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== Real Life ==
* An improperly worn corset can be not just uncomfortable, but dangerous—or, through the occasional freak accident, [https://web.archive.org/web/20131121034329/http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9D02EEDC1039E333A25753C3A9669D946297D6CF fatal.] Tightlacing without knowing what you're doing is discouraged by most modern corset-wearers as it can cause all sorts of damage to your ribs, spine, and internal organs. It's also recommended anyone wishing to wear a corset regularly have one tailored to them, for obvious reasons. (When one does this, corsets are no more uncomfortable than an undershirt.)
* Judith Flanders, in her excellent book ''[http://www.amazon.com/Victorian-House-Judith-Flanders/dp/0007131895/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1311042904&sr=8-3 The Victorian House]'' (US title ''[http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Victorian-Home-Portrait-Domestic/dp/0393327639/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311043292&sr=1-3 Inside the Victorian Home]''), wrote that "It is difficult to say how tightly {Victorian} women really laced. Large quantities of writing, by both pro- and anti-lacing campaigners, seem to have been written by sexual fetishists, as a sort of soft-core porn.... The ''Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine'' correspondents whom we would today guess to be fetishists used words like 'suffering', 'agony', 'delicious', and 'exquisite' to describe the effects of tight lacing, while what appears to be genuine correspondence contained words like 'comfort', 'ease', and 'freedom'."
* On tennis courts before the First World War. Elizabeth Ryan, who won eventually 30 Grand Slam titles, recalls that at her first tour of England (1914), the ladies’ dressing rooms would have a fire (it was an English summer, after all), above which would be a rail on which the players’ corsets were hung to dry. “It was not a pretty sight”, she said, “as many of them were blood-stained from the wounds they had inflicted”. ''The Encyclopedia of Tennis'', ed. Max Robertson & Jack Kramer (London; George Allen & Unwin, 1974), p. 239a.
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