This is another installment in our “killer heels†series. Designed by Patricia Field, these ridiculously high heeled, S & M-themed black stilettos look super sexy on singing sensation Rihanna. At a price of $86.00, it's safe to expect that a few highly impressionable and really crazy women went and got themselves a pair of these stiletto daggers.
We all know shoes carry sexual connotations in our culture and these Torture Pumps play right into that sexual fetishism. But I insist you'd have to be out of your mind to try to walk in these torture chambers.
The shoes below are even more scary
Killer Heels IV
Torture Pumps
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