• chobeat@lemmy.mlOP
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    10 months ago

    Every kink is a kink because the object of the kink holds some specific value or logic within the social context that is then relived or subverted within the kinky dynamic. If foot worshipping wasn’t, historically and symbolically, an act of submission in society, it wouldn’t be a kink at all.

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      10 months ago

      The theory about foot fetishes is that the nerves between the genitalia and the feet run very close together in the backhaul. If you have crosstalk between the nerves, one stimulates the other. That’s how you get sexual gratification from foot stimulation, or toe-curling orgasms.

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        10 months ago

        In fact I was talking about “foot worshipping” and not foot fetish in general, which are arguably very different dynamics.