Back when there was no internet...no magazines with pictures...What did men do to fulfill their foot fetish needs? Is this where the whole idea got really creepy because guys just acted out of instinct to see/get with women's feet? Perhaps they did a lot of out of character moves when desperation hit? I can't imagine a life without the internet to help my cravings!
Posted by Patrick (Member # 1169) on :
Went to the beach, buried themselves in the sand and whacked away so no one could see? Just a far fetched idea.
Patrick
Posted by Fiona McFee (Member # 39121) on :
Back in high school (a good 20 years ago or so) I worked at a supermarket in a shopping center where there was also a shoe store where a friend of mine worked. She would tell me about this guy they nicknamed 'Feets' who would come in and ogle women's feet and ask to photograph them.
My first encounter with the fetish was this guy. He came into the supermarket and offered me money if I would let him take pictures of my feet. He was creepy, I think he even wore a trench coat, and he definitely made me think this was a creepy fetish.
Thankfully that didn't scar me for life
Pre-internet though, weren't there fetish mags/videotapes around? Is anyone on this board old enough to remember? I'm curious...
Posted by wvcple2003 (Member # 5268) on :
I went to a porn shop in Colombus GA around 1995 or so, and bought a 3 pack bundle of fetish mags. 2 of the mags were foot related, and the models were the nastiest, tramped down, hooker related hoes you could imagine. But that being the only material I could find, I visited back monthly and purchased new mags. If I happen across any of the mags in the next few days while the wife and I are 'Spring Cleaning;, Ill post some on here. Gory stuff btw
Posted by LovelyLadies (Member # 5079) on :
Alright, fair enough, and funny Patrick, lol. But what about, let's say medieval times? Haha, or was foot fetish nonexistent back that far?
Posted by wvcple2003 (Member # 5268) on :
quote:Originally posted by LovelyLadies: Alright, fair enough, and funny Patrick, lol. But what about, let's say medieval times? Haha, or was foot fetish nonexistent back that far?
Im thinking toenail clippers were nonexistent back then; so the 'raking of the hubbys saber across the nails' was probably the big thing in nail grooming back then!
Posted by combine_hunter (Member # 39526) on :
Was that when lye was the big thing in bathing?
Or are we going back farther than that? Posted by catsman (Member # 10269) on :
I am 52 and can remember checking out the feet of models in the Sear and JC Penny Catalogs. Even wacked off with them on many occasions. Where there's a will, there's a way.
Posted by papo551 (Member # 35524) on :
Mostly bondage magazine though i'm not really into that stuff. But the ladies were almost always barefoot. Also girls doing the shoeplay thing back in school 80-90s. Hey Patrick, love that feature with Mindee. She's cute and her soles are heaven.
Posted by longhitter04 (Member # 2391) on :
quote:Originally posted by LovelyLadies: But what about, let's say medieval times?
I'm sure they went out and found mates that would indulge them.
Personally, I think that is the problem with the internet and all of the information available. More and more people are relying on the internet to satisfy their sexual cravings rather than finding a girl to indulge them.
Without the internet, you'd have no choice but to develop relationships with women that would indulge you... or become one of those "creeps". I would've preferred the former, not the latter.
Posted by Spruce314 (Member # 35412) on :
quote:Originally posted by catsman: I am 52 and can remember checking out the feet of models in the Sear and JC Penny Catalogs. Even wacked off with them on many occasions. Where there's a will, there's a way.
I'm 42 and did the same thing. My mom used to get Massey's shoe catalogs which had some nice models wearing their shoes. Those and Avon catalogs worked well.
Way back in the day when women wore long dresses and boots before magazines and photography I'm not sure what the guys did.
Posted by combine_hunter (Member # 39526) on :
There's also a third option, longhitter: go without.
In some ways, that's worse than being a creeper.
Without the internet, I wouldn't have seen all of the great models that I have, and my collection would be non-existent. Not only that, but I would be missing a major source of inspiration. Thanks to everything I've seen, I'm inspired to get out there and do better. I'm not there yet, but I know I will be, eventually.
Posted by footjoyboy (Member # 26478) on :
Are we to assume that no one dated or went to a brothel or got married "back in the day". C'mon folks, the foot fetish has been around as long as mankind.
