There really aren’t, but it is a funny meme. However, it’s funny because it isn’t very common and most people think it’s weird, but it also doesn’t hurt anyone.
I guess it depends on your definition of a lot. There are a shit ton of people, so there’s a lot of people with every opinion. As a percentage, it’s a lot lower than the internet would have you believe. I’ve met a necrophiliac (which is probably not ok to be into), but I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who admitted they had a foot fetish, although I’m sure the rate of the latter is much higher than the former, just still a relatively small percentage of people.
If you just look up “most common fetishes” foot fetishes are commonly near the top of the list, and are almost always the most popular part of the body for body parts that aren’t sexually dimorphic. https://bedbible.com/what-is-the-most-common-fetish-statistics/ here’s a random website study I pulled, but if you search it up it’s common across more than one study.
You’re “technically” correct in that most people don’t identify as having a fetish at all, so the percentage of literally any fetish is a small percent of people. But when you talk about the most common fetishes, you’re only talking about the population of people who have fetishes in the first place.
I wouldn’t care, except so many women in porn make sure to show their feet so much. It’s just as bad as the whole step sibling thing. I don’t care if it’s your kink but can we please stop putting it in all porn?? It’s just distracting.
I love how upset this seems to make people when usually they are watching stolen porn or porn where the labor of the performers is basically completely unvalued.
We don’t care about that, we just want them not to do kinks we don’t like even if it means they can get a bit more money out of some amount of labor that we aren’t contributing to valuing whatsoever.
I wouldn’t say I have a foot fetish, but I do enjoy giving and receiving foot massages. They feel good, and I want my partner to feel good. If a partner hates feet, I lose interest in the relationship, because I liked them from head to toe. While I don’t really get this fetish for how feet look, I also don’t get why it’s considered kinky, or even gross. Everybody has their thing, you know? Feet seems pretty mild when none of us can escape the incest porn.
Fair enough. I’d say Tarantino explains his perspective fairly well in Pulp Fiction. It’s a sensuous thing. But the way I see it, feet are sensitive. Sometimes overwhelmingly so. Feet get hidden away inside shoes, decorated and accentuated by heels and jewelry, and revealed by sandals when we go swimming. Our reactions to foot stimulation often develop early in life. Tickling. Running around barefoot. Secret footsies under the table with a crush despite family or friends all around. I can see how that becomes a kink. As a fetish needed to get off though, can’t say I relate.
I thought I saw somewhere that the nerve center for feet and genitals were right next to each other in the brain and sometimes it gets “flipped” or the pleasure center is “expanded” and includes the feet.
Same what makes people get horney by being beaten, spit on, shat on and other stuff. At some point in our childhoods someone did it to us and we interpreted it as love. At least that is how it works for most.
I don’t think “someone did it to us and we interpreted it as love” applies as often as people think.
I’ve got some kinks that I have no idea where they “came from” because they never happened to me IRL, especially not in childhood. I honestly think there’s just certain neuron pathways that accidentally branch over onto sexual arousal pathways and one day you see some stuff and go “huh, guess I’m into that.”
A lot of stuff in nature *just is*, and there doesn’t have to be any reason for its existence. Nature is messy and chaotic, and that’s one of the beautiful things about it.
Why do we like some of things and dislike others? Why do some people find some things sexually arousing and some don’t? Why does sexuality and gender identity vary between people? Why do some people like video games, or snowboarding, or dancing, or doing theater, or collecting rocks, or all sorts of different things, and some don’t? Why are some people introspective and like philosophizing and others don’t? And then there’s all sorts of different physical variances like height, size, shape, colour, etc
Sure, some of these may have evolutionary reasons, but do all of them? Or maybe a lot of variance in humans (and nature in general) *just is* because nature is not clean, robotic, and perfectly logical, and never has been?
Nature is messy, chaotic, and it’s not clean or perfect or able to fit in perfect categories. And that’s what makes nature interesting and beautiful. It wouldn’t be the same if everything operated like a perfect robotic machine, if that would even be possible in the first place.
nature is not clean, robotic, and perfectly logical, and never has been?
To be clear tho, things don’t just happen in nature for funsies, or magically without any purpose at all. All evolution has “logic”, even if it doesn’t necessarily follow our own. Species don’t evolve randomly for the fun of it.
Except evolution literally does result in random mutations that don’t necessarily have any function, or solutions that are sub-par or inefficient, or whatever else. Or things that have unintentional consequences elsewhere. Nature is not perfect.
Nobody’s saying it’s perfect, but it’s never completely random. The adaptations may be subpar or inefficient, but they still happened to serve a purpose, even if they did so less than perfectly.
No animal evolves in a particular way for literally no reason.
I’ll never understand what about feet that makes people horny.
Rule of thumb is, if something exists - there are some people who are made horny by it. Human sexuality is just wild.
Maybe… But there are a lot more people into feet than most other parts of the body.
There really aren’t, but it is a funny meme. However, it’s funny because it isn’t very common and most people think it’s weird, but it also doesn’t hurt anyone.
There really is.
