Do you like girls with nice feet? Do you secretly anticipate the onset of summer heat because that’s when the ladies start wearing less and less, and their feet come out to play in earnest?
You might just have a foot fetish. In the summer, girls draw attention to their feet: Toenails get color and regular pedicures while flip flops, sandaled heels, toe rings, and ankle bracelets all make appearances.
In this month’s What’s Your Fetish column, we’ll define the foot fetish, look at some data on its prevalence, and explore its appearance in our pornography, both live action and 3DX.
More common than you think
One muggy evening, I was in the middle of a memorable encounter with a buxom Spanish girl and as she placed her legs on my shoulders, I casually took a few of her toes in my mouth and suckled. She let out a curious half-yelp, half-moan that spurred me to rail her even harder. I remember thinking that the more simultaneous sensations you can deliver, the better a lover you will seem to be. Later, the senorita made a candid, unprompted observation: “No one’s ever done that before. I really had no idea getting your toes sucked made the sex so much better.”
This is one man’s anecdote, of course, but I feel sufficiently emboldened by it to suggest that the foot fetish is a common one, and many people don’t even know that their feet can arouse their partners and themselves.
“Personally, I don’t have a foot fetish,” Asa Akira, the well-known Asian porn star, offered during a 2014 Reddit Q&A session. “But I love when someone I’m fucking has one, and they worship my feet. That turns me on. I love when someone sucks on my toes while fucking me.”
If that doesn’t count as having a foot fetish, it’s close enough by my lights.
Defining the ‘foot fetish’
But let’s table my carnal reminiscences for a more detached perspective. It turns out that Wikipedia boasts a surprisingly comprehensive and clinical article on foot fetishism.
I’ll give you the highlights here – you have a “foot fetish” if you have a “pronounced, sexual interest in feet or footwear.”
It’s actually the most common sexual fetish: 47% of people participating in online fetish discussion groups were foot fetishists, according to the most recent scholarly work on fetishes. It’s worth noting that this study – authored by the International Journal of Impotence Research: The Journal of Sexual Medicine – isn’t based on survey data. Instead, their methodology relied on reviewing the content of people’s online forum discussions, as mentioned above.
In a seminal 2012 book called “A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships,” neuroscientist Ogi Ogas analyzed sexual fetish search terms and found foot fetishes to be common. “Foot fetishes aren’t a deviance,” Ogas writes. “Men are evolutionarily wired to look for small feet, which are a sign of high estrogen production, which itself is a sign of fertility.” His research also showed that foot fetishes are widespread across all cultures.
So, if the foot fetish is actually a common one, what does a sexual interest in feet really mean? Toe sucking, for sure, both enjoying sucking on someone’s toes and having them return the favor. For men, there’s the “footjob” – where the lady uses the soles of her feet to stroke the lucky member vigorously.
For women, it gets kinkier, with toes being inserted into orifices, then sucked to remove the secretions. There’s an entire site dedicated to such examples of feet sex called Foot Worship.
The foot fetish has become so mainstream that it’s one of the sex-related questions you can answer on OkCupid, the popular online dating site. You can indicate whether you have a foot fetish, and then indicate how important someone else’s answer is to you. Like all the questions you can answer on OkCupid (and there are thousands), the foot fetish question goes into the site’s algorithm to find better matches.
And if you’re still wondering whether you have the fetish, OkCupid even has a test: The Do You Have a Foot Fetish Test.
What makes for sexy feet?
To start with, pedicured feet! Feet can be as individual as any other body part, but the ideal female foot features perfectly formed arches in the soles, nicely shaped toes that taper neatly from big toe to pinky toe, trim ankles, and an overall sleekness with curves in the right places.
Throw in amazingly sexy items like anklets (ankle bracelets) and toe rings, and I can get hard just seeing the feet – no nudity required. Heck, I don’t even need to see the girl’s face, or body. The existence of accoutrements like toe rings and anklets, along with their massive variety, is a testament to the fixation we have, men and women alike, with female feet.
Feet fetishes in live action porn
In mainstream porn, the foot fetish gets a ton of niche content. We have sites that focus on legs and feet. Kink.com incorporates hardcore lesbian anal play and femdom into foot fetish scenes, and even bizarre sites where women with pretty feet smash insects to death on clear glass, beneath which cameras sit to capture the carnage.
