I hope i don't get downvoted for this

a year ago by kingpepe8006 to c/lemmyshitpost

ivanafterall 142 points a year ago

I always feel silly to be such a vanilla romantic. I don't need much more than a snuggle and a little poop on my chest.

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Dogiedog64 84 points a year ago

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Bishma 33 points a year ago

Sure, sure. Catch it, if that's what you're in to.

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MeatPilot 24 points a year ago

It's the simple pleasures.

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kambusha 17 points a year ago path: 0 17322430 17323322, hotness: undefined, score: 17, children: 0
raoulduke85 11 points a year ago

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klao 6 points a year ago

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jewbacca117 85 points a year ago
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lena 121 points a year ago

deer god

deer god

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KoboldCoterie 33 points a year ago

Did you just have this on hand, waiting for the perfect moment to deploy it?

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lena 37 points a year ago

I typed "deer god" into google

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MeatPilot 25 points a year ago

Well I just saved it to deploy anytime I see "deer god" from now on.

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Rusty 17 points a year ago

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Valmond 13 points a year ago

And when he came by, just snapped a photo?

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samus12345 16 points a year ago

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kingpepe8006 6 points a year ago

What eldritch horror have u shown me

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lena 9 points a year ago

deer god.

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ByteJunk 9 points a year ago

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jewbacca117 2 points a year ago
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Swedneck 1 point a year ago path: 0 17321419 17322238 17324549, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0
kamenlady 39 points a year ago

Deer God: what

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orbituary 41 points a year ago

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SneakyWeasel 8 points a year ago

Masterpiece

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MotoAsh 2 points a year ago
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tux7350 9 points a year ago

That is the Forest Spirit from the movie Princess Mononoke. Wonderful movie if you haven't seen it! Watches more like a Disney movie than an anime.

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BakerBagel 14 points a year ago

Yeah, being into feet isn't inherently bad. But foot fetishists are always so damn creepy about it.

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explodicle 1 point a year ago

Toupee fallacy

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BakerBagel 0 points a year ago

Sure, but you won't get guys at a bar trying to lure you onto pissing in their mouth or exchange Cleveland steamers. But most women have had a guy go straight to "nice toes"

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klao 3 points a year ago

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explodicle 3 points a year ago

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moosetwin 76 points a year ago

honestly I'm just glad I don't have a shit fetish

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lobut 39 points a year ago

So many possibilities just flushed down the toilet...

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Exusia 8 points a year ago

Oh well. There they go. A shame I guess.

Anyway.

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Rampsquatch 64 points a year ago

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Halosheep 27 points a year ago

The duality of man.

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fossilesque 13 points a year ago
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vaionko 23 points a year ago

It's not a good day to have eyes

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Rampsquatch 2 points a year ago

Omg, feet.

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carotte 56 points a year ago

A drawing of Sonic the Hedgehog praying in a grassy plains, with text saying "Thank you God for not making me attracted" followed by text that has been scribbled out

(i am asexual)

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TwoBeeSan 20 points a year ago

It feels like a blessing almost always.

When it doesnt is when someone wants nothing more than to fuck you and you're like neat. Want to cuddle after I get you off? Because this dick ain't budging lmfao

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Karl 3 points a year ago

I don't mean to offend you, but do you still feel non-sexual attraction towards a particular or both genders?

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chiliedogg 23 points a year ago

There's a spectrum of Ace. I got one am a heteroromantic ace, and I'm a dude. So I am attracted to women romantically, but don't want to sleep with them.

It's a very frustrating combination that makes dating difficult.

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TwoBeeSan 5 points a year ago

So very true. People always think there's something wrong with you.

If you dont mind me asking, is it all sex or specific kinds?

Ive found this is also me to a degree. Enjoy performing things for the partner, but anything done to me does nothing including PiV.

