A Story Of Toes ...

When I was still in Yahoo 360, 6 years ago, I had amongst my contacts an Italian man, very very handsome (according to his ID picture, if that's indeed himself), very romantic (according to his messages), and very artistic (according to his page design and his own graphics); the type that would melt every woman's heart.

We communicated fairly regularly (he wrote more often than I did) always telling me how much he liked my photos. The heaps of daily compliments were almost embarrassing. Till, out of a blue, not too long after we were categorised as 'friends', he asked me to post a picture of me, full length, including my feet, on my site. At that time, as is now, I had already started this custom of mine that everybody here in Multiply is by now aware of, that I always put a picture of a female, as my Blog picture. The only difference is, that on my initial period on 360, I put photos of myself instead of one of any female, real or avatar. My purpose originally was to find a long lost soul mate, and I thought my own photos might let him recognise me instantly (even without my feet), and renew our contact. He never showed up. But that's another story.

So I told my Italian friend that all Blog pictures were me, but he made it clearer then that he wanted a picture, or as many as I was willing, of me showing my toes! "Show me your toes! Please, please!!" he said everyday, in comments, personal messages, Instant messages ... Everyday! He said he loved my toes. How on earth could he love them without ever having seen them to start with, and why my toes? Not my face, my body, my mind ... just my toes!! With nail polish he even suggested once. Somehow, according to him, he was already in love with them (the toes), never said he was with me! I got fed up with the many weird & repeated requests and deleted him after a few weeks.

By chance I learned in Internet later that there's such a fetish, people who adore female toes. They get excited just at the sight of them, and can get sexually aroused looking at them or, when circumstances permit, touch them, caress them, smell them, lick and suck them!! It's not a pretty woman in high heels that turn them on, but woman, even ordinary looking, with sandals showing pretty feet and toes. In fact, I wonder whether the feet need to be pretty even, maybe just the toes?

Apparently when these fetishists see pretty toes in the street, very likely they would follow them everywhere. The movie maker Quentin Tarantino is a self confessed fetishist of toes. In most of his films one would see woman's feet, walking in close up, full screen shots. In a film of Robert Rodriguez (Open till dawn, 1996) there's a scene with the slurping beer from Salma Hayek's foot.

So just like the ones who adore feet and toes, there are those even 'rape' or violate them, like Joseph Weir, the strange youth who confessed a few years ago that he had 'attacked' a total of 70 pairs of women's feet in the metro of New York, especially of black women; he just couldn't help bending down, respectfully, he said, to 'touch and kiss' them, earning himself some angry kicks on the crutch.

Expressions like ' to surrender at her feet ... worship the ground she walks on' conjure up clearer picture for me now.

I find it all pretty scary.

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