Did anyone ever have a fear of being barefoot?

[reddogftklr]

I think this may be a common question for us. I remember when I was a kid I never wanted to be barefoot around anyone. I think because I was afraid that someone might want to tickle me. This made me stick out even worse because I would be wearing shoes and socks on hundred degree days. My mother use to alway get irritated by this, and hid my socks during the summer. This made me ultra paranoid. I hated wearing sandals and did not like how my feet looked even though they are not ugly. I remember one time when I was ganged up at a family party in the summer time, everyone was talking how I was wearing socks in the hot days. I can't really remember who , but five of the people friends and family grabbed my arms and legs and took off my shoes and socks. Boy what a fight I put up. I was right as soon as my feet were bared my soles were attacked. I was so embarassed by this. I soon got over my fear and now enjoy being barefoot, and me wearing shoes in the summer all the time is a memory. Infact I go barefoot or wear sandals the most in my family. I did have good reason to be afraid to be barefoot because when you are a kid it is more common for some adults to try to tickle them. Anyone else experience this?

 

[tklr5150]

Actually I can relate to this completely. I don't have a fear of being barefoot per se but I'm not very comfortable that way. I'm always wearing socks, even in the summer, though I'm never bothered by the heat at all. I don't find sandals comfortable at all. At the pool or beach it doesn't bother me, but anywhere else I'll be sure to have something on my feet

 

[ontheverge]

I don't know if I'd call it a fear of being barefoot, but I was definitely very self-conscious about showing my feet. Until I was well into my 20s I wouldn't wear sandals, because I always felt overexposed -- like I was suddenly out in public with no shirt on. I wasn't self-conscious about the appearance of my feet; underneath the shoes my feet were always well-pedicured. In retrospect, I'm sure it had to do with the way I eroticize tickling and ticklish areas. Only those who got closest were trusted enough to see my feet.

I've relaxed a lot since then, and now enjoy parading about in the skillion pairs of sandals I own. But I don't still won't wander around barefoot unless I'm alone or with the Significant Other.

 

[vegasfootboy]

fear of being barefoot!

wow! now that is a subject i think we can all relate too,,like yourself, when i was just a kid i never went around barefoot! i had extremely ticklish feet! ( as i still do )and also had two older sisters who would take every opportunity to hold me down and rake theyre fingernails up and down my soft soles! enjoying my tortured peals of hysterical ticklish laughter!,,,i not only feared this kind of treatment at home but also in my cubscout troop as well,, it was a very popular pasttime to find a very ticklish boy,, hold him down and tickle him half to death! once while at a jamboree ( an overnight stay at a camp ) while sitting around with 9 other scouts talking,, one scout reached over and poked me in the ribs! i jumped and yelped pretty loudly! that was a mistake! the very second they saw how the little tickle made me jump ,, they were all on me in a second! i was screaming as they knocked me over and held me down! one boy on each limb,,and several others probing and prodding me! squeezing my knees, and playing my ribcage like a piano! poking my bellybutton! and then when i thought id die laughing i heard one boy say,, " lets tickle his feet! " oh shit! my heart leapt! when i heard that! next thing i feel are hands scrambling to untie and rip off my tennis shoes!! then the cool air on my bare soles as my socks were quickly peeled and thrown aside!! suddenly i fell 20 or more fingertips stroking and exploring every tender crease on my soles!! this made me scream like i never had before! i was sent into silent laughter! my lungs gasping for air as my face turned red then blue from lack of oxygen! maybe these early experiences had something to do with why i am so much into tickling lol! i dunno,, all i know now is when i go to the tanning salon i fear that someone will tickle my feet as they hang over the edge of the tanning bed lol!

 

[4Pawz]

Kinda understand what you are saying there. I don't go barefoot or ever wear sandals in public. I won't if anyone is over either. LOL I feel nekkid without my shoes and socks. I will go socks or barefoot at home alone, but that is it. Even in the blistering heat here, it is shoes and socks for me tyvm 😀

Pawz

 

[Mitchell]

When I was a kid, my grandmother almost had a thing about me going barefoot. If she was over or I was at her house, she would actually yell at me if I wasnt wearing slippers at all times. Also when I was growing up, and we had our house, I almost never went barefoot because the house had tile floors, and they would hurt my feet. In the last 14 years its been totally different. Since I have lived in apts with carpeting, I now always go barefoot even in winter at home because I guess I just cant stand the feel of shoes in the house. When I was younger, I had the softest soles of any male I knew, but that has changed the last 14 years. Now I hate having any foot coverings on, even in winter, it is just habit, and with carpeting, the undersurface doesnt hurt my feet, so now all foot coverings are off anytime I'm home. It has just all changed for me with this. Until my adulthood, however, I almost never went barefoot due to circumstances.