Difficult to find discourse involving this so Apologies if this is prying lmao

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chiliedogg 6 points a year ago

Cuddling and massages are pretty much where it ends with me. I was in a relationship for a while, but it didn't work out timing-wiss with careers and locations. We still keep in touch and hang out a few times a year though.

Nice thing about an Ace breakup is there's less sexual baggage attached to becoming friends again.

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AnarchistArtificer 5 points a year ago

I find the wide variety of ace experiences super interesting. For my part, I'm bi and also demisexual (and I have been working hard at practicing not ace-erasing myself).

An example of the interesting variety I mean is how libido and attraction aren't necessarily coupled, and also that even besides those factors, there's a spectrum of ace attitudes towards sex. I had a friend who had a high libido, but was also quite sex-repulsed. That is to say that she masturbated plenty, but had no inclination towards sex. This caused some tension when she entered into a romantic relationship with an allosexual woman who had some difficulty understanding an ace person being both sex repulsed and high libido (though tbf, my friend was learning how to navigate the line between enjoyable cuddles and unpleasantly sexual stuff. She also tried to fit into the model of aceness similar to what you describe, but she found that her discomfort with sex was such that it made her feel less close to her partner (in contrast to how our sex-ambivalent ace friends had described their experiences).

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carotte 8 points a year ago

personally, it's kinda hard to say? i have felt romantic attraction exactly once in my life, so i know i'm not fully aromantic, but also it's only happened once so i'm probably on the aro spectrum somewhere

but yes, there are many people who are asexual but who still feel romantic attraction to others

(and of course, not all attraction is sexual or romantic, there is also aesthetic attraction for example (literally just when you find people pretty), which i do feel, my meme was pretty reductive all things considered, but then again it's just a meme)

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PyroNeurosis 3 points a year ago

So I know with a rather high degree of certainty I'm ace, but I continue to have trouble untangling aromanticism from my aversion to people and mild paranoia.

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Dreaming_Novaling 6 points a year ago

Not OP, but typically asexual is perceived as not having any sexual attraction/having minimal sexual attraction to anyone, regardless of gender. It's like the opposite of pansexual (attraction to anyone regardless of gender).

Everything is a spectrum of course, which is why people talk about the graysexual area, where you have some attraction but there's extra things that make it not the "typical" experience of allosexuals (those who experience sexual attraction). Things like Demisexual (attraction only after having a close bond), Aegosexual (having sexual arousal and fantasies, but you don't think of yourself in those fantasies), etc. These are all microlables to help people narrow down how they feel.

So if you have a distinct and noticeable sexual attraction to one gender, you probably are allosexual (straight, lesbian, gay, etc.). Note, however, that romantic ≠ sexual, and you can be asexual but only date men, or be asexual and date both men and women.

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_lilith 44 points a year ago

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Aggravationstation 41 points a year ago

I think I just have a woman fetish. I've had "oh damn" moments with various body parts on different women over the years. Feet, hands, decolletage, ears, eyebrows... all sorts.

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Hadriscus 15 points a year ago

deviant

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PennyRoyal 33 points a year ago

“I am a man that’s made of meat, While you’re on the internet, looking at feet”

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MeatPilot 6 points a year ago

"I'm subscribed to your mom's OnlyFans
I spent five bucks a month to get pictures of her flappy giblets"

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58008 32 points a year ago

Kids. Thank god I'm not attracted to kids. Or animals. Anything else is fair game. Feet attached to a consenting adult are fine. Don't see the big deal. I like to spit-shine the rusty sheriff's badge, so why the fuck would I care if someone likes a boring regular appendage like a foot? 🤷‍

Unless there's some angle to this non-foot people don't understand? Like, maybe being turned on by feet is comorbid with an uncontrollable need to blast rope over any uncovered foot you see? Now that would suck.

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Hadriscus 7 points a year ago

I'm trying real hard to figure what a rusty sheriff badge is an allegory for

...... OH

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warbond 5 points a year ago

Tongue-punching the fart box

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Machinist 4 points a year ago

Chocolate starfish, leather cheerio, balloon knot.

