foot fetish

<< a while ago a few of us were trying to find out the clinical name for a
foot fetish or someone with a foot fetish. it was all to no avail. the
closed we came was ped , ergo, pedophelia but that is a completely
different can of worms.

it should have said " the closest" we came

erad

And you came close indeed. It’s “podophilia”.

Gaspode is correct. I made the mistake of visiting The Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices to provide a citation for podophilia. While there, I accidentally stumbled upon flatuphilia. Ewww.