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Despite the fact that this is untrue, many people believe that various health departments in the US ban bare feet in restaurants. You're not required to wash your hands, but the part of your body that doesn't come near the food or your mouth, that's supposed to be covered for "health reasons". That's not true.
I remember reading once that, in the Brady Bunch, the kids were never barefoot. If they got out of bed to go across the room for a book, they put on shoes or slippers. I don't know if that's true, but it seems unnatural for me, at least as bad as Lucy and Ricky's bed.
However, the silliest thing I ever noticed was this. Way back when, Lizziey dared me to 'liberate' some of 'dul's porn. Which I shouldn't've done since she wussed out of HER dare, but it was late, you get drunkish when you're that tired. And I noticed something scary. In all the "naked" pictures except one, they were wearing shoes. This didn't seem to be some sort of shoe fetish porn, but they all had shoes on. They theoretically stripped, and then PUT THE SHOES BACK ON.
I don't understand it. Didn't understand it then, either. What's so objectionable about the naked foot as compared to the naked hand, or nose, or... well, anything else? While I realize that pr0n != realism, these pictures really confused me. Why put the shoes back on?
There's something wrong in this society. Clearly. People have more hangups about the feet than they do about the privates! Gah!
Or maybe that was an weird bit of porn. Maybe.
I remember reading once that, in the Brady Bunch, the kids were never barefoot. If they got out of bed to go across the room for a book, they put on shoes or slippers. I don't know if that's true, but it seems unnatural for me, at least as bad as Lucy and Ricky's bed.
However, the silliest thing I ever noticed was this. Way back when, Lizziey dared me to 'liberate' some of 'dul's porn. Which I shouldn't've done since she wussed out of HER dare, but it was late, you get drunkish when you're that tired. And I noticed something scary. In all the "naked" pictures except one, they were wearing shoes. This didn't seem to be some sort of shoe fetish porn, but they all had shoes on. They theoretically stripped, and then PUT THE SHOES BACK ON.
I don't understand it. Didn't understand it then, either. What's so objectionable about the naked foot as compared to the naked hand, or nose, or... well, anything else? While I realize that pr0n != realism, these pictures really confused me. Why put the shoes back on?
There's something wrong in this society. Clearly. People have more hangups about the feet than they do about the privates! Gah!
Or maybe that was an weird bit of porn. Maybe.
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Date: 2004-10-01 10:19 pm (UTC)Firstly, next time you get a chance, check out the shape of the leg on a woman wearing stiletto's. I'm serious. It's a major turn on for most guys to see a well defined and taut calf muscle — at least, I love it anywa. If you can, ask that same woman to step out of her heels and put both feet flat on the ground and look at the difference in the calf. Not saying that there's something wrong with it, but the leg in the first instance is so damn sexy! ;)
Secondly, when it comes to tennis shoes and long socks, that's another major turn on for guys. Long socks that have been pulled up as high as possible [usually above the knee] matched with a skirt that comes down to within an inch or two, but not overlapping, and thus showing some thigh is seriously hot.
That's just the aesthetics of things like that anywa.
But when it comes to the hard core stuff, I think it's to make it seem more urgent, more animalistic, like, "She didn't have time to get her shoes off". Some guys like things like that. Me, I never really noticed.
Then of course, it's also possible that the actress [did I just call them that? I can act, they just have sex with multiple partners] has ugly feet!
Besides all of that, there is a social stigma about feet in general being dirty. Hence so-called foot fetish magazines.