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Hadriscus 2 points a year ago

I don't know what a cheerio is but the others I can see. Thanks for clarifying

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Machinist 2 points a year ago

They're great for breakfast!

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Kolanaki 31 points a year ago

I kinda would rather be attracted to feet, if I'm honest.

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ArbitraryValue 17 points a year ago

It seems pretty great. There are a lot of cute people out in public with their feet visible, and if you stare at their feet, they'll just think you're shy.

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klao 2 points a year ago

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real_squids 16 points a year ago

I'd rather stay exactly the same tbh

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Skullgrid 6 points a year ago

it's certainly cheaper

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HalfSalesman 4 points a year ago

I oscillate between wishing I was attracted to basically everyone with every possible kink (outside of the unethical options) and no attraction at all.

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explodicle 2 points a year ago

Hot take: pansexual people are better off than people with a specific genital fetish.

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HalfSalesman 2 points a year ago

I'm bi (specifically polysexual, but that gets confusing because its less well known and I'm also polyamorous) and my attraction to specific genitals is roughly equal to body morphology and a cute face's importance, but I'm simply way less less picky about them.

I wish I was just as non-picky about the body morphology and cute faces. My romantic life would probably have been way more fulfilling at this point if that had been the case.

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klao 2 points a year ago

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klao 2 points a year ago

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RizzRustbolt 30 points a year ago

Not a foot fetishist, eh?

But you did post a Sonic meme... sideyes

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andros_rex 5 points a year ago

When I think fetishistic Sonic content, I think inflation and not feet.

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jia_tan 25 points a year ago

Fella haven’t seen pretty feet yet.

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BiteSizedZeitGeist 12 points a year ago

As a non-foot guy, I'm curious what you think would turn me

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Impleader 26 points a year ago

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klao 6 points a year ago

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Tigeroovy 23 points a year ago

Also all the shit the sonic freaks are into.

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mysticpickle 7 points a year ago

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Tigeroovy 6 points a year ago

Surprisingly Sonic isn't pregnant here.

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funkless_eck 3 points a year ago

yet

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Monstrosity 22 points a year ago

When I was born, god gave me a choice.

I said, "I'll take the Autism, please."

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Jojowski 13 points a year ago

I couldn't decide between 'tism and ADHD, god got frustrated of me and gave a bit of both. I wish I had known foot fetish was a choice (didn't read through the list, obviously).

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TriflingToad 5 points a year ago

was too ADHD to read the list 😔

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Dorkyd68 21 points a year ago

People so ready to kink shame feet. Just wait some shawty gonna open your mind one day

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Charlxmagne 7 points a year ago

See, guys who find it weird only do cuz their own feet are nasty, n let's be real men's feet are pretty nasty. You ain't trynna look at no man's asscheeks, but I don't hear no1 saying liking women with a fat arse is weird.

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ChickenLadyLovesLife 5 points a year ago

let’s be real men’s feet are pretty nasty

Yo, check out ballerina feet.

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renamon_silver 6 points a year ago

Nice try. We're not checking anyone's feet out bro

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stoicmaverick 4 points a year ago

It's jealousy dog. Attractive women don't go letting everybody see their boobs and butt for no reason. Is a trip to a public pool just like an unyielding, diamond hard erection for you people?

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Alteon 9 points a year ago

A foot fetish sort of works its way into your brain over time. The synapses for feet and sexual attraction are extremely close to each other, so when you do things like, hold someone's feet during sex, or give them a foot rub during foreplay, there's a chance your brain may start making that connection that feet are an erotic thing. For me, it started after being married for a few years, and she just sort of flexed her toes during sex in such a way that it gave me goosebumps, in a good way. Granted I'd been giving her foot rubs for a few years by that point...but oh...my god. When it clicked that it was a turn on for me, it was a game changer.

