TET: TETris

[New Maldorainia]

I've heard about the binding of feet; what's up with that anyways? Do Chinese/Japanese people associate small feet with beauty or some such?

Old Chinese practice, yet. They looked at small feet as feminine/refined. Admittedly it was little more than infantilization.

-Glomp-

Yes, because we know there are fish that glomp each other. cx

I glomp people all the time.

[Lianhua (Ancient)]

I call that 'George', in honour of my friend.

I'm sure he's an interesting person, if you can attribute this to him. cx

I think they ended this practice towards the end of the Qing or the beginning of the Republic.

By the early 20th century it was already falling out of favor, IIRC. So yes, toward the end of the Qing.

[Stern des Meeres]

At least my mother didn't try and "bind" my feet to keep them small. cx

Ouch. Breaking the bones in your feet definitely isn't a very motherly thing to do.

I read a firsthand account of it last year in history class. No part of it sounded pleasant. It was painful to read.

[Aeken]

I have more. But they're too sexual.

There's a slang word we have here used to describe someone who's had a little too much to drink and start's getting touchy with everybody.

In English, I believe it would be something along the lines of "pussy fingers".

I got some bad search results with that.

[DesAnges]

I call that 'George', in honour of my friend.

I'm sure he's an interesting person, if you can attribute this to him. cx

He's pretty cool.

Old Chinese practice, yet. They looked at small feet as feminine/refined. Admittedly it was little more than infantilization.


Yes, because we know there are fish that glomp each other. cx

I glomp people all the time.

We hadn't noticed. And did you just call yourself a fish?

[Divair]

I no longer feel tired. I no longer feel exhausted. I no longer feel lonely. I no longer feel sadness. I only feel fear. I want my fucking meds, and I hope to fuck that they work. I'm going to go pass out while wishing I didn't have to wake up. Bye.

[Beiluxia]

At least my mother didn't try and "bind" my feet to keep them small. cx

Ouch. Breaking the bones in your feet definitely isn't a very motherly thing to do.

I heard they had specialists do it back in the day, since the mothers couldn't bear actually hearing the cries of their daughters...

Apparently they also put in shards so that the later-infected flesh would easily fall out, making the feet smaller. Blegh.

[New Maldorainia]

Ouch. Breaking the bones in your feet definitely isn't a very motherly thing to do.

I read a firsthand account of it last year in history class. No part of it sounded pleasant. It was painful to read.

Yep, and as someone with a degree in history, I have read some horror stories.

[Aeken]

I haven't said much about it.

Thats my point

Well, how are you doing?

[Lianhua (Ancient)]

I read a firsthand account of it last year in history class. No part of it sounded pleasant. It was painful to read.

It was unpleasant, to say the least. There's another version of that where the mother would die rope/string around the child under her clothing so that as she grew older, her body would adjust to the curves.

Ouch. Breaking the bones in your feet definitely isn't a very motherly thing to do.

Quite nasty, yes.

[Starkiller101]

Thats my point

Well, how are you doing?

I'm doing good I'm getting wifi in my house next week so i will not have to walk to macdnolds everyday/

[Stern des Meeres]

I no longer feel tired. I no longer feel exhausted. I no longer feel lonely. I no longer feel sadness. I only feel fear. I want my fucking meds, and I hope to fuck that they work. I'm going to go pass out while wishing I didn't have to wake up. Bye.

Good night, Div. Hoping the best for you. <3

I read a firsthand account of it last year in history class. No part of it sounded pleasant. It was painful to read.

Yep, and as someone with a degree in history, I have read some horror stories.

I had to take my shoes off while I read it because I felt the need to stretch my feet.

[Aeken]

Well, how are you doing?

I'm doing good I'm getting wifi in my house next week so i will not have to walk to macdnolds everyday/

Good to hear.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

What the fuck Wikipedia (and China, if this turns out to be true)

Lian, I would like to ask if this is correct?:

Bound feet were once considered intensely erotic in Chinese culture, and a woman with perfect lotus feet was likely to make a more prestigious marriage. Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 48 different ways of playing with women's bound feet. Some men preferred never to see a woman's bound feet, so they were always concealed within tiny "lotus shoes" and wrappings. Feng Xun is recorded as stating, "If you remove the shoes and bindings, the aesthetic feeling will be destroyed forever"—an indication that men understood that the symbolic erotic fantasy of bound feet did not correspond to its unpleasant physical reality, which was therefore to be kept hidden.[14] The fact that the bound foot was concealed from men's eyes was considered to be sexually appealing. On the other hand, an uncovered foot would also give off a foul odour, as various saprobic microorganisms would colonize the unwashable folds.

