The Psychology Of Foot Fetishism
I mean, I did a lot of drugs, made broad assumptions on humanity and have been attracted to my relatives before too. But I never had the balls to try and pass off my own coke fueled ramblings on wanting to make out with my cute cousin as having some deep psychological relevance to all other humans.
Anywho, so I thought I'd take some time out to write a long and boring thesis regarding my views on fetishism in comparison to those of Mr. Freud's.
I ask, is everything we say and do really just traced back to wanting to screw our moms, or was Freud just trying to compensate for his own awkward fantasies by insisting that he's not alone in them?
Mr. Snortsalot would suggest that foot fetishism relates back to infancy and our view of our mothers from our height at that time. Crawling around on all 4s, often all we could see was our mother's feet. We associate those feet with comfort and safety and it develops into a fetish later in life.
If all sexuality really stems back to feelings we've had towards our mother as an infant, Explain coprophilia? Better yet, save that for another time. Some people are a little uptight about certain words and thoughts in here. Let's just hope anyone dumb enough to be offended wouldn't be smart enough to know what to be offended by.
Personally, I believe that certain folk have this predilection due to the general idea that barefeet are often associated with more intimate places. More often then not, if someone is barefoot they're relaxing in their home watching TV, reading a book, or laying down for sleep. All these are places where physical intimacy would be considered appropriate.
In a similar vein, I feel much of it has to do with the rareness of seeing a persons barefeet. Often in public most people are wearing shoes/boots which fully cover the feet. I feel this makes them more desirable, as it implies that they require the same level of privacy that might be associated with genetalia. This of course goes back to my previous suggestions about barefeet being related to more intimate and private times and places.
I believe all or most of the interests we have, be them of a sexual nature or a simple preference for a certain colour or smell are inherent from birth and are different in every individual.
This is to say that it's not so much the developmental stages of a child's life that shape his or her attractions for the rest of it's adult life. As much as these attractions we're already there and give each individual child predilections towards certain behaviour from birth which shape their development as much their development shapes them.
Either that, or that whole theory about certain areas of the cortex relating to the genitalia being really close to nerve centers relating to the feet.
That would explain why my feet bleed for a few days each month and those horribly embarrassing symptoms of athletes va............
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Posted Oct 7, 2007And it did indeed seem like Freud just often made broad generalizations based on his own feelings, rather than a genuine understanding of how the human mind worked/adapted/responded in any given scenario.
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Posted Oct 4, 2007Yours is a very compelling insight about fetishism. Feet aren't exactly taboo, true, but they are more private than body parts such as hands, as you say. After all, the bare abdomen is at times considered erotic or provocative, right? Probably because it is typically covered and to uncover it is a much "looser" way of dressing.
I'd imagine that any body parts that are understood to be areas of vulnerability can have an erotic quality - again, because of the intimacy associated with them.
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