According to a study done by Fetish Psychology, an estimated 1.1 percent of the population worldwide have a foot fetish (March 11, 2007).
We are in the minority. I know some are proud of their foot fetish...myself included. Yet there is a veil of shame attached to it. It's almost as though we have to prove to the world that we are in fact normal. Why is that? The creepy foot fetish guy is usually people's first interaction with a foot fetish. It used to be just media portraying us in this maniacal crazed manner but with the advent of the internet even your 15 year old sister with a deviant art page can be exposed to perverted foot talk. As evidenced by this thread:
Personally, i'm sick of this. I hate to complain without a proper solution but the next time I see someone creeping out a chic i'm calling them out. Might be a drop in the bucket but who knows...it may help.
What do you guys think? What can be done? Am I the only one?
GQ
Posted by screwhead20 (Member # 16242) on :
I think its kind of pointless to try and defend the foot fetish name to be honest... There's creeps all over the world, not just in the fetish community.
Posted by catsman (Member # 10269) on :
I know the real creepers out there have given us a bad name, but I am not going to open myself up to the closed minds of the world. I prefer keeping my fetish to myself and share it with my lady friend after we have gotten to know each other and the trust factor is great. She's the only one I want to know about it anyway. My avatar by the way is that special lady, and she loves that I adore her sexy feet.
Posted by Rider Aldebaran (Member # 38525) on :
The Internet brings out the worst in a lot of people. Not just with foot fetishism, but with any sexual thing.
Posted by Tyler D. (Member # 11452) on :
quote:Originally posted by GQguy: What do you guys think?
I agree with you 100%
quote:Originally posted by GQguy: What can be done?
We need more "boots on the ground" to identify these freaks and take measurable action to prevent them from embarrassing the rest of us.
quote:Originally posted by GQguy: Am I the only one?
For years I've been trying to help fetishists realize that our numbers are closer to the 1% quoted in your study. All this in the face of lemming-blind optimism where people thought that any photographer who took a picture of a barefoot celeb indicates more people with foot fetishes, or that a girl wiggling her toes in a public park must've meant she was trying to tease the increasing likelihood of nearby foot voyeurs.
In short, you are not the only one in this cleansing movement. I believe it's time for more of us to take the blinders off and realize that things are not as hunky-dory as they say, because there are so many creeps out there. It is only through dignity and self-respect that we will be able to overcome the massive damage done by these pervy rogues who comment on underage girls' feet pics.
There needs to be a stop and the youtube thumbs down button is no longer good enough! Action must be taken at every level and these perverts and freaks who give us a bad name must be held accountable in the same ways that I have made them accountable over the years through public admonishment.
Yes, those handful of bad apples will be angry and may even hold years of resentment (as I have witnessed), but in the end, our perseverance will prevail and our 1% of the population may eventually be accepted without being painted by the broad stroke of a tarnished brush. I am with you on this fight!
Posted by BlackHxC88 (Member # 15094) on :
quote:Originally posted by GQguy: I hate to complain without a proper solution but the next time I see someone creeping out a chic i'm calling them out. Might be a drop in the bucket but who knows...it may help.
What do you guys think? What can be done? Am I the only one?
you're not the only one. but, then again, according to your and many people on this broad, i assume any guy who isn't having millions of girls feet in their lap would count as a "creep". so, no, wouldn't help much. just be as bad as the bad apples by being an asshole.
Posted by skaramunga (Member # 11914) on :
Nothing can be done.
Why should we (who seemingly adhere to normal social standards) have to justify ourselves for others misguided approaches?
I won't allow myself to fall into any type of foot fetish stereo type.
Neither should any of you.
Posted by GQguy (Member # 16534) on :
quote:Originally posted by BlackHxC88:
quote:Originally posted by GQguy: I hate to complain without a proper solution but the next time I see someone creeping out a chic i'm calling them out. Might be a drop in the bucket but who knows...it may help.
What do you guys think? What can be done? Am I the only one?
you're not the only one. but, then again, according to your and many people on this broad, i assume any guy who isn't having millions of girls feet in their lap would count as a "creep". so, no, wouldn't help much. just be as bad as the bad apples by being an asshole.
