steph said:
Right. It's nice if someone I like has nice feet, but as primarily a lee, no one goes to the length I do to keep mine nice for a ler.
Well, it sounds to me like you keep your feet nice primarily for the 'ler's benefit, not because having nice feet is particularly gratifying for you (any more so than any other part of your body). I'm sure that plenty of 'lees on this forum do the same, and it's not because they fetishize feet.
steph said:
But I can keep it non-sexual, just visual easily...Maybe that makes me weird.
Are you defining "non-sexual" as "looking, but not touching?" because I don't think that's the defining characteristic. Foot guys (and people with whatever other fetish), often spend lots of time looking at pictures, videos, and actual feet, and become sexually aroused by doing so. As far as I'm concerned, the arousal is the defining characteristic of a fetish, not the presence or absence of contact. I like riding roller coasters, but I don't have a roller coaster fetish.
Sammi-chan said:
I'm gonna totally disagree there. I've claimed for some time to have a foot fetish, and I don't really have a thing for other people's feet. I like having things done to mine. The logic you use is one that would say "To have a tickling fetish herself she would have to regard the mere sight,or possibly touch, of tickling someone ELSE as a direct sexual turn-on." And yet us lees are still considered to have a tickling fetish.
I like having things done to my feet too, and I don't consider myself to have a foot fetish. The main reason for this is that I like having things done to many parts of my body, not just my feet. I mean, I enjoy back massages, but I don't think I have a "back fetish," or even a "massage fetish." "Foot fetish," while not implying an
exclusion of the rest of the body, does speak of a special significance to the feet.
I also think the comparison between a foot fetish and a tickling fetish is imperfect. Tickling is an act turns many of us on, whether we are 'lers or 'lees. Feet are objects that turn some of us on, but for many (most?) of us on this board, even if feet are the things being tickled, the tickling is the important component, not the feet. Most such people self-classify as "tickling fetishists" rather than "foot fetishists."
To get back to the original question, I have no proof that female foot fetishists don't exist. However, I can say from experience that plenty of men will pay a $60 door fee and $20 per 10 minutes of sucking a woman's toes. I've never heard of there being enough women with that same interest to sustain a business.