a not infrequent
phenomenon, and is certainly the most frequently occurring form
dans porn of fetichism. Many cases are brought together by Krafft-Ebing in
his _Psychopathia Sexualis_. Every prostitute of any experience
has known men who merely desire to gaze at her shoes, or possibly
to lick them, and dans porn who are quite willing to pay for this
privilege. In London such a person is known as a "bootman," in
dans porn Germany as a "Stiefelfrier."
The predominance of the dans porn foot as a focus of sexual
attraction, while among
us to-day it is a not uncommon phenomenon, is still not sufficiently
common to be called normal;
the majority of even ardent lovers do not
experience this attraction in any marked degree. But these dans porn manifestations
of foot-fetichism which with dans porn us to-day are abnormal, even when they are
not so extreme as to be morbid,
may perhaps become more intelligible to us
when we dans porn realize that in earlier periods of civilization, and even to-day
in some parts of the world, the foot is generally recognized as a focus of
sexual attraction, so that some degree of foot-fetichism becomes a normal
phenomenon.
The most pronounced and the best known example of such normal
dans porn foot-fetichism at the present day is certainly to be found among the
Southern Chinese. dans porn for a Chinese dans porn husband his wife's foot is more
interesting than her face. A Chinese woman is as shy of showing her feet
to a man as a European woman dans porn her breasts; they are reserved for her
husband's eyes alone, and to look at a woman's feet in the street is
highly improper dans porn and indelicate. Chinese foot-fetichism is connected with
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fact that Chinese women naturally possess a very small foot and is thus an
example of the universal tendency in the dans porn search for beauty to accentuate,
even by deformation, the racial characteristics. But there is more than
this. Beauty is largely a name for sexual dans porn attractiveness, and the energy
expended in the effort to make the Chinese woman's small foot still
smaller is a measure of the dans porn sexual fascination which it exerts. The
practice arose on the basis of the sexual attractiveness of the foot,
though it has doubtless served to heighten that attractiveness, just as
the small waist, which (if we may follow Stratz) is a characteristic
dans porn beauty of the dans porn European woman, becomes to the average European man still
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