her future embarrassment, her father announced that only women with very small feet could be truly feminine and desirable. As a result women began to bind their feet. The tiny, virtually unusable feet were a mark of status, beauty, gentility and sexual attractiveness.
The binding process began at age 5 to 7 years old. Bandages were wrapped around the foot to bend the four smaller toes inward under the foot towards the heel until it resembled a half moon.The majority of young girls had their feet bound by their mothers. Binding a daughters feet would ensure she would be married and hopefully to a wealthy man. The intial process of binding the feet took just one night but the feet took years of pain to conform into the beautiful crescent shape. During a painful 2-3 year period, the size of the shoe was gradually reduced. The most highly desired goal being a size only three inches in length.
These silk shoes only measure 140mm (5½ inches) in length and 24mm (1 inch) in width...
Footbinding was horribly painful. In asking why women would do this we need to understand the history behind the practice. Then we can begin to answer our questions as to why a painful tradition would continue to exist for so long.

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• binding

[Forevabaybayy]

Confused if I should "like" this video because of its good quality and such, or "dislike" this video because of what it is about...

[LadyMackeral]

When I first read about this, I started crying and nearly threw up. It makes me feel sick every time I read about it. Those poor women, they must have gone through so much pain!

Those feet are hideous, no wonder the men never saw them without shoes or bandages.

[hannahunney]

@Forevabaybayy "like" it if you think it's important other people watch it.

[BakaBunnyGirl]

To clarify, the binding of feet starts around the ages 3-4, and not every woman at that time had to go through with this. It was only the rich.

[rayfire50]

holy fuck.. i hope she dont get mad n kick someone in the ass

[Ninchiboy]

we cant consider them POOR, because women had bind foot will have advantages in their country

[JMares123]

:( what a painful tradition. I dont find these feet attractive at aaaaalll

[pjm5678]

IV'E BEEN SCARRED FOR LIFE

[Vikitoria00]

reminds me of Bioshock 2... the enemy humans there have deformed feet too D:

[goddessOfThEniTe]

Song Name? Besides that, It's horrible what these women had to go through. :(

[GUURL101]

@barneythefatdinosaur

...ARE YOU CRAZY???? I could care less about that other crap...but what about SEDATION!!! 5-7 year old girls DO NOT get breast implants lipo botox...and like I said, they DID NOT USE SEDATION...if they did then I wouldn't actually care as much...I don't have a problem with long necks but this is HORRIBLY WRONG to do that to those girls!! And some times if the family goes to a professional then afterwards they have to walk home...