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stoicmaverick 1 point a year ago

I can understand that. You might want to look up what the definition of a synapse is, but honest questioner seeking real answers in your area: your crush, presuming no ethical, or moral complications, would you rather she A: let you give her a 5-minute foot massage with oil, or B: show you her bare breasts from six feet away. Defend your answer with citations as necessary. I understand what a kink is, but being a boring vanilla, if choosing one precluded the possibility of the other possibility forever, the choice is obvious for me.

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vivendi 3 points a year ago

Had a friend who was a freak ass like that actually

People's dicks really are putting in overtime

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bruhduh 20 points a year ago

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Zozano 17 points a year ago

I became interested in why foot fetishes occur recently.

Basically, it's the same reason why breasts are considered sexual (they aren't); it's all about novelty. If we lived in a nudist colony, neither feet, nor breasts would be considered sexy.

Feet get covered by shoes, making them more novel.

Tribal cultures dont regarded breasts, or feet, as sexy.

Though it begs the question: if nudity became normalized, then what would be novel?

People would find personalities, voices, power dynamics, and fantasies more or less erotic than they are now (for most people).

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UnderpantsWeevil 47 points a year ago

why breasts are considered sexual (they aren’t)

Breasts and feet are both sensitive and responsive to touch. If you've ever Netflix-and-Chilled, a foot rub is a classic opening move. Meanwhile, teasing someone's nipple is very normal foreplay.

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Zozano 0 points a year ago

You're not picking up what I'm laying down.

I'm not arguing that feet and breasts aren't capable of providing sexual stimulation from a first person perspective. I'm saying that from a third person perspective, theres nothing about them which inherently arousing; that arousal stems from novelty.

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lowleekun 23 points a year ago

Just like mouth, ears and all kind of body parts are capable of providing sexual stimulation without being considered arousing in the sense we still view breasts/ass and such.

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Zozano 2 points a year ago

Precisely. It's amazing how people have misinterpreted what I've been saying lol.

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UnderpantsWeevil 7 points a year ago

I’m saying that from a third person perspective, theres nothing about them which inherently arousing

There seems to be ample evidence to the contrary. Whole pornographic industries exist to cater to people aroused by pictures of people in various states of undress.

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Zozano 1 point a year ago

You're still not getting it. The key word here is 'inherently'.

The sexual interest in people of different states of undress, or specific attire, is just another form of novelty, and influenced by culture.

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cattywampas 23 points a year ago path: 0 17321480 17321626, hotness: undefined, score: 23, children: 15
taulover 11 points a year ago

...that's not what secondary sex characteristic means. As the article you linked says, that just means physical characteristics unrelated to the reproductive system that differ between the sexes. Some of the other examples given include the Adam's apple in men and longer arms relative to height in women. While some of these things can be sexually attractive or related to sexual attractiveness in some way, certainly we don't societally put them in the same sexual category as women's breasts.

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cattywampas 15 points a year ago

Breasts are larger than they need to be, and they're that size all the time. One hypothesis is that they're used to signal sexual maturity and attract mates.

But aside from that, breasts and nipples are definitely a bigger erogenous zone than most parts of the body, probably second only to genitals. And they're directly involved in reproduction as you need them to feed babies.

And most importantly, most societies view them as sexual even if some don't. So what makes something sexual anyway? That's a subjective thing, it works by consensus.

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blarghly 2 points a year ago

Right. Breasts serve a function related to reproduction - feeding children. But breast size is largely decoupled from a given breast's ability to feed children. So why do some women have needlessly big breasts? Because breasts are an example of human sexual dimorphism, and so emphasizing them increases sexual fitness since potential mates' brains will think "boobs = female = horny. More boobs = more female = more horny."

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grrgyle 0 points a year ago

Not everyone's nipples are sensitive FYI.

