I don't wear heels higher than an inch, inch and a half max. I also don't wear pointy shoes, as I have watch all of my relatives who are female suffer painful bunions, hammer toes and ingrown toenails from years of wearing high heels. I think they are awful, and do an immense amount of damage to a part of our bodies we take for granted too often. Not to mention, that while it does make women's calves look slimmer by elongating the muscle there, it actually does nothing to strengthen and tone that muscle. But the constant pulling of that set of muscles does contribute to varicose veins, and multiple RSI's of the foot, ankle and metatarsals of the foot. Women's shoe designers, for the most part, do not pay close enough attention to the damage they can be doing to women's feet. They are in the business of selling shoes, not being ethical. They leave the ethics to the podiatrists and orthopedic surgeons who have to correct it.
I keep my feet in very good condition, I get regular pedicures and I do yoga and balance ball exercises to help strengthen my feet because I would like to be able to walk when I am 80. I don't envy women who wear such shoes, and while I find several of the styles really attractive (the banana peels, the goose, toucan and swan shoes) I wouldn't wear them unless they were bought for me specifically for the bedroom and I wouldn't have to stand in them. I appreciate that men like what those kinds of shoes do to a woman's leg and foot and I don't mind that. I just don't want to walk in them and damage one of my precious assets.