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After getting out of school, I started watching some of the movies I had missed, including Kill Bill. I was watching the girl staring at her toes, watching, willing herself to move a toe. There was a lot of time spent watching her feet. I was thinking "Those are some ugly ass feet, strange skinny bent toes going on there." Then I began thinking - despite the total lack of sexual context, something about this much footy time was striking me as working a fetish angle. A bit of film research later, and I've concluded that Q Tarantino is either a foot fetishist, or marketing to a fetishist market. This would explain the long controversy our hit-men have about foot massages in "Pulp Fiction."
If you need proof - I give you from Dusk to Dawn. When sicko-brother (QT) is lusting after teen-girl (Julietee Lewis), you see his fantasies, hear what he thinks she says from his nutty perspective. What is he looking at in the trailer? Her feet (again nothing special to look at). What made me go "Man, that is some hot foot stuff going on" was the scene with the stripper and the snake. She starts off with the snake, then loses it to walk across the tables. She walks up to sicko-brother, barefoot (she's a stripper!) and pours a bottle of whiskey down her inner-thigh. The booze traces a line down her leg to her foot, the toes of which she feeds to happy-perv-boy who laps the booze as it trickles down her toes. I'm thinking "This is fucking hot, but...she just walked across a wood table in a skanky bar. Aren't her feet dirty?"
So, since Quentin Tarantino felt that either feet were so compelling that he permeated his art with them, or there are enough people that find feet appealing that he can market to them. Similarly, my hot law professor noted that the old law building was formerly a department store, and said now that it wasn't there anymore she didn't have students silently wondering if they were in what was once the shoe department (then apologizing and noting she was not 'accusing' anyone of being a fetishist). It's a hard subject to address - a small portion of the population finds feet sexually charged - while the rest find them ugly and stinky. Both views have merit!
I'll uncloset myself - I find feet kinda sexy. That's not to say all feet, or feet all the time. Years ago I knew a girl who moved into outskirts of the porn industry, doing messy porn (don't ask, but think creamed corn). She had dated a guy recently who could not come without her feet being involved. Ew. I've never asked my friend about how exactly her boy used her feet to come.
Feet? Why? Don't they smell? Well, basically any part of the body is considered sexual to someone, and it's kinda hard to go wrong with rubbing skin anywhere. Some parts feel better than others - but have you ever noticed that the most sexual parts of the body all tickle? The link between ticklish and sex has been a clear one for me, though I think that's where the "Anything is ok after a shower" rule came from. Biting someone's armpit is cute after soapy, not so ok at the end of a day at work. Feet can smell, but so can your hand if you shove it into a glove and leave it there all day. How many of you have sucked on someone's finger and thought that was hot, or similarly had someone suck on your finger? Engaged in this activity in a club? Ever think about what you hands touched beforehand -ew? Your crotch can smell too - yet many people like to put these things in their mouth (though again, after a shower is generally the rule).
Feet? Ugly? Well yeah, they are some ugly things. Most footy appearance issues are covered by genetics. Skinny girls have a horrid disadvantage - boney toes just look awful. Toes that get killed by heels, crammed tight for so long they turn sideways, ug-ly! More importantly - notice how very few people are into men's feet! For all the gay male perversion, foot stuff is pretty rare (but we can thank Dave Attell for a rare insight into a male foot-fetishist club in NY - I mean what don't they have in NY?). I'm afraid guys just have ugly feet. Worse yet - many men don't take care of themselves. Ugly hairy toes are one thing, but good god how many times do you see guys with yellow toenails? Yellow shows that there is a fungus infection - ew and double-ew with some ew on the side! Fungus? Aigh!
So, if skinny girl feet are ugly, and man feet are ugly - how would you tell if a foot is pretty? Some Asian cultures are really into feet - they tend to go for tiny. I would argue that tiny feet are more likely to be found attractive, though making them into obscene hooves with foot-binding techniques is probably overkill. Most everyone thinks baby feet are cute (but not in a sexual way of course - just in the 'ohmigod so cute and tiny' way). My current theory is that tiny 'round' feet are pretty. It's hard to describe what round feet are. Think of it like this: guys feet are like giant rectangles. Some girls have feet like this - so they are kinda guy footy. Other girls have feet that seem to be rounded...curvy if you will. So, hobbit = bad, tiny n' roundish = good.
Personal note - like trashy salon nails, french-tipped toenails are just gross. The last thing you need around your feet are areas to build up gunk. Could you look more trashy? Similarly foot jewelry - ew? Rings that stink? I mean it's cute to paint your toes red or chrome, you can display well with certain shoes, and even an anklet can be cute in a white-trash kinda way - but toe-rings are just nasty. You can draw too much attention to your feet.
