"Not tonight dear, your feet are disgusting"

[Sid]

Not tonight dear, your feet are disgusting
Maybe it's shame that keeps people from going barefoot. Unfortunately, keeping them hidden in shoes just makes them more callused and mis-shapened.

 

[Scratch]

Maybe to some extent our perceptions of feet have been affected by the way shoes change the way we see them. We know that lots of shoes, especially women's shoes, are shaped to make the feet look pointy and largely our cultural perception is that women's feet are sexy if they are dainty and pointed. Until I started going barefoot and doing the Google research, I had hardly ever seen naturally developed feet, I had only most often seen feet in shoes, or the bare feet I did see were ones which had been wearing shoes most of their lives. So we might all have rather unrealistic expectations of what feet would look like.