Can anyone explain foot fetishes?

[coppaJChristo]

Someone that has been very complementary of my work has asked me to include some foot stuff. I looked for some articles on the Internet, but I'm getting a lot of junk back. (And now Google is sending me ads for stockings). *hard eye roll*

Does anyone know why it happens and why it's arousing? If I can get that, I can maybe work my way through a metaphor that I won't butcher.

Or maybe I shouldn't be trying this. I don't know. Anyhow, appreciate any insight. Thx. cjc

 

[Crownvic]

Someone that has been very complementary of my work has asked me to include some foot stuff. I looked for some articles on the Internet, but I'm getting a lot of junk back. (And now Google is sending me ads for stockings). *hard eye roll*

Does anyone know why it happens and why it's arousing? If I can get that, I can maybe work my way through a metaphor that I won't butcher.

Or maybe I shouldn't be trying this. I don't know. Anyhow, appreciate any insight. Thx. cjc

Some people think that the foot..is and can arousing..it a personal thing...it’s also very common in the fetishized world..

 

[coppaJChristo]

Some people think that the foot..is and can arousing..it a personal thing...it’s also very common in the fetishized world..

Totally! But why though? I read something about the nerves in the foot traveling through the groin on the way to the brain. I also had a woman tell me that foot rubs routinely lead to sex (I was giving her a foot rub at the time. We did not have sex).

 

[Crownvic]

Totally! But why though? I read something about the nerves in the foot traveling through the groin on the way to the brain. I also had a woman tell me that foot rubs routinely lead to sex (I was giving her a foot rub at the time. We did not have sex).

That called a footsie..that is fetish sex..loves when she takes off her shoe...and runs her foot up my leg...to the hot spot...very sexy...

 

[coppaJChristo]

That called a footsie..that is fetish sex..loves when she takes off her shoe...and runs her foot up my leg...to the hot spot...very sexy...

You and I are not on the same page, but I am thoroughly entertained by your responses. And if your goal is immersion, you might be a genius.

 

[SimonDoom]

I'm not sure if fetishes and kinks can be explained. They just are. For some people, feet are extremely erotic. For others, meh. I don't find feet erotic, but I don't try to understand why others do. I don't think pantyhose are erotic, but some people do. I think stockings are erotic. I'm sure some like pantyhose more.

 

[Crownvic]

You and I are not on the same page, but I am thoroughly entertained by your responses. And if your goal is immersion, you might be a genius.

I may be a pervert...but not a genius..Thanks..

 

[coppaJChristo]

I'm not sure if fetishes and kinks can be explained. They just are. For some people, feet are extremely erotic. For others, meh. I don't find feet erotic, but I don't try to understand why others do. I don't think pantyhose are erotic, but some people do. I think stockings are erotic. I'm sure some like pantyhose more.

I hear you. But I have a fluid fetish. And I can trace that back to an assortment of factors and physiologies. I'm still hoping that someone with a foot fetish will know why it works for them, but also, my expectations are not high. In most cases, you're probably right - fetishes just are.

 

[Handley_Page]

Someone that has been very complementary of my work has asked me to include some foot stuff. I looked for some articles on the Internet, but I'm getting a lot of junk back. (And now Google is sending me ads for stockings). *hard eye roll*
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Anyhow, appreciate any insight. Thx. cjc

You may care to look in Youporn / Pornhub, etc..
There have been a few keen foot-works therein.

 

[NotWise]

Totally! But why though? I read something about the nerves in the foot traveling through the groin on the way to the brain. I also had a woman tell me that foot rubs routinely lead to sex (I was giving her a foot rub at the time. We did not have sex).

Based on this response, you may have the fetish backwards. A foot fetishist is sexually aroused by their partner's feet. They may want to rub them, smell them, lick them. In extreme cases they may abuse and mutilate their partners feet. It's a fetish, and not something that is erotic to most people.

Footsies are something else again, and I'm not sure they're even part of the fetish.

You seem to be talking about the case where someone wants their foot rubbed, which is a different thing entirely. I think most people probably like a foot massage, and it isn't a fetish. Some people say there are erotic zones in the foot, but I can't vouch for that. I can testify that a foot massage is relaxing.

I didn't have to look far to find out what it was and some explanations for it. There is no one explanation, but you might read What is a foot fetish to get some ideas.

 

[coppaJChristo]

One side may have to do with submission. Washing one's feet, kissing one's feet, licking one's boots, prostrating for one's feet, a foot on the neck... I think that's a power balance; worshipping. It has religious aspects.

