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Many people find one specific body part especially sexy, like butts, abs, legs, or breasts. For some people, that body area is the foot—and their sexual interest in feet is an attraction better known as a foot fetish.
Where does the word fetish come in? “In general, a fetish is any object, concept, or situation that is sexualized,” Ashley Grinonneau-Denton, PhD, certified sex therapist and co-director of the Ohio Center for Relationship & Sexual Health, tells Health .
Toe kissing and sucking, watching videos of feet, taking photos of a partner’s feet, rubbing someone’s sweaty feet after a workout, genital stimulation with feet, or describing foot odor to one’s partner are some ways a foot fetish can play out, says Grinonneau-Denton.
Subtypes of foot fetishes exist, too, like this one. “Some people love to worship adorned feet, whether with jewels, tattoos, nail polish, feet in heels, socks, stockings, or bare feet,” sex therapist Moushumi Ghose, owner and director of Los Angeles Sex Therapy, tells Health .
Here's everything you need to know about foot fetishes...and the foot fetishists who focus their desire on this body part you may never think twice about.
More common than you'd think. While exact numbers are hard to come by, one study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine arrived at one. In the study, researchers asked the roughly one thousand participants to rate their fetish interests from a score of 1 to 5 (5 being the highest). About 10% said they had a foot fetish, and the same percentage admitted to having a shoe fetish. Overall, more men than women said they sexualized feet or shoes.
Yes—the word “fetish” just makes a foot fetish sound freaky. “To ‘fetishize’ something is often deemed an unhealthy obsession and is typically borne out of something being taboo or not normal," says Ghose. "Fetishizing is often not seen in a favorable light." Yet a more sex-positive approach is to ditch this line of thinking entirely and just consider a foot fetish another variation of healthy human sexuality.
Just as with any sexual preference, "there are many different forms that foot fetishes can take,” says Grinonneau-Denton. As mentioned above, some foot fetishists prefer adorned feet. Others go for naked feet only. Some people fetishize footwear, such as stilettos or sandals, but others focus on less sexy shoes like sneakers or boots.
If you’ve ever seen Vanderpump Rules , you know that one of the actors on this reality show has a self-proclaimed fetish for sweaty, stinky feet. “I have worked with individuals who are highly turned on by sweaty tennis shoes and may have an inclination toward the smell, the dirtiness, or both,” says Grinonneau-Denton.
Another type of foot fetish is to fantasize about what will happen when the shoes come off, and what kind of foot is under the shoe, adds Grinonneau-Denton.
Feet are an intimate part of the body and are typically covered up. For these reasons, they are thought of by some people as sensual and erotic, just as other covered-up body areas like breasts and butts are considered sexy. In many cases, the fetish arises from the fantasy of being close to and touching a body part that isn't randomly touched by strangers, says Grinonneau-Denton, the way a hand or upper arm might be.
Other foot fetishists enjoy the submission aspect. “The feet are at the bottom of one’s body, so you’re worshipping someone from below, which can be seen as a desire to be dominated,” says Ghose. And then there's the fact that your feet take a lot of wear and tear all day yet don't get the proper care they deserve. There's an erotic element here for foot fetishists, too. “The work of the foot worshipper is to worship something that is otherwise seen as less than,” she explains
If your partner is the one with the foot fetish and you’re on board with it, foot play can be very pleasurable for you, too. “There are a lot of nerve endings in the foot, which makes it a highly sensual erogenous zone,” says Ghose. You probably already know that a foot massage can feel amazing and even be a precursor to other sexual activities. But having your feet touched more sensually—teased with one fingertip, for example, or licked or sucked—can send tingles down your spine.
Remember, there’s no shame in finding feet and foot worshipping sexy. "As a society, we’ve historically gotten far too caught up in what we should and shouldn’t like sexually,” says Grinonneau-Denton.
Bottom line: a foot fetish is completely normal and healthy, so long as it doesn't become an obsession interfering with regular life, and assuming that a partner or other person involved consents to foot play. If you or your partner has a sexual desire toward feet, don’t be afraid to talk about it and explore it if you wish.
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What’s the number one thing you look for in a partner?
You might go for someone with a good sense of humour. You might love a bit of dirty talk, or someone who talks with their hands. Maybe someone with a big honking pair of... calves.
Or maybe you’re into someone with cute little toes. Someone with a lateral arch that goes all the way to heaven. Someone packing a beefed out abductor hallucis (if you know, you know).
Even though there’s still a bit of a stigma, being into feet is completely healthy and normal. A recent survey showed one in seven people have fantasised about feet.
And people are becoming much more open about it in mainstream media - recent contestants on the UK’s massively popular Love Island reality series have got deep into comparing footnotes.
So whether you’ve got a foot fetish, or maybe your partner does, it’s time to stop hiding away in a pair of 5-year-old sneakers and slip into some sandals for our beginner’s guide to foot fetishes.
So foot fetishes are where someone is strongly drawn to or very aroused by feet.
To guide us through the nuance we turned to Mistress Tokyo, a Sydney-based kink educator and dominatrix. She says no two foot fetishes are alike: it could be many different things about feet that turns a person on, from the sight of them, the smell, the shape, the movement of the foot, the arch, the heel, or the toes.
It could be clean feet, dirty feet, feet in sandals, shoes, socks, or stockings.
“I found that people often want to see manicured toes, they want pedicures. But equally people also enjoy feet that are smelly,” she told The Hook Up.
