if you are a returning reader after yesterday's articles, kudos to you! i salute your level of courage and bow before your high tolerance for shocking images. anyway, we shall continue looking as some rather uncomfortable things that done in the name of beauty.
there has always been a perception that girls appear sexier if they have waspish waists and hourglass figures, but the pain and discomfort suffered in the name of sexuality must at times have been truly awful. from ancient times through all kinds of societies, corsets persisted, and still has an impact today, though the garments are now much more user friendly.
a great number of societies considered such garments vital for sexual attraction, tight garments a form of subjugation, which women seemed happy to accept. roman slaves underwent tight lacing, middle-eastern women favoring elaborately decorated tight belts to gain male admiration. as time passed restrictive bodices, of cloth or leather became women's essentials, 15th century ones stiffened with wood, whalebone or even wrought iron, and mother of french king henry iii catherine de medici wanted thirteen inch waists and no larger among female staff.
many females suffered and died young, because wanting to show off their best sexual assets could hardly have been done in less healthier ways. women in victorian times believed a tiny waist essential for every girl because wanting to be married before reaching twenty-one with a waist measurement similar to their age, was seen as vitally important in society. this meant that corsets were so tightly laced that legs and lower bodies were often permanently numb making fainting commonplace.
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many females suffered and died young, because wanting to show off their best sexual assets could hardly have been done in less healthier ways. women in victorian times believed a tiny waist essential for every girl because wanting to be married before reaching twenty-one with a waist measurement similar to their age, was seen as vitally important in society. this meant that corsets were so tightly laced that legs and lower bodies were often permanently numb making fainting commonplace.
that said, madonna was often seen wearing corsets on her world tour and singer alicia keys wears one in the victorian style to spice up her stage act. both britney spears and victoria beckham are often seen on celebrity nights wearing corsets, which are great for accentuating the shape, though many these days feel that these garments should carry health warnings, because they once were practically instruments of torture.
attitudes may have changed today but the appeal of the corset never died completely. hourglass figures still a powerful sexual weapon, fancy corsets readily accepted as sex toys. anything that enhances gratification has a place in society and rightly so, even naturally shapely women made more attractive with that waspish waistline and in the sexual struggle every little helps.
fash'on... BAM!
