Corset for us women

[RiyahArp]

Men really haven't worn corsets that much historically; some digging only showed it popular for a brief fifteen year span in France in the nineteenth century. The corset is famous as a symbol of sexual repression, actually; women used it to unnaturally tighten their waists in a painful form of body modification similar to footbinding, and the modern corset tends to be more or less a female waistcoat in style. The corset survives mostly due to steampunk ideas and as bedroom wear, mostly.

I'm not sure allowing it would be all that good, as the latter is most of the usage. There are plenty of nice victorian style glamours in game-the high house dress is one, for example. I'd also be blunt and say that the last thing I'd like to see is some roe male wearing one as shock wear.

[Tsumdere]

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While I do agree the corset has become a symbol of sex in the past years, and I understand that some do see this as little more than another ERP outfit, I do disagree that because of that stigma we should restrict people from wearing it. We already have swimsuits and thongs that men can wear... why would a more covering article of clothing be horrible?

Just because some people get their jollies from it, doesn't mean everyone views it like that. Case in point : Furry outfit from Halloween.

Below, off-topic mini-rant about corsets.

Men have indeed worn corsets more than a 15 year span of time as fashion statements. Regency style (popular during 1800-1850 in both France and GB) for men was dominated by the thin waist silhouette - broad jacket shoulders and some men wearing corsets to accentuate the look (google 'dandy Victorian era' as just googling dandy now gets you the AHS character >>. When whalebone corsets fell out of style (for being expensive and particularly restricting), the shift to steel corsets made medical corsets more popular. Some of these medical corsets were not even called corsets, an example being Frederick Reast's Invicorator Belt (I cannot find the patent of the Invicorator Belt, but please have a link to his other work that is mentioned to be for men and women). This trend continued for years, until recently when men became more open to wearing fashion corsets again as way of sexual or fashion expression.
Lastly, corsets were not designed to oppress and defile women like foot binding was. Petty, but nothing gets my goat more than people comparing corsets to FOOT BINDING aka one of the most horrific body mutilations that women were inflicted with. If you had your feet bound, you would end up with permanent disabilities no if, ands, or buts. Corsets were designed to support heavy outer clothing and promote good posture not mutilate you. Corsets do not cause medical issues or pain unless used to the extreme. Not to mention - corsets were for both men and women, where as foot biding was an exclusively female practice.
Please, if you think wearing a corset is painful, wear one for some time. It's really not in the slightest, even when you cinch your waist in several inches.

tl;dr foot binding is horrifying and in no way comparable to corsets