GQ definition for "creep"= Someone who puts their desire and want for intimacy above the comfort of everyone else.
Opposite would be to put the comfort of others above the needs of yourself. Simple. Sure i want to tell that girl with nice feet "oooh, what I would do to those feet" but that would make her uncomfortable so I don't. Sure I want to smack that hot chic on the ass...but doing so would not take into account how she feels. Therefore it is creepy.
GQ
Posted by GQguy (Member # 16534) on :
quote:Originally posted by Tyler D.:
quote:Originally posted by GQguy: What do you guys think?
I agree with you 100%
quote:Originally posted by GQguy: What can be done?
We need more "boots on the ground" to identify these freaks and take measurable action to prevent them from embarrassing the rest of us.
quote:Originally posted by GQguy: Am I the only one?
For years I've been trying to help fetishists realize that our numbers are closer to the 1% quoted in your study. All this in the face of lemming-blind optimism where people thought that any photographer who took a picture of a barefoot celeb indicates more people with foot fetishes, or that a girl wiggling her toes in a public park must've meant she was trying to tease the increasing likelihood of nearby foot voyeurs.
In short, you are not the only one in this cleansing movement. I believe it's time for more of us to take the blinders off and realize that things are not as hunky-dory as they say, because there are so many creeps out there. It is only through dignity and self-respect that we will be able to overcome the massive damage done by these pervy rogues who comment on underage girls' feet pics.
There needs to be a stop and the youtube thumbs down button is no longer good enough! Action must be taken at every level and these perverts and freaks who give us a bad name must be held accountable in the same ways that I have made them accountable over the years through public admonishment.
Yes, those handful of bad apples will be angry and may even hold years of resentment (as I have witnessed), but in the end, our perseverance will prevail and our 1% of the population may eventually be accepted without being painted by the broad stroke of a tarnished brush. I am with you on this fight!
Right on brother!
Posted by Fwrinkledsoles (Member # 101) on :
Psychology, are among the educated idiots like Dr. Spock, Master & Johnson etc. who can't control us because they can't make money. . . . is a good reason why they want to label us as some other than a normal people. Meanwhile, Corporate America can control foot odor to completely stop it (they wish) to make money. Is the very reason they created body perfume to cover up body odor just to make money. Hell, we are attracted to (as males) female body odor of the opposite sex is simple reason for mating. However, when the couple mates the child can get both immune systems to survive. What we can do about it, fuck those Liberals! Posted by BlackHxC88 (Member # 15094) on :
quote:Originally posted by GQguy: GQ definition for "creep"= Someone who puts their desire and want for intimacy above the comfort of everyone else.
Posted by Rider Aldebaran (Member # 38525) on :
quote:Originally posted by Fwrinkledsoles: Psychology, are among the educated idiots like Dr. Spock, Master & Johnson etc. who can't control us because they can't make money. . . . is a good reason why they want to label us as some other than a normal people. Meanwhile, Corporate America can control foot odor to completely stop it (they wish) to make money. Is the very reason they created body perfume to cover up body odor just to make money. Hell, we are attracted to (as males) female body odor of the opposite sex is simple reason for mating. However, when the couple mates the child can get both immune systems to survive. What we can do about it, fuck those Liberals!
*takes the bait*
Well, I don't know about you, but I'd rather not be smothered in other people's body odor all around me. Even stuff like deodorant helps, and I'm sure you wear deodorant every day assuming that you are a working man.
That applies to feet, too. I'd rather a woman's feet not smell too much at all or have a pleasant fragrance than smell like... well, that "cheesy" stuff.
Liberals forever. Posted by Wrinklesguy (Member # 732) on :
sounds like someone is mad bro...lol Sometimes looking at oneself in the mirror peels off thine own skin, while others in the foot world are comfortable in theirs and progressing even when the 1% tells them they can't or don't have the guts to.
Posted by cnalls54 (Member # 20643) on :
That number doesn't seem accurate. I frequently meet people who find girls feet attractive.
