• urist@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    1053·
    9 months ago

    TBH dudes with foot fetishes assume no one else knows what a foot fetish is, and that’s where they run into trouble. See: Dan Snyder and Nickolodean.

    Example:

    Dude 1 openly harasses me about my butt, I hate it and move on with my life

    Dude 2 thinks he’s being slick. Talks to me for a few minutes bullshitting/smalltalk before the conversation is suddenly about how I’m on my feet all day and what shoes do you wear and what about your socks and… etc

    One is a cat call, the other is some weird social engineering shit that also insults my intelligence. I’m not making this up, these dudes try this on multiple targets until they can find a mark. My coworkers have to deal with it too. Don’t see them a lot but we warn each other about the foot guy.

    Sorry to all you normal, respectful people with foot fetishes, I’m sure you give awesome consensual foot rubs.

        • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10·
          9 months ago

          For real tho, my job has me on my feet for the entirety of my shift - I found an awesome insole that makes the day so much less painful, and I 100% pitch that shit to my coworkers when it comes up, cuz foot pain sucks.

          …now this thread has me worried that I’ve been pinned as ‘that guy’ lol.

          • Dharma Curious@startrek.website
            4·
            9 months ago

            I’m both of these people. I like foots. But also, I have terrible foot pain due to high arches, and have had mostly jobs where I’m on my feet for hours. I will talk insoles and inserts whenever possible, as a way of helping people with foot pain. What I do not do is have any interest in talking foot stuff as a kink/fetish. Kink and fetish are reserved for consensual bedroom (or camping) times. There’s no connection between the foot pain convos and the foot kink whenever that happens. People who try to stealth their way into nonconsensually getting people to play into their kink are creepy, and not good people.

            • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
              3·
              8 months ago

              You probably won’t have very much luck with over the counter inserts, the vast majority are built to treat people with flat feet who over pronate. Conversely people with high arches tend to supinate, aka carry too much weight on the outside of the foot.

              So most otc inserts will actually make foot pain from higher arches worse, especially if it’s hind foot pain. For my patients with higher arches who lack coverage for custom inserts, I will typically fit them with a pair of Arch Rival from a company called Don Joy, you can usually find them online or Amazon.

              They are pretty decent out of the box at treating cavus arches. However, if someone is having significant ankle pain, I will typically modify it with a small amount of lateral heel wedging.

              • Dharma Curious@startrek.website
                1·
                8 months ago

                Up until a few ago I was getting my inserts from a local place, you put them in hot water and then stand on them for a couple minutes until they cool and harden.

                Then I got insurance that covered them. The difference it makes is insane. I lost that insurance 2 years ago, and I’ve been alternating the 3 pair trying to get them to last as long as possible. At this point there’s not much left of them, but they’re all I’ve got. It’s 200 bucks for my next set (3 pair), and I’m gonna have to figure that out soon.

                • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
                  2·
                  8 months ago

                  If the new ones are just heat moldable inserts aswell, you can probably find them online for cheaper.

                  I don’t tend to utilize heat moldable inserts very often, but they generally only cost around $15-20 a pair from most distributors. The mark up on anything foot care related is pretty insane if you’re going to a brick and mortar.

                  If the new ones are really custom, where they took an impression of your foot with a scanner, plaster tape, or casting box, then 200 for 3 pairs is a really good deal.

            • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              9 months ago

              Unfortunately, the ones I’m a fan of have been discontinued. It was the Enduro-Sole by Columbia. I lived near a Columbia clearance store when they got axed, and they had a TON of them for super cheap, so I stocked up.

              …and I’m almost out. Q_Q

              What made them good is that they’re made of a rubbery material that gets soft when it’s super hot, so the first thing you’d do when you crack a new pair open is put them in the oven and bake them at like 250* for a few minutes. Take them out, quickly put them in your shoes, step in, and just walk a bit until they cool.

              It was hot enough to be uncomfortable, but not so much that you’d actually get burned. Kinda like molding a mouth guard from boiling water.

              Anyway, once it conformed to your feet and then cooled, that shape became permanent, so even with a brand new stiff-ass pair of shoes, you pop those insoles in and it’d feel like they’ve been broken in for years.

              There’s probably something else on the market that works the same way, but I haven’t actually searched, since I’ve never needed to; but the Columbia ones at least are SO comfortable!

              • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
                2·
                8 months ago

                Well, the good news is that lots of different companies make thermal moldable inserts. From what you said and the info from the link, they’re probably made out of Cloud Crepe with a durometer of 45 or less. So when you run out it shouldn’t be a big deal, should be pretty easy to find.

    • Wanderer@lemm.ee
      31·
      9 months ago

      My feet are fucked and the easiest way to explain it is with gloves.

      Just think about gloves or mittens. They fit over your hand perfectly. I mean it’s obvious right? You make hand shaped things for hands, why would you do anything else?

      Yet you look at shoes and none of them are fucking foot shaped and everyone acts like this is normal.

      So I hate feet, I hate my feet and I’m sure I hate your feet. But I’ll still rant about shoes and feet if it comes up.

      • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
        41·
        9 months ago

        Yet you look at shoes and none of them are fucking foot shaped and everyone acts like this is normal.

        I recall seeing a lot of “internet hate” at finger shoes. There’s even a xkcd of that

        • Wanderer@lemm.ee
          3·
          9 months ago

          Just get ones wide enough for your toes.

          I wear altras, makes the world of difference

          • Patches@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            8 months ago

            But also you can get a pair of Whitin Barefoot Shoes for $30. That might be a significantly cheaper start.

            Your posture should improve with zero drop shoes. The human body is not made to sit on ever so slight high heels, and 99% sneakers do just that. Wide toe boxes and flexible soles allow you to use the muscles in your feet to walk. Instead of flopping them around like they’re made of meat stuffed in a rain boot.

  • xantoxis@lemmy.world
    90·
    9 months ago

    I don’t agree with this. I think it’s weirder to be into knees than feet. (Personally I’m an ass man, so I’m looking down at you all benevolently.)

    • Khrux@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      101·
      9 months ago

      Some people have mentioned that some people with foot fetishes have a habit of trying to get people they find attractive to talk about their feet which makes everyone uncomfortable, to the point that it’s kinda of the main reason I think a stigma has formed against it.

      If I met someone who for some reason I suspected was into feet, I’d be a little wary until I felt they weren’t gonna be weird about people’s feet, but I think if i met a knee fetish person, I’d be so surprised they exist that i wouldn’t think about this aspect even though it’s just as likely.

      • xantoxis@lemmy.world
        5·
        8 months ago

        You’ve given me much to think about. Perhaps someday society will forgive the feet people, but not today it seems.

    • Heavybell@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      8 months ago

      I’d also put calves above both, too. Not that I’ve heard of anyone having a calf fetish – while I have unfortunately seen evidence of people into knees – I think it’s easier to understand someone into legs appreciating a shapely calf as well as the thigh.

  • mommykink@lemmy.world
    592·
    9 months ago

    Unpopular opinion but feet ain’t even that bad. If you ever meet a man into knees, that’s when you run

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
    354·
    9 months ago

    Hypothesis: Foot fetishes are a primary driving force behind the spread of genital warts.

    Evidence: Oh hell no, I ain’t putting that shit in my browsing history. Y’all got it from here.

    • Ross_audio@lemmy.world
      201·
      9 months ago

      Human papillomavirus HPV is responsible for warts on feet.

      So genital warts, mostly HSV (Herpes). Not nice but not particularly harmful most of the time. Cold sores and genital warts. Mouth, genitals. Won’t look nice but you won’t die.

      HPV - cancer.

      Further investigation on the evidence may be required but social acceptability chart above may be justified.

      If you have a foot fetish get vaccinated against HPV everyone.

      Also not googling this. Please take this comment with the respect and authority it deserves. (None)

      • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        11·
        9 months ago

        The HPV strains that cause warts are not the same ones that cause cancer, AFAIK

        There are like dozens of different strains

        In addition, HPV vaccines do not prevent warts, they only protect against the cancer-causing strains

  • mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world
    164·
    8 months ago

    So I have an ex-friend that found out I’m into feet and WOULD NOT STOP harping on it for YEARS.

    Telling me how disgusting it was, how much of a deviant it made me. At every fuckdamn opportunity. Making flat jokes that no one but him laughed at.

    He was an ass eater, religiously, to the point it made some of his gfs uncomfortable.

    How is liking a nice shaped pair of feet more disgusting than literally sticking your tongue where people shit?

  • Blackout@kbin.run
    133·
    9 months ago

    why is the area near the hole more respectable than the area near the dirt? Who makes these rules and where do I file a complaint?

    • iiGxC@slrpnk.net
      19·
      9 months ago

      Dirt is dirty. The hole hopefully isn’t, in fact now that I think about it I would argue that a dirty/unhygienic hole fetish is more shameful than a clean foot fetish 🤔

      but not actually shameful, whatever people are into is fine as long as no one gets hurt, or they consent to getting hurt 🤷

  • don@lemm.ee
    10·
    9 months ago

    Yeah you won’t see me hanging around those shin, knee pit, and back-of-the-upper-calf weirdos. Line’s gotta get drawn somewhere.

    • TehWorld@lemmy.world
      5·
      9 months ago

      Yeah, I’m going to say that calves can be sexy (high heels are generally meant to accentuate them) and I find them more socially acceptable fetish wise than knees.

      • Dharma Curious@startrek.website
        9·
        9 months ago

        I see a lot of jokes about knee fetish in this thread. I dated a dude with a knee kink. It was disconcerting at first, but being the enlightened, nonjudgmental being I am, I went with it. Wasn’t my thing at all, but honestly, the best word to describe it was inoffensive. He mostly just wanted to rub them, and occasionally get kneed in bed. Very meh experience.

    • Agent641@lemmy.world
      41·
      9 months ago

      Calves and thighs should be greener than knees and feet.

      The toes should be a lighter red than the rest of the foot, and the heel should be a darker red.