Foot fetishes are more common than most of us realize, or at least the fascination with feet and shoes attracts a lot of attention. I have been writing for ezinearticles for several years on a wide variety of topics. The topic that seems to have created the largest readership was foot fetishes. Curiosity has gotten the better of me.
What is so interesting, even fascinating, about feet? Consulting with Wikipedia, I found this definition. “Foot fetishism, foot bias, foot worship, or podophilia is a pronounced sexual interest in the feet. It is the most common form of sexual fetishism for otherwise nonsexual objects or parts of the body.” And, reading further, I learned that such well-known celebrities as Elvis Presley and Andy Warhol, as well as the notorious womanizer, Casanova, and serial killer, Ted Bundy, had an obsession with feet.
At first glance, this “fetish” seems to be just something masculine. However, doing some more research on Wikipedia, I found another interesting definition. “Shoe fetishism is the attribution of attractive sexual qualities to shoes or other footwear as a matter of sexual preference, psychosexual disorder, and an alternative or complement to intimate relationships.” Many women, to some degree, may have a shoe fetish. In the ongoing TV series “Sex and the City,” Carrie Bradshaw and her friends often acted as star-struck lovers with a pair of expensive high-heeled shoes.
But this obsession with feet and shoes isn’t limited to people with a “psychosexual disorder” or a true foot or shoe fetish. It seems that feet and shoes attract a lot of people for different reasons.
I’ve recently created several Pinterest boards and re-pinned other people’s based on my specific interests. While searching through other people’s boards, I discovered a large number of boards focused on shoes, usually women’s shoes, often with very high heels and peep toes. They looked so attractive that I almost created a shoe board myself.
Digging further, I found several boards labeled “Feet First” and another labeled “Shoes.” Most of these boards feature images of women’s shoes, some with and some without live feet inside. And some add babies’ feet. Then I found a photography site called Feet First, with images of men’s and women’s feet, with and without shoes. And then I located a foot gallery website that contains 2011 photos of women’s feet.
I still don’t understand what it is about feet and shoes that so many of us are interested in. But they encourage me to go out and get a pedicure and buy some new pairs of exotic shoes, in case anyone notices.