'Feetichism': why so many people 'put' their feet

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It is one of the less visible parts of the body - there will be some who say that it is also the least visible - and yet it accumulates a legion of followers long before the concept appeared. Something recurring happens with the feet: many people claim that they dislike those they have and many others could not live without delighting in them. "Artistic," they say to explain their joy, "very important, they take us everywhere," they delve. "Sometimes you do not need or touch, just look , " conclude what used to be called foot fetishists and are now beginning to be called also feetichistas.

A taste that usually appears in childhood, and not only in men. "It has been with me since I have memories," says Sergy Martin, director of the Spanish Foot Fetish, a meeting of feet enjoyed for almost a decade that works to give visibility to this type of erotic. "As a child, before I became aware of my sexuality, I already fantasized about girls' feet and I looked at those of my friends. The feet of a woman I like cause me excitement and desire to interact with them, either by massaging or kissing them and sucking them. "

Another recurring element is to associate this fetishism with heel-wrapped feet, the longer the better and, although in fact this variant exists, this does not always happen. "Each fetishist has his own tastes about it," Martin continues, "I specifically like them as natural as possible, with unpainted nails and sports shoes or handbags . I don't have high heels, for example, although there are many fetishists who love heels. For me the most important thing is that there is complicity with the owner of the feet, that we play and enjoy the game both, "he says.

His partner, the psychologist and sexologist Arola Poch, author of The Clear Things (Editorial Platform), reflects on the ins and outs of this taste and concludes that "precisely because of the area they are attracted to, the foot fetishist has an added value ". "The feet are a part of the body that we often have forgotten and that we do not care too much for the great work they do. In many women, they are also an area that is little valued (there are many who say they do not like their feet) A foot fetishist will pamper your feet and give them special attention, not necessarily always during an erotic encounter, sometimes in the intimacy of everyday life it can be something as simple as watching a movie on the couch and be getting a foot massage and who doesn't like to get a foot massage after a busy day? "

Having a fetish partner brings more games and, with them, more possibilities and more morbidity

Who does not. How, then, makes life happy that your partner is a fetishist? First, because "the variety of erotic encounters" increases . "In many cases, people with a fetishist taste do not replace the most classic encounters (that is, coitus) with a 100% fetish erotic, but fetish games become one more option in erotic. Therefore, having a fetish couple brings more games and, with them, more possibilities and more morbidity. For example, a foot fetishist would like to start a meeting with a massage in this area or licking his feet and then continue with more standard parts ", deepen Poch.

There is also the possibility of "empowerment," while having someone bewitched with your little feet, and bewitched is spellbound, can increase self-esteem, or for the moment feel comfortable. "I recommend putting a foot fetishist in your life," says this sexologist, but also states that "there is still a certain stigma towards the erotic alternatives," something that is sometimes "in the fetishist himself, who feels weird and that it makes him unable to live his fetishism naturally. " Poch says that, "in therapy", sexology turns to give "sex education so that they understand and assimilate that their erotic tastes are normal, that they are part of sexual diversity."

Sergy Martín also considers that "despite being the most common of the feet, it still remains very hidden and few are the feetichistas " who, like him, openly acknowledge being. To combat stigma, the Spanish Foot Fetish association organizes meetings "at very cheap prices so that people who practice these games regularly with their partners and others who do not have that luck attend." The next will be June 6 in Malaga and will be the last. More than 100 fetishists , "equal number of women than men, from all over Spain and other European countries; a resort , a swimming pool, a jacuzzi, a disco ... With a diverse atmosphere in every way:" heterosexuals, homosexuals, people trans, varied age range, people of all social classes ... "

A fetishism to unite them all and to "value diversity in eroticism", something that, for the sexologist Arola Poch is essential because it still sounds "as a phrase made that all tastes are respectable." "It is said with little conviction. We really need to assimilate that there is no norm in sex and that all healthy and consensual erotic practices are perfectly valid."

Of passion, profession

Laia, or Laia Feet, had a foot fetish boyfriend and enjoyed it. As a child, in fact, she had felt a special sensation in her feet. One day he researched on the internet and found the Spanish Foot Fetish Association, tied the blanket to the head and held a professional workshop. "One of the best decisions of my life, today I work on what I really like," he says now, after two years of dedicating himself to 'foot fetish' in a professional way. "" Every fetishist is a world. I like what I do, I think I help people who need my services to feel fulfilled. It's another way to make a living. "Now he does face-to-face sessions, sells videos, photos and socks, socks and shoes." In Spain there are many men attracted to women's feet, "he says.

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