Foot binding photos of Chinese women, the tiny shoes they wore, and X-rays of their feet going on show in Hong Kong | South China Morning Post
![Horrific photographs show the centuries-old Chinese practice of foot binding that breaks bones and agonisingly mutilates the toes into a 'lotus' shape | The Sun Horrific photographs show the centuries-old Chinese practice of foot binding that breaks bones and agonisingly mutilates the toes into a 'lotus' shape | The Sun](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/nintchdbpict000324115471.jpg)
Horrific photographs show the centuries-old Chinese practice of foot binding that breaks bones and agonisingly mutilates the toes into a 'lotus' shape | The Sun
![Foot binding, or footbinding, was the Chinese custom of breaking and tightly binding the feet of young girls in order to change their shape and size. Feet altered by footbinding were known Foot binding, or footbinding, was the Chinese custom of breaking and tightly binding the feet of young girls in order to change their shape and size. Feet altered by footbinding were known](https://preview.redd.it/km4oxk4jq5b81.jpg?auto=webp&s=b4f7241f35b77cd59b63858153046539c0ace9ee)
Foot binding, or footbinding, was the Chinese custom of breaking and tightly binding the feet of young girls in order to change their shape and size. Feet altered by footbinding were known
![All about sex: Real reason why Chinese women bound their feet ... and it wasn't for their pleasure | South China Morning Post All about sex: Real reason why Chinese women bound their feet ... and it wasn't for their pleasure | South China Morning Post](https://www.scmp.com/sites/default/files/2015/09/03/8acabd046e8d452aea9b2ae50d2255bf.jpg)
All about sex: Real reason why Chinese women bound their feet ... and it wasn't for their pleasure | South China Morning Post
![Foot binding (pinyin: chanzu, literally 'bound feet') was a custom practiced on young girls and women for approximately one thousand years in China, beginning in the 10th century and ending in the Foot binding (pinyin: chanzu, literally 'bound feet') was a custom practiced on young girls and women for approximately one thousand years in China, beginning in the 10th century and ending in the](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2B0314T/foot-binding-pinyin-chanzu-literally-bound-feet-was-a-custom-practiced-on-young-girls-and-women-for-approximately-one-thousand-years-in-china-beginning-in-the-10th-century-and-ending-in-the-first-half-of-20th-century-there-is-little-evidence-for-the-custom-prior-to-the-court-of-the-southern-tang-dynasty-in-nanjing-which-celebrated-the-fame-of-its-dancing-girls-renowned-for-their-tiny-feet-and-beautiful-bow-shoes-what-is-clear-is-that-foot-binding-was-first-practised-among-the-elite-and-only-in-the-wealthiest-parts-of-china-which-suggests-that-binding-the-feet-of-well-born-girls-re-2B0314T.jpg)