Posted by DeTrOiT (Member # 37598) on :
Who I am as a person is defined by me. I really don't care what anyone thinks. I have a thing for sexy feet and I'm good with it...When a foot pervert decides to lick a strangers feet. He has a problem, NOT ME. I have listened and read post on here for years and we are all different so for the guys who walk around in the summer months staring at the ground looking at feet and playing "POCKET POOL"...You have a problem, NOT ME. I refused to be defined by any stereotype, BECAUSE STEREOTYPES ARE USUALLY WRONG...
Life is GRAND and I never have or never will hide the fact that "CUTE" feet make a woman attractive to me. I figure that there are many more people who have stranger desires than myself. (I thank god for not having desires for Kids, Old Women, to hurt people, to kill, to injure, to hate, to be a racist, to be a whore, to be evil, to be a rapist, to be attracted to animals, to be into blood or shit, to be into pain...etc. There are much worse things to like than feet.
As for the link that GQ provided, SHE'S A BABY AND WE SHOULD EXPECT HER TO BE CREEPED OUT BY THE COMMENTS THAT SHE'S GETTING. Poor thing. The internet brings out the worst in people because they can hide behind a keyboard. My problem is this, that girl looks like a child. As soon as the picture popped up, I was like..."IS THIS A KID?"... That alone stops any kind of sexual reaction from her feet...She's a little girl..smh..
To many foot guys are carrying to much weight on their shoulders, and bringing too much negative energy into their universe. WHAT EVER IS HAPPENING IN YOUR LIFE IS A DIRECT REFLECTION OF WHAT YOU ARE ATTRACTING...
Remember: YOU ARE FREE TO BE.....FREE.....And you are free to be.....CAGED....Make your choice....
Posted by Alcarde (Member # 44028) on :
I am tired of trying to protect other foot fetish people, whenever one of us gets on the news it is a freak. Here is my store, and no, from another thread, my missus doesn't know I'm on here. I went to a big strip club last year and spoke to a bartender in the VIP section. She said that there is a guy who would come into the strip club, pay normal price to get in, and get all the women. He wouldn't buy drinks for them nor even tip them or get a private dance. But he would go to them and ask them to remove their shoes and he would lick and suck on their shoes. He then would worship their feet and he would massage them. While this seems like heaven, because of the amount of variety of women there, he also would get so many girls that the guys who were paying money, would have to wait. He also had an attitude on him so he may suck the toes of a stripper for an hour and she would miss her chance to dance 4 times and make money with private dances and the guy wouldn't tip her a dime. He normally would bring other people with him, so the management wanted the girls to be nice to this guy because he brings in more business, but at the same time, they didn't like him because he was an asshole and they didn't make any money off of him.
So, while hearing this from the bartender, the guy I was with made a comment about how he liked her legs and she responded: "At least you are not one of those weird foot fetish freaks."
Now, in my mind, it would be heavenly at a strip club. Say on a busy night having at least 10 women, of different race and body type, all with dolled up feet to get your attention, towards the end of the night and their shift when their feet hurt and may be sweaty, and offering foot massages and maybe a sniff here and there......ahhhhh. But, as I said, guys like the one I mentioned up there ^, would give this and anyone else, a bad idea.
Posted by Tyler D. (Member # 11452) on :
quote:Originally posted by Alcarde: ...there is a guy who would come into the strip club, pay normal price to get in, and get all the women. He wouldn't buy drinks for them nor even tip them or get a private dance. But he would go to them and ask them to remove their shoes and he would lick and suck on their shoes. He then would worship their feet and he would massage them. While this seems like heaven, because of the amount of variety of women there, he also would get so many girls that the guys who were paying money, would have to wait. He also had an attitude on him so he may suck the toes of a stripper for an hour and she would miss her chance to dance 4 times and make money with private dances and the guy wouldn't tip her a dime.
He must have known the jedi mind trick in order to accomplish these feats. Hypnotism is the only thing I can think of that would explain this phenomenon. What a lucky Joe though, and he must have known how to save a ton of cash.
I bet the guys who had to wait ended up getting really irritated while this guy got feet for free. Those bros were mad! It makes sense though, because they were probably jealous from having to play pocket pool on the sidelines LOL! That's usually the way anger and jealousy work.