Posted by kalagilac (Member # 26328) on :
lovelyladies, found this on wikipedia: ome researchers have hypothesized that foot fetishism increases as a response to epidemics of sexually transmitted diseases. In one study, conducted by Dr. A James Giannini at Ohio State University[7] an increased interest in feet as sexual objects was observed during the great gonorrhea epidemic of twelfth century Europe, and the syphilis epidemics of the 16th and 19th centuries in Europe. In the same study, the frequency of foot-fetish depictions in pornographic literature was measured over a 30 year interval. An exponential increase was noted during the period of the current AIDS epidemic. In these cases, sexual foot play was viewed as a safe-sex alternative. However, the researchers noted that these epidemics overlapped periods of relative female emancipation. Sexual focus on female feet was also hypothesized to have been a reflection of a more dominant posture of the woman in sexual-social relations. (The first surviving mention of foot fetish is by Bertold of Regensburg in 1220.[8])[9]
I think that shits pretty interesting...Cool to think about our ancestors gettin fjs lol.
Posted by Tyler D. (Member # 11452) on :
quote:Originally posted by Patrick: Went to the beach, buried themselves in the sand and whacked away so no one could see?
LOL, those were probably the passive foot fetishists of the past.
And the aggressive ones were probably more along the lines of Jerry Brudos.
Posted by Tyler D. (Member # 11452) on :
quote:Originally posted by LovelyLadies: let's say medieval times? Haha, or was foot fetish nonexistent back that far?
probably just took the dude alot longer to explain to the chic what a footjob was. of course this would've had to have occurred after seriously spending some time calming her down, or perhaps preparing her in advance for the news by filling her with lots of ale.
i woulda hated to be a footman back then, basically feeling like i lived in isolation.
quote:Originally posted by combine_hunter: There's also a third option, longhitter: go without.
In some ways, that's worse than being a creeper.
ROFL, so very true Posted by combine_hunter (Member # 39526) on :
Maybe there was a back alley, or an alehouse somewhere that guys talked about their fetishes.
Hell, it might have been out in public for all we know. Posted by dougiezerts (Member # 6829) on :
quote:Originally posted by catsman: I am 52 and can remember checking out the feet of models in the Sear and JC Penny Catalogs. Even wacked off with them on many occasions. Where there's a will, there's a way.
Ah, the Sears catalog! National Geographic was also a good source for barefoot girl photos.
Posted by Salvy_Mic (Member # 13384) on :
I bet for most people back during the medieval era, they probably though they were going to hell for being so deviant. It seemed like missionary, reproductive, joyless sex was the only good sex allowed back then.
Unless you had money, with which you could screw the rules.
People got by. Prostitutes have always been around, so there's that, plus people have always gotten married. And considering back then that women were absolutely expected to be subservient to men in all facets of life, if her husband wanted to lick her feet, well, she was going to let him, no matter what she thought.
Posted by skipperbob (Member # 28525) on :
I am 62 now so do the math! Growing up as a kid it was Sears and other catalogs, couldn't wait for the spring and summer issues when the sandals came out! Another direction I went into was watching self defense and martial arts demos with women, lots of bare feet (plus I also have a ball busting fetish so that was doubly good!) As I got older it was adult magazines, pretty tame by today's standards but very nice back then. In fact it was following up on an ad in an adult magazine that I had my first experience with foot worship. As far as the old times go, it was scandalous to even see a woman's ankle, let alone her feet! Led to a lot of repressed feelings and if you study history and read diaries and memoirs etc... you see some pretty wild things going on in private! Foot fetish has been around for as long as there have been feet. We have a long and proud history!
Posted by tom (Member # 223) on :
Marshall Ward catalogues were great in the 70's - in the eighties you hoped Playboy and other mags wouldnt cut the modles feet "off" though they most often did. in the late 80's Razzle really started to show the girls feet as a plus including a section just for female feet!
Posted by Podder (Member # 15888) on :
quote:Originally posted by catsman: I am 52 and can remember checking out the feet of models in the Sear and JC Penny Catalogs. Even wacked off with them on many occasions. Where there's a will, there's a way.
I'm a bit older than you and have similar memories of going through my mother's mail-order catalogs or one or another newspaper. Back in the '60s, the pre-Murdoch New York Post had a gossip columnist named Earl Wilson who frequently ran (albeit small) pictures of bikini-clad starlets, which I cut out and used for, shall I say, inspirational purposes. But catalogs were definitely a good source too. (Hey, you make do with what you have.) However, I sometimes wonder how crazy I might have gone if the Web had existed about 40 years ago, though I jerked off a lot as it was. (Still do, I'm proud to say!)
