Once in a while, all the necessary factors converge to produce a peculiar nationalized sexual fetish. In China, that fetish was foot binding and over a millennia three billion Chinese women's feet were brutally disfigured for men's pleasure.
Josh and Chuck dive into the fascinating and disturbing thousand-year practice of Chinese footbinding, where roughly 3 billion women had their feet deliberately deformed from childhood to create tiny, pointed "lotus feet" that were considered the height of beauty and eroticism. They explore how this custom started in an emperor's court around 970 AD, the brutal process of breaking and binding young girls' feet, and the surprising ways it shaped Chinese society, architecture, and even foreign policy before finally being eradicated by the communist government in the 1950s.
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