So what's the deal with sex and feet? Nothing really - while it has been done I tend to think sex which actually involves feet is fairly rare. It's about as nonsensical as any other type of allure or foreplay. While not calling themselves fetishists, many people are totally into stilettos or other high-heels. They don't fuck the feet - but seeing them or just knowing they are there excites the perv. B&D play often involves feet, more to be rude though than necessarily into the foot for foot's sake. If you think a girl stepping on your chest while she yanks your leash is hot, I'm not going to argue about why! I think people just kind of 'get there' if they do things with feet on the way to regular sex. Is it any weirder than biting the back of your knees, along your back, or your ear? Aren't ears gross?
So what do people do with feet? Well, staring at them seems to be popular. Oddly enough the 2nd runner up would have to be sucking on toes. This seems pretty damn intimate, and typically is a way for a girl to look at some guy working and just say to herself "Oh I _so_ have this guy!" It's an interesting world of 'good fucking god this tickles' and feeling good. Again, you don't see a whole lot of girls sucking on men's feet, though. Blame them?
I have no explanation for that old guy that used to go to the Cellar and Bound that always managed to talk cute young girls into letting him suck on their feet. He was all into it too - would tear their stocking foot and work the entire thing into his mouth - going down her it like he was giving head. I don't think he was playing by the 'after a shower' rule either. His powers of persuasion must have been incredible, for I never saw a girl that seemed like she enjoyed it from the old guy. Like any sexual activity - unless you're completely fucked-up, it's not so much about the activity itself, it's about who you do that activity with.
Very general rule of thumb - anyone who is _really_ into a particular type of sex, to exclusion of other things like...well sex for one, or caring more about who that sex is with, is just confused. Even a well-seasoned perv should still be focused on who the perversity is with.
As for smell, while I am a body-smell-phobic, I can see the logical link pretty clearly. If you can find feet sexy, well feet if dirty can have a certain smell. If you are subject to associative properties without a well-developed fear of the musty body smells, it's pretty easy to imagine how you'd wind up finding the smell attractive. Hey - it's less disgusting than skat. Still, I'm a bit too icked out by smells to really carry that line of thought anywhere.
Bare feet can be sexy for non-sex reasons too. There is something just open and out there about bare feet, or exposed feet. Think of it like the difference between a girl in a skirt with and without stockings. You essentially see the same thing, yet skin with no tint is hotter (but then fishnets are hotter yet). There is just something more 'free' about the exposed skin - and bare or exposed feet just seem more...open. Kicking your shoes off while you lunch in the park just makes you feel so much more like you are outside of the office.
So, enjoy your fucking flip-flops!?
After getting out of school, I started watching some of the movies I had missed, including Kill Bill. I was watching the girl staring at her toes, watching, willing herself to move a toe. There was a lot of time spent watching her feet. I was thinking "Those are some ugly ass feet, strange skinny bent toes going on there." Then I began thinking - despite the total lack of sexual context, something about this much footy time was striking me as working a fetish angle. A bit of film research later, and I've concluded that Q Tarantino is either a foot fetishist, or marketing to a fetishist market. This would explain the long controversy our hit-men have about foot massages in "Pulp Fiction."
If you need proof - I give you from Dusk to Dawn. When sicko-brother (QT) is lusting after teen-girl (Julietee Lewis), you see his fantasies, hear what he thinks she says from his nutty perspective. What is he looking at in the trailer? Her feet (again nothing special to look at). What made me go "Man, that is some hot foot stuff going on" was the scene with the stripper and the snake. She starts off with the snake, then loses it to walk across the tables. She walks up to sicko-brother, barefoot (she's a stripper!) and pours a bottle of whiskey down her inner-thigh. The booze traces a line down her leg to her foot, the toes of which she feeds to happy-perv-boy who laps the booze as it trickles down her toes. I'm thinking "This is fucking hot, but...she just walked across a wood table in a skanky bar. Aren't her feet dirty?"
So, since Quentin Tarantino felt that either feet were so compelling that he permeated his art with them, or there are enough people that find feet appealing that he can market to them. Similarly, my hot law professor noted that the old law building was formerly a department store, and said now that it wasn't there anymore she didn't have students silently wondering if they were in what was once the shoe department (then apologizing and noting she was not 'accusing' anyone of being a fetishist). It's a hard subject to address - a small portion of the population finds feet sexually charged - while the rest find them ugly and stinky. Both views have merit!
I'll uncloset myself - I find feet kinda sexy. That's not to say all feet, or feet all the time. Years ago I knew a girl who moved into outskirts of the porn industry, doing messy porn (don't ask, but think creamed corn). She had dated a guy recently who could not come without her feet being involved. Ew. I've never asked my friend about how exactly her boy used her feet to come.