For men, the primary erotic effect was a function of the lotus gait, the tiny steps and swaying walk of a woman whose feet had been bound. Women with such deformed feet avoided placing weight on the front of the foot and tended to walk predominantly on their heels. As a result, women who underwent foot-binding walked in a careful, cautious, and unsteady manner.[18] Additionally a common male fantasy was that the unusual gait tended to strengthen the vaginal muscles.[20]

An attribute of a woman with bound feet was the limitation of her mobility, and therefore, her inability to take part in politics, social life and the world. Bound feet rendered women dependent on their families, particularly their men, and became an alluring symbol of chastity and male ownership, since a woman was largely restricted to her home and could not venture far without an escort or the help of watchful servants.[21]

[Stern des Meeres]

I read a firsthand account of it last year in history class. No part of it sounded pleasant. It was painful to read.

It was unpleasant, to say the least. There's another version of that where the mother would die rope/string around the child under her clothing so that as she grew older, her body would adjust to the curves.

Wow.

[Starkiller101]

I'm doing good I'm getting wifi in my house next week so i will not have to walk to macdnolds everyday/

Good to hear.

Yeah but i like walking

[New Maldorainia]

I no longer feel tired. I no longer feel exhausted. I no longer feel lonely. I no longer feel sadness. I only feel fear. I want my fucking meds, and I hope to fuck that they work. I'm going to go pass out while wishing I didn't have to wake up. Bye.

Good night, Div. Hoping the best for you. <3

Yep, and as someone with a degree in history, I have read some horror stories.

I had to take my shoes off while I read it because I felt the need to stretch my feet.

You never want to read about the Nazi "medical" experiments they conducted on people in the camps.

[Aeken]

Good to hear.

Yeah but i like walking

So it's a bad thing.

[Stern des Meeres]

Good night, Div. Hoping the best for you. <3


I had to take my shoes off while I read it because I felt the need to stretch my feet.

You never want to read about the Nazi "medical" experiments they conducted on people in the camps.

I've read of some of them. Sickening.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

Ouch. Breaking the bones in your feet definitely isn't a very motherly thing to do.

I heard they had specialists do it back in the day, since the mothers couldn't bear actually hearing the cries of their daughters...

Apparently they also put in shards so that the later-infected flesh would easily fall out, making the feet smaller. Blegh.

Dear God...

[Aeken]

Good night, Div. Hoping the best for you. <3


I had to take my shoes off while I read it because I felt the need to stretch my feet.

You never want to read about the Nazi "medical" experiments they conducted on people in the camps.

No. Not those.

[New Maldorainia]

You never want to read about the Nazi "medical" experiments they conducted on people in the camps.

I've read of some of them. Sickening.

My mom knew someone who had it performed on her.

[Meritocratic States]

[Stern des Meeres]

I've read of some of them. Sickening.

My mom knew someone who had it performed on her.

Damn.

[Lianhua (Ancient)]

What the fuck Wikipedia (and China, if this turns out to be true)

Lian, I would like to ask if this is correct?:

Bound feet were once considered intensely erotic in Chinese culture, and a woman with perfect lotus feet was likely to make a more prestigious marriage. Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 48 different ways of playing with women's bound feet. Some men preferred never to see a woman's bound feet, so they were always concealed within tiny "lotus shoes" and wrappings. Feng Xun is recorded as stating, "If you remove the shoes and bindings, the aesthetic feeling will be destroyed forever"—an indication that men understood that the symbolic erotic fantasy of bound feet did not correspond to its unpleasant physical reality, which was therefore to be kept hidden.[14] The fact that the bound foot was concealed from men's eyes was considered to be sexually appealing. On the other hand, an uncovered foot would also give off a foul odour, as various saprobic microorganisms would colonize the unwashable folds.

For men, the primary erotic effect was a function of the lotus gait, the tiny steps and swaying walk of a woman whose feet had been bound. Women with such deformed feet avoided placing weight on the front of the foot and tended to walk predominantly on their heels. As a result, women who underwent foot-binding walked in a careful, cautious, and unsteady manner.[18] Additionally a common male fantasy was that the unusual gait tended to strengthen the vaginal muscles.[20]

An attribute of a woman with bound feet was the limitation of her mobility, and therefore, her inability to take part in politics, social life and the world. Bound feet rendered women dependent on their families, particularly their men, and became an alluring symbol of chastity and male ownership, since a woman was largely restricted to her home and could not venture far without an escort or the help of watchful servants.[21]

This is tied to Confucius teachings yes, who believed women ought to partake of no business beyond the household and concern herself with nothing other than her immediate family, helping her husband, her maiden family and her in-laws.

And I've read said Qing Dynasty Sex Manual. It's odd. Japan has something similar too. cx