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The sexual feelings of the Edwardian male (and female)
were aroused by the hourglass figure, with its overtones
of discipline and helplessness. Corsets can either temporarily
or permanently re-shape the torso. Taken to extremes,
it becomes corset masochism.
Corsetry in Europe was introduced in the 15th and 16th
centuries. At first the bodies were simply tightly bandaged,
but later the bandages were reinforced by small boards
about 2 inches wide with strings attached for tight-lacing.
As well as this attempt to alter the natural contours
of the waist and abdomen, the women were also constrained
to place lead plates on their breasts to make them flat-chested,
so that it became practically impossible to nurse babies.
The practise so severe that women fainted if the constrictions
were removed and were forced to keep the apparatus on
in bed. Botticelli's women, with their prominent abdomens,
owed their shape to tight-lacing.
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In the 19th century shortly after birth, a leather belt was
tied firmly around the baby's waist. When the child's growth
snapped the stitches, the belt was replaced by a second, equally
tightly sewn. These constrictions gave a disproportionate
width to a woman's hips and shoulders, and this became the
ideal female form. When the girl married, it was her spouse's
privilege to remove the final belt, which he cut off with
his dagger on the marriage night.
Such was the demand to have the form of an 'ideal woman' that
women learned to be ashamed of their full breasts. Many under
went an operation as unpleasant and as primitive as the excision
of the clitoris. In order to diminish the size of large breasts,
incisions were made around the base of the breast and up to
the nipple. Since the nipples would be displaced and pulled
down under the breast as a result of this 'aesthetic surgery',
the nipples are cut out and stitched to a higher position.
Naturally the breast loses its functions; its sensitivity
and scars remain.
Serious Body Modification of Corsets is best explored when
one is very young; it gets harder and harder as you get older.
It is not something where one can expect immediate results.
Some Corset training can be a 7 to 8 year undertaking depending
on the results desired. By the way this compression principle
can be carried out on other parts of the body if so desired;
arms, legs virtually anywhere.
The Corset in general, once adjusted too, can become most
erotic and enhance sexual experiences. Having sex with an
extremely tight-laced corset on is quite an experience as
all your internal organs are in a different place.
One must develop a great patience and co-operation with nature
to get to the point where it feels more normal to be restricted
than to be without. If, however, you just have the desire
to wear erotic apparel, then please, please go ahead. Nothing
more feminine than a woman in all her splendour, tight-laced
in a beautiful corset.
CRIMSONLORD
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