• It doesn't need a scientist to tell us that the sight of stilettos can have a dramatic effect on men's libido.
• But wearing them can also work wonders for a woman's sex life, research suggests. High-heeled shoes not only tone the legs and strengthen the pelvic muscles, but they "directly work the pleasure muscles which are linked to an orgasm", it is claimed.
• In the past stilettos have been blamed for stress fractures and joint pain but now it seems that the pain might be worth the gain.
• Italian urologist Dr. Maria Cerruto discovered that a pair of "moderately high-heeled shoes" had beneficial effects.
• "I adore high-heeled shoes and I wanted to find something positive about them," said Dr. Cerruto, of the University of Verona. "In the end I achieved my goal.
• "The heels influence and work the pelvic muscles and reduce the need to exercise them."
  
  Sex and the City: The four main characters in the show boasted a good sex life and love of high heels
  
• Dr. Cerruto explains, "We now hope to prove that wearing heels during daily activity may reduce the need for the pelvic exercises necessary to keep that part of a woman's anatomy toned and elastic." The study involved 66 women under the age of 50. Dr. Cerruto discovered that women who held their feet at a 15-degree angle to the ground, the equivalent of a two-inch heel, showed up to 15 per cent less electrical activity in their pelvic muscles.
• This suggests the muscles are more relaxed with higher heels, increasing their strength and ability to contract.
• Dr. Cerruto added: "Women often have difficulty in carrying out the right exercises for the pelvic zone and wearing heels could prove to be the solution.
• She says, "Like many women, I like high-heeled shoes, and although they are sometimes uncomfortable I continue to wear them in an effort to appear more slender and taller.
• Dr. Cerruto goes on, "It's good to know they have potential health benefits."
• An official guide to better sex, provided by NHS Direct, advises women to become more aware of their pleasure muscles (pelvic floor muscles) and advises them how to exercise them to aid sexual arousal.
• The British NHS recommends that women, particularly just after pregnancy, should do pelvic floor exercises up to five times a day.
• Manolo Blahnik, the shoe designer who specialises in vertiginous heels, said: "This is wonderful news.
• Blahnik says, "I've been hounded for years about how bad it is for posture, but I always thought it was contradictory.
• "Until my mummy was 87 she was wearing high heels and she looked wonderful. She is my living example that heels are good for you.
• Blahnik says, "When you put on a high heel it makes life more exciting.
• "In the 1980s it was all about power, but today it's shifted; it's about elegance. "If you are a woman, it's a way to appeal to the male species, it's a way to attract. "And it works. I have men who tell me that heels have saved their marriage.
• "I think there's a limit, though. Anything over four-and-a-half inches is just too much. You can't walk properly; it's no longer elegant."
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ver Classy Doctor (actress) Ellen Pompeo

Heaven's Love - tribute to those beautiful mothers who are a christmas gift all by themselves (in their high heels)
Princess feet: I adore thee - fetiche lovers fantasy paradise (high heels and pedestals)
Egyptian Reflexology - Egyptian Footwork: Therapy, Beauty, Foot Rub or All Three
The never-ending debate over sky-high stiletto heels - Sugar Blossom offers random thoughts of fashion
Four inches closer to heaven - the allure, the history, the psychology of stiletto high heels
Woman's Power Tool - Elin Schoen Brockman's tips on the look of poise, swivelling with grace, & striking a power pose.
Killer Heels : fashion, fetiche, fantasy - save those extreme needle-thin, ultra-feminine soaring heels for special occasions.
New York Fashion Maven Stacy London - ladies, is it your time to shine?
Talmudic sage reflects on Jews and Shoes - better sell the beams of your roof and buy the best shoes for your wife
Alaska's Sarah Palin - U.S. politics is going rogue (in five inch stilettos)
BBC : Ouch! What is it about high heels that makes them so appealing?
Stiletto Style Goddesses high heel agony and high heel ecstasy
Women with Supple Achilles' Tendons always sexy in sky high heels (no harm no foul)
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Husband's hottie housewife - still making guys 'hey' and 'wow' and catch their breath.
Proverbs 31 woman : are you a hopeless romantic? high heels and the personal style choice
Spiffy Housewife : moms in revolt - "Today I refuse to wear the mom-uniform"
Soaring sexually - stilettoes arch your feet as if in joys of orgasm
à propos de bottes - beautiful female spies in history

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Traditional View

Has High Fashion Made Women Masochists?

a particular beauty symbol worshiped as the essence of femininity

Rita Freedman :: Beauty Bound

Toeing the Mark

Glamourized feet are a classic example of how femininity, beauty, sexuality, and power are fused and then confused.

