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I wonder what it was like to have a foot fetish back in the 1800's? I watch old western movies and see the prostitutes that hang around the saloons and think about how easy it would have been back then to get some foot action. Backpage is kinda a pain in the ass sometimes and not to mention a legal gray area. For those of us in to strong smells, I also wonder how smelly their feet would have been. They wore leather boots and I'm sure those women didn't get a daily or even weekly bath.
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Well, Sigmund Freud was said to have had a foot fetish, and one time I saw an opera that was written in the early 1800s where a guy offers to hook up an old man with a girl with "perfectly dainty feet, with sublime arches" - Victorians were well known for their fetishes, which weren't always of a sexual nature, but nevertheless were prevalent.
And don't get me started on Chinese foot binding. Seems to me that fetishes have been with us in some for or another probably from nearly the beginning of the human race.
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Doubtful foot lovers were around at all, if any. No woman in the "old west" towns ever showed their feet in sandals nor was it customary for them to even take off their lace up knee high boots, ever...unless bathing, alone. Perhaps as children they might have developed a liking to feet as they saw sibling females run in the grass on the prairie barefoot. It's not the society we have today but it's cool to imagine ourselves back in that time and what WE'D do for sure.
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I've pondered this before..would the fetish arise because the body part is hidden? In cultures where female breasts are always exposed...do they have a fetishistic preoccupation with them?
I'd tend to think that it's the hiding of feet in shoes that caused the fetish to start. The hiding of breasts in clothing that started that all too common fetish.
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I imagine that men hid their foot fetishes in those days. Perhaps they told their wives/lovers, or perhaps they hid that from even them. The novel Trilby--which the horror film Svengali is based on--has a cool passage where she tells some art students that she has the prettiest feet in Paris--then prooves it to them! This was written, I believe, in the early 1900's.
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Bruno Shulz was an artist in Poland from the early 20th century that had a series of drawings called "The Book of Idolatry." Lots of foot worship in them. Side note he was killed by the Nazis while living in a Jewish Ghetto during WW2.
quote:Originally posted by LeDaemon: Bruno Shulz was an artist in Poland from the early 20th century that had a series of drawings called "The Book of Idolatry." Lots of foot worship in them. Side note he was killed by the Nazis while living in a Jewish Ghetto during WW2.
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Franz Von Bayros also had plenty of foot themes on his illustrations... he's from the decadentist part of the romantic period ( maybe late XIX century )... I'd advise particularly to feet ( footjobs in this case ) "the piano lesson" and "tantalus"
( they really don't even seem from the same artist, but they are... first one got to upload it to imgur because the only one appearing on google images the site owner doesn't allow hotlinking )
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