Three Inch Golden Lotus

Behind the practice of foot binding

warning: explicit erotica

Footbinding was the longest lasting and most widespread sexual fetish in history. It lasted for a thousand years (dying out early 20th century). It was done to three billion women.

Small feet were synonymous with beauty, so much so that it was difficult for a woman with large feet to find a husband. The perfect foot was, according to a well-known expression, one that was “thin, small, pointed, crooked, perfumed, soft, and symmetrical.”

To be desirable, the foot had to be tiny. To make it so, the mother would wrap it in a ten-foot-long, two-inch wide bandage that was tightened each day, so that flesh rotted and fell off, sometimes a toe or two, and the foot oozed pus, until the process of deformation was complete after two years, at which point the feet were practically dead. This withered object had its own special name, “The Golden Lotus,” because it resembled a lotus pod with the petals removed.

Dr. Ko Chi-sheng, owner and head of Tucheng hospital, explains why so many parents inflicted so much pain upon their daughters: “This is why,” he said pulling out a large plastic drawer and placing it on his lap. Inside were little human figurines about half the size of Barbie and Ken dolls but considerably naughtier — they were naked and joined together in a bizarre variety of sexual positions. “This is why,” he repeated, taking out a copulating pair and holding it in front of me. The woman was using her feet in an inventive way on a man who was obviously in a state of high arousal. “This is why,” he pulled out some more dolls, this time a threesome, an equally excited man with one of the woman’s tiny feet in the man’s mouth.

A French scholar also noted: “All the Celestials whom I have interrogated on this point have replied unanimously: ‘Oh, a little foot! You Europeans cannot understand how exquisite, how sweet, how exciting it is!’ The contact of the genital organ with the little foot produces in the male an indescribable degree of voluptuous feeling, and women skilled in love know that to arouse the ardor of their lovers a better method than all Chinese aphrodisiacs is to take the penis between their feet. It is not rare to find Chinese Christians accusing themselves at confession of having had ‘evil thoughts on looking at a woman’s foot.’”

There was even a manual detailing 48 ways to fondle bound feet.

It excited such passion that prostitutes would expose their feet “in a private chamber,” where it was customary to linger over the girl’s feet, stroking, sniffing, and licking them, and even dipping them in tea before drinking it. A favorite delight was to eat almonds from between her crushed toes. When mounting passion could be contained no longer, the gasping customer would at last drive his jade spear into her jade gate and, raising her tiny feet to his shoulders, insert her Gold Lotus entirely into his mouth and suck noisily till the moment of “Clouds and Rain.”

It was also believed that women that had their feet bound would walk a certain way that strengthened and tightened the vagina, and that the woman’s buttocks and “Jade Gate” would develop in such a way that the woman’s “Jade Gate” would grip the man’s “Jade Spear” tightly.

What women have endured for the pleasure of men!

Sources:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1277313.The_Soong_Dynasty http://www.romanization.com/books/formosan_odyssey/footbinding.html http://gordonkiely.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/chinese-foot-binding.html http://sd2012goldenchild.weebly.com/footbinding.html https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/354750.The_Three_inch_Golden_Lotus http://storyofwomen.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/foot-binding-part-13-a-search-for-perfection/

http://margaretgunnng.blogspot.com.au/2011/12/excerpt-from-three-inch-golden-lotus.html

http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/11557062_set-of-10-chinese-erotic-paintings

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