Feet? Why? Don't they smell? Well, basically any part of the body is considered sexual to someone, and it's kinda hard to go wrong with rubbing skin anywhere. Some parts feel better than others - but have you ever noticed that the most sexual parts of the body all tickle? The link between ticklish and sex has been a clear one for me, though I think that's where the "Anything is ok after a shower" rule came from. Biting someone's armpit is cute after soapy, not so ok at the end of a day at work. Feet can smell, but so can your hand if you shove it into a glove and leave it there all day. How many of you have sucked on someone's finger and thought that was hot, or similarly had someone suck on your finger? Engaged in this activity in a club? Ever think about what you hands touched beforehand -ew? Your crotch can smell too - yet many people like to put these things in their mouth (though again, after a shower is generally the rule).
Feet? Ugly? Well yeah, they are some ugly things. Most footy appearance issues are covered by genetics. Skinny girls have a horrid disadvantage - boney toes just look awful. Toes that get killed by heels, crammed tight for so long they turn sideways, ug-ly! More importantly - notice how very few people are into men's feet! For all the gay male perversion, foot stuff is pretty rare (but we can thank Dave Attell for a rare insight into a male foot-fetishist club in NY - I mean what don't they have in NY?). I'm afraid guys just have ugly feet. Worse yet - many men don't take care of themselves. Ugly hairy toes are one thing, but good god how many times do you see guys with yellow toenails? Yellow shows that there is a fungus infection - ew and double-ew with some ew on the side! Fungus? Aigh!
So, if skinny girl feet are ugly, and man feet are ugly - how would you tell if a foot is pretty? Some Asian cultures are really into feet - they tend to go for tiny. I would argue that tiny feet are more likely to be found attractive, though making them into obscene hooves with foot-binding techniques is probably overkill. Most everyone thinks baby feet are cute (but not in a sexual way of course - just in the 'ohmigod so cute and tiny' way). My current theory is that tiny 'round' feet are pretty. It's hard to describe what round feet are. Think of it like this: guys feet are like giant rectangles. Some girls have feet like this - so they are kinda guy footy. Other girls have feet that seem to be rounded...curvy if you will. So, hobbit = bad, tiny n' roundish = good.
Personal note - like trashy salon nails, french-tipped toenails are just gross. The last thing you need around your feet are areas to build up gunk. Could you look more trashy? Similarly foot jewelry - ew? Rings that stink? I mean it's cute to paint your toes red or chrome, you can display well with certain shoes, and even an anklet can be cute in a white-trash kinda way - but toe-rings are just nasty. You can draw too much attention to your feet.
So what's the deal with sex and feet? Nothing really - while it has been done I tend to think sex which actually involves feet is fairly rare. It's about as nonsensical as any other type of allure or foreplay. While not calling themselves fetishists, many people are totally into stilettos or other high-heels. They don't fuck the feet - but seeing them or just knowing they are there excites the perv. B&D play often involves feet, more to be rude though than necessarily into the foot for foot's sake. If you think a girl stepping on your chest while she yanks your leash is hot, I'm not going to argue about why! I think people just kind of 'get there' if they do things with feet on the way to regular sex. Is it any weirder than biting the back of your knees, along your back, or your ear? Aren't ears gross?
So what do people do with feet? Well, staring at them seems to be popular. Oddly enough the 2nd runner up would have to be sucking on toes. This seems pretty damn intimate, and typically is a way for a girl to look at some guy working and just say to herself "Oh I _so_ have this guy!" It's an interesting world of 'good fucking god this tickles' and feeling good. Again, you don't see a whole lot of girls sucking on men's feet, though. Blame them?
I have no explanation for that old guy that used to go to the Cellar and Bound that always managed to talk cute young girls into letting him suck on their feet. He was all into it too - would tear their stocking foot and work the entire thing into his mouth - going down her it like he was giving head. I don't think he was playing by the 'after a shower' rule either. His powers of persuasion must have been incredible, for I never saw a girl that seemed like she enjoyed it from the old guy. Like any sexual activity - unless you're completely fucked-up, it's not so much about the activity itself, it's about who you do that activity with.
Very general rule of thumb - anyone who is _really_ into a particular type of sex, to exclusion of other things like...well sex for one, or caring more about who that sex is with, is just confused. Even a well-seasoned perv should still be focused on who the perversity is with.
As for smell, while I am a body-smell-phobic, I can see the logical link pretty clearly. If you can find feet sexy, well feet if dirty can have a certain smell. If you are subject to associative properties without a well-developed fear of the musty body smells, it's pretty easy to imagine how you'd wind up finding the smell attractive. Hey - it's less disgusting than skat. Still, I'm a bit too icked out by smells to really carry that line of thought anywhere.
Bare feet can be sexy for non-sex reasons too. There is something just open and out there about bare feet, or exposed feet. Think of it like the difference between a girl in a skirt with and without stockings. You essentially see the same thing, yet skin with no tint is hotter (but then fishnets are hotter yet). There is just something more 'free' about the exposed skin - and bare or exposed feet just seem more...open. Kicking your shoes off while you lunch in the park just makes you feel so much more like you are outside of the office.
So, enjoy your fucking flip-flops!?
