I hope i don't get downvoted for this

I always feel silly to be such a vanilla romantic. I don't need much more than a snuggle and a little poop on my chest.

honestly I'm just glad I don't have a shit fetish

So many possibilities just flushed down the toilet...
- Oh well. There they go. A shame I guess.
  Anyway.

I think I just have a woman fetish. I've had "oh damn" moments with various body parts on different women over the years. Feet, hands, decolletage, ears, eyebrows... all sorts.

deviant

Also all the shit the sonic freaks are into.

- Surprisingly Sonic isn't pregnant here.

Deer god, why the fuck did you make foot people so vocal?

deer god
- Did you just have this on hand, waiting for the perfect moment to deploy it?
- What eldritch horror have u shown me
- I suppose that's what I get for commenting first thing in the morning! No point fixing it now, it's too funny.
  I may just start writing "Deer god" anyways because that is so majestic.
Yeah, being into feet isn't inherently bad. But foot fetishists are always so damn creepy about it.
- Toupee fallacy
Deer God: what

Kids. Thank god I'm not attracted to kids. Or animals. Anything else is fair game. Feet attached to a consenting adult are fine. Don't see the big deal. I like to spit-shine the rusty sheriff's badge, so why the fuck would I care if someone likes a boring regular appendage like a foot? 🤷‍

Unless there's some angle to this non-foot people don't understand? Like, maybe being turned on by feet is comorbid with an uncontrollable need to blast rope over any uncovered foot you see? Now that would suck.

I'm trying real hard to figure what a rusty sheriff badge is an allegory for
...... OH
- Tongue-punching the fart box
- Chocolate starfish, leather cheerio, balloon knot.

(i am asexual)

I don't mean to offend you, but do you still feel non-sexual attraction towards a particular or both genders?
- There's a spectrum of Ace. I got one am a heteroromantic ace, and I'm a dude. So I am attracted to women romantically, but don't want to sleep with them.
  It's a very frustrating combination that makes dating difficult.
- Not OP, but typically asexual is perceived as not having any sexual attraction/having minimal sexual attraction to anyone, regardless of gender. It's like the opposite of pansexual (attraction to anyone regardless of gender).
  Everything is a spectrum of course, which is why people talk about the graysexual area, where you have some attraction but there's extra things that make it not the "typical" experience of allosexuals (those who experience sexual attraction). Things like Demisexual (attraction only after having a close bond), Aegosexual (having sexual arousal and fantasies, but you don't think of yourself in those fantasies), etc. These are all microlables to help people narrow down how they feel.
  So if you have a distinct and noticeable sexual attraction to one gender, you probably are allosexual (straight, lesbian, gay, etc.). Note, however, that romantic ≠ sexual, and you can be asexual but only date men, or be asexual and date both men and women.
- personally, it's kinda hard to say? i have felt romantic attraction exactly once in my life, so i know i'm not fully aromantic, but also it's only happened once so i'm probably on the aro spectrum somewhere
  but yes, there are many people who are asexual but who still feel romantic attraction to others
  (and of course, not all attraction is sexual or romantic, there is also aesthetic attraction for example (literally just when you find people pretty), which i do feel, my meme was pretty reductive all things considered, but then again it's just a meme)

metric superiority

Not a foot fetishist, eh?

But you did post a Sonic meme... sideyes

When I think fetishistic Sonic content, I think inflation and not feet.

I like the theory that the reason people like feet is because the area of the brain that controls your feet is close to the area that makes you feel things and in some people the "wires" can cross:

https://www.audacy.com/987thespot/latest/biologist-explains-why-some-people-have-foot-fetishes

I feel like this is absurd with even a little bit of thought. Why does this sort of explanation apparently only work for feet and not other fetishes? Why does it matter if wires can get crossed for nerves in the feet if most people with foot fetishes are into other people's feet and not having things done to their own feet? This gets mentioned a lot online but it makes no sense.
Feet are hot cause i can feel a lot of emotion through them
- I mean like the emotion of the person the feet are on

When I was born, god gave me a choice.

I said, "I'll take the Autism, please."

I couldn't decide between 'tism and ADHD, god got frustrated of me and gave a bit of both. I wish I had known foot fetish was a choice (didn't read through the list, obviously).
- was too ADHD to read the list 😔

People so ready to kink shame feet. Just wait some shawty gonna open your mind one day

See, guys who find it weird only do cuz their own feet are nasty, n let's be real men's feet are pretty nasty. You ain't trynna look at no man's asscheeks, but I don't hear no1 saying liking women with a fat arse is weird.
- let’s be real men’s feet are pretty nasty
  Yo, check out ballerina feet.
It's jealousy dog. Attractive women don't go letting everybody see their boobs and butt for no reason. Is a trip to a public pool just like an unyielding, diamond hard erection for you people?
- A foot fetish sort of works its way into your brain over time. The synapses for feet and sexual attraction are extremely close to each other, so when you do things like, hold someone's feet during sex, or give them a foot rub during foreplay, there's a chance your brain may start making that connection that feet are an erotic thing. For me, it started after being married for a few years, and she just sort of flexed her toes during sex in such a way that it gave me goosebumps, in a good way. Granted I'd been giving her foot rubs for a few years by that point...but oh...my god. When it clicked that it was a turn on for me, it was a game changer.

