# foot fetish

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foot-fetish/78287>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 27, 2001, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foot-fetish/78287 "2001-08-27T06:05:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![erad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/85f322/32.png) [@erad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erad)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2001, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foot-fetish/78287/1 "2001-08-27T06:05:22Z")

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\<\< 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.

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**Author:** ![erad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/85f322/32.png) [@erad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erad)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2001, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foot-fetish/78287/2 "2001-08-27T06:06:43Z")

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it should have said " the closest" we came

erad

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**Author:** ![Gaspode](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gaspode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaspode)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2001, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foot-fetish/78287/3 "2001-08-27T09:36:43Z")

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

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2001, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foot-fetish/78287/4 "2001-08-27T12:24:16Z")

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**Gaspode** is correct. I made the mistake of visiting [The Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices](http://www.odd-sex.com/info/index2.htm) to provide a citation for [podophilia](http://www.odd-sex.com/info/gloss613.htm). While there, I accidentally stumbled upon [flatuphilia](http://www.odd-sex.com/info/gloss292.htm). Ewww.