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I’ll never understand what about feet that makes people horny.
So I studied medicine for years, specifically in a podiatric medical school. I heard ALL the jokes. Speaking as someone who does not have a foot fetish, I will defend foot people for the same reason I defended my choice of study.
There are a LOT grosser aspects of the body people fetishize. When taken with that knowledge, people into feet seem quaint. Just stop trying to take pictures of random peoples feet out in public, just because they’re wearing sandals doesn’t give you permission to be a creep.
Tbh I’m passingly into feet, and I don’t even know why
I need them to be manicured, clean, and a particularly pretty set of feet for it to register to me at all. For example, the feet I. The post? Dirty, not attractive. You’d think a guy into get would like the natural state of feet but nah, not for me.
I wouldn’t say I have a foot fetish, but I do enjoy giving and receiving foot massages. They feel good, and I want my partner to feel good. If a partner hates feet, I lose interest in the relationship, because I liked them from head to toe. While I don’t really get this fetish for how feet look, I also don’t get why it’s considered kinky, or even gross. Everybody has their thing, you know? Feet seems pretty mild when none of us can escape the incest porn.
Fair enough. I’d say Tarantino explains his perspective fairly well in Pulp Fiction. It’s a sensuous thing. But the way I see it, feet are sensitive. Sometimes overwhelmingly so. Feet get hidden away inside shoes, decorated and accentuated by heels and jewelry, and revealed by sandals when we go swimming. Our reactions to foot stimulation often develop early in life. Tickling. Running around barefoot. Secret footsies under the table with a crush despite family or friends all around. I can see how that becomes a kink. As a fetish needed to get off though, can’t say I relate.
I’ve never understood why the idea of a feet fetish bothers people enough to comment on it, especially considering what else Hollywood gets up to.
I wouldn’t care, except so many women in porn make sure to show their feet so much. It’s just as bad as the whole step sibling thing. I don’t care if it’s your kink but can we please stop putting it in all porn?? It’s just distracting.
I love how upset this seems to make people when usually they are watching stolen porn or porn where the labor of the performers is basically completely unvalued.
We don’t care about that, we just want them not to do kinks we don’t like even if it means they can get a bit more money out of some amount of labor that we aren’t contributing to valuing whatsoever.
I couldn’t either, until I saw this movie again when I was older. And I also realised where Tarantino might have gotten his fetish
Same what makes people get horney by being beaten, spit on, shat on and other stuff. At some point in our childhoods someone did it to us and we interpreted it as love. At least that is how it works for most.
Actually the beating is more because of endorphins and people having atypical reactions to pain in general. Every once in a while a class on that topic shows up at bdsm events and it’s always a fun one.
Degradation seems to be less about people interpreting it as love, but more as processing trauma or self esteem issues through role play. People don’t want to get spit on by someone who actually detests them, they want to get spit on by someone who pretends to detest them.
I don’t think “someone did it to us and we interpreted it as love” applies as often as people think.
I’ve got some kinks that I have no idea where they “came from” because they never happened to me IRL, especially not in childhood. I honestly think there’s just certain neuron pathways that accidentally branch over onto sexual arousal pathways and one day you see some stuff and go “huh, guess I’m into that.”
A lot of stuff in nature *just is*, and there doesn’t have to be any reason for its existence. Nature is messy and chaotic, and that’s one of the beautiful things about it.
Why do we like some of things and dislike others? Why do some people find some things sexually arousing and some don’t? Why does sexuality and gender identity vary between people? Why do some people like video games, or snowboarding, or dancing, or doing theater, or collecting rocks, or all sorts of different things, and some don’t? Why are some people introspective and like philosophizing and others don’t? And then there’s all sorts of different physical variances like height, size, shape, colour, etc
Sure, some of these may have evolutionary reasons, but do all of them? Or maybe a lot of variance in humans (and nature in general) *just is* because nature is not clean, robotic, and perfectly logical, and never has been?
Nature is messy, chaotic, and it’s not clean or perfect or able to fit in perfect categories. And that’s what makes nature interesting and beautiful. It wouldn’t be the same if everything operated like a perfect robotic machine, if that would even be possible in the first place.
I thought I saw somewhere that the nerve center for feet and genitals were right next to each other in the brain and sometimes it gets “flipped” or the pleasure center is “expanded” and includes the feet.
I’ve heard that too, but then why wouldn’t you just want to rub your feet on everything instead of looking at other people’s feet?
Is it really that weird? I can’t imagine gay dudes jacking off to their own dick
Rule of thumb is, if something exists - there are some people who are made horny by it. Human sexuality is just wild.
Maybe… But there are a lot more people into feet than most other parts of the body.
There really aren’t, but it is a funny meme. However, it’s funny because it isn’t very common and most people think it’s weird, but it also doesn’t hurt anyone.
Feet are so gross. Even well-manicured, clean, female feet. Still not my jam…
Evolutionary throwback.
Foot health was like one of the biggest things for survival.
Same as teeth, just not as visible.
So some people see a nice clean foot free of disease and without a bunch of calluses and ingrown nails and think “this is the kind of young healthy person is should be reproducing with!”
That’s all it is, a sign of good health.
That foot health was a lot more important back in the day?
That it was any easy to notice sign of health back then and now mostly not seen?
Or that a big factor in who animals reproduce with is the perceived healthiness of a potential mate?
Because, I said a couple different basic things, and it seems to really have confused a lot of people.
So to give you a good answer, you kind of have to be specific with questions.
Do you not understand the pieces? How they combine?
Just all of it?
Like, if I told you a=b and b=c so a=c, and you asked that same vague question, would you be wanting me to explain with logic why a=c, or are you saying you need a source that flatly just says a=c?
I just don’t know what kind of answer you’re looking for
In terms of human evolutionary history, our feet were generally filthy and very heavily calloused. Actually, a heavily calloused foot provides a significant survival advantage in the wild. Keep in mind that shoes are a new invention in evolutionary terms. I don’t think you’ll find answers in evolutionary psychology on this one.
And teeth naturally got yellow and worn down, from use or damage.
But we still like a perfectly straight ridiculously bright white smile because it’s a sign of health and youth.
Same with feet, you’re not going to find someone with perfect feet before shoes, but there would have been an obvious difference between a teenagers feet and a 40 year olds.
But back in the day “good” was mostly absence of parasites.
So why did he need her feet to be absolutely filthy here? What’s the evolutionary reason behind that?
Some people like dirty feet…
But clean or dirty, I don’t think Margot Robbie has any part of her body that someone would lable as unhealthy.
It’s not like there’s one reason that contributes to every aspect of feet fetishes. Some people like them dirty because it’s also humiliating. Either to the person attached to the feet or the ones looking at it.
Sexuality is like donkeys and onions, they have layers.
But for the general question of “why feet” that’s why feet come up so much. It used to be a visible indicator of overall health. It’s still an indicator of overall health, just not visible 24/7. Which makes it even more likely to be fetishized