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grrgyle 2 points a year ago

Ooo baby look at that apple BOB--yeah drain that cup, waterboy

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captainlezbian 6 points a year ago

So is thick back hair

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MotoAsh 6 points a year ago
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Zozano 6 points a year ago

Yes, but I'm talking about arousal. The distinction between the adjective and verb of 'sex' is important lol.

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coacoamelky 5 points a year ago

That's interesting

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rbamgnxl5 21 points a year ago

This doesn't work.

If it were only about novelty, then why aren't there more bellybutton fetishes?

Being a fetish-having person, I can tell you there there is more than just an attraction to the object of your desire. It is a primal, deep, uncontrollable NEED to see or touch the object.

I am not a foot fetishist, so I do not presume to know the intimate details of what they like, but I can promise you, it has nothing to do with novelty. Fetishes have so many variants also; there are foot fetishes, sock fetishes, feet squishing stuff, toenail paint things, some want a footjob, some want to lick them or suck on toes, some people like big feet, small feet, the list goes on and on.

Maybe read just a tiny bit? https://en.wikipedia.org/...

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A_Union_of_Kobolds 2 points a year ago

Welll for one, giving your partner a foot massage usually ends up in them feeling better. Nobody does that with belly buttons.

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Zozano 1 point a year ago

You're conflating intensity with origin. Sure, the fetish feels like a deep, primal need now; but that doesn’t mean it started that way. Addiction feels like a need, too, but no one thinks the first cigarette was “primal.”

Novelty doesn’t mean “casual curiosity.” It refers to the way our brains fixate on patterns of scarcity, secrecy, or taboo. Especially during formative sexual experiences. Feet are usually hidden and rarely touched; in most cultures, they’re also considered dirty or improper to eroticize. That makes them novel stimuli, and novelty is rocket fuel for sexual imprinting.

The reason there aren’t more bellybutton fetishes? Simple: they’re not as hidden or taboo. You’ll see a bellybutton in every second Instagram post, and no one’s getting banned for it. Feet? Covered, ignored, often stigmatized, and that makes them psychologically ripe for fetishization.

Also, you mention the diversity of foot-related fetishes like it disproves the point, but it confirms it. The foot becomes a canvas for a range of niche fixations, because it’s already been elevated to erotic status by the novelty of its cultural invisibility. From there, everything else: socks, polish, squishing and domination branches off.

TL;DR: Just because your fetish feels deep doesn’t mean it wasn’t shaped by shallow cultural patterns. Read a bit deeper.

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lena 12 points a year ago path: 0 17321480 17322342, hotness: undefined, score: 12, children: 6
Zozano -4 points a year ago

Even the researchers behind the study say, “I want to stress this finding is not final.” That should tell you something.

The sample size is small and limited to a single cultural group. Meanwhile, we’ve got plenty of anthropological evidence showing that in many societies where breasts are regularly exposed, they’re not treated as sexually arousing. So no, this study doesn’t magically override decades of cross-cultural data.

That said, the idea that breasts signal health or fertility? Sure, obviously. Just like wide hips, clear skin, or symmetrical faces. But biological relevance doesn’t automatically make something a fetish object. We don’t jerk off to white blood cell counts.

And yeah, obesity isn't typically seen as attractive because it signals potential health risks (dont cross post this on tumblr).

The study is interesting, but it doesn’t prove breasts are inherently sexual. It just adds a datapoint to a complex picture where biology and culture play roles.

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lena 9 points a year ago

Meanwhile, we have numerous examples of cultures where tits hang loose on the daily, and aren't seen as inherently arousing.

Source? Not to say you're lying, I'd just like to read more about it

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Zozano 0 points a year ago

The Aka and Ngandu (Central African Republic)

The Himba (Namibia)

The Trobriand Islanders (Papua New Guinea)

The Nuba (Sudan)

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grrgyle 2 points a year ago

It's why obese people aren't considered attractive

If you look up the definition of what is considered "obese" for your height, I think you'd find this is largely false.

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blarghly 1 point a year ago

...what are you talking about?

