# What the word for a person who loves feet? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 30, 2006, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-word-for-a-person-who-loves-feet/378377 "2006-10-30T00:18:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DaveRaver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daveraver/32/1078_2.png) [@DaveRaver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveRaver)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-word-for-a-person-who-loves-feet/378377/1 "2006-10-30T00:18:28Z")
I want a single non-hyphenated word. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-word-for-a-person-who-loves-feet/378377/2 "2006-10-30T00:21:17Z")
Podophilia. ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-word-for-a-person-who-loves-feet/378377/3 "2006-10-30T00:31:49Z")
Hmmm, in that case best I can do: **OperationRipper**! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-word-for-a-person-who-loves-feet/378377/4 "2006-10-30T00:39:27Z")
**Struan** got it right, but it should be noted that calling someone a podophile in a clinical sense would require that they ONLY get aroused by feet. A clinical fetish is an _exclusive paraphilia_, a condition in which one can ONLY become aroused by the object that is fetishized. So all those people who enjoy shrimping as a side dish to the rest of relatively normal sexual relations are not strictly podophiles. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-word-for-a-person-who-loves-feet/378377/5 "2006-10-30T00:43:25Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] **Struan** got it right, but it should be noted that calling someone a podophile in a clinical sense would require that they ONLY get aroused by feet. A clinical fetish is an _exclusive paraphilia_, a condition in which one can ONLY become aroused by the object that is fetishized. So all those people who enjoy shrimping as a side dish to the rest of relatively normal sexual relations are not strictly podophiles. [/QUOTE] Shrimping? In the non-seafood-harvesting sense? /I’ve already used up my fetish searching quota today ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-word-for-a-person-who-loves-feet/378377/6 "2006-10-30T00:43:57Z")
There is the slightly different term for a person that likes well-groomed feet: **pedophile** as in someone that loves pedicured feet. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-word-for-a-person-who-loves-feet/378377/7 "2006-10-30T00:46:52Z")
[QUOTE=Struan] Shrimping? In the non-seafood-harvesting sense? I’ve already used up my fetish searching quota today [/QUOTE] Shrimping is just sucking your lover’s(') toes. There is a new definition spreading that’s identical to felching (except through a straw), but I always discount sexual neologisms… ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-word-for-a-person-who-loves-feet/378377/8 "2006-10-30T00:49:40Z")
[QUOTE=Shagnasty] There is the slightly different term for a person that likes well-groomed feet: **pedophile** as in someone that loves pedicured feet. [/QUOTE] I think that one’s taken…_ped **i** phile_, maybe. But the possibility of confusion with a well-known and generally vilified paraphilia would tend to stay my tongue (no wink intended) from using it. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-word-for-a-person-who-loves-feet/378377/9 "2006-10-30T00:52:58Z")
[QUOTE=Struan] Podophilia. [/QUOTE] Not to be confused with the word for a person who loves the ferrets from [BeastMaster](http://beastmaster_seriesff.tripod.com/mainpage.html), Kodoandpodophilia. [QUOTE=Shagnasty] There is the slightly different term for a person that likes well-groomed feet: **pedophile** as in someone that loves pedicured feet. [/QUOTE] If they just like socks they’re a **[pedsophile](http://www.cccbox.com/peds.jpg)**. CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-word-for-a-person-who-loves-feet/378377/10 "2006-10-30T00:54:16Z")
If they like tiny little candies that are traditionally dispensed from a mechanism manufactured to look like a cartoon character, they’re _pezophiles_. ---
**Author:** ![Beaucarnea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c0e974/32.png) [@Beaucarnea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beaucarnea)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-word-for-a-person-who-loves-feet/378377/11 "2006-10-30T01:00:20Z")
Is there a name for a person who enjoys being the recipient of foot lovin’? ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-word-for-a-person-who-loves-feet/378377/12 "2006-10-30T01:12:10Z")
Yes. " Smart ". ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-word-for-a-person-who-loves-feet/378377/13 "2006-10-30T01:23:06Z")
[QUOTE=Shagnasty] There is the slightly different term for a person that likes well-groomed feet: **pedophile** as in someone that loves pedicured feet. [/QUOTE] I remember a rather bizarre excursion through this on a different board at the time that Charles and Camilla’s affair came out, in which a rather erudite Brit pointed out that the traditional usage is “pedophile” = person attracted to feet, while “paedophile” = person attracted to children. Still gives grounds for confusin, given the American usage, but an interesting sidelight. In point of fact, if I had to describe the Prince of Wales’ fetish, I’d say podophilia. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-word-for-a-person-who-loves-feet/378377/14 "2006-10-30T02:45:35Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] If they like tiny little candies that are traditionally dispensed from a mechanism manufactured to look like a cartoon character, they’re _pezophiles_. [/QUOTE] If they spend endless hours on a bicycle they’re _pedalphiles_. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-word-for-a-person-who-loves-feet/378377/15 "2006-10-30T18:28:01Z")
Toesucker. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-word-for-a-person-who-loves-feet/378377/16 "2006-10-30T20:17:27Z")
Well, the term probably isn’t [“equus eroticus”](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000211.html).