# Feet, or: what? I'm a freak?!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feet-or-what-im-a-freak/489834
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 18, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feet-or-what-im-a-freak/489834 "2009-03-18T02:46:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feet-or-what-im-a-freak/489834/1 "2009-03-18T02:46:19Z")
I like women’s feet. I like all kinds of different body parts, but I also think feet are pretty sexy. Especially with painted nails.
As far as I can tell this isn’t particularly uncommon - but apparently, liking feet is commonly regarded as weird or something. I’m not really bothered by that, but I am curious: what’s wrong with feet?
ps: “foot jobs” turn me off.
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### Author:  [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2009, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feet-or-what-im-a-freak/489834/2 "2009-03-18T03:01:48Z")
The way I see it…
Feet are a relatively small and innocuous part of the body, and if a female keeps her feet hot, than she cares about the rest of it. (Plus you can usually see a girls feet before her boobs etc.)
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### Author:  [@aaslatten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aaslatten)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2009, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feet-or-what-im-a-freak/489834/3 "2009-03-18T03:04:47Z")
So instead of being a leg man, you’re a foot man. I don’t think it’s weird, unless it’s gotten to the point of fetish.
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2009, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feet-or-what-im-a-freak/489834/4 "2009-03-18T03:35:03Z")
As a foot man myself, I can testify that it’s a taste that is somewhat unstylish right now. It implies a certain cravenness, which doesn’t go well with the way men are construed as heterosexual beings today. It’s also somewhat unsanitary and slightly transgressive, but not enough to be considered exciting or daring.
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2009, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feet-or-what-im-a-freak/489834/5 "2009-03-18T03:52:12Z")
> [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](#):
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> As far as I can tell this isn’t particularly uncommon - but apparently, liking feet is commonly regarded as weird or something. I’m not really bothered by that, but I am curious: what’s wrong with feet?
I don’t think of it as “wrong” but I think it’s a little weird just as I would someone hot 'n bothered about elbows or shoulderblades. Nothing “wrong” with it, but it’s nothing I can wrap my mind around and get behind. They’re feet. We’ve all got 'em and they don’t hold up well (in my opinion) to concentrated viewing.
I’m not posting to crap on your happy interests. You seemed to be soliciting opinions from non-foot admirers.
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2009, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feet-or-what-im-a-freak/489834/6 "2009-03-18T03:58:40Z")
> [@Jophiel](#):
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> I don’t think of it as “wrong” but I think it’s a little weird just as I would someone hot 'n bothered about elbows or shoulderblades. Nothing “wrong” with it, but it’s nothing I can wrap my mind around and get behind. They’re feet. We’ve all got 'em and they don’t hold up well (in my opinion) to concentrated viewing.
Well, we’ve all got lips and hair and legs and badonkadonks, and no one is particularly troubled by people getting excited by those parts of a person of the desired sex.
One other neat thing about feet (women’s anyway) is that they’re the most public of erogenous zones, and often given care that makes them quite presentable for just this reason.
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### Author:  [@aaslatten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aaslatten)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2009, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feet-or-what-im-a-freak/489834/7 "2009-03-18T04:00:35Z")
Do you foot guys really like shoes, too, or is that a separate thing?
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### Author:  [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2009, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feet-or-what-im-a-freak/489834/8 "2009-03-18T04:13:16Z")
I have small feet but they’re like little bricks. I have a guy on my LiveJournal that has a foot fetish and when I showed him my feet, he said “no thanks” which made me laugh and laugh.
Not all feet are cute!
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### Author:  [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2009, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feet-or-what-im-a-freak/489834/9 "2009-03-18T04:13:59Z")
Feet are hard and knobby. It’d be like preferring the bark of a tree to its flowers.
There’s nothing innately wrong about it, it just seems a trifle peculiar.
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feet-or-what-im-a-freak/489834/10 "2009-03-18T04:31:28Z")
> [@aaslatten](#):
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> Do you foot guys really like shoes, too, or is that a separate thing?
Depends. They can be very erotic or they can be very prudish.
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### Author:  [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2009, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feet-or-what-im-a-freak/489834/11 "2009-03-18T05:06:40Z")
So what do you do with the feet, if footjobs turn you off? Just look at them?
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### Author:  [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2009, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feet-or-what-im-a-freak/489834/12 "2009-03-18T14:13:07Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#):
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> So what do you do with the feet, if footjobs turn you off? Just look at them?
You can stroke or rub or kiss someone’s feet (if they are clean).
I like feet as well, but since I primarily date men, that can be iffy, as most men have ugly feet that are not well-cared for.
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2009, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feet-or-what-im-a-freak/489834/13 "2009-03-18T14:15:50Z")
It’s harmless, but it’s still weird. Its also TMI.
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2009, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feet-or-what-im-a-freak/489834/14 "2009-03-18T14:50:38Z")
I like ankles. Even I think that’s weird.
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feet-or-what-im-a-freak/489834/15 "2009-03-18T14:58:35Z")
> [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](#):
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> I have small feet but they’re like little bricks. I have a guy on my LiveJournal that has a foot fetish and when I showed him my feet, he said “no thanks” which made me laugh and laugh.
Like… bricks? As in reddish and good for breaking windows? Or cuboid?
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### Author:  [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2009, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feet-or-what-im-a-freak/489834/16 "2009-03-18T15:34:35Z")
I hate shoes. I think I have attractive feet, and I swear with how often I draw characters barefoot (or characters that never wear shoes at all) somebody is going to think I have a foot fetish. I don’t, I just like feet. They’re interesting looking, like hands, and it’s fun to walk barefoot.
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### Author:  [@discodancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discodancer)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2009, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feet-or-what-im-a-freak/489834/17 "2009-03-18T16:52:37Z")
It is unusual, but I don’t think there is anything freakish about liking feet unless that is the only thing about women that you are physically attracted to. I think it only gets freakish if it makes you do something antisocial like attack women in the park and steal their shoes.
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### Author:  [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2009, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feet-or-what-im-a-freak/489834/18 "2009-03-18T17:31:32Z")
While I am not _in_ to feet, I have been more attracted to a woman because of her feet. I have been attracted to a woman solely because of her feet (no pun intended). And I have been less attracted because of them, although that is not a dealbreaker.
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### Author:  [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2009, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feet-or-what-im-a-freak/489834/19 "2009-03-18T17:36:45Z")
Its not that unusual, I guess. I’m not particularly into feet but I guess a woman with some kinds of high-heel shoes is sexy. I think this is because I’ve had women complain how uncomfortable ‘sexy’ shoes are- if they are willing to suffer in them then there is a good reason 🆒
I made a post a while back pondering the connection between male foot fetishists and women’s own personal obsession with feet. If you think about it, it makes perfect sense that some men are obsessed with women’s feet since women often obsess about their _own_feet. This, and the fact that I have _never_ heard of a female foot fetishist.
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### Author:  [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2009, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feet-or-what-im-a-freak/489834/20 "2009-03-18T17:42:18Z")
> [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](#):
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> As far as I can tell this isn’t particularly uncommon - but apparently, liking feet is commonly regarded as weird or something. I’m not really bothered by that, but I am curious: what’s wrong with feet?
Some cultures regard feet as unclean because they walk on the ground through any dirt or nastiness that happens to be there (if you consider how cities used to lack sewers and the way trash and animal waste used to just be thrown out anywhere this makes some sense). Some people don’t take care of their feet so they’re dirty, calloused, nails dirty, nails broken, etc. Some people just don’t like feet.
But hey, if you like feet you like feet, nothing wrong with that it’s just your preference.
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