Mitch

 

[ericr]

Yes reddogtklr, I felt very much like you did as a kid. I did not feel comfortable having others looking at my feet even though there was nohing wrong with them. My feet are extremely ticklish and also quie tender. I did and still do fear others will tickle them if they are bare, and with good reason, as this has happened on numerous occasions. Recently, I have had some foot problems. I have felt very nervous sitting with my bare feet elevetated in the exam chair of the podiatrist's office. Indeed, some parts of the podiateric exams have tickled me and I have yelled and laughed. I do not go barefoot because my feet are so tender that it usually hurts. As a mature guy, I have learned to wear sandles almost all the time in the summer but I am very careful to not put my feet in positions that might invite tickling.

 

[Tiffany]

Sorry red, but I don't think I can relate. I would wear sandals, or go barefoot at nearly every oportunity, hoping to tease someone into tickling me. (Friends, family, and aquaintences, of course. Never strangers) Yes, I too, am very ticklish on my feet, as everyone pretty well knows, but the feeling of being held down, or otherwise restrained while my soles are being stroked, particularly by feathers, is a feeling I sometimes crave. I still wear sandals the majority of the time, and go barefoot. Of course, with Annie, Judy, and Paige around, it doesn't take much!🙂

 

[grippedchimp]

Y'know what, I'm in that same kinda position Pawz is in, although I live in the considerably cooler climate of the UK. I was always shy when it came to showing off my bare feet. That's been rooted back to my childhood. I always felt vunerable and missing something I didn't wear shoes and socks. Even in my trip to the Philippines two years ago, in the baking hot weather, I was always in socks and trainers, though I did occasionally went barefoot.

Recently however, especially in the hot weather, I have gone out wearing flip-flops and sandals, as well as wander barefoot in the house and sometimes on the grass in the park. However, I only do this as long as my family are out for a considerable amount of time, whether they're in work, study or parties. Dunno why, it's just me.

And for the record, I am barefoot right now! Too hot for shoes and socks right now! 😉

 

[Knox The Hatter]

I was always self conscious...just like Red Doggie...still am. Sandals and flip flops are very uncomfortable for me anyway, so it's sneaks and socks no matter how hot it is...
I always was self conscious, though, because I thought my relatives would attack me. Probably because they did often enough. I had a cousin who used to get me regularly when I was little. Then I got bigger and turned the tables on her. Turnabout's fair play! 😛

 

[toyou444]

I hated shoes when I was a kid depite my ticklish feet. As I grew older and realized my preoccupation with tickling others I began to develop a like for being tickled myself. Tot hat end my barefoot ways seemed a good way to be!😀

But I digress...it wasn't until college, where everyone (it seemed) was wearing sandals or was barefoot that I found going without covering on my feet ould open a door to tickling. To this day I find it hard to resist the bare foot of someone I know (and the occasional stranger) but I can control myself...most of the time! My wife and sister-in-law are my most frequent victims as they both shun shoes also. My wife has caught on as she knows that if she is wearing socks I micht playfully tug her toes, but won't tickle until she is barefoot.

To this day I secretly want someone to tickle my barefoot everytime they pass by, but sadly it doesn't happen as often as I'd like.

~ toyou

 

[Knox The Hatter]

I'm the reverse: I'd like to get every woman I see during the passage of my day...well, that is, below age 60 LOL! But then, I would wager that the vast majority of the people here think the same way I do... 😛

 

[tickleshotel]

Great Subject reddog 🙂 .I would say for me that I didn't have
a fear of being barefoot when I was a kid but most of the time I
would almost always be wearing my socks,shoes until I went into
my room after dinner to occupy myself. I also had a older sister ,brother that would gang up on me as a team 🙂!.Those were,are the fondest memories of me growing up . I wish my brother,sister were still living at home but since we are all older now and don't see much of each other anymore;I am lacking all that tickling attention.My husband isn;t as actively involved in tickling as I'd like but we have plans to attend a tickling gathering later this year and I REally crave being tickled while being restrained .
Now I go around in sandals,barefoot when at home,and the other day I opened the door to see a Fedex deliverer and as I signed the parcel
I could feel the guy's eyes on my bare feet and I had to almost practically bite my lip to keep from blushing 😱 .