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Xanthrax 9 points a year ago

NSFW:

When I fuck people their feet are in my face. I always thought what I was looking at was sexy when fucking, but I agree. Forbidden fruit and all that.

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Zozano 0 points a year ago

I mean sure, you do you. If everyone wore gloves in a parallel timeline, you'd probably want chin scratches.

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Swedneck 2 points a year ago

nah, i have somewhat of a hand fetish and it has nothing to do with how hidden or not they are, i just think hands are inherently attractive if they look nice and feminine. Also big part of it is how sensitive the fingertips are, touching sensitive parts is just always gonna be nice.

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Zozano 1 point a year ago

Novelty doesn't arise from scarcity alone. There are other reasons you might find hands attractive, though I'd wager the fact that that your attraction is limited by their femininity and appearance, is a form of novelty itself.

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Xanthrax 1 point a year ago

I love head scratches! I'm also bald, so how could I not?

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renamon_silver 3 points a year ago

What do tribal cultures regard as sexy?

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Zozano 4 points a year ago

In many tribal societies, the erotic focus isn’t on specific body parts like breasts or feet; it's on signs of fertility, health, and social status. things like wide hips, smooth skin, body paint, scarification, or even dance.

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grrgyle 3 points a year ago

Though it begs the question: if nudity became normalized, then what would be novel?

Not an sexologist or even a sexy anthropologist, but my intuition is that aesthetic attraction would always be a factor (since it doesn't rely on sexual attraction), and that acting in a sexually provocative would be the way to provoke the horny gaze.

It might be nice to have less sexualization of people just be virtue of their existing in a sexualized body. That's the dream, anyway.

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MotoAsh 1 point a year ago
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grrgyle 1 point a year ago

We're on thin ice here, because some people conflate dressing sexily with looking cool more than wanting to be desired sexually, but in general I agree with your edit.

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MotoAsh 2 points a year ago
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iAmTheTot 2 points a year ago

It raises or prompts that question.

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Zozano 2 points a year ago

I beg your pardon?

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Valmond 2 points a year ago

Dressed people ofc!

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Carmakazi -12 points a year ago

Nudists are weird people and I wouldn't accept what they have to say about sexuality at face value.

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Zozano 10 points a year ago

Nudists think people who wear clothes and dont question whether their shame is vindicated are weird. I'm inclined to agree with them lol.

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lowleekun 5 points a year ago

Honestly visiting an onsen was somewhat of an eye opener. I felt pretty comfortable with my body when all these normal dudes were naked and nobody cared about each others bodys.

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Carmakazi -4 points a year ago

I'm not surprised since your OP is boilerplate nudist justification and not really any exploration of paraphilia.

I think there's a mile in between puritanical shame and thinking the body isn't and shouldn't be considered sexual and is fit for public consumption. Why is it important to desexualize the human body? What's the benefit?

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grrgyle 4 points a year ago

Gives people the choice whether they want to be sexualized or no. Like you shouldn't have to wear a giant form-disguising hoodie just to keep from being ogled.

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Zozano 1 point a year ago

I never implied the body shouldn't be considered sexual, I was just explaining why certain body parts are.

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Vespair 0 points a year ago

My guy we are literally the only creature on the entire planet with a sense of shame who covers our body. If you don't think there's benefit to at least understanding why this enormous difference exists, I can't even begin to fathom what your mind is like

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UnderpantsWeevil 16 points a year ago

Your loss

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Anomalocaris 14 points a year ago

metric superiority

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bjoern_tantau 13 points a year ago

So you're saying you hate Expedition 33?

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truthfultemporarily 9 points a year ago

What's up with that. Why would you walk through piles of corpses barefoot.

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bjoern_tantau 4 points a year ago

She probably floats with special Pictos that only work when her feet are exposed.

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Skunk 3 points a year ago

The feeling bro! It’s better than touching grass.

