Shoe and Foot Fetish

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Surfing through the comments posted on Facebook, Brandibondage’s website, and Deviant Art, I’ve often come across comments about shoes or a model’s feet in one photograph or another.  Indeed, feet and shoes are among some of the most recognized fetishes in the world, from just the obsession with beautiful and well-crafted shoes that most women and many men seem to have, to the worship of the “golden lotus”.  The golden lotus is a term that refers to the results of foot binding, a custom that originated from ancient

China, that sought to push a woman’s foot down to three inches long.  The story goes that many years ago, an emperor expressed his preference for women with small feet, and this quickly became a custom among the wealthy and rich, and eventually passed down to the poorer classes, as both a right of passage among Chinese women, and as a way to secure one’s daughter a wealthy husband.  Although the Chinese custom of foot binding is rather extreme and its virtue and vice has been debated for a good few decades since abolishment of this custom by the communists when they took power, feet continue to be a beloved item among both women and men.   

What is it about feet that entice us so?  Is it their delicacy when the toes are pointed and the feet are posed like a ballerina in dance?  The interesting shapes the feet can take on depending on the positioning of the toes or even just the different shapes feet can be among different people?  Is it that they resemble hands in a way, but with a different enticing air that a pair of hands would fail to achieve?  Or is it something deeper, like a custom that we bestow onto feet, that is so erotic that we continue to long for it even when the bestowment stops?   With Brandibondage shoots, the model’s feet are often clad in black stockings, a piece of clothing that both hides and showcases the feet.  Watch as the stocking becomes opaque in certain parts and then translucent at others when the feet changes position – the patterns these actions make are absolutely mesmerizing.  Or watch as the feet points, the soft stockings pocket and fold under the toes ever so delicately, and stretches to translucency around the tips of the toes and the bottoms of the heels.    

As far as shoes go for Brandibondage, I do know that Uncle M insists on not having large, patent leather or PVC “goth” boots in photographs – think platform Demonias and the such.  As good as these boots can look in photographs when pairs with the right costumes, why go with them when you can achieve something else with a soft pair of spiky heels or a pair of tall Mary Janes that can show off the ankle?  Delicacy is one of the things that make feet and shoes so enticing, something that many people would probably have problems achieving in large gothic boots with six-inch platforms.     

 xoxo Anna

6 Comments so far

  1. UncleM on July 25th, 2008

    *chuckle* Man after my own heart David. ;) We have a stunning photo set with Helen in a nylon body stocking that will be posted soon that will rock your world.

    Fact of the matter is a photo shoot is not all that easy to put together, is time consuming (though I am certainly not complaining in that department) and expensive. The 40’s - 50’s pin-up look is in the works trust me. Brandi is interviewing potential models and working hard to organize such a shoot in August. Stay tuned. ;)

  2. David on July 25th, 2008

    If we didn’t have a fetish for beautiful woman bound, gagged or otherwise restrained in vulnerable and suggestive positions, we wouldn’t be here (as in looking at the pictures on this website) right now. Now if those beautiful women were dressed in seamed stockings, garters and the pin-up look from the 40’s and 50’s…

  3. UncleM on July 25th, 2008

    Actually that tragedy is happening off the coast of British Columbia but we regress.

    To each his/her own. A person’s fetish can be very specific indeed and there are those that go ga-ga over feet just as there are those that have an affinity for breasts. Personally when I admire a woman’s breasts I like to look at the whole picture and not just focus in on her breasts. That being said I can relate to where phrodeaux is coming from.

    However I just happen to be a foot guy and love to focus in on that aspect of the female anatomy. Yup…it certainly does take all kinds which makes things interesting. ;)

  4. phrodeaux on July 25th, 2008

    Ah, you must be from England then, where all the chopped off feet are washing up on the shore.

  5. Tristan on July 25th, 2008

    You know, phrodeaux, where I’m from disembodied feet are all the rage.

  6. phrodeaux on July 25th, 2008

    I’ve never considered myself a foot fetishist so much as I love the look of a woman sans footwear. Shots of disembodied feet just don’t do it for me at all.

    I suppose it takes all kinds, neh?

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