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kittinSol -> RE: From Japan (6/15/2008 7:10:59 AM)
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ORIGINAL: MstrssScarlet
My submissive sent me some pictures yesterday. The women in Japan have always been considered a bit submissive, but take a look at their latest foot fashions:
1. These 'ballet' shoes are common in BDSM circles and are absolutely not typically Japanese.
2. Can we get the facts straight before propagating nonsense? Footbinding was a Chinese custom, and the women that are depicted with broken, bound foot are old: the practice was outlawed in China in 1915.
3. The Japanese were instrumental in outlawing footbinding when they took over Taiwan in 1895.
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However, it was not until 1911 when the Manchu dynasty was toppled by Sun Yat Sen's revolution (which was followed by the formation of the New Republic of China) that foot binding was outlawed. In 1915 the Chinese government declared the practice illegal and sent inspectors to issue monetary fines to those who continued to uphold the tradition.
Despite the outlawing of this custom, foot binding continued in isolated regions of China until the 1930s. Half a century later, the last factory manufacturing shoes for women with bound feet in Hanbin, China ceased production of what had come to be identified with pain and suffering.
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