Kudos to the players using the swimsuit skin during the Dualiste fight.

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PeriodicallyPedantic 12 points a year ago

But sonic has SO MUCH foot to be attracted to.

Ah well, at least you still have sonic inflation.

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captainlezbian 10 points a year ago

Yeah I'm grateful I'm just into normal things like pain

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Swedneck 6 points a year ago

we like the pain
we like the pain

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throwawayacc0430 10 points a year ago
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Karl 9 points a year ago

Don't mean to brag, but I had a cat who would let me touch her feet and even grab those BEANS.

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samus12345 8 points a year ago

I like squeezing them and making the claws extend and retract.

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uuldika 4 points a year ago

your cat lets you do that?!

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samus12345 3 points a year ago

Oh yeah, most of mine have. Probably just got lucky with more mellow personalities.

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throwawayacc0430 2 points a year ago
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Exusia 3 points a year ago

Cats do be weird about touching their paws

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drunkpostdisaster 10 points a year ago

A thsound fan fics will disagree with this.

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VitoRobles 3 points a year ago

I always wondered about this. Like what if it's just one person, who is extremely prolific?

And now you might say, "There's a dozen accounts."

Well what if they are extremely prolific and made multiple accounts?

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andros_rex 2 points a year ago

There’s the wonderbread guy - probably thousands of pictures of women buying wonderbread and talking on the phone about how much they want to burn down the Amazon rainforest.

Another one is this guy who’s into this deadly sunscreen stuff - like lesbians killing each other with evil sunscreen.

Both probably have spent thousands of dollars commissioning artists to draw these fetishes for them.

My weird 4chan archive has a guy where /b/ got together to draw a comic fulfilling his greatest wish - his lizard man OC getting vored, digested and shit out by a tuba.

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drunkpostdisaster 1 point a year ago

Not my thing but that last one goes hard.

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IndiBrony 7 points a year ago

🎶 I love pants

I love feet

Feet pants

Pants feet 🎶

🎵🎸🎵

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rob_t_firefly 7 points a year ago

Look at this graph! 📈

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daggermoon 7 points a year ago

It's awesome though

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MajesticElevator 3 points a year ago

🦶

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klao 4 points a year ago

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UnVatoMexa 4 points a year ago

God failed me with this one guys

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Euler_eix 4 points a year ago

I like the theory that the reason people like feet is because the area of the brain that controls your feet is close to the area that makes you feel things and in some people the "wires" can cross:

https://www.audacy.com/...

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markovs_gun 5 points a year ago

I feel like this is absurd with even a little bit of thought. Why does this sort of explanation apparently only work for feet and not other fetishes? Why does it matter if wires can get crossed for nerves in the feet if most people with foot fetishes are into other people's feet and not having things done to their own feet? This gets mentioned a lot online but it makes no sense.

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shadow_figurine 1 point a year ago

Feet are hot cause i can feel a lot of emotion through them

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shadow_figurine 1 point a year ago

I mean like the emotion of the person the feet are on

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jsomae 4 points a year ago

"I'm not attracted to feet, which is a relief, because to be attracted to feet is immoral" -- presumably the opinion of social conservatives regarding homosexuals instead of feet.

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UltraMagnus0001 3 points a year ago

Eemmmmm fungi

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bullshit5555 2 points a year ago

What's wrong with feet?

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Xanthrax 2 points a year ago

Aren't you a furry?

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spankmonkey 4 points a year ago

*paw fetish

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klao 2 points a year ago

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Exusia 1 point a year ago

artist

Is...is that an offer or are you saying op is wrong

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Xanthrax 4 points a year ago

I'm not a furry but you guys rp as much as you want to. Idk

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Exusia 3 points a year ago

you guys

:weirdge: and just like that I became a furry IG

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Xanthrax 3 points a year ago

Obviously, you needed my permission. I'll step on you later.

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atlien51 1 point a year ago

I don’t really get it tbh….

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