Are You a Podophile? Stick Around and Find Out!

Put Your Best Toes, Feet, Ankles, and Legs Forward.

Let’s be honest about something. Porn would be nothing without its podophile fans. You know, those of us with a penchant for toes, feet, legs, and things related to them. Foot fetishists. Sometimes it’s toes or pedicured toenails. Sometimes it’s a well-turned ankle ornamented with a delicate chain. Sometimes it’s a pair of sky-high heels or super sensible flats. Sometimes it’s a set of long, lean legs covered in opaque or sheer hose. Sometimes it’s gartered stockings in any number of possible colors and patterns. But always, the foot or leg reigns supreme.

Podophilia, for obvious reasons, sounds way too close to something nobody should engage in, profit from, or consume as entertainment, so let’s just go with the term I mentioned earlier, foot fetishist. If that term offends, then we are foot enthusiasts. Whatever else we are, we are not disordered. The DSM-V, which is basically the Bible for mental health professionals, says we’re fine so long as there is no “clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.”

In other words, as long as we don’t make a fool of ourselves around people’s feet or legs without their permission, we’re probably fine. Humping a stranger’s back-seamed stockings is not okay, not even if they have a Cuban heel. Chances are good that if we can’t keep from doing that, we’ve got a problem. Otherwise, we’ve just got one of the most mainstream of kinks. This is weird, because women, especially, seem to be phobic about showing their feet unless they think they look perfect.

Of course, depending on what kind of fetish we have, imperfect feet may be exactly what we’re looking for. Or neatly powdered and painted feet. Or feet stuffed into shoes too small for them. Or feet with dirty soles. Or feet in our mouths while we worship and adore them. Or a ruffled ankle sock on a foot in flats. Like anything erotic, there are a nearly endless number of ways that feet can be enjoyed for both those with admirable feet or legs and those who admire them.

Massage can be a less intimidating way to approach shy feet. It feels good, it allows for conversation, and it allows both parties to find out what kind of touch they’re most and least comfortable with. It can also be sexy as all fuck. Jerking off onto a woman’s feet, be they bare or clad in silk or nylon, has a lot of appeal, for instance. Throw in some humiliation play, have the jizz depositor lick up his own mess, and you’ve got a party theme!

While massage may seem vanilla in many ways, a Top can use it to simultaneously inflict emotional discomfort and physical pleasure on a foot-shy bottom. Imagine the giggling embarrassment and delight of a fragrant foot bath followed by a towel dry and foot massage. As trust is developed, other forms of touch can be sampled. Kisses. Nibbles. Licks. Lotions. Oils. Feathers. Fur. Tiny canes, paddles, crops, or floggers. Pokey things. Rubber bands. Any of the sensations they can produce are available to be explored for sensual, kinky, or purely scientific reasons.

A common bond for many foot lovers is smell. Again, preferences are varied, with some being drawn to a clean or lightly scented skin aroma, while others favor the unique bouquet that comes with time, activity, and worn leg coverings. Unwashed, used socks, for example, are popular with some because, in part, perspiration results in a distinctive personal perfume that can be intoxicating to those with an appreciation for its nuances. Likewise, with discarded stockings and hose. All of them, naturally, make exceptional landing spots for sperm.

Other forms of foot play can be as simple as treading on someone. Yes, literally walking on them. Proceed with caution if this sounds like fun because hospitalization for stepping wrong or being too heavy sounds a lot sexier than it really is. If pain play is on the menu, wrapping rubber bands around the feet and snapping them is an inexpensive and plausibly deniable way to leave an impression. Likewise, stroking or poking the soles of the feet with something soft can be soothing or ticklish, depending on the technique. Doing the same with chopsticks will produce a different sensation, although possibly a similar response.

Feet are packed full of nerve endings, which makes them ripe with potential for use in mind tricks and sexual play, whether accompanied by intercourse or not. After all, with all those thousands of nerves running up our legs, some of them are bound to influence our genitals. This is likely why some people can orgasm merely by foot contact. In the case of a footjob, the cause of ejaculation is less of a mystery.

Love it or hate it, the internet has made sure that an ever-increasing number of people realize that foot fetishes are a lot more common than we have been led to believe. Thanks to porn, we get to see an ever-increasing number of beautiful women and sometimes handsome (depending on the context) men demonstrate an array of creative ways to enjoy the tens of thousands of nerve endings at the ends of our legs that wait patiently to be stimulated. Long live porn and long may it demonstrate its sole.