I was fishing around on Google News for any constructive foot fetish articles...no luck BUT did find out an interesting feature. When you type in foot fetish you can search by decade but the really cool part is you can click 'timeline' and it shows you a bar graph of the number of times 'foot fetish' comes up in an article, and typing in a set time frame ( I did 1990 to 2007) it shows you a bar graph of the number of times words come up in articles, and click the link you wll see it!
Once you click the link, you can put in your own timeframe from 2000-2007 or so. I wish it would show numbers, but hey I thought stumbling across this was pretty cool!
Posted by oscarthemonkey (Member # 1692) on :
You get an "A"
Posted by hur (Member # 24089) on :
hey, we're getting notoriety Posted by LeDaemon (Member # 198) on :
quote:Originally posted by hur: hey, we're getting notoriety
Well, you may want to note that the notoriety from the news articles is not in a positive light. All the articles I skimmed through on page 1 related to sexual assaults that were foot fetish related. You know, priests fondling boys feet, bad cops fondling female motorist's feet when they stop them, etc...
Posted by Toetapper (Member # 6473) on :
I didn't do a whole lot of skimming but noted that that there was little nice to be said about foot-fetishism. I did follow the time-line back to the beginning of the 20th century. What a big boom there was right up to the start of the Great Depression! The "Roaring Twenties" was real big on it, I can only imagine the tawdry details shared in a sensationalist news-rag of the time. This was a time that the culture was getting past the hangover of the late Victorian Era and was, in a culturally relative way, akin to the 60's.
More recently, I see that things started to pick up in the mid-70's right around the time that BIG open-toed platforms (aka "Hooker-Look") shoes were coming into vogue.
I could speculate endlessly and wish I had a real point to make here. I guess that the articles early on were due to a great deal of "sexual repression" and the misunderstanding (dare I say ignorance?) of many sexual matters.
Today, with more openness, people are somewhat more understanding of the sexually deviant (argh, I know it is a harsh word but, leaving the emotional component out, it is, by its definition, the right one). In other words we're still regarded as weird - well, at least, odd - but less weird than before.
Posted by Sabbath (Member # 4844) on :
I even once read that sociologist said there is a correlation between the number of foot fetishists and the rise of sexual epidemics. Such as foot fetish becoming mainstream in Spain during the 17th century. Maybe foot fetish is nature's response to AIDS hahaha
Posted by A&F_FootDude_05 (Member # 2999) on :
I have heard those same tidbits, Sabbath. A foot fetish can be a safe way to fool around!
Posted by A&F_FootDude_05 (Member # 2999) on :
Was there a foot fetish emergence during the Renaissance, a time where a humanism movement spread that allowed for more equality for individuals?
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