“Imagine being an artist who is listened to by nearly eight million people a month on Spotify, but who makes more money by having a thousand people subscribe to photographs of your feet. Don’t hate the player, but hate the game.” replied Lily Allen. to a user who, upon seeing how the singer uploaded a photograph of her feet to . The reason why the British woman decided to open a profile on the platform was that her pedicurist told her that she had such beautiful feet that she could undoubtedly make money with them. This was communicated openly in his podcast, Miss Mein which he boasted, in addition to having the highest score in WikiFeeta website that evaluates the feet of celebrities. Taking into account that the singer charges ten dollars a month to her followers on OnlyFans, she earns at least $10,000 a month thanks to her feet, so without a doubt, she has found a good source of income in foot fetishism.
imagine being and artist and having nearly 8 million monthly listeners on spotify but earning more money from having 1000 people subscribe to pictures of your feet. don’t hate the player, hate the game. https://t.co/Fx7JAhPhV5
— Lily Allen (@lilyallen) October 25, 2024
“To keep users interested and engaged on their platforms, social media sites rely on engagement metrics,” he explains to The Guardian Louisa Warwick, from public relations agency Social Acceleration Group. “Likes, shares, comments and views are more likely to be promoted on platforms, and this creates a feedback loop where specific interests, such as foot fetishes, can quickly gain visibility if they attract a dedicated and interactive audience. Celebrity endorsement can legitimize and amplify the trend, encouraging more users to participate,” he says when explaining the reason for the growing interest in feet in this article. dedicated to generalization of foot fetishism.
As pointed out a survey Launched by sexologist Arola Poch, the fetish par excellence is the one that has to do with everything related to feet, since seven out of 10 fetishists are foot fetishists. Of the fetishists surveyed, 81.5% said they were attracted to feet and 63.2% of fetishists also acknowledged that they are excited by the submission linked to foot fetishism. “I consider myself primarily a foot fetishist. I am excited both by the sight of it and by the enjoyment itself from contact with my hands, feet, genitals or mouth, but at times I have also felt attracted to shoes in which a familiar foot has been. “I liked smelling them and enjoying the imprint left by a foot that I put on them,” says one of the testimonies that the sexologist collects in her study. “I think that foot fetishists should give a better image and not as slimers or psychopaths, as I have read and heard many times,” says another.
However, the problem with platforms like OnlyFans, he says in a post published on LinkedIn Vikas Shingalaa man who sells images of his feet on the internet, is that “people often want to go beyond the feet. In my experience, it is also more difficult to find clients if you do not have many followers on social networks to promote your profile.” That’s why he recommends FeetFinder, a website that claims to have sold more than 10,000,000 feet photographs and to have more than five million users who have spent more than $80,000,000. A web user explained to The Country that the prices of the photos usually range “between 10 and 30 euros per image if they are not models and between 20 and 45 if they are.”
Margot Robbie explained last year to Cinemablend having discovered that many people were interested in that part of his anatomy after the trailer for Barbie in which the actress shows her feet. Since then, there have been many videos that compile scenes in which the performer shows her feet and even in Reddit There is already a thread that collects the times that these have been immortalized on the big screen. One of the most commented scenes of The dragon house, shows Larys Strong masturbating while looking at the feet of Queen Alicent Hightower. The director of the chapter, Claire Kilner, stated, however, to Entertaiment Weekly his discontent upon seeing that to record the scene, no one thought it was necessary to have an intimacy coordinator. ”It is a very interesting sequence, and it is curious that there are so many intimacy coordinators to record scenes in which there is nudity, but not for a scene like this, so intrusive and invasive. “It really is a dirty scene,” he said.
“I think that in recent years, the media in general has had a lot to do with popularizing certain terms or practices. We can verify this, for example, when analyzing mass phenomena such as the one represented by the book and subsequent film saga, 50 shades of gray. On that occasion, the BDSM universe was put on the lips of the general public. Currently, the influence of the Internet and social networks is absolutely powerful in this sense. Why do we talk more about feet than about penises or asses, for example? It would be worth considering how the current sexual morality in our society can influence this. Let’s not forget that certain areas of the body can even appear or be commented on during prime time while others would be unthinkable,” he explains to S Moda the sexologist Sigrid Cervera.
Arola Poch, a sexologist from Wyylde, indicates that the Internet has played a fundamental role in normalizing fetishisms, as it has allowed someone who has begun to notice a sexual taste that did not fit into the majority of their environment to discover that there are more people with that fetish “That helps you not feel strange or think that you have a problem. It has also allowed the dissemination of a more diverse sexuality to understand that all erotic tastes, as long as they are carried out in a healthy and consensual way, are valid,” he says before pointing out that within fetishisms, foot fetishism is one of the most common. . “Its visibility gives us clues that there is a significant volume of men (because it is more detected in men than in women) who express a taste for this part of the body. In any case, I wouldn’t say so much as mainstream since, although it is by no means residual, it is still not a majority taste,” he clarifies.
Fashion, always willing to function as a reflection of what happens outside the catwalks, has been indicating for some time that feet are the new legs. From the craze over Margiela’s “tabi boot,” the iconic toe-centric shoe, to the 2020 collaboration between Balenciaga and Vibram that spawned the FiveFingers boot, feet have become the star of fashion. Firms like Loewe and Burberry made sure to leave them exposed in their latest summer collections, further proof that although fashion has always cared nothing about having its feet on the ground, what it does want is for them to be seen. “Toes have had a bad reputation for years. It’s almost popular to express disgust at other people’s feet, but what’s so disgusting about them? We have become accustomed to exposing our bodies in increasingly skimpy clothing. “Now it’s time for the feet,” assures Vogue UK the shoe fetishist Lars Byrresen Petersen.
“I have beautiful feet and I could make a fortune showing them off online, but don’t worry: we’re not there yet,” Khloé Kardashian tells Kris Jenner in an episode of The Kardashian in which he explains to his mother that many people are interested in the feet of both celebrities and anonymous people. He even lets him know in a gestural way that there are those who practice footjobs, that is, those who masturbate with their feet. “But, will you give me 10% of what you earn if you finally dare to upload photos?” jokes the matriarch. The clan has spoken on more than one occasion about the obsession that people have with their feet, as is the case with Kendall Jenner, who has on occasion warned her fans that she will block any negative comments about her toes. For her part, Kylie Jenner uploaded to her Instagram stories a video in which he showed his feet after many Internet users had made fun of them. “I have beautiful feet. “I broke my middle finger in high school and there is nothing I can do about it,” explained the youngest sister.
From the gagging, which consists of inserting the foot deeply into the mouth, up to the footslap, What does slapping with the feet entail, there are many practices that involve that part of the anatomy that, although repugnant to many, excites many others, this being a fetish that is beginning to leave behind the stigmatization to come out of the closet thanks to figures like the by Lily Allen, who, when asked: Feet, why do I love you?, would undoubtedly answer: To make money.
