Facebook Foot Stalking?

[toetallytman1]

I have had this foot fetish of mine my entire life and it's a big part of who I am to scope out feet where ever I can find them. It's kinda like a game to me to pick up a regular magazine and thumb through it just to find and count as many "sole shots" as I can or to spot "foot scenes" in movies and TV shows as well. I can't not do it, it's hard wired into me.

So then facebook hits the scene a few years ago and explodes in popularity.

Now I hope I don't seem too creepy for asking this, but am I the only guy here with a foot fetish that, simply out of curiosity, stalks facebook friends and friends of friends' photo albums looking for barefoot photos? It's nothing sexual, I just want to know what a person's feet look like.

Am I the only one?

 

[idiot756]

Well I wouldn't call what I do stalking, but... yeah, I do look to see if my female friends have any barefoot pics, but I'm usually disappointed to see that that are none. Especially if the girl never wore open-toed shoes in school.

 

[Journia]

I don't generally do that, but then, I'm a sock guy anyway. But I manage to find the socks wherever I go. So, I guess for me it's more like a, "Wow, there're lots of socks," thing. I guess.

But, no. Not stalkerish at all. You get it how you can.

 

[taxwaxus]

heh, you're not alone dude. thats actually my main reason for even having social networking profiles. i guess part of its the thrill of the hunt...and like you said its kinda satisfying to know what certain friend's feet look like.
nothing wrong with it...its not like you're sneaking into their bedroom and rolling back their covers while they're asleep. If they post it publicly then its fair game. for all i know someone might be collecting pictures of me wearing t-shirts because they think my elbows are hot. whatever floats.

 

[PurpleStyle]

I have had this foot fetish of mine my entire life and it's a big part of who I am to scope out feet where ever I can find them. It's kinda like a game to me to pick up a regular magazine and thumb through it just to find and count as many "sole shots" as I can or to spot "foot scenes" in movies and TV shows as well. I can't not do it, it's hard wired into me.

So then facebook hits the scene a few years ago and explodes in popularity.

Now I hope I don't seem too creepy for asking this, but am I the only guy here with a foot fetish that, simply out of curiosity, stalks facebook friends and friends of friends' photo albums looking for barefoot photos? It's nothing sexual, I just want to know what a person's feet look like.

Am I the only one?

You just contradicted yourself, and added to your own general creepiness. Bravo!

 

[Slaver123]

It does seem a little creepy to me, but I'm not judging or anything and I'm probably wrong for feeling that way. So please don't take offense.

Here's my level of "creepiness"...I'm not quite "at peace" with this because I'm NOT open about my sexuality (I'm VERY shy except online); I'll be leafing thru a magazine at a Dr's office or wherever, in public, and some otherwise banal ad will feature an attractive foot or two; it's like I'm looking at secret pornography that no one else 'gets'. I'll be drooling over the page; but if someone looks over my shoulder all they'll see is some generic model in a frumpy sweater advertising toothpaste or batteries.

 

[PurpleStyle]

They're using frumpy models in advertising now? That's disgusting. I want the standard of nearly unobtainable beauty back.

 

[Slaver123]

They're using frumpy models in advertising now? That's disgusting. I want the standard of nearly unobtainable beauty back.

Maybe 'frumpy' isn't a fair term. I'm not turned on by the typical "model" body-type, and i don't drool over anything I've seen in "Maxim".

Here's an example; got an ad from a local college. Shows a full-body shot of the head of admissions (or some department) She's good-looking, but she'd never make it in ultra-conformist Hollywood; there was a good view of her feet in revealing shoes; THIS turned me on.

 

[alphazion1]

Well if someone posts the pic to facebook they don't care who sees it right? 🙂

 

[idiot756]

It's no more creepy than checking out a girl's feet when she walks by, and if that's creepy then I really am the lord of darkness.

Besides, the fact that these are girls that I've spent time around in school makes it so much sexier than random strangers.

 

[sabaki]

You just contradicted yourself, and added to your own general creepiness. Bravo!

That's not really very nice.

Actually, I can back up the OP with my own experience. My foot fetish is less sexual and more a form of OCD. For instance, if someone (male or female) walks by me wearing sandals, if I can either hear it (flip flops) or see it in peripheral vision, it is very difficult not to look directly. And if I'm in a situation where I can't look directly, it can cause me a lot of distress.

The effect IS heightened for people I know. I have to see, especially if I've never seen them before.

If I thought I were never going to see an attractive girl again, and I hadn't yet seen her feet, it would upset me.