Posted by footntoesmassager (Member # 12132) on :
Luckily for me before the Internet existed I was too young to fully indulge in my foot fetish! j/k
Posted by Maxmillion2 (Member # 27350) on :
Just some ideas:
perhaps less people (ratio-wise) had foot fetishes back then, because feet may have not been as exposed in public, they were probably exposed less to children (usually when the fetish was developed) and lastly, probably women didnt wear much manmade materials(although they probably showered less) causing female feet to smell(this has an effect on maybe over 50% of foot fetishists and how the scent is related to them developing their fetish..)
Posted by Tom Uz (Member # 12166) on :
I'm another geezer like catsman and podder and I remember a cover of Walt Disney Magazine with Annette Funicello on the cover. This was around the time she was getting boobs and outgrowing the mouse ears. 1959 or '60 - I was in 8th grade. They had her standing in a sweet yellow dress, no stockings, and black leather flats. She had her weight on her back foot and was putting her best foot forward posed at an angle with her ankle curved and the toe of her shoe curled up so you could see a little of the sole, and the side of her foot pulling away from her shoe just enough to create that magical little dark space. That was one of the signature images of my puberty. It's like when it's really quiet and a little noise stands out. Good thing I wasn't Superboy - I would have burned a hole in that picture staring at it. I guess that was my first porn. And through the next couple decades, it was like the other guys say, it was catalogs and mainstream men's mags, looking for the foot aspects. But I thought the mainstream softporn industry knew we were out there and regularly included a little something for us as part of their repertoire. That seemed like a fringe benefit of foot fetish - you don't have to pay inflated prices for hardcore porn if you can achieve the desired effect with JC Penney. In the 80's I discovered Leg Show magazine and I felt like that's a good spin, or a good cover, for foot fetish. Being a "leg man" seemed socially acceptable, but foot fetish still seemed like a dirty secret. I'm very glad the online world came along.
Posted by catsman (Member # 10269) on :
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tom Uz: [QB] I'm another geezer like catsman and podder...
Geezer? Watch it old dude, I can still swing a pretty damn mean cane.....lol
Posted by timmy349 (Member # 26978) on :
Footsy magazine in the UK in the 90s.... Pre internet! I used to get them in a manilla envelope 6 times per year...! Good stuff by thestandards then. Leg show mag too...
First website I recall was Toetally Extreme followed by GreatFeet.com... Must have been 1998 by then... Then came some links pages from Ickawon, Aragon etc.. some of these are still around...
Posted by temp1234 (Member # 33411) on :
We're in an age where we're inundated with information about stuff. Back then there was nothing like that, it wasn't as obsessive.
Funnily enough we went over this in a lecture, though it was to do with sex-porn, not fetish-porn. Basically people probably didn't know they had a fetish or because there was no definition of it it wasn't sought out as much. People still engaged in this kind of behaviour yea.
Gahh it's too late here. In a nutshell - now we're in the modern times we have too much within reach. Modern day life also breeds obsessions. It'll only change in the future too.
Posted by LeDaemon (Member # 198) on :
For me it was the old Sears catalogs for me as well as a child back in the 70s. Probably more voyeurism on my part looking at teacher's and girl's feet in school from really early on. Didn't discover actual foot porn until 1986 in college when a guy down the hall from me in my dorm loaned me a huge stack of Leg Show Magazines.
I've posted pictures before of artwork from a Polish novelist/artist that featured lots of foot fetish content in some of his drawings. His career was cut short in a Jewish ghetto by the bullet of a Nazi officer.
What did it for me is the girls on my street growing up had this contest on "who was the toughest" and would have me stand on their toes to see who could take it the longest. After they were done I would get to rub their sore red toes. I know this is kind of weird, but it wasn't my idea. So I was subjected to a bunch of young feet at an early age. Catalogs did ok too but when ya got the real thing.... Posted by markn (Member # 13818) on :
Actually, the internet has been a huge step backward. Before, the romantic world of the lover of female foot lover was in full three dimensional wonder. The lunch room, bus stop, and kitchen table, when occupied by our sisters cute friend, were the foot lovers playground. There is one great benefit to the blossoming of web modeling. Others can do the hard work of bringing us our Soles of Silk and we can avoid those strange looks from the clerk at the 24 hour photo.
Posted by markn (Member # 13818) on :
quote:Originally posted by LovelyLadies: Alright, fair enough, and funny Patrick, lol. But what about, let's say medieval times? Haha, or was foot fetish nonexistent back that far?
