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Foot binding was started in around the tenth century during the Sung Dynasty. At that time, men wouldn't marry women who didn't have bound feet. Women who didn't have their feet bound were considered to have "clown feet". Foot binding was mainly for sex...
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Women who didn't have their feet bound were considered to have "clown feet". Foot binding was mainly for sex. In China, women never really had a say in anything, so they basically always had to listen to the man and do what the men wanted. And the foot binding tightened the pelvic muscle, which pleased the men...
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