For my money, I love unscripted foot fetish elements in regular, mainstream porn scenes. These are scenes that have nothing to do with the foot fetish in particular, but the girls can’t help themselves and go for a toe sucking without any encouragement.
Here’s an example.
What really gets me off is when one girl raises her legs while being pounded by the male talent, and the other girl involuntarily comes face-to-face with a pretty, bare foot, dangling in the air and bobbing with each stroke. She can’t help feeling those lovely arches, and before you know it she’s got her tongue out, licking every inch, and then the toes go in her mouth. It’s like fellatio, but girl-on-girl with pretty painted toes supplying the phallic element.
3DX and feet fetish
It’s possible to generate perfect female feet for 3DX, but it doesn’t get as much attention in the 3DX world as it does in live action. After all, when you can have elves, demons, celebrity look-alikes, or anything you can imagine, pretty feet have a lot more competition. Affect3D, to its credit, caters to folks like me with a select few instances of porn featuring footjobs, but there’s room to do so much more.
Googling for 3D foot fetish porn turns up familiar niche scenes, such as women rubbing their soles on men’s faces and tongues, lesbians licking each other’s toes, and of course the obligatory footjob and its male-driven variant, foot fucking (like a footjob, but the guy does all the work).
One problem is that 3DX feet often lack detail. They really need to be rendered with texture, lighting, and all manner of other technical details I can’t name.
Imagine an animated scene of a guy getting a footjob. You see two identical feet with square-shaped pink toes rubbing mechanically up and down. Wouldn’t you rather see a foot fetish element in the context of a hot threesome with a blond teenager and a busty MILF? The MILF getting smashed silly while driving her tongue into the younger girl’s pussy, which excites the teenager so much that she instinctively reaches out, grabs a leg as it jiggles up and down, and puts her tongue all over those MILF toes.
It’s the unscripted nature of that act; it’s the fully realized feet, with arches, heels, ankles, toenails, and of course that whole let’s bang the babysitter scenario. Render that in 3D, and I’m all over it – along with all those other foot freaks who don’t even know they’ve got the fetish.
Last thoughts
You’ve probably got a foot fetish if you’re a guy, because according to Ogas’ book, even gay men like feet – just men’s feet. If Ogas is right, you might like feet because you’re biologically conditioned to evaluate a woman’s fertility based on her foot size and shape. Ultimately, a foot fetish isn’t weird or rare and the research supports this strongly. It’s also supported by the fact that the foot fetish is becoming more mainstream, as evidenced by OKCupid’s test and the growth in live action foot fetish content. Hopefully, 3DX artists will jump on the bandwagon and animate for us those perfect feet with those flawless arches.
Epoch
July 3, 2016The footjob is a divisive fetish among my fans. I personally enjoy this fetish, and I used to regularly include a few footjob renders in my sets. But over the years, more and more fans began vocalizing their distaste with the fetish, to the point that now I usually do a “one on, one off” approach with footjobs in my sets.
The bottom line is that fetishes are wildly varied between people. I’ve learned you can’t satisfy everyone, so I stick with what people want the most.
But there is definitely something about a sexy, lithe foot with well pedicured toenails!
timepants
July 6, 2016I don’t see why people get up in arms about including a few images in your sets considering most of it is regular old sucking and fucking. I’ve seen the comments on your site.
timepants
June 30, 2016Still disappointed there wasn’t a footjob scene in Girlfriends 4 Ever.
justapatron
June 30, 2016This wonderful place could use a little more feet. Toe sucking always gets me going. Especially when a girl sucks her own toes…
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*hint hint* 😉
Jeff
July 11, 2016Detomasso is your guy the dude loves feet and is an amazing artist, the only downside of his work is its mostly Lara croft whom of which I love but many others like variety in they’re models
miro
June 30, 2016Love it when science gives me an excuse for my fetishes 😛 Not entirely sure how accurate the popularity is, considering boobs and ass hardly registered on the score board o.0 Either way, I definitely love feet, but have been neglecting my fetish for some time in my art work. Thanks for reminder 🙂