In its current form, the beauty myth requires women to display their feet in dainty slippers (a la Cinderella?) -- with spiked heels (and open toes?) .... Today, a well-heeled woman declares her interest in being provocative. Why do high heels work as erotic bait? They lengthen the leg, reshape its contours, thrust out the bosom and the backside. Walking takes on the bump and grind of the chorus girl (which is why beauty contestants parade in the incongruous combination of swimsuits and high heels). High heels create a "courtship strut" that carries the eye to the pelvis.

High heels enhance hedonic power ... The higher the heel the greater its power to attract. [And thus the paradox that] The shoes with the most erotic power are often (for the woman) the most incapacitating.

Lady Lynn

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Blackmen are one of the best things god made

High heels put your ass on a pedestal -- where it belongs. [Veronica Webb]

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Sex and the City
Carrie Bradshaw and Manolo Blahnik's Campari 'Mary Janes'

Manolo Blahnik is sometimes described as the fifth lead in Sex and the City owing to the sheer number of times his shoes are worn and hankered after by the series' fashion-obsessed characters. In one famous scene, lead character Carrie Bradshaw, newspaper and out-and-out fashionista, stumbles across a pair of slender black patent shoes in a store cupboard at US Vogue and in awed tones proclaims, "Oh my God. Manolo Blahnik 'Mary Janes,' an urban shoe myth!" Satiric, ludicrous, ironic . . . yes - but it's a scene that encapsulates the nigh-on mythic status that Blahnik today holds among shoe aficionados everywhere.

For all his celebrity status, Blahnik has remained resolutely down to earth - exemplified by the fact that he has always been involved at every stage of his shoes' creation - designing the prototypes, making the preliminary sketches, sculpting the wooden lasts and, finally, overseeing production. Without any formal training, he once claimed that his skill in shoemaking lay solely in the fact that he had 'the best taste in the world.' Years of trial and error led him to a successful formula for his collections - a combination of shoes with 'solid good looks that will last forever' and a few more adventurous pieces for the daring and wealthy.

(P 68, Fifty Shoes That Changed the World)

Unleash the female sexual pleasure spot - and turn the world on fire

Toni Bentley on why women need to unlock their wholesome Inner Slut
Forget Freud - Tune in to your own love button. (Discover her immense sexual authority.)

Husbands, sit at her feet and learn to worship "Women are just as sexually visual as men, that female orgasm's elusive, and yet, paradoxically, multiple qualities, promotes, even demands, promiscuity -- both to find the elusive one and then to prolong the party." (Take on that magnificent lover - a little jealousy just might stimulate home life) Woman's love button is such a very miniscule organ ... But fear not -- if you think that the little "clit" will not bear up under such scrutiny, have no fear. It has, finally, been scientifically established -- mapped out in the lab and all that, as Daniel Bergner reports -- that the clitoris, in fact, displays in itself the very essence of female guile in having two extended, internal reaching, four-inch (!!) wings, each curving around and behind the labia minora like a butterfly, culminating their massive reach around, yes, the vagina. So while this overused highway has relatively little feeling (necessary to mediate the pain of childbirth) for most of its length, it is a terrific co-conspirator and will happily participate with pom-poms from the bleachers in a sustained orgasmic victory. But, alas, the oversold vagina is only a lady-in-waiting at the court of the clitoral Queen. So while the clitoris has often been lost to both history and many a man, she is, in fact, not a small, hard to locate ingénue, but a large winged being. Is it not time to let her fly, orally, manually, even, er, verbally? If not now, when? With her more than 8,000 nerve endings, twice as many as on an entire penis, and a higher concentration of pure feeling than in any other part of the human body, male or female -- which, given our so-called higher consciousness, makes her the most sensitive organ in the entire universe -- there may indeed be reason to fear the clitoris, not because she can't be found but because of what she might do once unleashed. (If by now you guys are feeling the strange inklings of clitoris envy I say, man-up and get with the program.) See Daniel Bergner's new book, What Do Women Want?

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