But I'm almost sure there are more facets to this subject.

Ahhhh, now we’re talking. Okay, I’m going to go down this path and see what shakes out… thank you!

 

[Ginlover]

I’ll give this a go, but not my kink.
Submission, lowest physical point to enjoy someone while showing them they are higher than you
Dirty humiliation. Considered an unclean part of the body, sweaty and smelly, if someone likes to enjoy humiliation feet, socks and stinky shoes can do that.
Sensual but not just enjoying the massage but the noises a foot can elicited — sexual oh ah from a good massage to screaming and laughing from tickling. Noises are often enjoyed especially by men hearing their partner and feet are a quick route to getting a partner screaming because of something the other person has done
The look, like sucking fingers can be erotic, as a metaphor for sucking and licking genitals, toes can hold the same status, little nubs of nerve endings which fit in the mouth (and I refer back to the noises above when considering toe sucking)
The visual again, heels elongating a leg, stockings, school girl socks. The dressing of the feet can give a whole character from sissification to baby girl to dominatrix, the feet are often key to achieving this alternative kink character

 

[MillieDynamite]

Foot massages are a highly charged sexual thing in the right person's hands. They just know how to rub where and what makes things go zing.

Foot fetishes are something else entirely. I think the humiliation post, in most cases, is dead on. however, who knows, only a person with the fetish would be able to shed any light on the matter, unless someone else has researched it before. I mean if you want to hear a duck quack, you go to the city park pond. Get it straight from the Duck's mouth, so to speak.

Personally, don't get the fetish. I also don't get the massages often enough. I should bring this up with Jo. About the massages that is.

 

[KeithD]

I'm not sure if fetishes and kinks can be explained. They just are.

Bingo. I don't see the utility of writing erotica about a particular fetish if you can't "get it" yourself--basically understand that it either arouses someone or it doesn't. I certainly don't think calling in a committee to help you do work you don't have to do is useful.

 

[coppaJChristo]

Bingo. I don't see the utility of writing erotica about a particular fetish if you can't "get it" yourself--basically understand that it either arouses someone or it doesn't. I certainly don't think calling in a committee to help you do work you don't have to do is useful.

Well shit. In the context of this thread, it’s hard to argue with that.

But if I’m being a bit contrary, none of us have to do anything on this platform. We’re here because we want to be. And I really like pleasing the people that show me appreciation. So at the very least, your perspective is quite welcome and validates a worst case scenario - I try to write something I don’t understand and fail. Then I’m disappointing all me readers, not just the one I was seeking to please.

I’m feeling talked out of this; thank you all for your feedback.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Bingo. I don't see the utility of writing erotica about a particular fetish if you can't "get it" yourself--basically understand that it either arouses someone or it doesn't. I certainly don't think calling in a committee to help you do work you don't have to do is useful.

Fetishes can be understood, and talking to someone with the fetish can tell you about their experiences, feelings, and what makes it go zing for them.

Before writing a cuckold story, I went to a website dedicated to cuckoldry with chat rooms. I explained I was working on a story about cuckolding and wanted to talk to a few cuckolds. Those that PMed me, I gave my email, and we exchanged information. I learned a great deal from those interviews. There were several different views of the whys. But the mixed emotions of being stimulated and revolted by the thing seemed to be quite universal.

I’d say more than half of those I talked to admitted to bisexual desires and enjoying humiliation.

As to foot fetish, I wouldn’t know where to find a thing on that. Nor do I want to. But that's just me.

But your right, a group discussion with people that know nothing about the fetish, isn't going to produce the result the OP wants.

 

[AlexBailey]

I've got lots of fetishes but not so much for feet, but I'd say that you could tantalize a fetishists simply by providing a detailed description of the object, body part, or manipulation of said object.

- She reflexively curled her perfectly manicured delicate little toes, brilliant red polish shining through the smoky silk of her Pierre Mantoux stockings. What shoe could be worthy of these divine extremities?

 

[LAHomedog]

Maybe this is too simplistic, but I don't really see a difference in writing about a foot fetish, if that is not your thing, and writing about a -- for example -- a tattoo fetish, or a big ass fetish, or whatever gets you off. (Mine is stockings, BTW.)

It's an arousal trigger. Take your fetish, your feelings, emotions, reactions, and motivations and apply them to your story.

I know women who are either professional hand models or foot models. Yes, they make there living having advertising photos taken of their hand or feet.

