China old beauty

While it is not practiced anymore and was a trend that died out over the centuries, foot biding was a common practice of the upper class in China.  Beginning at a young age, girls would begin the painful process of tightly binding their feet so that they would no longer grow.  Binded feet was seen as erotic in Chinese culture and it was believed that women with binned feet would have a prosperous marriage.  What binding feet actually caused was the restrictions of women to partake in a social life due to the limitations of mobility.