Wednesday 10 April 2024
High heel shoes are not the most practical invention ever created. There are however, specific reasons for the attraction. It is a well-known fact that wearing high heel shoes makes the foot appear smaller, elongates and slims the appearance of a woman’s legs, and at the same time her altered stance forces her breasts up and makes her rear end protrude 25% more. This position is also forcing the foot into a tiptoe position (the "courtship strut") which is known to be a sign of availability in several animal species. This presents signs of both availability and submissiveness due to the wearers forced attention to balance and required shorter stride. The foot is also put in an arched position that many women find is similar to during sex. There is an unusual balance of power and weakness in the wearing of high heels. The high heel shoe is the only object to gain the highest level of popularity in the fetish world. Clothing items don't have the visual fetish appeal without the wearers body filling out the curves, but shoes stand on their own as coveted fetish objects. There are countless people who collect exotic high heel shoes worldwide. As a sculptor, I find that my shoe sculptures get the most attention from the press and shoe devotees around the world.
The Roman Sexual Code - Muliebris Patientia (woman-like passivity)
Male anxieties about effeminacy have been in Western culture since the Greeks a perennial source of misogyny and bigotry. In so patriarchal a society as Rome, any comparison of a man to a woman was thought to humiliate the man.
For a male to be penetrated by another male was to consent to let himself be used as a woman and a wife.
Romans relied on stereotypical tokens of effeminacy to identify men willing to be receptive partners in same-sex acts. Such men were known as cinaedi or molles. The cinaedus signals he is ready to be used sexually as a woman by letting his hair grow long, wearing see-through silk togas of green or saffron, perfuming himself with balsam, plucking his eyebrows and painting his eyes, mincing when he walks, and shaving his legs and buttocks. Men, said the Stoic philosopher Epictetus, who shave their body hair or pluck it out mean they want to be women.
The deep-seated prejudice against adult male passives distilled in formulas like servilis patientia (slave-like submission) and muliebris patientia (woman-like passivity).
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