It's awesome though

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Your loss

Yeah I'm grateful I'm just into normal things like pain

we like the pain
we like the pain

Fella haven’t seen pretty feet yet.

As a non-foot guy, I'm curious what you think would turn me

Don't mean to brag, but I had a cat who would let me touch her feet and even grab those BEANS.
- I like squeezing them and making the claws extend and retract.

“I am a man that’s made of meat, While you’re on the internet, looking at feet”

So you're saying you hate Expedition 33?

What's wrong with feet?

I kinda would rather be attracted to feet, if I'm honest.

It seems pretty great. There are a lot of cute people out in public with their feet visible, and if you stare at their feet, they'll just think you're shy.
I oscillate between wishing I was attracted to basically everyone with every possible kink (outside of the unethical options) and no attraction at all.
- Hot take: pansexual people are better off than people with a specific genital fetish.

Aren't you a furry?

artist
Is...is that an offer or are you saying op is wrong
- I'm not a furry but you guys rp as much as you want to. Idk

But sonic has SO MUCH foot to be attracted to.

Ah well, at least you still have sonic inflation.

I became interested in why foot fetishes occur recently.

Basically, it's the same reason why breasts are considered sexual (they aren't); it's all about novelty. If we lived in a nudist colony, neither feet, nor breasts would be considered sexy.

Feet get covered by shoes, making them more novel.

Tribal cultures dont regarded breasts, or feet, as sexy.

Though it begs the question: if nudity became normalized, then what would be novel?

People would find personalities, voices, power dynamics, and fantasies more or less erotic than they are now (for most people).

This doesn't work.
If it were only about novelty, then why aren't there more bellybutton fetishes?
Being a fetish-having person, I can tell you there there is more than just an attraction to the object of your desire. It is a primal, deep, uncontrollable NEED to see or touch the object.
I am not a foot fetishist, so I do not presume to know the intimate details of what they like, but I can promise you, it has nothing to do with novelty. Fetishes have so many variants also; there are foot fetishes, sock fetishes, feet squishing stuff, toenail paint things, some want a footjob, some want to lick them or suck on toes, some people like big feet, small feet, the list goes on and on.
Maybe read just a tiny bit? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_fetishism#Cause
https://www.psypost.org/new-research-challenges-idea-that-female-breasts-are-sexualized-due-to-modesty-norms/
- Even the researchers behind the study say, “I want to stress this finding is not final.” That should tell you something.
  The sample size is small and limited to a single cultural group. Meanwhile, we’ve got plenty of anthropological evidence showing that in many societies where breasts are regularly exposed, they’re not treated as sexually arousing. So no, this study doesn’t magically override decades of cross-cultural data.
  That said, the idea that breasts signal health or fertility? Sure, obviously. Just like wide hips, clear skin, or symmetrical faces. But biological relevance doesn’t automatically make something a fetish object. We don’t jerk off to white blood cell counts.
  And yeah, obesity isn't typically seen as attractive because it signals potential health risks (dont cross post this on tumblr).
  The study is interesting, but it doesn’t prove breasts are inherently sexual. It just adds a datapoint to a complex picture where biology and culture play roles.
why breasts are considered sexual (they aren’t)
Breasts and feet are both sensitive and responsive to touch. If you've ever Netflix-and-Chilled, a foot rub is a classic opening move. Meanwhile, teasing someone's nipple is very normal foreplay.
- You're not picking up what I'm laying down.
  I'm not arguing that feet and breasts aren't capable of providing sexual stimulation from a first person perspective. I'm saying that from a third person perspective, theres nothing about them which inherently arousing; that arousal stems from novelty.
What do tribal cultures regard as sexy?
- In many tribal societies, the erotic focus isn’t on specific body parts like breasts or feet; it's on signs of fertility, health, and social status. things like wide hips, smooth skin, body paint, scarification, or even dance.
NSFW:
When I fuck people their feet are in my face. I always thought what I was looking at was sexy when fucking, but I agree. Forbidden fruit and all that.
Breasts are sexual. They're secondary sex characteristics.
- So is thick back hair
- ...that's not what secondary sex characteristic means. As the article you linked says, that just means physical characteristics unrelated to the reproductive system that differ between the sexes. Some of the other examples given include the Adam's apple in men and longer arms relative to height in women. While some of these things can be sexually attractive or related to sexual attractiveness in some way, certainly we don't societally put them in the same sexual category as women's breasts.
Though it begs the question: if nudity became normalized, then what would be novel?
Not an sexologist or even a sexy anthropologist, but my intuition is that aesthetic attraction would always be a factor (since it doesn't rely on sexual attraction), and that acting in a sexually provocative would be the way to provoke the horny gaze.
It might be nice to have less sexualization of people just be virtue of their existing in a sexualized body. That's the dream, anyway.
- I would phrase that near-last sentiment, "...in a sexy body." instead. No one should be oggled simply for being sexy, but if they are sexualizing themselves, (like dressing up for a night club) I'd argue that can indicate a desire to be oggled. They still should not be objectified, but when someone is trying to look sexy, I bet most people would be disappointed to get zero glances.

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