Ewww, feet!

In My Humble Opinion
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On another BB, a thread along the lines of “what is weird about you” got a disproportionate number of replies along the lines of “I hate feet”. We’re talking about people who cover up the magazine ad pictures of feet having moisturizer applied so they can read the article on the facing page, or switching the channel when the car commercial comes on that has the injured skier with his foot up in the middle of the screen. (Advertising does seem like all feet, all the time lately.) Women who can’t internet date because there’s no way of knowing if those men wear, ewwww, ick, sandals, or want to scream at the midwestern woman in flipflops in March “it isn’t warm yet, cover those ugly things UP!”

I read an article that at one point in the development of a zygote into a fetus the dermatome area for the sexual organs is adjacent to the part that will become feet, which COULD explain foot fetishes. Are people who hate feet possibly repressed? Or less spiritually evolved since they aren’t likely to enjoy anointing anyone’s feet with oil? Or perhaps they ARE sexually repressed and therefore MORE spiritually evolved? Why would anyone hate feet when everyone has them?

And, back to the original musing – is hating feet weird?

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Hating feet is understandable because they can get kinda smelly. Does anyone like armpits?
I like feet sometimes. Small feet. Feet in socks. Well formed feet.

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I don’t like seeing other people’s feet either. Did anyone ever notice that in People magazine nearly every photo is of people with bare feet? I do PR for a podiatrist and she said that she has seen thousands of pairs of feet and none of them have been good looking.

Almost every pair of shoes available for spring is open-toed. Ewwww…

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Feet don’t bother me, but I had a friend who used to insist that feet were so gross everyone should be forced to chop them off and walk around on the stumps instead. Frankly, that grosses me out far more than feet ever could. It was highly entertaining to listen to him rant on about this topic and the many others he had issues with though.

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I do. And men’s feet. Feet are sexy.

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I don’t mind seeing bare feet at all, but don’t even think about touching me with them. I’m ok with baby feet, and my little kids feet though. It’s just grown up feet.

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They dont bother me, but my g/f’s best friend is so freaked out by them that up until last year she had to get her mother to cut her toenails because she couldn’t bear to look at her feet for long enough to do it herself. (she is 21)

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Reminds me of a story:

One summer, instead of going home, I stayed in the college town of the university I attended. As a means of earning spending money, I worked part-time in a grocery store stocking shelves.

I’ll never forget this, one hot day I was stocking shelves, and I look up, and walking towards me with his girlfriend was probably one of the most beautiful men I’ve ever seen, dressed in nothing more than a pair of shorts (the cutoff kind, I think! :o Beautiful chest, beautiful face, tan, well-muscled and barefoot, and I remember kind of aggressively checking him out from top to bottom, just thinking to myself, “oh, just let me lick your feet! Anything you want, baby!”

there is no part of man’s body which I find inherently unattractive. I like it all. Feet, hands, butt, dick, balls, armpits, ears - everything. Poor hygiene is another matter. Nails must be clipped, daily bathing is essential, and keep the hair trimmed. Water is your friend.

I guess, in sum, if someone doesn’t care enough about themselves to take care of all that, it tells me instinctively that they have problems I don’t want to get involved in.

So, yes, feet can be lovely!

I remember reading an interview with Brooke Shields’ “Suddenly Susan” male co-star, and strangely, he was asked what her feet smell like at the end of the day; “Like butter,” he replied. Butter. Butter is a weirdly sensual way of characterizing foot odor, and I took that reply to mean, “I like it.”

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Eh - they neither excite me nor repulse me. They’re just feet. I have to confess that years ago, I knew a man who was a bit of a foot fetishist and I was kinda mean. We were at a party or something and I’d worn some strappy little sandals. And when he was watching, I found myself dangling one sandal from my toe…

I’m so ashamed… :o

No, nothing ever came of it - he was married and I was just not very nice, was I?

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This OP is the strangest thing I have ever read.

There are people who don’t like feet?

All I can think of is some sort of puritan nudity taboo that went to far. “Oh no! I can see your feet! You’re almost NAKED!”

As for me I never met an erogenous zone I didn’t like. :smiley:

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Feet are alright. They’re just as interesting as any other body part in that (most) everyone has them, and while they are all generally alike, they are all very different too.

I can appreciate feet that are really different looking than my own. My own are boring and unremarkable. Some people’s feet look like roots or something, all gnarly toes and freaky bumps and stuff. Some feet are remarkable in that you wonder how people walk around on them, with their turned-under toes or baby toes that look like they were stuck on there as an afterthought. Some people have toes with larger toe-pads than usual which make them look like they should be able to walk right up the wall. Feet are kind of marvellous feats (har) of engineering when you think about it.

I don’t find them sexually appealing in any way, but there’s nothing wrong with feet, IMO.

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I don’t think I have ever gone out with a girl who did like feet. Some were neutral, but most hated them; how they look, how they move, everything about them.

My current girlfriend thinks they are totally icky, even her own. She can’t stand to have them uncovered.

If I walk about barefoot she can get freaked out at my feet touching things she may have to touch in future. If I curl up my toes she would scream. If I attempt to trim my toe nails when she is in the house, never mind in the same room, she will freak out almost to the point of being sick. It is totally in phobia territory.

I have no idea why she is like this, but some people just are.

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I love feet. Not in a fetish kind of way … I just think they’re pretty in the same way that I think hands are. So much character !