“Also feet doing activities that are probably decreed as being sensual, but also potentially powerful. So feet crushing things like food.”
But Mistress Tokyo says it’s super varied and can be different for each person.
“There's really a lot of different angles to foot fetishes. And in their own way, everyone sort of has their own particular perspective, but generally it's about the olfactory experience of the foot.”
It’s one of the most common fetishes, but there’s not a lot of research on how and why they come about.
“For example, let’s say you have a partner who spontaneously stimulates your genitals with their feet, and this is something you’ve never experienced before.
“Let’s also say that you happened to find it very pleasurable and had an intense orgasm. This could create positive reinforcement that would lead you to want to repeat the experience in the future, thereby laying the groundwork for a foot fetish,” he told Men’s Health.
Another researcher, Vilayanur Ramachandran, reckons foot fetishes can develop for some people because the part of the brain that processes genital arousal is next door to the part of our brain that processes the sensation people get from feet.
Sigmund Freud linked it back to our childhoods (classic Freudian gear).
So... choose your own adventure, really.
Even though conversations around kinks and fetishes are becoming a lot less taboo, it can still be hard to tell someone what you’re into.
So how do you let your partner know you've got a foot fetish?
Mistress Tokyo says firstly, prepare yourself that they might not share your interests.
“Refusal doesn't mean that you're a bad person. And that isn't a value judgment on who you are as a person, or as a sexual being,” she says.
“Have compassion for yourself and love for yourself and embrace yourself but also be aware of the fact that you are not entitled to anyone serving your needs.”
Mistress Tokyo also says hopefully you’re with someone who is supportive of you asking for what you want.
“If they're not, then I think that may be something that you might want to consider as an area of your relationship that you might want to actually work on,” she told The Hook Up.
“But if someone does say yes to you like ‘yes holy shit, I'm really into this, let's go.’ Or, ‘hey babe, I love you, so I'm interested in exploring this with you,’ just be aware that you really respect your partner's boundaries.”
If someone is open and honest with you and tells you they have a foot fetish, Mistress Tokyo says be open, curious, willing to ask questions and learn.
Then she says if they’re asking you to do certain things, like for example licking your toe, take a moment to imagine that scenario happening and check in with yourself about how it makes you feel in your body.
“So just stop and drop into your body and give yourself some deep breaths, a moment of mindfulness and check in with what your body says about this activity,” she says.
“Trust your intuition and your body to tell you whether this really is an activity that you want to explore or not.”
If you’ve decided to dip your toes into your partner's fetish, there’s a lot of fun you can have.
Working as a dominatrix, Mistress Tokyo says some of the most popular things people are into, and you could try, are things like:
Of course, Mistress Tokyo says it’s all individual with what turns you on, but most importantly it’s about consent.
Just because someone is open and agrees to try something, they can still change their mind.
“Whether it's a foot fetish, or spanking, if your feelings change during an activity, and you're not enjoying it anymore and you kind of go ‘I actually don't want to do this anymore. That's indicative of your consent changing because you have new information that has come in,” she says.
“Therefore you need to verbally offer that your consent has changed and that you'd like to basically slow down or stop the activity.”
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Of all the types of sexual fetishes, one of the most common is foot fetishism. In a book chapter on sexual fetishism, Dr. Chris Gosselin and Dr. Glenn Wilson reported that the three most common body part fetishes are feet, hands, and hair.
As for myself, I have never seen the attraction of feet, mainly because I taught health psychology to podiatrists and chiropodists for five years. I used to sit in on student clinics where I was surrounded by people with the most awful bunions, corns, calluses, blisters, and verrucas (enough to put anyone off feet for life). On the plus side, I did manage to turn my teaching experiences into academic papers (including a 1994 paper in the Journal of British Podiatric Medicine!).
Many names have been applied to the sexual love of feet, including foot fetishism, foot worship, and foot partialism. Others see the behavior as a sexual paraphilia. For instance, both Dr. Anil Aggrawal (in his book, Forensic and Medico-legal Aspects of Sexual Crimes and Unusual Sexual Practices ) and Dr. Brenda Love (in her Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices ) describe individuals who have a pronounced interest in (and derive sexual pleasure and arousal from) feet as having podophilia. [It is also worth noting that there are some individuals who have a pronounced interest in feet for aesthetic ( attractiveness ) reasons but without any sexual motive. Such people would not be classed as either foot fetishists or podophiles in the definitions provided by Dr. Aggrawal and Dr. Love.]
If you go online and do a Google search for "foot fetishes," not only do hundreds of web pages come up, but the sheer diversity of what people are into is perhaps bewildering to a novice who knows nothing about such fetishes. (I also discovered a number of (in)famous people who were allegedly foot fetishists, including singer Elvis Presley, pop artist Andy Warhol, author and adventurer Casanova, serial killer Ted Bundy, and novelist and poet Thomas Hardy).
Foot fetishes can be very specific, and the individual dimensions and features are critical to the podophile. They are usually interested in the size (of the foot, the toes, the heel), the shape (e.g., flat-footed, high arches), the adornments (e.g., footwear, jewelry, toe ring, ankle bracelets, etc.), embellishments (nail varnish, tattoos, pedicure, etc.), non-visual sensory features (e.g., the touch, smell), and—perhaps most importantly—the type of interaction (massaging, touchi
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