What is it about tickling feet that lers find so delicious?

[GemWolf1]

I'm just curious - as I'm a ler and to be honest, the feet are least fav places. Mainly because I think feet are the ugliest part of the body.
If I'm the lee, I like me feet to be tickled and as a ler would tickle my lees feet, but only if its requested.

Can any of you "feet lovers" explain the fascination? Not judging anyone at all - it's simply that I'm interested to know 🙂

 

[DarthGrinn]

Yes, foot fondness does tend to have its roots placed firmly in the realm of foot-fetishism (or simply fondness, for those of us who aren't really fetishists).

Generally, I love a beautiful woman's feet as much as I love the rest of her. My foot fondness (I don't quite see it as fetish), has a romantic basis; the most abused part of a person's body, is also one of their most sensitive. So, just as it is routinely subjected to its fair share of annoyances and pains, it should be pleasured and rewarded in kind.

From a tickler's perspective, I personally enjoy tickling the feet because it is the most awkward and difficult part of the body to defend. I prefer tickle-fights to bondage/restraints, so I take these things into consideration. I find nothing more hilarious than my lee kicking in panic as she realize her ankles are about to be pinned for some tickling. I often feign a foot attack just to throw her off balance, or troll her, then attack another part of her body. On the other hand, I've had the script flipped on me, where my undefended feet were attacked in order to get me to relent, allowing her a quick escape. Good times!

 

[MrTicklefeet1]

Darth Grinn had the best explanation, but also from a previous post on the subject:
"Various neurologists pointed out that fetishism could be the result of neuronal cross links between neighboring regions in the human brain. For example, in 2002 Vilayanur S. Ramachandran stated that the region processing sensory input from the feet lies immediately next to the region processing sexual stimulation."
From Wikapedia.
Somehow feet negatively impacted you, maybe when you were young. This might explain why you can't understand it.

 

[DarthGrinn]

Somehow feet negatively impacted you, maybe when you were young. This might explain why you can't understand it.

This cracked me up.

I imagine anybody who dislikes feet may have been kicked or stepped on as a child. Or maybe those would be triggers for the obsession. :huh I dunno. I try not to over-think these things.

 

[Volsung1]

This topic has been covered in other threads I'm sure... you might do a search.

There are some other possible reasons for the attraction, so I'll just throw these out.

The foot is normally covered... I know, sandals... but usually, they're covered. It's somehow a little bit exciting to see something that is nearly always "protected", not so.

There are the classic scenarios in media where the person is being tickled. Just like the feather symbolizes tickling, the foot symbolizes a ticklish place.

I seem to remember reading that the part of the brain that controls pleasure is also situated next to foot receptors (somehow).

 

[DarthGrinn]

This is all well and good, but I think the OP is looking for personal reasons from the ticklers themselves, as opposed to what science, or psychology have to say.

 

[Annals Votary]

They're cute.

 

[Volsung1]

This is all well and good, but I think the OP is looking for personal reasons from the ticklers themselves, as opposed to what science, or psychology have to say.

If there is some logical explanation, then I say that's good enough for me.