Bound Feet, OKT, eroticism and tortoises

I was at Borders just now and was flipping through this book called Splendid Slippers: A Thousand Years of an Erotic Tradition by Beverly Jackson. It is a splendid book about bound feet and feet binding...duh....erm....anyway....

I think it's an open secret that Chinese are a sexually active ethnic group. If you don't, there's the internab to check it out. Anyway, when it comes to foot fetish (click here to better understand what foot fetish is all about)....the Chinese pioneered the whole gamut of sexually deviant(?) acts.

So...not only did the chinese ladies of wealthy families had their feet bound, prostitutes too. And since prostitutes had to be ferried between different customers or when making housecalls (near to the brothel only),manservants were employed to piggy-back them around. So these guys who piggy-back prostitutes were nicknamed "tortotises" not because there were heroes in a half shell (turtle power!) but because they resembled a tortoise when piggy-backing the prostitutes.

Well, that explains why pimps today are called orh khwee tau (roughly translated as black tortoise head). They have their own acronymn, OKT, cause Singaporeans are efficient, even with languages. Geylang got Singaporeans too you know. Not just foreign talents.