What People With A Foot Fetish Want You To Know About Their Kink

It's one of the most common fetishes out there – so let's stop acting like it's strange.

Foot fetishes are often spoken of with an air of disgust or as the punch line of a joke, but it’s actually one of — if not the most — common fetishes out there. So we thought it was about time we dip a toe into the sexual fascination with feet.

Broadly speaking, a fetish is “an intense sexual fixation on a generally nonsensual object, body part, practice or situation,” according to Kinkly.com. (A sexual fixation on a particular body part, such a feet, is also known as “partialism.”)

Some experts have used the word fetish to refer to something that is absolutely necessary to one’s sexual gratification. In other words, they can’t experience pleasure or orgasm without it. But the definition has loosened over time.

“In the present, it’s less common for sex educators to define fetishes as things that must be part of sex,” sexologist Carol Queen told Healthline. “Instead, a newer definition says that fetishes are things that are erotic superchargers.”

Below, people with foot fetishes (as defined in the more contemporary way) answer your burning questions about their kink.