Doesn't this hurt? (in a bad way)

[Dar~]

I don't think this is sexy, I can't seem to get past the ribs being crushed.

 

[McKenna]

This one doesn't bother me, but the rest seem rather extreme.

Yeouch.

 

[Dar~]

This one doesn't bother me, but the rest seem rather extreme.

Yeouch.

I have to say thats the least bothersome of them.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

This one doesn't bother me, but the rest seem rather extreme.

Yeouch.

I have to agree, but maybe it's just the camera angle. But then again, I've always had a thing for a girl with a great ass.

The others look a little bit... ah... forced.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

If you are corset trained, a regular corset can be fairly comfortable. A wasp waist corset is something eles again. You can be trained to wear them even, but it's a long process, one I doubt more than a handful of women have been through. Best bet on those modles is surgery to remove a rib or two and the shoot lasting at best five or ten minutes.

 

[fairysong]

Don't think I could wear those....

 

[cheerful_deviant]

I saw a show a few years ago where they interviewed a woman who wore corsets like that every day. She had traind herself over a period of years to wear them and she was down to something like a 12 or 14" waist.

She had to eat a special diet to keep from getting, ah... plugged up.

 

[Dar~]

Any man who would want me to wear one of those . . is not worth my time.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

It is interesting how the Wikipedia describes the origination of tightlacing.

. . . In the 1830s, the artificially inflated shoulders and skirts made the intervening waist look narrow, even with the underlying corset laced only moderately. When the exaggerated shoulders disappeared, the waist itself had to be cinched tightly in order to achieve the same effect. It is in the 1840s and 1850s that tightlacing is first recorded. It was ordinary fashion taken to an extreme. . . .

 

[McKenna]

I have to agree, but maybe it's just the camera angle. But then again, I've always had a thing for a girl with a great ass.

J Lo?

 

[HollyHawkk]

I think a small waist and curvy hips are sexy, but this is extreme. Do Men find that sexy. I bet I would have an orgasm just getting that thing off.

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

I think the waist-to-hip ratio comes into play for a lot of people--and though those are some exaggerated examples of artificially producing the contrast, it's still kinda hot. I wouldn't necessarily want a woman to be grossly exaggerated (and am not a particularly big fan of large breasts), but something about the trim-ness round the midrif and good hips, giving the impression of being not-obese and firm and whatnot is appealing.

But I think most men are that way, as well.

 

[Hooper_X]

They don't need bizarrely attenuated waists to get the look their trying for, just more hips & ass!

 

[Luna_Wolf72]

I am personally a fan of extremely tightly laced corsets...but only in the context of Daddi/pet (as a form of punishment) That being said..the girls just looked damned uncomfortble to me...

 

[BlackShanglan]

Anyone with a strong grip on his/her lunch is welcome to my copy of an article on corseting in the 1800's, including comments from a Victorian doctor on the topic of tight lacing. In addition to observing that the practice was carried out by pregnant women and that children as young as four were "in training," the doctor notes the wide variety of pelvic and spinal deformities, digestive disorders, and reproductive difficulties experienced by such individuals. He concludes with a statement roughly to the effect of, "If you wish your sons still-born, your daughters crippled, your pride and hope in the world left bent and staggered with infirmity and with their minds forever darkened, then by all means, gentlemen - marry a tight lacer."

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Anyone with a strong grip on his/her lunch is welcome to my copy of an article on corseting in the 1800's, including comments from a Victorian doctor on the topic of tight lacing. In addition to observing that the practice was carried out by pregnant women and that children as young as four were "in training," the doctor notes the wide variety of pelvic and spinal deformities, digestive disorders, and reproductive difficulties experienced by such individuals. He concludes with a statement roughly to the effect of, "If you wish your sons still-born, your daughters crippled, your pride and hope in the world left bent and staggered with infirmity and with their minds forever darkened, then by all means, gentlemen - marry a tight lacer."

I would like to read it shang

 

[Colleen Thomas]

They don't need bizarrely attenuated waists to get the look their trying for, just more hips & ass!

Some women are gifted, but in gneral, if you want plenty of hips & ass, you have to accept an overall increase of body mass. Most women, don't care for that too much. A good corset, can give you the illusion of bigger breasts, or more firm breasts and of wider hips, Without radial alteration of your body mass.

Wasp waist corsets, like Regency Makeup, were a fashion statement. In both cases, the statement was one of risking serious health issues for vanity. But, it must be remembered, that a woman in the period, was far more than today, a prisoner of the times. Unless you were massively rich, well titled and in favor, or you were too poor to need to worry about it, you paid obedience to the image of the day that men wanted.

today, corsets in general and specialty corsets like these are paraphilias. Evenmost radical bondage corsets don't seek to take a woman's waist down much more than 3 or four inches. Shooting for a 19 inch waist or less is, quite simply, dangerous for most women.

 

[Willow Rain]

A lacing fan

Being someone who has a weakness for underbust corsetts I have to say, while I'm not a fan of extreme lacing, there is something to lacing in general. It feels good, the restriction, the firmness. It changes how you move. It is impossibly hot to have a man standing behind you, drawing your laces in with slow firm patience. I squirm just thinking about it. There have been times I have considered waist training. My mother in her teens had a twenty four inch waist, if she had been born in a time where corsettes were all the rage, she easily could have corsetted to the 17-19 inch range, and that is tiny tiny. She could have reached that without really seriously altering her body. She would have started out with a naturally tiny waist. It's like most things, moderation is probably best, but some folks start out with bodies that are more likely to suit the situation.

Just my two cents.