00:00 For about a thousand years, roughly three billion women in China voluntarily deformed their feet through the practice of footbinding.

03:46 Foot binding was a purposeful deformation of the female foot in order to attract men, and it became a standard of beauty in China for about a thousand years.

07:46 The end of foot binding was brought about by Western missionaries, Darwinists, and an education campaign that focused on the negative consequences and disadvantages of bound feet, as well as the formation of natural foot societies.

11:35 Foot binding was a delicate procedure with actual risk factors, involving wrapping the feet with bandages soaked in hot water and blood, breaking the toes and foot bones, and creating an arched shape, causing excruciating pain for the four-year-old undergoing the process.

15:07 Foot binding was a widespread cultural practice that involved wrapping the feet with bandages, breaking the toes and foot bones, and causing deformity, and it was highly eroticized and considered attractive.

18:47 Foot binding fostered dominance over women and had various side effects, such as limiting their mobility, shaping the architecture of China, and even impacting colonization, but at the time, women took pride in their bound feet and it became highly eroticized.

22:43 Foot binding became highly eroticized, with fetishization and sex manuals dedicated to the practice, and women with bound feet had specific shoes, including red wedding shoes with erotic embroidery, but the practice eventually died out due to the Chinese communists' push for women to work and the consequences of not doing so.

26:30 Female circumcision was briefly mentioned, but the podcast quickly moved on to plugging other content and reading listener mail.

30:05 The podcast ends with a series of ads for various products and services, including Brownwater Coffee, a non-profit organization called Charity, Netflix, Discover credit card, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.