Foot fetishist: all you need to know about foot fetishism

The foot fetishist is more often the man. Worshiping his partner’s feet, he makes it a central element of his sexuality: seeing, caressing, smelling or licking a foot stimulates his desire, provokes his excitement and increases his pleasure tenfold. An unusual practice, like other paraphilias such as sadomasochism or cross-dressing, foot fetishism can raise questions: is it a simple fantasy or is it a real pathology?

Foot fetish has been around since ancient times

The Indian Kamasutra, dating from the early centuries, already mentions sexual practices centered on the feet. During the epidemics of sexually transmitted diseases in Europe in the 15th century, the craze for the feet as a fetish also developed particularly. Over the centuries, the arts took up this fascination and diminished its deviant connotation. Photographer Elmer Batters, in particular, but also director Quentin Tarentino and singer Ricky Martin claim to be foot fetishists. Yet the question continues to arise: can foot fetishism become a pathological obsession?

The sexuality of the foot fetishist disturbed by his fantasy

Many men and women are fetishists. Lace lingerie, body fluids, pumps and stiletto heels, muscular torso… various objects and parts of the body provoke instant desire and inordinate excitement. But this adoration can take on several degrees: fantasizing about Ryan Reynolds’ abs does not necessarily prevent one from feeling sexual pleasure in the absence of the person concerned, very fortunately. Likewise, when the partner’s foot is elevated to the rank of fantasy, its staging during sexual relations may not systematically condition orgasm. But some forms of foot fetishism reach a significant degree to the point that the fetishist enjoys only through the feet. In this case, the fad can become problematic within the couple. Some lend themselves to the game and accept their partner’s fetishism, sometimes integrating it into their sexuality to add a dose of the unusual. Others fail to fully satisfy the fetishist’s needs.

Their smell, their touch, their appearance or even their taste stimulates to the point of making them essential elements of the sexual act: the feet can take on a disproportionate importance in the opinion of the partner. Partner who must, in addition, take special care of this part of the body … The foot fetishist himself can suffer from his paraphilia when he is no longer able to experience pleasure in the absence of ‘a foot.

Another scenario, in the context of a one-night stand. Lovers do not know their respective sexual inclinations: seeing your partner observe, kiss or touch his feet with insistence can be surprising, sometimes crippling.

Equally frequent consequence of foot fetishism: the fetishist considers this part of the body so intimate that he does not support their being revealed in public. Impossible to be barefoot even in the middle of summer …

In technical terms, foot fetishism is akin to podophilia. If podophilia refers to the worship of the bare foot, the foot fetishist can be excited by all the accessories that adorn this part of the body by highlighting it. It can be jewelry – toe ring or ankle bracelet – or stockings and tights. Often, shoes represent an object of fantasy linked to foot fetishism: high-heeled pumps, flip-flops revealing the foot or leather boots are then used as part of the fetishist’s sexuality in order to achieve more intense pleasure.

How can such a fetish come about?

There are a number of different scientific theories about the origin of the foot fetish. It is well researched because it is one of the most common types of sexual fetishes: in one study of fetishes, scientists noticed that about half of those surveyed believe that they have a foot fetish.

Theories:

Evolutionary theory: a person with a fetish subconsciously wants to pass on to offspring the desired trait, in this case beautiful, strong, slender legs that will help them quickly escape from a pursuer or catch up with prey. Although this theory is imperfect: what about people who are attracted to both legs and people of the same sex? Plus, now sex is most often not associated with childbearing at all.

Scientific theory: Studies show that stimulation of the legs and genitals activates the same areas in the brain. Therefore, to experience excitement when someone caresses your legs, strokes your hips, knees, kisses and massages your feet is physiologically absolutely normal.

Social theory: fetishes are formed, depending on what is considered sexual in a particular society where the individual is formed. That is, if everyone around considers legs sexy, you will also consider them sexy. Just like in modern times: now the sexiest part of the female body is the chest and buttocks. These parts of the body are exposed in an erotic light, it is customary to cover the chest, but at the same time emphasize its attractiveness.