So... I guess that could be viewed as creepy, but honestly it's just a brain thing, and it's innocuous.

 

[Slaver123]

Hey, "normal" men fixate on women's boobs all the time... why should feet n ankles be considered "creepy"?

 

[idiot756]

I agree, Slaver. Besides, everybody's a perv to some extent or another.

 

[PurpleStyle]

That's not really very nice.

Actually, I can back up the OP with my own experience. My foot fetish is less sexual and more a form of OCD. For instance, if someone (male or female) walks by me wearing sandals, if I can either hear it (flip flops) or see it in peripheral vision, it is very difficult not to look directly. And if I'm in a situation where I can't look directly, it can cause me a lot of distress.

The effect IS heightened for people I know. I have to see, especially if I've never seen them before.

If I thought I were never going to see an attractive girl again, and I hadn't yet seen her feet, it would upset me.

So... I guess that could be viewed as creepy, but honestly it's just a brain thing, and it's innocuous.

:lol That's the most unique excuse I've heard to justify lacking self-control. Sorry, I don't buy it.

 

[Spawn190]

Browsing facebook for foot porn? :rolleyes
Self CONTROL is one Helluva of a thing.

 

[sabaki]

:lol That's the most unique excuse I've heard to justify lacking self-control. Sorry, I don't buy it.

I know this is "zomg thread necromancy", but I'm only here every couple months and I just noticed I was insulted.

Your comment about lacking self control presumes that it's something that ought to be controlled. You have not established that there is anything morally, socially, or otherwise wrong with it.

After you insulted the OP and called him out on an alleged contradiction, I tried to explain why there was no contradiction. So-called foot fetishism is a broad range of things, and the OP describes one possibility: a non-sexual fixation, like OCD. If the compulsion were to touch people, that would be crossing the line. The compulsion is to look at people. People who openly and publicly display themselves. It is not to hack people's facebooks, or break into their house. It is to look at publicly posted internet pictures. You have to make an argument for why this is immoral and ought to be "controlled." (You won't, you'll just snipe at people with one-liners, but that's what you'd have to do to make a real point.)

If I told a psychiatrist about this "fetish", s/he would ask, "Does this cause you any distress? Does it interfere with your personal or work life, or relationships?" And if I said no to these, s/he would move on. From the DSM-IV, a diagnosis requires "clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning." According to psychiatrists, the only thing wrong with a foot fetish is if it makes the person who has it feel bad.

If there is distress and if looking at feet alleviates it, then go for it. It hurts no one -- and that's not a "unique excuse", it's a defense.

There are enough people in this world making people feel bad for who they are; don't be yet another. People like you are why I'm only a bimonthly poster. I can only take so much of the close-minded, other-phobic ignorance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraphilia#DSM-III_through_DSM-IV-TR
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraphilia#DSM-5_draft

 

[Mash]

This is actually the longest I've taken to properly answer a post on a forum simply because it delves into a relatively controversial subject; morality.

I'm on YouTube a lot, and I listen frequently to a vlogger named TheoreticalBullshit. He did a hefty, 30 minute video called 'Treatise on Morality.' and went ahead and gave us a definition for what he considered 'Morally right' and Morally wrong'. Since we only need to look at what is considered 'morally wrong', I'll display his definition; "A particular action or choice is morally wrong when it diminishes happiness, well-being or health, or it causes unnecessary harm or suffering, or it does both."

Now, if we are on Facebook, it is safe to say that people don't mind their pictures being looked at. However, if someone has a picture of themselves on the couch with their feet propped up; but the camera is not focused on their feet, then we can safely say that they are not emphasizing their feet. Given that statement, one might be able to infer that they did not post the picture with the express intent of having people stare at it in a sexual manner. Yes, they don't mind people looking at it, but they may become uncomfortable if they knew that someone was getting a boner from looking at their feet. That is a diminishment of happiness.

Now, let's apply that to real life. Let's say that it's a relatively warm day. Seventy-five degrees out, and the sun is shining. Obviously people aren't going to be walking around in their combat boots. You see a girl walking around in flip-flops. You stare at her feet for awhile. She catches you and becomes uncomfortable. By TheoreticalBullshit's definition, we have committed a morally wrong act.

Should she have to go out of her way to put on socks and heavy shoes and endure a hot day in excess clothing just because you have a compulsion to look at feet? Doesn't seem fair to me. Of course, this is going with the assumption that she catches you, or that she finds it uncomfortable.

If you can get away with it without making the girl uncomfortable, then go for it. If you can't...well, I don't know what to tell you.