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[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
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SOMEONE WHO MUST SIT MOST OF THE TIME due to having her feet no-longer-integrated in dynastic China, and whose busted feet were used as a scoop for temporarily holding fluids that have been ejaculated from a human dirk (read: 'dick' in the common parlance, as a tool used for stabbing flesh)...see ancient Chinese erotic art for many examples depicting this behavior, and as the reason that the "bound feet of women with the metatarsal bones pulverized were highly erotic in ancient China," a fact that today is too embarrassing to be openly admitted any longer. So, history must be rewritten, and these glyphs must have been created "for the sound" used in pronunciation...you believe that?
Dis-integrating the feet of little girls and selling them as sex slaves to use their feet as a masturbatory aid and to hinder flight is no longer socially acceptable (and quite rightly, too).
「Evolutionary biologists have traced the origins of masturbation to ancient primates that predate the first humans by tens of millions of years. The findings emerged from what scientists believe is the largest dataset ever compiled on the activity, and confirm that humans arose on a branch of the tree of life replete with self-pleasuring predecessors. 'What we can say is this behaviour was present around 40m (40,000,000) years ago, in the common ancestor of all monkeys and apes,' said Dr Matilda Brindle, the lead researcher on the study at University College London. 'It's not that some species woke up one day and started doing it. This is an ancient, evolved trait.' '…This is such a common behaviour across the animal kingdom, I find it absolutely baffling that nobody has researched it before,' said Brindle. 'For people who think masturbation is wrong, or unnatural in some way, this is perfectly natural behaviour. It's part of our healthy repertoire of sexual behaviours.'」
[ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/07/origins-masturbation-traced-back-primates-40m-years-ago ]
「Viewing women as commodities [see 品] was also made customary…, both in the suddenly expanded labor market and within relationships. Men could sell their female kin to slavery or prostitution, and frequently did.」
[ https://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/0910/hersheys/hersheys5.html 2011-04-05 ]
「Bound feet were a mark of beauty…. The process was started before the arch of the foot had a chance to develop fully, usually between the ages of 2 and 5. …Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 48 different ways of playing with women's bound feet.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
「In traditional Chinese medicine, there has never been a mental disease called pedophilia (or an equivalent term), or homosexuality, or most of the other so-called sexual variations for that matter [such as, masturbation]. …Children are usually described as natural sexual beings and erotic stimulation and sex-play are seen as beneficial to their healthy development.」
[ https://docx2.com/wp-content/uploads/Are-Any-of-the-Pharaphilias-in-DSM-Mental-Disorders_.pdf 2023-05-14 ]
See also https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/iusburj/article/download/19830/25907/ for additional details: foot-binding, infanticide, concubinage, prostitution, and other Chinese practices affecting females were not outlawed until 1950. Moreover, the law and actual practice are never fully synchronized in any society.
Still a problem in 2021 (and today, too, whenever you read this):「The issue of 'child marriage,' when girls are forced to marry older men for money, has worsened during the coronavirus crisis. The UN Population Fund says more than 33,000 girls worldwide are forced into wedlock every day. The problem was already serious in Pakistan, but financial burdens caused by the pandemic are putting even more children at risk.」
[ https://www.worldvision.org/child-protection-news-stories/child-marriage-facts 2023-05-14 ]
In the sticky heat of a June day in Juba, South Sudan’s capital in 2024, a girl aged 14 years (still attending elementary school) was sold as a「bride」for a payment of 123 cattle, 120 million South Sudanese pounds (about $44,000 or £33,000) in cash, and a plot of land…she was dubbed「the most expensive bride in South Sudan」in TikTok videos that gained thousands of likes. What a world, what humans do…
[ https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/sep/27/south-sudan-juba-dinka-child-marriage-athiak-dau-riak-customs-brideprice 2024-09-28 ]
「Until the Chinese communists took power in 1949, bigamy, concubinage and child marriage were commonplace. In 1950, Beijing enacted a new law that outlawed these practices. The law also enforced monogamy in an effort to make women more equal to men in Chinese society.」 [ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/18/chinese-academic-suspended-for-advocating-polygamy 2021-06-19 ]
Marriage is a relatively recent institution in our species’ 300,000-plus-years of history, originating perhaps 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, and until quite recently, almost everywhere, served only to bind women to men as property assets, to ensure paternity, and protect the male's lineage among descendants. (And in some parts of the world, this is still the norm.) That puts marriage at ~1–2% of the age of the existence of Homo sapiens as a species (or, 0% in some parts of the world where this is still the norm).
External source definitions
...none located, and you ought to ask yourself, why not?
Definition speculated from combining the elements and from usage in other glyphs.
Always keep in mind that these glyphs most likely were originally designed by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles for their own entertainment
(see 籒 for that),
representing Chinese society many thousands of years ago, but intended NOT as a written or spoken language when created.
If these glyphs had been intended for language use, the sages could not have possibly designed a worse system!
Is it truly possible that all these glyphs started out as off-color jokes and puzzles?
Yes! It is, and often with multiple correct answers to each riddle, the same as is true today.
Sex had no shame in ancient China.
Why would it?
But, have there been necessary rewrites and altered explanations of the original elemental meanings over the centuries?
No one is suggesting these glyphs depict contemporary life in China, Japan, or anywhere else.
This site describes glyph meanings, not people.
These glyphs however, describe many and various things, including people, long before there were any notions of becoming politically incorrect.
The question to be answered is, should these glyphs continue being used, by anyone, anywhere, for expressing language?
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Despite how seemingly bad our human existence is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better?
Or could they have been worse?
By the way, with a limited number of the same elements used by the sages again and again to form these glyphs,
you should expect to find the same explanations again and again, as tedious as that may become, and as an inherent trait of any lexicon.
This site explains multiple meanings of glyphs ignored or censored by other sources, generally as being too embarrassing to admit today.
Primal elements
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 27 entries
- Glyph.00972
- Strokes: 06 ~ 05
- censored
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