However, there are African tribes who consider breasts to be an ordinary part of the body and do not hesitate to demonstrate them, and no one faints right on the street from unbearable excitement – because in such a society the breasts are not sexualized and not fetishized. But there, legs are sexualized and fetishized, they are covered up, they are considered something forbidden and attractive. The same thing happened in China, you must have heard about the “lotus feet”, and until now in China, large female breasts are not particularly held in high esteem, but miniature, graceful feet are considered seductive.

By the way, in European culture, the chest became attractive and sexy when it was associated with the image of the Virgin Mary during the Renaissance. Then gradually began to form the image of the breast as a symbol of femininity, fertility and femininity.

Foot fetish and shoe fetish. Is there a difference?

As you understand, these are logically close concepts, and often people either confuse them or mix them up. However, these are different things. People with a shoe fetish find it sexually attractive to wear shoes or just shoes, even without feet. For example, people with such a fetish may masturbate with or on shoes, or ask their partner to wear shoes during sex, or put them on themselves. Often, men have a shoe fetish associated with an underwear fetish, they find a woman in erotic lace underwear, stockings and stilettos to be seductive. Or they themselves put on such an outfit …

How to check that you are a foot fetishist?

Remember that there is nothing wrong with a foot fetish as long as it does not interfere with your personal life, and if you consider legs seductive, if with various actions with them your sex life becomes brighter – why not?

Sex is all about pleasurable sensations and exploration of your own personality, so there is no shame in wanting to explore your fetishes and addictions.

If you are sexually attracted to your legs, you can start by looking for foot fetish videos and observe how you feel: are you getting turned on? Would you like to do something similar, or to have something like this done to you? You can add a foot fetish element to your fantasies and masturbate. Or give yourself a foot massage and watch the sensations. Or, if you want it, you can invite your partner to introduce foot play into your sex life.

Try to be as honest and open as possible with your partner. You can prepare in advance, find a couple of articles or videos about foot fetish to tell you more about what it is and what it is eaten with, give examples of what you want to try. And then move on from the reaction. If he is strongly against it, well, that’s his right, no need to put pressure on him. Then it’s all up to you, it’s up to you to decide how to deal with the rejection.

If the partner reacted well, then you can try the following:
1. Watch erotic videos of relevant content together. Share your emotions with each other at the end, say if you think this is sexy, would you like to repeat some of this.
2. Give each other a foot massage and observe the sensations.
3. Wash each other’s feet.
4. Kiss the area around the feet, then you can go down to the feet themselves, perhaps move on to sucking and licking the fingers, soles, heels.
5. There is also a sexual practice, standing a little further from the classic foot fetish. It is called a footjob, and its meaning is to stimulate the male genital organ with female feet (it is better to watch the video in advance and read how this can be done without harming the partner).

It is better to start small and gradually move on. Don’t expect your partner to be immediately ready to stick their foot in your body or agree to have their genitals stepped on. Such vivid manifestations of foot fetish need to be reached gradually.

Safety

Foot fetish is one of the safest fetishes, but hygiene must be kept in mind. It is better to wash the legs thoroughly, especially if they are planned to interact with the partner’s genitals and especially if they are placed inside. Even if one of you has a fetish for dirty feet, you should at least cut your nails so as not to injure the delicate mucous membranes of the mouth, vagina, penis or anus, and not to bring infection there.

Attractiveness

Both men and women who are fascinated by other people’s feet usually note for themselves various most attractive qualities. For example, someone is aroused by feet and toes of a certain size. And someone is more excited by the natural “design” – the color of the skin, the shape of the nail. There are simply no common tastes.

What is a foot fetish? This is, first of all, a deeply individual hobby with its own evaluation systems. Many people with such tastes admit that they subconsciously divide all the feet that catch their eye into sexual and non-sexual.

Some BDSM games are created around the passion of a person with the feet of a partner and this direction is called a foot fetish in BDSM. For example, there are practices that are unusual for a person with simple tastes, such as hitting the feet, stimulating sensations with hot, cold, sharp objects. Especially popular among fetishists is tickling.

Some people combine their excitement from contact with the legs of a partner and their passive inclinations. They enjoy the fact that their lover takes a dominant position and presses his feet on their face, body, makes them lick and kiss their feet, suck their fingers.