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My wife's been a life-long reader of romance novels, and for as long as I can remember barefeet and legs have been prominant on romance novel covers. I think this is largely because they're supposed to be arousing and sensual/sexual but the bare legs and barefeet is the only bare skin they actually can show, other than some cleavage, on a book cover and still have it displayed and sold in a mainstream retail outlet.
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I talked to an ad executive several months ago and I asked him why female feet are used so often in ads. He said female feet definately make book covers and advertisments more attractive but he had no idea why. I asked if it was sexual and he said, "probably."
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Yes. I've been noticing this for a while. Glad being an English Major is paying off for me a bit. Haha.
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Recently I noticed a book written by Sophie Kinsella on the shelves. It displays a women sitting (you can only see the legs) wearing a pair of white massage clogs! It just happens to be my favorite type of clog, too bad the book itself didn't contain any pictures... :-)