chinese foot binding

An ancient practice in China was to bind the foot of young girls to stop them growing. They were tightly bound and it was painful. In that culture at the time a smaller foot was considered more erotic and a higher price could be demanded by the brides family prior to marriage if the feet were smaller. The practice was barbaric, disabling and brutal and was widely practiced, especially in rural China. The practice was banned many years ago and is no longer done. There are still some older Chinese women alive in remote rural areas who were subjected to this as children.

Chinese Foot Binding

Once this was done, there was no treatment for the pain and the best option for them was to keep the feet bound. Chinese food binding has also been shown to affect cortical issues in the brain.

While this practice has ended in China, a number of social anthropologists have drawn parallels between Chinese foot binding and the practice of women wearing tight fitting shoes in today’s society. Both practices are argued as being something that is done to please the male members of society and both practices are harmful and brutal to the foot.

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