The ancient Chinese custom of footbinding has caused severe life-long suffering for the Chinese women involved. The first documented reference to footbinding was from the Southern Tang Dynasty in Nanjing. It was introduced in the 11th century and spread from the ranks of the wealthy to those of more modest means to peasantry. A main reason women did this was for the pleasure of men. Men preferred women with small feet and sexual urges weren’…showed first 75 words of 1075 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1075 total…formed natural –foot societies whose members pledged against bound feet. These three tactics soon brought footbinding to a quick end. Footbinding, however, was an important social custom in China. It is sometimes compared to plucking eyebrows or getting a face-lift today. It was all a scheme to make their appearance more beautiful and refined. It basically shows that what one society feels is wrong, another may consider right in the context of their cultural beliefs.