Might have something to do with the fact that I’m not really, truly happy unless barefoot. I assume (and yes, I know what I do when I assume) that everyone’s* feet must be happiest when naked, so it makes me happy to see them !

The first time I encountered foot-hating was the little sister of a friend of mine, we were making fun of her because of it and we asked her how she washed them in the shower. She had some elaborate ritual which allowed her to wash them without touching them, and making sure that nothing that touched them would touch the rest of her body, etc etc. We asked her if she realized that the soap she was using had probably touched someone else’s foot and she just couldn’t bear it. At which point one of us went into the bathroom, retrieved the soap, and put it right up against his bare foot, in plain view of the foot-hater, who freaked out in a way I have never seen anyone freak out before. It was utterly hilarious.

Didn’t understand it then, don’t understand it now.

Go Feet !

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I am thirty four years old and I’ve touched one man’s feet; this was within the past month and it’s how I know I MUST love my boyfriend! :wink:

There are two other sets of feet I’ve been able to bear even to look at-my daughter’s and my own, although I’d prefer not to look at my own.

I don’t know why I’m like this. I think it’s the toes. Have you ever really looked at your toes. Ewww. My ex-husband used to do this really disgusting thing (yeah to me, I know I’m the freak with the problem) where if he dropped something on the floor, instead of bending over he’d just grasp it with…ugggh it makes me sick just thinking about it…his toes. And he had hair on them. It’s not that his feet were hideous; they were perfectly fine feet, I’m sure. And I’m no prude. I’d do any freaky ass thing he wanted, and that was a lot. But I wouldn’t touch his feet…not even with my own.

I even like armpits.

But with my guy now, I rub his feet, I kiss his toes…but if I think too much about it, icky. So I shall stop now.

Feet. blech.

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Speaking as someone who has seen and taken notice of more feet than I could count, (picked up A ‘people watching trait’ from my Mom), there are no two pairs that are exactly alike. Similar to hands; some feet are incredibly sexy - others (the majority in fact) can be hideous… a.k.a. Ewww!.

And speaking as someone who’d dabbled, there’s an entire fetish subculture dedicated to feet both on the web and in NYC clubs. In fact, guys like (former model) Alan Pratt are making a living off it. But be forewarned - they’re seedy, filled with ‘Johnny-one-note bears’ and should probably be avoided. If you have a slight inclination to mutually ‘experiment’ - it’s probably alot safer to do so with someone who’s not obsessed with it.

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I absolutely LOVE feet… if they are well-groomed and have that God-given gift of being curvy and sexy. I especially love women’s feet. They are beautiful in my opinion. The only thing I don’t care for is overgrown toenails, yellow-fungus (ICK!) or realllllly long, knobby toes that look like fingers. I treat my feet like queens - plenty of moisturizer, nail polish, and pedicures topped off with some jewelery in the summer. YEEE-HAWWWW!

I have heard that foot-fetishes are somehow phallic… but not sure how. Possibly the grooves, smell, appearance, and feel of them reminds us of genitals.

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I totally agree. I’ve seen women with feet so erotic that they trumped every other visible physical characteristic. This is very rare to my experience, though.

I’ve got something of a foot fetish, but it’s for a very specific type of feet: women’s feet with prominent tendons and veins. The more foot and ankle veins, the merrier – it’s impossible to have too many. When such feet come with well-shaped toes (slightly spoon-shaped and longish) … look out!

To demonstrate to the foot-averse that some people give plenty of sexual consideration to feet, here are some specific turn-ons:

  • A thick, prominent vein that runs from the inner ankle along the inside of the foot and ending near the base of the big toe.

  • A thick vein that runs right over the outer ankle bone and onto the top of the foot towards the toes. The closer this vein gets to the base of the toes, the better. Sometimes, this vein is forked at the ankle bone, so there are two veins at the outer ankle which combine into one thick vein over the center or outside of the foot. A forked outer ankle vein is especially fetching.

  • Lots of thin, but visible, veins running criss-cross in close proximity anywhere on the foot. This is most commonly seen forward of the outer ankle bone. Occasionally, a women will have a dozen or so thin, blue veins running all over the inside of her foot from heel to ball.

  • Prominent veins on the inner heel area (rare in non-athletic and young women).

  • Being able to flex the toes so that five prominent tendons run down the foot, one for each toe (not counting the major tendon that lifts the entire foot). A very few women have a sixth tendon that runs on the outside of the foot, further out than the pinkie toe tendon.

  • A bony, high arch. When a high-arched girl flexes her foot in a pointed position … rowr!

– Any show of foot or toe dexterity. One former girlfriend had me enraptured for an entire night showing me how she could write and draw with her feet. Another girl of my acquaintance used to make her friends laugh with various displays of toe flexibilty, like turning them sideways or cricking them at unusual angles – and man, was that arousing! Along with having especially lean feet, she was blessed amazingly long, supple toes and could even drive (an automatic) with her feet!

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Moe? Moe Grits? Is that you?

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I think feet are the ugliest part of the body. Too many women have ugly, deformed feet where the toes point every which way and you see their scaly skin and veins and a lot of things that shouldn’t be seen. Does anyone else cringe when watching the Oscars and all these women are dressed to the nines, but you see their ugly assed bare feet sticking out? Come on girls, God made hose for a reason.

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Feet generally don’t bother me, but this is coming from a girl who picks up stuff with her feet if she doesn’t want to bend down to get them…