I'm tired of theorizing and figured I'd go right to the source. So, if you all don't mind, I have a few questions. 🙂
First: Do you prefer tickling feet over any other body part?
Second: When tickling is *not* involved, do you still find feet more appealing then anything else?
Third: What makes them so different from the abdomen, thighs or underarms?
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Fourth: Are you insanely critical on your preferences about the way feet should look to you?/Does that make you feel shallow?
-- You don't have to answer them all. Just whatever you feel more comfortable replying to. 🙂
Okay, first, as for tickling, I don't prefer them, but being a foot fetishist AND a tickling fetishist, they do hold their own, separate appeal.
Second, I'm not sure I understand the context of the question, but I'll do my best. I do find myself glancing at women wearing flip-flops when other guys would be checking out tits and ass, but I'm of the belief that curves are what catches the eye, first. So that's what I notice, then I find my eyes immediately moving south.
Third, if this is the tickling context, I don't really know, but I think the difference has something to do with boldness/intimacy. Generally, you could tickle someone's stomach, underarms, hips, pretty much anywhere on their torso area without requiring a whole lot of closeness (well, beyond basic personal boundaries, anyway.), but to tickle someone's feet, it requires a little more closeness. Being a foot fetishist, it's hard for me to speculate what others would think, but before my sexuality developed, I was just an average kid who thought feet were a gross, dirty body part, and when I ever came in contact with any by accident, I didn't want to touch anything else without washing my hands. I didn't even like friends being on my bed, barefoot. I can't speculate, but I'm guessing that the average person (not foot fetishist) would probably not want to touch someone else's feet for similar reasons, UNLESS they were really CLOSE to that person. For me, I can say the same thing about anyone touching my feet. It's something I feel deals with vulnerability and trust. To tickle someone's feet, you're generally close to them on a personal enough level to be willing to touch them in an area that gets sweaty, or walks everywhere, collecting whatever nastiness is on the floor/ground, overcoming all that awkwardness.
Fourth, my feelings about foot appearance can make me feel shallow at times, and I hate it. Sometimes, I'll look at a woman, and then if I see her feet, and they don't look like they "belong" on her, it weirds me out. Sometimes, I can't help but to look at ugly feet, too. It's like watching a train wreck. You just can't take your eyes off it! One thing I've noticed, though, is that my connection to a woman changes the way I look at their feet, if their flaws were previously bugging me. I'll end up finding that they really turn me on, even if I originally thought they looked weird. The fetish kinda irritates me, at times. My wife and I could be watching tv, and she'll have her feet up on the table. I'll find myself not paying attention to the show, because I'll be preoccupied, looking at the glare from the tv reflecting off her arch, getting the urge to lick it. I DON'T lick it, but I keep thinking about how much I want to, and I'm completely zoned out. This is gonna sound dumb, but it makes me think of vampire stories, and how they all seems to have a running theme of controlling monstrous urges to blend in and be normal, which I get, even though I find myself hating the characters. Blood-sucking urges seem to be a whole lot less creepy than foot-worship urges.
