Foot Binding Research Papers

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This process may not be the answer to beauty it's more about pain and cruelty. Foot binding is on your own but for plastic surgery it's all doctors really. Foot binding stopped years ago it was originated in China for young girls. Plastic surgery is still being done today and is not always safe. There is bad things or good things during the process of plastic surgery and foot binding. Such as if someone wanted to have bigger lips it could backfire and make them too big.

Foot binding and plastic surgery both change the shape of what your body was originally. Both procedures have death possibilities and lots of pain. This might be the way to look more pretty but is it worth the pain. For foot binding you could die from infections on your foot

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