Opinion, All about sex: Real reason why Chinese women bound their feet and it wasn't for their pleasure
Early Western accounts of the alluring gait of China's bound-feet women ignored the belief underlying the practice - that it tightened the women's thigh and pelvic muscles and heightened the sexual pleasure of the men who possessed them.
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Like opium dens, sedan chairs and bat-winged junks, women with bound feet were once stereotypical to China.
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