[ March 29, 2012, 11:11 AM: Message edited by: Tyler D. ]
Posted by GQguy (Member # 16534) on :
I think most here are missing my point.
If you see a 35 year old guy talking to a 15 year old girl and he says:
35 yo: Sexy yum!! 15 yo: Haha thanks. c: 35 yo: Ima gonna be busy when looking at these!! 15 yo: What? lol. 35 yo: -giggle- ur cute lets say i love feet and it makes me love doing something because it makes me feel good! lets say im a little wet yum! love u heaps!
Would you say anything to the guy? Most of us would. That's what i'm getting at. The internet should be no different. It's a responsibility we can hold as a foot fetish community. How many people have we as a whole chased away because of the errors of a few. I'm saying when we see something that isn't right that we stand up and say something. It can be PM to the guy.....asking him to delete his comment. If he doesn't act then we can call him out about how that behavior isn't called for.
The truth is no matter how cool we are with our foot fetishes....if a girl encounters one of these weirdos and then meets us...she will have a flashback to that weirdo. In a thread where a pretty girl post a random pic of her pedicure and she has 10 guys comment on how pretty they are with one of those guys saying something lewd..guess what...we might as well have all said the same thing unless someone stands up to him. She won't differentiate between the good foot fetishist and the bad. Sure in person is easier...especially if you build rapport first. But if that same girl that got that lewd comment on her pic gets a "hey, you have beautiful feet" the next day....how is she going to feel? Weirded out. But if it's made known then that we all don't feel that way and/or the guy apologizes her mood might change.
Just my thoughts. GQ
Posted by goodguyneighbor (Member # 2824) on :
I choose not to buy into guilt by association reasoning. There will always be badguys in every genre. It's impossible to control other people's actions.
Fortunately we can all control our own actions, and further, you get to choose which stereotype you belong to.
Women don't think like men. They're much more easily influenced in the moment than by past experiences. A man's personality, or lack thereof, is the strongest determining factor.
Of the many thousands of women I've talked to, the overwhelming majority have responded positively.
Posted by Beautifulfeetonline.com (Member # 13717) on :
ˆˆyes me too. i think the number is more like 5-8 percent.
Posted by Doneforever (Member # 38637) on :
I know how you feel nd it scks your right but recently in the papers I read Flasher strikes again!!! As I read on the first line said a man wearing sheer nylons is flashing women in stores and then runnning out! I was WTF? Then I was like Fck! thks to this idiot women might look at guys weird if you have foot fetish mixed with a nylon foot fetish! I am nowhere near as close of wanting to wear them and just cant get enough of hot womens soles and feet and when there wearing nylons. But thks to this dumb FCK! things can be frowned upon!
Posted by Andy-Laa (Member # 31511) on :
Well I'm with catsman here really - why does anyone but the woman you're with really need to know?
And just assuming there are roughly 7 billion people in the world (7,000,000,000) and that the 1.1% is near enough correct, there is somewhere in the realms of 77 million foot fetishists out there (not taking into account people too embarrassed to admit to it/don't realise it/don't call certain aspects of it "foot fetish").
So don't feel too alone.
Maths (simple enough, but I'll add it in for shits and giggles):
7,000,000,000 / 100 = 70,000,000 so 70,000,000 people = 1% of the population. 70,000,000 x 1.1 = 77,000,000
[ April 03, 2012, 06:21 PM: Message edited by: Andy-Laa ]
Posted by longhitter04 (Member # 2391) on :
I completely get GQ's point and agree with it 100%.
I can't tell you how many times I've read posts about:
-Guys pleasuring themselves with shoes of unknowing girls -Guys perving on the foot of a sleeping girl (without her consent) -Guys stealing socks and hosiery
The list goes on and on.
Imagine a guy does one of the above things to a girl and get's caught. What the hell is she supposed to think? She's going to walk out of that situation thinking, "Wow! What a creepy pervert!". Then she meets a "normal" gentleman with a fondness for pretty feet and he is automatically pigeon holed into that same category by default.
Show some fucking restraint and quite fucking it up for everyone else!!!!!!!!!
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lets say i love feet and it makes me love doing something because it makes me feel good! lets say im a little wet ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
yum! love u heaps!