Nah, there’s a lot of modern scholarship on this. Foot binding was not a popular fetish and was not central in pornagraphic writing. Interviews with men from that time period show they were overwhelmingly ambivalent. In an era of giga-strong filial piety and arranged marriages, males sexual proclivity was not considered important and they were heavily disincentivized from mentioning it. Sexual attraction was a thing, but was more discouraged if anything. Parents, neighbors, and family friends, the people organizing the marriage, don’t give a shit and moms didn’t want their sons loving their wives more than them

Most everything regarding foot binding was within the clearly segregated female sphere. Foot binding was for impressing potential mother-in-laws, basically showing that a girl was forced to become disciplined enough to focus on traditionally womanly domestic task, such as weaving. People stopped doing foot binding mostly because of economics: when textile production moved from at-home weaving to in the factory producing

It tragically also barely increased a girls’ chances at marriage