For centuries the Chinese went to great lengths in pursuit of foot sex. An attractive girl with feet transformed "bound" often lead to a marriage with a man of wealth. I would guess the men of India have been into feet for centuries also. Just fifty years ago in the US the prosecutors wanted to put guys in jail for sharing photos of women's feet.
[ June 25, 2010, 12:30 AM: Message edited by: markn ]
Posted by Patrick (Member # 1169) on :
quote:Originally posted by markn: Actually, the internet has been a huge step backward. Before, the romantic world of the lover of female foot lover was in full three dimensional wonder. The lunch room, bus stop, and kitchen table, when occupied by our sisters cute friend, were the foot lovers playground. There is one great benefit to the blossoming of web modeling. Others can do the hard work of bringing us our Soles of Silk and we can avoid those strange looks from the clerk at the 24 hour photo.
While I guess there is a little bit of truth to what you are saying, I firmly believe if it wasn't for the web, there wouldn't be as many people able to admit their fetishes to begin with. I still get a large dose of email advice requests on how to break fetishes to girlfriends and even wives that have no clue. People are now able to communicate in a safe environment and learn from others. It's true that seeing the photos/videos is a quick way to get feet, but adult material is one of the first things to go into every new popular medium - including print, video, etc. With the web it was just so much easier for your neighbor to share their stuff and not have to pay for tons of expensive equipment or printing/processing.
Patrick
Posted by markn (Member # 13818) on :
quote:Originally posted by Patrick:
quote:Originally posted by markn: Actually, the internet has been a huge step backward. Before, the romantic world of the lover of female foot lover was in full three dimensional wonder. The lunch room, bus stop, and kitchen table, when occupied by our sisters cute friend, were the foot lovers playground. There is one great benefit to the blossoming of web modeling. Others can do the hard work of bringing us our Soles of Silk and we can avoid those strange looks from the clerk at the 24 hour photo.
While I guess there is a little bit of truth to what you are saying, I firmly believe if it wasn't for the web, there wouldn't be as many people able to admit their fetishes to begin with. I still get a large dose of email advice requests on how to break fetishes to girlfriends and even wives that have no clue. People are now able to communicate in a safe environment and learn from others. It's true that seeing the photos/videos is a quick way to get feet, but adult material is one of the first things to go into every new popular medium - including print, video, etc. With the web it was just so much easier for your neighbor to share their stuff and not have to pay for tons of expensive equipment or printing/processing.
Patrick
You are correct about the web growing our community greatly. Ladaemon mentioned "Leg Show" magazine, which was widely available. It was the first evidence that the lover of female feet was not the loneliest and most warped SOB on the planet. In "Leg Show" private females would run ads offering photos and steamy handwritten letters by mail.
Posted by Patrick (Member # 1169) on :
Markn,
I used to get the Leg Shows all the time. Had an ex-girlfriend's photos printed in them too.
Patrick
Posted by sofatater (Member # 4209) on :
quote:Originally posted by catsman: I am 52 and can remember checking out the feet of models in the Sear and JC Penny Catalogs. Even wacked off with them on many occasions. Where there's a will, there's a way.
Me too!! Nat'l Geographic, T.V. Guide, virtually any magazine with photos was a chance to find a ladies feet. Also kept the eyes peeled for "feet on the street".
Posted by dougiezerts (Member # 6829) on :
quote:Originally posted by sofatater:
quote:Originally posted by catsman: I am 52 and can remember checking out the feet of models in the Sear and JC Penny Catalogs. Even wacked off with them on many occasions. Where there's a will, there's a way.
Me too!! Nat'l Geographic, T.V. Guide, virtually any magazine with photos was a chance to find a ladies feet. Also kept the eyes peeled for "feet on the street".
Women's magazines were--and still are--a good source for feet photos.
Posted by catsman (Member # 10269) on :
quote:Originally posted by dougiezerts:
quote:Originally posted by sofatater:
quote:Originally posted by catsman: I am 52 and can remember checking out the feet of models in the Sear and JC Penny Catalogs. Even wacked off with them on many occasions. Where there's a will, there's a way.
Me too!! Nat'l Geographic, T.V. Guide, virtually any magazine with photos was a chance to find a ladies feet. Also kept the eyes peeled for "feet on the street".
Women's magazines were--and still are--a good source for feet photos.
Let's not forget that even the great George Costanza could not resist "Glamour" magazine to entice him to you know what....
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