Body-shapers?

I still don't get why some women love wearing corsets. For one thing, it looks really uncomfortable. Well sure, it shapes your body into that much-desired hourglass shape, but I read that it gives you a deformed bone structure. Also, I've seen documentaries on women who wear corsets and they claim that corsets help you lose weight by controlling your eating habits.

How does it make you go on a diet? By making you eat less.

Since corsets are meant to be put on tightly, it limits the expansion of the stomach - so it forces you to lessen your food intake. In my books, that isn't so good.

I never really knew that there were different kinds of corsets too. And that you can get them in different kinds of fabric.

So is anyone here a fan of corsets?