Why do so many writers have foot fetishes? Dostoyevsky, obviously, but even Joyce spent paragraphs in Ulysses...

Why do so many writers have foot fetishes? Dostoyevsky, obviously, but even Joyce spent paragraphs in Ulysses, with Gerty boasting of men spending to "use her feet". Is it a submissive act? Are these writers just vicariously getting their jollies?

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In order for a person to be an artist they have to have a certain thought pattern that isn't te norm, because if they had the mind of the norm they simply wouldn't write. However being distinct has its toll since usually, distinction bears solitude. But solitude means you have a lot of time to think over your ideas and create superior works.
This can also explain why we can find a disproposionate amount of homosexuals in the art world.

Maybe when it meant imprisonment and tortured secrecy. Gay's social emancipation was the worst thing for them.

Because feet is life

>Maybe when it meant imprisonment and tortured secrecy
Well yeah

Before our modern conception of fetishes, most people indulged in most kinds of sex. I'll bet if most people who don't think of themselves as nipple/ass/mouth/leg/foot/hand/ear/armpit/back-of-the-knee folks gave these things an honest try, they'd enjoy them. But our modern idea of sex in the missionary position as "normal" makes this more difficult.

this tbhfam

this is kinda like said, the normal person is only concerned with being normal and fitting into their societal groups, but how far back does one have to go to find the period where sexual fetishes weren't classified as out-of-norm behavior?

Why do so many people have foot fetishes?

Not the guy you replied to, but the "foot fetish" article on wikipedia says this:
>Some researchers have hypothesized that foot fetishism increases as a response to epidemics of sexually transmitted diseases. In one study, conducted by Dr. A James Giannini at Ohio State University[8] an increased interest in feet as sexual objects was observed during the great gonorrhea epidemic of twelfth-century Europe, and the syphilis epidemics of the 16th and 19th centuries in Europe. In the same study, the frequency of foot-fetish depictions in pornographic literature was measured over a 30-year interval. An exponential increase was noted during the period of the current AIDS epidemic. In these cases, sexual foot play was viewed as a safe-sex alternative. However, the researchers noted that these epidemics overlapped periods of relative female emancipation.[9] Sexual focus on female feet was also hypothesized to have been a reflection of a more dominant posture of the woman in sexual-social relations. (The first surviving mention of foot fetish is by Bertold of Regensburg in 1220.)[10]

Basically, more people will do foot stuff when there's lots of STDs and/or empowered women.

>these deformed prostitute
Now, I may be a faggot, but I can still tell when a woman's beauty conforms closely to the divine forms from which all limbs and skins and fats emanate. Vid related, for example. She may be a tasteless, brainlet country singer, but Jove endowed her with some incredibly fond feet.

I tend to prefer the feet of my own gender to that of women, though. Too many feminine aberrations. Misshapen for fashion. The male foot - more hidden, more tender in relation to the rest of his being and image - is more natural and endearing.

The feet you posted are pudgy. Weak arch.

Strong arch is the sexiest foot feature.

>Shoe niggers

I am foot prison man

Her arch is weak, true. But it doesn't bother me so much. I like high and strong arches, as long as they don't compromise the unity of the foot's appearance, or make it seem angular. The same problem I have with the toes in this pic . Too bunion-ish, jutting, crooked, calloused. I enjoy a softness, a firmness of form, with maybe a little looseness, plushness. Ticklish, vulnerable spots you can play around with. Feet, like legs, have many appealing semi-circles and roundnesses, long arches and curves. We have different tastes.

Oh yea im not even a footfag really but is trash and disgusting

>Dostoyevsky, obviously
evidence?

come on, dostoyevsky was a total footbro

OK I believe, can you give me some examples in his fiction?

it's not just writers
lots of people have foot fetishes

Too much foot kissing

From C&P

>Katerina kisses Sonya's feet in gratitude for selling herself as a prostitute
>Raskolnikov kisses Sonya's feet and praises her
>Polenka kisses Katerina's feet out of sorrow
>Raskolnikov kisses Pulcheria's feet

From A gentle creature
>My world came crashing about my ears and I just collapsed at her feet.

>I kissed her feet rapturously, in a transport of happiness.

>She was ashamed I was kissing her feet, horribly ashamed, and she kept drawing them away from me.

From Notes

>I knew a father who was a stern, austere man, but used to go down on his knees to his daughter, used to kiss her hands, her feet, he couldn't make enough of her, really.

>To fall down before her, to sob with remorse, to kiss her feet, to entreat her forgiveness! I longed for that, my whole breast was being rent to pieces, and never, never shall I recall that minute with indifference. But--what for? I thought. Should I not begin to hate her, perhaps, even tomorrow, just because I had kissed her feet today?

From Insulted & Injured

>He kissed her hands and her feet, he hastened to kiss her, hastened to gaze at her as though he could not yet believe that she was with him,

Did she ever have good feet, or were they always calloused like this?

Dude that's just the culture. It's not a sexual act, it's putting the other on a pedestal and lowering your own status in the process. It's a gesture of shame or gratefulness.

Am easterneuro and our literature from the era (and before) has lots of footkissing also.

it's literally just a norm in eastern orthodox christianity
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissing_traditions#Kissing_in_Christianity

Hot.

>that femanon

That's just an act of humility, gratitude and submission, just like when the japanese bow all the way to the floor. You are just projecting your decadent degenerate fetishes into what you read.

Balzac had a clear foot fetish too, but no one here knows that, because... haha, well, no one has ever read Balzac, obviously

>no one has ever read Balzac
This is actually true.

what the fuck

In TBK there's also references to a Pushkin poem about women's feet, Rakitin satirizes it if I recall

More like ballsack HAHAHAHHA

>he keeps a collection of foot quotes from classic literature

White women do not take care of their feet and therefor they are disgusting. East Asian feet only.

seems legit to me

t. American

2D feet is

Just a guess. Because it's the most common fetish.

Yeah, she did a fair amount of foot porn. I'd share pics but they aren't appropriate for this board. Used to be much softer.

Fucking disgusting. How do you people live with yourselves?

It's just feet.

In order to be a well respected writer, you have to have good taste. In order to have good taste, you have to have a foot fetish. Simple as that. Obviously being a footfag does not give you good taste though.
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>secretly bumping the secret feet thread on /lit because he doesn't want to be associated with creeps despite the fact that his posts are anonymous
(You) earned this.