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SYSK Selects: How Foot Binding Worked

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Jul 21, 2018

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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. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

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Jul 21, 2018

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