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.
Foot health was like one of the biggest things for survival.
Same as teeth, just not as visible.
So some people see a nice clean foot free of disease and without a bunch of calluses and ingrown nails and think "this is the kind of young healthy person is should be reproducing with!"
In terms of human evolutionary history, our feet were generally filthy and very heavily calloused. Actually, a heavily calloused foot provides a significant survival advantage in the wild. Keep in mind that shoes are a new invention in evolutionary terms. I don't think you'll find answers in evolutionary psychology on this one.
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."
Actually the beating is more because of endorphins and people having atypical reactions to pain in general. Every once in a while a class on that topic shows up at bdsm events and it’s always a fun one.
Degradation seems to be less about people interpreting it as love, but more as processing trauma or self esteem issues through role play. People don’t want to get spit on by someone who actually detests them, they want to get spit on by someone who pretends to detest them.
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.
Tbh I'm passingly into feet, and I don't even know why
I need them to be manicured, clean, and a particularly pretty set of feet for it to register to me at all. For example, the feet I. The post? Dirty, not attractive. You'd think a guy into get would like the natural state of feet but nah, not for me.
So I studied medicine for years, specifically in a podiatric medical school. I heard ALL the jokes. Speaking as someone who does not have a foot fetish, I will defend foot people for the same reason I defended my choice of study.
There are a LOT grosser aspects of the body people fetishize. When taken with that knowledge, people into feet seem quaint. Just stop trying to take pictures of random peoples feet out in public, just because they're wearing sandals doesn't give you permission to be a creep.
I study psych and there's actually a hypothesis on feet! If we map out our senses to parts of our brain, the feet are actually right next to the genitals... So it wouldn't be too far off for the brain to associate feet with the sex organs.
My husband and I walked out of the theater. People kept talking to us about how the ending 'was so worth the wait', but I could just not be bothered to care long enough to see it.
I had such a good time watching this movie. I had just gotten out of a bad relationship, and got tickets to see it at the Alamo draft house in SF in whatever amount of millimeter film is the cool one. It gave me life. I will never forget.
Also big lolz at more feet stuff were had haha, he knows what he’s doing.
Have you seen Four Rooms? It has 4 hotel room scenes by 4 different directors, one being Tarantino. During one scene (NOT directed by Tarantino, but definitely influenced by the sick fuck), two CHILDREN show and play with their feet for like 10 minutes! 🤮