what do you think is the defining moment that will make foot fetish mainstream and more acceptable?
Would consider its popularity on instagram to be that defining moment?
Posted by Feetosopher (Member # 45909) on :
Interesting question indeed! My modest opinion is that foot fetish will never go 100% "mainstream", at least among the "moral majority". Take the example of Italian TV anchor woman (and former Miss Italy) Caterina Balivo. https://www.instagram.com/caterinabalivo/ https://twitter.com/caterinabalivo Caterina is openly comfortable about having kazillions of foot fetishist fans, and she is always eager to please them by posting pictures and videos of her feet. However, every foot-related post of Caterina on Instagram or Twitter is systematically bombed with nasty comments by the "moral majority". That said, the very fact that hordes of women are now showing off their peds on any kind of IT platform and social media (from YouTube to Instagram to Facebook to Twitter etc.), deffo means that female feet, and foot fetishism, are getting "more acceptable" to a wider public. Only time will tell whether the process will continue.
Posted by wickedticklish73 (Member # 52096) on :
One could argue that it already is. Everyone has seen or heard of kissing a lady's foot. People who vilify foot fetishists are sadists into public humiliation.
Posted by luvstockingfeet (Member # 51368) on :
I think that if more and more good looking guys, especially celebrities, come forward with their foot fetish that will change the minds of ladies in general. I've always said that women can villifiy us foot guys but if they had a blind date with a Ryan Goseling look a like and he admitted he had a foot fetish; she'd be getting a pedicure before date #2. I think the problem is that we are still portrayed as creepy, wormy guys by the mainstream media.
Posted by solesurvivordragon (Member # 37330) on :
I think if you watch a Tarantino movie, you can tell it's already gone mainstream (even if it hasn't gone 100%), especially those two famous scenes from his movies: the one where Quentin sucking Salma Hayek's foot in From Dusk Til Dawn and Bridget Fonda's foot shot in Jackie Brown.
Also, someone mentioned Caterina Balivo's feet and they are a sight. There are a lot of pictures on WikiFeet. https://www.wikifeet.com/Caterina_Balivo Posted by Lars (Member # 1461) on :
quote:Originally posted by luvstockingfeet: I think that if more and more good looking guys, especially celebrities, come forward with their foot fetish that will change the minds of ladies in general. I've always said that women can villifiy us foot guys but if they had a blind date with a Ryan Goseling look a like and he admitted he had a foot fetish; she'd be getting a pedicure before date #2. I think the problem is that we are still portrayed as creepy, wormy guys by the mainstream media.
Absolutely good point. I agree with you 100%. No matter how good looking, handsome, bright-minded, well-educated and good-mannered we may be.. if we have a foot fetish.. we are creepy weirdos by default to the "moral majority" and the media that it controls.. Posted by Bigbbwfeet (Member # 51598) on :
I think we're already in the era of acceptance. Idk how you guys act but you must be doing something wrong. I never have people say it's creepy or weird or get turned off by it. I am an attractive person though so that may have something to do with it. If you don't make it a big deal it won't be a big deal. And check out this Groupon commercial - it shows foot fetishes, at least in the black community, are very much mainstream. https://youtu.be/PekH9jJndp4 Posted by Goddess Lilith (Member # 38639) on :
It already happened when Britney told an interviewer she liked having her feet kissed like 10 years ago It's on youtube if anyone is curious.
Posted by jediofthefeet (Member # 1463) on :
This is easy to do because the masses are SHEEP!
Big budget romantic films and even rom-coms, along with super popular television shows and series simply have to add more m/f foot rub and foot worship scenes. The stars need to be A List, and never lower than B list. No exceptions. Highly-viewed Latino and Black rap music videos need to have more foot rub scenes and even foot worship.
The foot worship MUST be tasteful, none of the creepy Stanley Tucci stuff in "Big Trouble". It MUST be consensual and sensual.
Look around you, bell bottoms, pinstripes, ripped jeans, high top fade, hippy hair, and beards are back. Baggy jeans, flipping the middle finger in photos, the "Black Panther" haircut, certain words or phrases, and making it 100 percent ok to be gay or bisexual via television shows and movies, etc. are now as common as breathing. They all came from mainstream influencing.
And now, that extends to the biggest of YouTubers, IG influencers, and other visual social media outlets.
Can you go on social media and coin a phrase, wear something outlandish, or make the American Sign Language sign for "f--k you" a thing? Probably not. That has to come from those who can influence what we should think and feel. And how we should dress and act.
Posted by coryr (Member # 49869) on :
I don't think it's ever going to be mainstream. People are already aware that it's a thing and the most common of fetishes. I think that's about as far mainstream as it can go. Opinions about creepiness may change if it's portrayed in the media as more normal, but I don't think people are going to get into foot fetishism or want to try it out just because people in tv/movies do it. I think there might always be a bit of a stigma, but it's not like everyone feels negatively about it. It seems pretty acceptable, and people are just either into it or they aren't.
Also, some people just think feet are gross or weird, or just don't understand the appeal. So in that regard, I think it's just people's attitudes towards feet in general and not really foot fetishists.
[ May 23, 2019, 10:40 AM: Message edited by: coryr ]
Posted by coryr (Member # 49869) on :
Also, the fact that there's so many varying degrees of foot fetishism probably keeps it from going totally mainstream. You have a scale that encompasses everything from simple worship to foot domination, so it's understandable if not everyone is accepting of every aspect.
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It's on youtube if anyone is curious.