The Real Reason Why Chinese Women Bound Their Feet

AllAboutSex: The Real reason why Chinese women bound their feet ... and it wasn't for their pleasure. Beauty has been pursued for millennia, from ancient times to the glam of the modern age. Every society has styles and beauty techniques that often reflect what the average person should look like in order to be deemed beautiful. But beauty is not always easy; many even claim that pain is beauty. Ancient China had its own definition of beauty, and it was cruel, disfiguring, and harmful to all those who underwent the procedure. Lotus feet, acquired by extreme foot-binding, was all the rage, and those who had bound feet were said to be of utmost beauty. To gain such tiny feet, however, women and children had to undergo a crippling procedure that disfigured them for the rest of their lives just to please men.