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Foot Fetish Mentioned in Class Today....Say What?!

Persephone

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So I am a teaching assistant (TA) for a professor at my university and today in class we started talking about post-classical China. The topic got around to foot binding and the professor pulled up a large slide with pictures of women's feet when they have been forced into foot binding. This very unusual, Eastern practice was done up until maybe a century or so ago. Usually only confined for the upper classes it was intended to keep women in doors so they couldn't stray too far because it was a struggle to walk. It also was intended to give the foot a more alluring look, because the foot was believed to look like a lotus flower. Tiny feet were seen as attractive on a noblewoman...while unbound, dirty feet were for the peasant/servant class who had to work in the fields, kitchens, etc.

So as my professor was discussing this a boy raised his hand and said:

"Isn't it true that some of the emperors insisted all their concubines and wives get this done because they had a foot fetish?"

(I was pretty shocked...because I was just checking my email when I heard the words "FOOT FETISH" and I was like O_O! )

I had never heard this before but my professor agreed and said when researching for class today that he had come across one belief that several emperors, all of the same dynasty, had a foot fetish! :hysteriatrain:

So it just goes to show (minus the painful practice of foot binding) that foot fetishes have existed for centuries in all kinds of cultures! 😀

What do you guys think 😀?
 
Yeah, the elite, the noblewomen, royal concubines, and many high class mistresses and prostitutes had this done, thus inducing a fascination for feet in many men of those times.

On a personal note, I'm sooooo glad that this isn't practiced anymore, because with the sun shining I can see all the pretty toes I want merely by taking a stroll!
 
I'm sure basic fetishes like ones regarding body parts are as old as humanity itself.

I've heard foot fetishism was somewhat common in Tsarist Russia as well.
 

I know! And the worse part is they did this when the girls were well...little girls! Like age 6-12ish....so the girls knew it was coming! How dreadful! :sadcry: They at least could have done it when they were toddlers so they didn't remember the pain of the experience. The big bones of your foot (you can feel them beneath the balls of your feet) were the ones that were broken, all your toes except the big toe were broken as well! :wow:

(On a side note, you look really pretty in your signature picture Aimee! 🙂 )
 
Wow, I really can't see how that was fetish inspiring....that shit looks like a form of prolonged torture. Talk about subjugation.
 
Makes me wonder how our distant descendants will view breast implants.
 
This topic of conversation-along with the accompanying subject of foot fetishism- was held in one of my classes back in high school. Well over thirty years ago.

A grotesque subject, indeed.
 
So it just goes to show (minus the painful practice of foot binding) that foot fetishes have existed for centuries in all kinds of cultures! 😀

What do you guys think 😀?

Centuries? It's probably existed for thousands of years. I don't have any evidence to back that claim up besides the fact that humans are (relatively) evolutionarily unchanged since then.
 
Much as I'd love to believe it, I don't think the foot-fetish theory makes a whole lot of sense.

I mean, I can see how the idea of binding a woman's feet so they would stay soft, and only her husband would ever get to touch them is something a fetishist might think of... but those feet were never meant to be unwrapped, not even during sex...and I mean, they look just terrible. One look and the fantasy is destroyed. You can't fuck that. If anything, that's a cure for the foot fetish. :disgust:
 
Much as I'd love to believe it, I don't think the foot-fetish theory makes a whole lot of sense.

I mean, I can see how the idea of binding a woman's feet so they would stay soft, and only her husband would ever get to touch them is something a fetishist might think of... but those feet were never meant to be unwrapped, not even during sex...and I mean, they look just terrible. One look and the fantasy is destroyed. You can't fuck that. If anything, that's a cure for the foot fetish. :disgust:

You're looking at it from your own cultural perspective. If you do that, much of history doesn't make sense.
 
Centuries? It's probably existed for thousands of years. I don't have any evidence to back that claim up besides the fact that humans are (relatively) evolutionarily unchanged since then.

You are probably right about it being thousands of years....but foot binding has nothing to do with human evolution, it is more part of an Eastern culture, very distinct and different from our Westernized culture and POV. :bubble2:
 
You are probably right about it being thousands of years....but foot binding has nothing to do with human evolution, it is more part of an Eastern culture, very distinct and different from our Westernized culture and POV. :bubble2:

Oh I completely agree. See my above post about the cultural perspective; not that it mentions anything in-depth. I won't even pretend to understand it.
 
You're looking at it from your own cultural perspective. If you do that, much of history doesn't make sense.

Well, true enough, but let's not put on the post-structural blinders here.

It definitely seems like there's some cultural standard of beauty at work here that we don't happen to share. I'm just saying it doesn't sound like the same thing as a genuine foot fetish, because a foot fetish would involve some kind of sexual contact or sexual appreciation of the foot, would it not? And in this case, it's apparent that there was no sexualized foot-worship or anything of the sort going on, because the feet were meant to remain wrapped at all times.

This sounds more to me like wearing a corset; it's based on an ideal of beauty, but it's not the same as a fetish.
 
One look and the fantasy is destroyed. You can't fuck that. If anything, that's a cure for the foot fetish. :disgust:

Actually, the entire Imperial Chinese upper class seemed to suffer from a collective foot fetish. Apparently the biproduct of the hobbling walk induced by the practice of binding was supposed to be an eternal Kegel exercise, and also the soft cleft formed by the folded-over foot could be employed as a substitute vagina. This was highly taboo- Chinese erotic art will show everything but an uncovered foot.

hotchina.jpg
boundfoot.gif
 
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I understand (and I work in Publishing and worked with an author who wrote on the subject for an article, so I did have a bloody good look into the subject, though I don't have a PhD in foot binding) that the smell of the bound foot was a sexual stimulant for some men.
It probably sounds pretty disgusting to most of us, but obviously there are foot fetishists who like smelly feet these days, so it's only taking that to an extreme. I myself am partial to feet that have not recently been washed. Not smelly, but perhaps a little scented. Not my fault, it's all to do with pheromones.
It was a barbaric practice, but then we were burning women in Europe, so I'm not going to get on my high horse about that.
 
Apparently the biproduct of the hobbling walk induced by the practice of binding was supposed to be an eternal Kegel exercise, and also the soft cleft formed by the folded-over foot could be employed as a substitute vagina.

Crystal. It seems to have summarized the agonizing satire behind 'one-child policy'... (lol)
 
So it just goes to show (minus the painful practice of foot binding) that foot fetishes have existed for centuries in all kinds of cultures!


While it is true that foot fetishism has probably existed since mankind were truly furries (shudder). I would guess that foot-binding was more of a hobbling technique, to insure the control and servitude of women as a secondary class. The obsession with "small feet" probably came much, much later after the first asshole decided to to it.

I have a hard time imagining that any admirer of the feminine foot form would find the mutilation of such appealing.... but then again, they like fermented goose embryos.

To each his own.
 
Apparently the biproduct of the hobbling walk induced by the practice of binding was supposed to be an eternal Kegel exercise, and also the soft cleft formed by the folded-over foot could be employed as a substitute vagina. This was highly taboo- Chinese erotic art will show everything but an uncovered foot.

hotchina.jpg
boundfoot.gif

Interesting thought. I was under the impression that they never actually unwrapped the foot. :idontwann

Still...I suppose thinking that a mutilated foot would necessarily be a turn-off is a little naive...lots of modern women prefer mutilated penises, after all.
 
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