Abide wrote:So I'm not sure
Abide said:
So I'm not sure if anyone thought of this yet but according to LB 20% of us males here have a foot fetish.
Before everybody gets too paranoid......
20% of western males DO NOT have foot fetishes, they just find the bare female foot sexually arousing.
Being attached to the female leg, there is nothing "fetishy" about it.
They would be no more scary than men that admit to liking the female breast or leg.
Don't confuse the true fetishes (shoe fetish, panty fetish, etc.) with a relativly "normal" attraction to specific aspects of the body, such as butts, thighs, backs, necks, faces, hair, and yes, even feet.
As defined originaly, fetishes required a focus on inanimate objects. When the attraction of a man to a woman's feet was described as a "foot fetish" purely as a play on words, it was just too catchy to die, and despite psychologist's explanations that one can't really have a foot fetish as long as the foot in question is still alive and attached to a healthy leg, writers could'nt leave it alone.
Language and definitions are always changing, and the definition of fetish has actually been expanded to cover feet even though that usage has not been extended to other body parts. The reason for this is simply because that's how people insisted on using the phrase.
The number of weird, scary, or dangerous foot fetishists is so small that probably there are zero lurking around in our group, but it's still something worth considering.
The warning I gave as to avitars etc. is meant to remind people that if you don't want unsolicited attention from real people interested in conversing/chatting/e-mailing/meeting because they are attracted to the barefoot aspect of you, don't make yourselves that easy to approach.
Remember, bare feet on a woman will turn off just as many men as it exites, so in one way you are keeping men at bay at the same time!