It was great, really. You have to put it in perspective when it comes to mainstream stuff. On one end, you have the old E! Howard Stern tickling segments, which were pretty mean and demeaning, though to be fair, his crew and he treat all deviants with contempt, and it's part of the show's shtick/bits. Compared with that, this was quite good. Yeah, her feet weren't great, but it's difficult for women today to have sandal-ready feet all the time, especially in winter, when most women wear heels and must go to work with these tight-ass, closed, crushing, smothering shoes that over time ruin their feet, cause bunions and all sorts of nasty crap, and then I have to hear all the fashionista bullshit about "heels make women's legs look better" and all that crap, and I know good and damn well that most women find flats to be way more comfortable, but they cling to these high heels because of societal/fashion pressures, and many men like it, and I'm not gonna judge them on that. I just wish women had more freedom to wear flats/less constricting shoes.
Good points, but I must disagree! The old Stern show clips WERE sexy....yes, they made fun of them, but even Howard would admit (like when he got Maria Menounous, beautifully) "this is friggin' hot!!!!" So yes, he poked fun at it, but he also was able to show what was sexy*about it.
This clip, on the other hand, features three cliches of foot fetishists, a foot that no one in the world could find attractive.....I didn't find anything in this clip alluring, or anything in this clip that would help a non-foot-fetishist understand this proclivity. It just reinforces all the negative stereotypes associated with foot fetishism (one of these guys likes to put sharpened chopsticks under their toe-nails, ouch.....another is the stereotypical "I like dirty feet" guy, guaranteed to make non-foot-fetishists go "ew".....)
So, I think I have it in "perspective when it comes to mainstream stuff". I remember listening to those Howard Stern clips with my girlfriend and her totally "getting it". Meanwhile, when Rex Ryan got caught making foot sniffing videos, my girlfriend was revolted and asked me, "ew.....is that what YOU'RE into?" (no, not my thing). I'll take Howard tickling Jesse Jane, Maria Menounous, Carmen Electra, Pamela Anderson, Jenna Jameson, Belinda Carlisle, Jenny McCarthy, Little Lupe Velez, Kariann Peniche, Nikki Ziering and Tera Patrick - not to mention some of the non-famous ticklees - over this revolting clip any day (funny as it is!)a
PS: Stern did not treat ANA and Andre with contempt when they appeared on his show, nor the bearded guy who brought in the girl who got tickled in the elevator, when he was dressed as Santa..... he teased poor Yaqi, yes.....but Yaqi kind've walked into it (and Howard STILL found the tickling sexy).
PSS: Soon after Yaqi was first on, the Stern show went to Las Vegas and broadcast there with a live audience. The tickling segments were getting to be a regular feature, Yaqi was one of the guests of the moment, and reportedly people on line and in the audience would break into tickling intermittently when the show was on a break . I remember Yaqi saying "every where I looked, there was tickling"....leading me to believe that these shows helped people understand what was hot about it, people "got it". They certainly went nuts when Yaqi "attacked" Jenna Jameson. I doubt this clip would have the same effect....I certainly hope not! Those sharpened chopsticks sound really painful!!!