Just to keep this on a somewhat intellectual level:
There was a period in Greek history which produced amazing works of art, mostly sculptures, but also paintings, which are now lost (and philosophers etc.) A sculptor called Praxiteles used his lover - Phryne - as a model for a sculpture of Aphrodite, which statue is lost, but we have Roman copies of same, but Phryne also modelled for a painter - Apelles who created 'Aphrodite Anadyomene' (Aphrodite rising from the sea) of which the original is also lost but we have a copy from Pompeii, in which you can clearly see the longer second toe -
Incidentally Phryne was a clever, famous and wealthy hetara, who tried to use her wealth to restore the walls of Athens, destroyed by Alexander the Great, on the condition that a memorial be placed saying: 'Destroyed by Alexander the Great, restored by Phryne' - it was refused and she was even called before court - where she bared her breasts to sway the (male) jurors, who were so overcome with her beauty . . . . she went free. This story became immortalised by many Rennaissance and later European painters.
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just check out Greek sculpture - it is totally amazing, especially nowadays when the garish colour work of the originals has faded into chaste white marble
Incidentally 'Phryne' was a nic which means 'toad' - because her skin was almost yellow (so she would have been a fairly dark-skinned, dark-haired woman unlike Botticelli's Venus), her original name was Mnesarete.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apelles#/media/File:Aphrodite_Anadyomene_from_Pompeii_cropped.jpg
Note 'the second toe' of the left foot
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