Foot Fetish Roundup
In contrast to the many other forms of sexual deviance that are potentially violent and criminal, foot fetishism seems like a gentle perversion. Take the kissing, licking, and sucking of toes — there’s something very tender about it, almost bucolic, like rainbows or sunny meadows. It calls to mind Jesus washing the feet of his disciples. It suggests a benevolent attitude toward things normally considered ugly. Foot fetishism is where the sexual pervert coincides with the injunction, so often told to vicious little girls, to find “inner beauty.” Isn’t that what the foot fetishist does — find some inner beauty in the digits of the foot?
Given its relatively benign nature, it is surprising that foot fetishism ends up in the news as often as it does. There are currently half a dozen incidents where this congenial fetish crossed over the line into illegality. For example, there is the “alleged foot manipulator” who impersonated a doctor in a Target store and touched a woman’s toes. There is the trial of the Philadelphia man who ordered women “to remove their shoes so he could suck their toes and fondle their feet.” He also robbed them at gunpoint, and yet the story places its emphasis on the foot fetishism. Wouldn’t you rather have your toes sucked and fondled than your purse or wallet taken away? You’d have thought that being robbed is the more noteworthy crime.
Then there is the more interesting story of the Vancouver woman tricked into posing for photographs that subsequently appeared on a fetish site.
Shannon Caicedo, who owns a futon and bed store in the Vancouver Mall, said a man named Tracy came into her store last month and told her he needed video and pictures of feet for a school project.
“He said, ‘I’m with the reflexology school and we’re trying to get some pictures of people’s feet,’” Caicedo said.
At the time, Caicedo said, it seemed like a simple favor for a student.
“He starts taking pictures of my feet and videotaping. I guess, looking back, it was kind of an odd thing,” Caicedo said. “He kept explaining, ‘OK, now this is what I’m doing. This is why I’m taking these pictures. Can you spread out your toes?’”
The photographer’s photos, however, ended up on a foot fetish Web site.
On Tuesday morning, Caicedo received an e-mail from someone in Canada who saw her photo on back40foot.com, a Web site with photos of feet of women older than 40 years old.
“There’s other people who look just like me who look like they’re trying to help, not like they’re trying to be on a foot fetish Web site,” Caicedo said.
Here is a rule of thumb: if you’re not comfortable posing for a foot fetish web site, never take your shoes off in front of a camera. In this day and age, you just don’t know where any photograph is going to turn up. The poet Mallarmé once said that the world exists only to end up in a book. Well, nowadays it exists only to end up on the internet. Ask Paris Hilton. She understands.
Finally, there is the heartwarming tale of the Chinese man who woke his wife from a decade-long coma by biting her toes. “I played the radio, sang and talked to her, even tickled her, but nothing worked,” he told a newspaper. “I then recalled someone saying that the feet are the home for many nerves. I wondered if I could wake her up by biting her feet.” However, given the fact that he spent ten years biting her toes, you have to wonder two things. First, is there really a cause-and-effect relationship between biting the toes and awaking from a coma? Probably not. Second, does the fact that a guy spends ten years gnawing his comatose wife’s toes say anything about his psychology? Is that love? A benign fetishism? Both?
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