The Corset

Kunzle, D. From Fashion and Fetishism: corsets, tight-lacing & other forms of body-sculpture.

Stroud : Sutton, 2004. New ed.

"...far greater moral abuse than any other article of clothing; because it represents the primary equivalent in the civilised west of the 'primitive' body- sculptural devices of non-European peoples and because its sexual motivation is undeniable."

"The corset stands before the public eye as a sinister - looking orthopaedic machine, associated with disease, physical degeneration, and sagging or bloating flesh."

"Tight-lacers were, like witches and prostitutes of old, social and sexual scapegoats."