The women with the great feet have lots of men who are attracted to them because of their feet. The same way a guy might be attracted to a large bust, or a pert butt, or hell, a ponytail. The women get off because they are getting the men hot, not because they like to have their feet played with. Their power is in the attraction and arousal. It's the history of the world. Women attract a man and then things happen hopefully good, sometimes bad.

Good luck.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

A friend of mine has a foot fetish. I'll go along with a lot for a foot massage so this works out quite well. Basically any jizz stays below my knee and I want clean feet at the end.

The foot itself (and footwear, in his case no matter what it is) is the turn-on. Basically imagine someone who likes cock and their reaction to it, kissing, licking, sucking, rubbing up on it, etc, and it's pretty much the same, only playing with toes instead of foreskin and the heel and ankle instead of balls.

If you understand the tactile and psychological joy of giving attention to and fondling any other part of the body, I figure it could be transferred to feet just fine in a story. If your idea of good sex is different, say more about power and penetration, then I doubt it applies to a foot fetishist.

 

[lovecraft68]

Someone that has been very complementary of my work has asked me to include some foot stuff. I looked for some articles on the Internet, but I'm getting a lot of junk back. (And now Google is sending me ads for stockings). *hard eye roll*

Does anyone know why it happens and why it's arousing? If I can get that, I can maybe work my way through a metaphor that I won't butcher.

Or maybe I shouldn't be trying this. I don't know. Anyhow, appreciate any insight. Thx. cjc

Like any fetish what makes it hard to explain is its pretty much how you're wired so to speak. I have had a foot fetish since an age I can't talk about here, and by quite a bit

Its not just that feet are sexy to me, but as a switch its a very submissive act to worship a woman's feet so that adds to it for me.

I find it amusing that so many people dis it, including women, but yet the toe nail polish, toe rings absurd heels etc...all to make their feet look good.

I'll add that like any fetish if you don't understand it then your story will fall flat to people who do have that fetish, fake it to you make does not always hold true.

 

[AlexBailey]

Bingo. I don't see the utility of writing erotica about a particular fetish if you can't "get it" yourself--basically understand that it either arouses someone or it doesn't. I certainly don't think calling in a committee to help you do work you don't have to do is useful.

So stick with what you know?

 

[KyleR215]

I think that there are a couple of different layers of foot fetishes. Or complexities.

One might like feet because they are pretty. So they want to worship them, please them, get pleasure from pleasing them.

One might like feet because they want that foot to touch them, rub them, get them off.

One might like them because of a humiliation fetish that goes along with the foot fetish. Made to suck them, kiss them, be humiliated for liking it.

One might like feet because they enjoy getting kicked in the balls.

One might like feet in stockings. The soft nylons that feels good against their hands, chest, cock...

One might like feet of only young tender feet.

One might like feet of older, rougher feet.

One might like a big toe or many toes in their anus.

One might like to put their own toes into someone else's anus

It's a complicated topic. Without specifics, it is difficult to answer

 

[SimonDoom]

Bingo. I don't see the utility of writing erotica about a particular fetish if you can't "get it" yourself--basically understand that it either arouses someone or it doesn't. I certainly don't think calling in a committee to help you do work you don't have to do is useful.

But I'll just add that "getting" a fetish isn't the same thing as "having" a fetish. I would never advise an erotica writer only to write about things that personally turn them on. I may be a bit unusual in this respect, but I can put myself in the shoes of someone who has a fetish or erotic interest in something that doesn't personally turn me on in the real world. I really like the challenge of writing about something that doesn't turn me on in a day to day way -- like a gay male story, for instance. That's something I'm working on. I get it, even if I don't feel it, if that makes sense.

 

[MillieDynamite]

But I'll just add that "getting" a fetish isn't the same thing as "having" a fetish. I would never advise an erotica writer only to write about things that personally turn them on. I may be a bit unusual in this respect, but I can put myself in the shoes of someone who has a fetish or erotic interest in something that doesn't personally turn me on in the real world. I really like the challenge of writing about something that doesn't turn me on in a day to day way -- like a gay male story, for instance. That's something I'm working on. I get it, even if I don't feel it, if that makes sense.

Totally agree with you.

 

[KeithD]

So stick with what you know?

At least what you can understand as arousing to someone (without needing it explained to you) and can, as you depicted in a post here, depict in such a way that the ones with the fetish can appreciate the description you gave.

I write a whole lot of fetishes I don't personally share--and I get appreciate mail for helping to fill those niches.