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I just was reading the latest issue and came across a question, perhaps from one of our very own. I darted right out of my chair and to my computer to make this post!
ASK THE SEX PROFESSOR - Debby Herbenick, Ph.D.
Why Do Some Men Have Foot Fetishes? Russ, Columbia, OH
Some researchers believe two things help from a foot fetish: being excited by something foot related (like a crush who goes barefoot) while you have high levels of testosterone during adolescence. The bottom line: It's not perverse. We women only fuel the foot fires: We paint our nails in sexy colors and wear high heels to spotlight them.
If that's you, Russ, of all the e-mailed questions yours was selected - FANTASTIC!
Does everyone think this response was concisely accurate to represent us?
-------------------- If feet are your bottom line, you're gonna get trampled...if women are your bottom line, you're gonna get lovestruck!
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in some regards yes.... all my interest about women came around an age where testosterone started to rage more than any other time... and i grew up around some very hot ladies (in my opinion)
so, foot related anything, i learned around that time too. plus the 'taboo' factor i grew up with.. made it worse!
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Accurate and fair response from the Dr.! Finally for once a question posed by someone in the "mainstream" is not treated as a "freaky" question but rather given a proper answer! Thanks for the find AF!
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quote:Originally posted by A&F_FootDude_05: Some researchers believe two things help form a foot fetish: being excited by something foot related (like a crush who goes barefoot) while you have high levels of testosterone during adolescence.
As I don't have any recollections of footstuff from really early in life, this statement certainly seems accurate for me! My fetish started and developed during early adolescence at a community swimming pool (hence my love of barefeet, wet feet, and anklets) and continued as many neighborhood girls went barefoot during the summer.
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I can't dispute the doctor in this but I would like to try to supplement it: Long before my testosterone rush (little kids are perceptive), the movies were under severe censorship and directors were hard pressed to present female characters as sexually available/vulnerable. Showing women barefoot was about their only resort; sexy women were barefoot and I believe that I began to equate these at a very young age. For examples, I would mention the shower scene in "Psycho" and a whole bunch of "Swashbuckler" type flicks. Look at the ads today: When the advertisers are trying to market sexiness, confidence, or a state of relaxation to women, the models are barefoot. One doesn't see that with male models in ads (thank Heaven!).
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quote:Originally posted by A&F_FootDude_05: Some researchers believe two things help from a foot fetish: being excited by something foot related (like a crush who goes barefoot)
Wow. This quite fascinating. This reminds of something that happened to me before I developed a liking for feet. I was in love with a girl when I was 17. I succinctly remember seeing her feet (hey, ofcourse I'd notice almost every part of her body) and thinking to myself how other girls' feet never looked as nice to me, somehow because they weren't the object of my desire.
Funny thing is, I didn't even have a foot fetish! And even though I was thinking about that about someone's feet, the notion of having a fetish didn't even cross my mind!!
That's just weird now that I think about it.
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Looks like Men's Health has redeemed itself in my eyes! I actually stopped reading it a few years ago when "Ask the girl next door" responded to a question "Is it weird to have a foot fetish?" "Yes."
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