Do you like touching, or looking at your partner’s feet? Do you like feet in general? If you do, it’s probably a good time for you to learn a few things about foot fetishism…
Do you like touching, or looking at your partner’s feet? Do you like feet in general? If you do, it’s probably a good time for you to learn a few things about foot fetishism…
Honestly, most of us don’t even look at our own feet or think about them at all. We just put them in a pair of shoes and forget about them for the rest of the day.
These people feel the need to touch, look at, or kiss feet for sexual arousal. It’s said that sometimes worshipping feet helps them enjoy the feeling of superiority of their partner.
He claimed that people sexualize feet because they resemble penises. Freud thought that yet another thing in the world looked like penises. Surprise surprise.
When the child discovers mom doesn’t have a penis, he fears the loss his penis, possibly as a punishment by dad. This creates intense anxiety in the child, who then chooses a safe substitute for the missing penis (maternal phallus), often feet, to sooth his fears.
A more scientific theory comes from the neuroscientist Vilanayar Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California at San Diego.
... that lead to phantom limb syndrome, a condition where amputees feel as if their missing limbs are still attached to their bodies, and that they can move those limbs. He found that the syndrome resulted when a person's 'body image map' the brain's map of the body, in which different body parts are associated with and controlled by different brain regions failed to erase the part of the map that corresponded to the amputated limb.
Rather, they accidentally rewired the map in a way that caused the person's phantom foot to become sexy. Phantom foot patients reported feeling sexual pleasure, and even orgasms in their missing feet.
But no one else had put 2 and 2 together and realized that foot fetishes could possibly result from cross-wiring in the brain between the foot and genital parts.
Convinced? Well, this is the latest scientific study in the field that we know of, and it makes more sense than Freud’s theory, I think.
Nearly half of all such fetishes focus on feet, and almost two-thirds of fetishes for objects associated with the body are for shoes and socks. So not everyone should be looking for a penis where the feet stand, hopefully.