I guess it depends on your definition of a lot. There are a shit ton of people, so there’s a lot of people with every opinion. As a percentage, it’s a lot lower than the internet would have you believe. I’ve met a necrophiliac (which is probably not ok to be into), but I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who admitted they had a foot fetish, although I’m sure the rate of the latter is much higher than the former, just still a relatively small percentage of people.
If you just look up “most common fetishes” foot fetishes are commonly near the top of the list, and are almost always the most popular part of the body for body parts that aren’t sexually dimorphic. https://bedbible.com/what-is-the-most-common-fetish-statistics/ here’s a random website study I pulled, but if you search it up it’s common across more than one study.
You’re “technically” correct in that most people don’t identify as having a fetish at all, so the percentage of literally any fetish is a small percent of people. But when you talk about the most common fetishes, you’re only talking about the population of people who have fetishes in the first place.
Nobody got a say on what gets them randy. Pee, doo doo, barf, stepping on kittens with high heels. Im just glad I’m only into one-piece swimsuits 👌
I’ve never understood why the idea of a feet fetish bothers people enough to comment on it, especially considering what else Hollywood gets up to.
I wouldn’t care, except so many women in porn make sure to show their feet so much. It’s just as bad as the whole step sibling thing. I don’t care if it’s your kink but can we please stop putting it in all porn?? It’s just distracting.
I love how upset this seems to make people when usually they are watching stolen porn or porn where the labor of the performers is basically completely unvalued.
We don’t care about that, we just want them not to do kinks we don’t like even if it means they can get a bit more money out of some amount of labor that we aren’t contributing to valuing whatsoever.
I’m not huge into feet, but I tend to see the soles of women’s feet in limited contexts, one is which is sex, so that might be part of it.
I wouldn’t say I have a foot fetish, but I do enjoy giving and receiving foot massages. They feel good, and I want my partner to feel good. If a partner hates feet, I lose interest in the relationship, because I liked them from head to toe. While I don’t really get this fetish for how feet look, I also don’t get why it’s considered kinky, or even gross. Everybody has their thing, you know? Feet seems pretty mild when none of us can escape the incest porn.
I don’t find foot fetish gross, just baffling.
Fair enough. I’d say Tarantino explains his perspective fairly well in Pulp Fiction. It’s a sensuous thing. But the way I see it, feet are sensitive. Sometimes overwhelmingly so. Feet get hidden away inside shoes, decorated and accentuated by heels and jewelry, and revealed by sandals when we go swimming. Our reactions to foot stimulation often develop early in life. Tickling. Running around barefoot. Secret footsies under the table with a crush despite family or friends all around. I can see how that becomes a kink. As a fetish needed to get off though, can’t say I relate.
Thanks for the perspective!
I thought I saw somewhere that the nerve center for feet and genitals were right next to each other in the brain and sometimes it gets “flipped” or the pleasure center is “expanded” and includes the feet.
I’ve heard that too, but then why wouldn’t you just want to rub your feet on everything instead of looking at other people’s feet?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortical_homunculus
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trollface
Same what makes people get horney by being beaten, spit on, shat on and other stuff. At some point in our childhoods someone did it to us and we interpreted it as love. At least that is how it works for most.
I don’t think “someone did it to us and we interpreted it as love” applies as often as people think.
I’ve got some kinks that I have no idea where they “came from” because they never happened to me IRL, especially not in childhood. I honestly think there’s just certain neuron pathways that accidentally branch over onto sexual arousal pathways and one day you see some stuff and go “huh, guess I’m into that.”
A lot of stuff in nature *just is*, and there doesn’t have to be any reason for its existence. Nature is messy and chaotic, and that’s one of the beautiful things about it.
Why do we like some of things and dislike others? Why do some people find some things sexually arousing and some don’t? Why does sexuality and gender identity vary between people? Why do some people like video games, or snowboarding, or dancing, or doing theater, or collecting rocks, or all sorts of different things, and some don’t? Why are some people introspective and like philosophizing and others don’t? And then there’s all sorts of different physical variances like height, size, shape, colour, etc
Sure, some of these may have evolutionary reasons, but do all of them? Or maybe a lot of variance in humans (and nature in general) *just is* because nature is not clean, robotic, and perfectly logical, and never has been?
Nature is messy, chaotic, and it’s not clean or perfect or able to fit in perfect categories. And that’s what makes nature interesting and beautiful. It wouldn’t be the same if everything operated like a perfect robotic machine, if that would even be possible in the first place.
To be clear tho, things don’t just happen in nature for funsies, or magically without any purpose at all. All evolution has “logic”, even if it doesn’t necessarily follow our own. Species don’t evolve randomly for the fun of it.
Except evolution literally does result in random mutations that don’t necessarily have any function, or solutions that are sub-par or inefficient, or whatever else. Or things that have unintentional consequences elsewhere. Nature is not perfect.
Nobody’s saying it’s perfect, but it’s never completely random. The adaptations may be subpar or inefficient, but they still happened to serve a purpose, even if they did so less than perfectly.
No animal evolves in a particular way for literally no reason.
Feet are so gross. Even well-manicured, clean, female feet. Still not my jam…
Some people suck dick, some people eat pussy. Some people even eat ass. Non of these things are that clean…