How Foot Binding Worked

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2013

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Once in a while, all the necessary factors converge to produce a peculiar nationalized sexual fetish. In China, that fetish was foot binding and over a millennia three billion Chinese women's feet were brutally disfigured for men's pleasure.

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