The Flip Flop Girl

Remember, although roughly 40% of men find the nicly shaped female foot to be mildly erotic, only 20% are truly turned on by it.
Of those, only half, or around 10% of all western males, will prefer it over other female body parts.
In an effort to cover up this minority preference, most of those will never play out their love in this fashion.
Surprisingly, 60%, yes SIXTY PER CENT of woman quickly learn to enjoy having their feet loved, and look forward to return engagements!
Loving a woman's beautiful feet is no different than loving any other physical atribute of the female body. If the all too common negative humorous reference to the foot fetishist were to disappear, many more woman would be able to delight in this age old aspect of love making.
And, 10% of the male population would be set free.
Fortunatly, I have spent the majority of my adult life free of worry of any stigma, and have allowed numerous women (as well as myself of course!) to enjoy the full spectrum of heterosexual love.

FFG, enjoy the treat. A males love of the female foot is very common indeed.
 

Nice comments. Do you recall where you got your stats? It does sound right to me. Maybe with that information front and center, the impression we get of the Tarrantino photo shifts. My thinking was more that it is an image of excess. This is the sort of thing I tend to feel is best left for the bedroom (with exceptions.) For a well-known, maybe legendary, director of such popular films to go around publicly sucking the toes of strange women is, I think, like being very drunk in public. Nothing wrong with being drunk in the right context but not a pretty picture or just plain wrong in the wrong context. I could change my mind but that's what I'm thinking now. I'd add that I think Quentin's public act is all part of his foot fetish. The subject is in his movies. He's sucked the toes of Salma Hayek. He's gotten to fixate on Uma Thurman's feet. There's something about a foot fetish. It's an unusual, outrageous, fun sex act. Quentin is very deep into his foot fetish so anytime he can intensify the high, he'll go for it. But is this a dignified way for a public figure to act? I wonder if this sex act were better understood and accepted, causing it to be less out of the norm, if Quentin would be more inclined to show some self-restraint. Another way to look at it: I think we can agree that sucking/loving feet and toes is a sex act. Definitely. So, maybe Quentin symbolically wants to have sex in public. It's a great high and it's an attenion getter.
 

At present, feet enjoy a unique position in our culture.
Not officially recognized as an object of sexual desire, they still are not considered proper to be bared completly in public.
No other part of the female body enjoys this dual status.
A woman can be dressed to the nines in a few ounces of material covering her private parts and little else, but her soles must be covered as well.
Removing the sole covering for anything other than dance is considered either improper, immoral, indecent, or risque.
No one would dream of engaging in nipple play at a formal party, let alone crotch handling, but foot rubbing, kissing ,sucking, and licking has been photographed among celebrities numerous times.
A man with a foot fetish can parade his lady throught the pubic barefoot, and stop to play anytime he wants, because the sexual nature of any of this is not recognized.
The reality is a man should no more suck the toes of a woman in public than he should suck her pussy, both are of an extremly private matter.
But, until people understand that a man's love of the female foot is very common, this discrepancy will exist.
Remember your shoe store escapade in which your boyfriend kissed each of your toes while shopping?
The sales clerk remarked that "it was cute".
Had he gone diving instead, she would have called the cops.
I will rub my wifes feet in public, and give them a quick kiss, but I never get involved in any extended foot love in public. It's just not the place for it.
Besides, I am a dirty sole enthusiast, and that would gross out too many observers.
Since we both go barefoot, it would look pretty weird too.

Sexual researchers admit that their statistics are flawed, because most men will not admit to foot fetishism.
My research is based on long term studies questioning barefoot in public females, female foot loving males, and barefoot males interested in barefoot females.
Several surveys have also been done annonomously on the Web, and the statistics I presented hold pretty accurate there as well.
I correspond with hundreds of barefoot females that report on the actions of the men in their lives, but those numbers are of course way different.
The problem is that a barefoot in public female will attract sole loving guys, so they see a huge % of guys that have fetishes for female feet.
Among the general public,the numbers in my original comment hold true.
BTW, there is an anthropological explanation for a males love of female soles.
Way back when, man had to chase down his sexual prey. He had to run fast, and keep going if he was going to be successful in perpetuating the species..
The only natural attributes he could see during the chase were long hair, narrow shoulders, slender waist, wider hips, cute butt, shapley legs, and dirty bare soles flashing one at a time.
All of this attracted the suvivors of the species.
Breasts? Faces? Navels?
None of that was important or inbread in man.
Only the Christian missionaries brought those concepts to the primitive people of the world during the last couple of centuries.
Loving the dirty soles of a female that really only get a fraction of a second viewing in real life situations at a time is a completly normal human male behavior.
Loving breasts , faces , and tummies is learned
 

Boardster,

I love your insights. You're a beautiful person and I appreciate your comments. I'd love to learn more about all this and you're a very good guide. So, keep writing and sharing.

So, let me ask you something. Do you remember one of my posts about the Venus of Willendorf? Yeah, remember that because that strongly indicates that man did have a keen eye on a woman's body as naturally regards reproduction, etc: the vagina is the focal point as well as big generous breasts and big hips and a big belly.

I don't know about early man having a super interest in bare dirty soles. I can understand your pleasure in them. I enjoy getting my feet dirty. I love the sensation of sand between the toes or mud. Yeah, I love mud. All slippery and gooey and then it cakes on. That's a lot of fun. But I'd have to say that when my man takes hold of my feet, I love to give him very clean and sweet and delicious feet. That's my thing.

Can you list other celebs that have been caught in foot play? I don't really know how long that list would be. At least if they say they're into feet, that list I could see as maybe having some potential.

As for the double standard. That is fascinating to me. I think a guy with a foot fetish, like our friend Tarrantino, feels like he's the smartest guy in the room when he's sucking a girl's toes right in public. That is a very highly charged and sensitive and pleasurable act that is sexual and he "gets away with it." I think people do understand on some level what is going on but don't know how to react so they revert to being grossed out and chalk it up as some prank or just some crazy thing.

Peace,
Rachel
 

Re-reading my comment I was able to ignore the spelling mistakes, but there was one huge error:
I of course meant "past two millenia", not centuries!
Back in those days, man naturally mated from behind after the chase.
He did, by the way, have a strong innate attraction to butts. When TAUGHT by missionaries to assume the more civilized position, breasts were used to take the place of the two butt cheeks.
Primitive cultures never have the breasts of females covered, while they always have their true private parts clothed.
It is well accepted that breasts are not a natural attraction to males, but instead a learned behavior.
If dirty soles were considered gross, man would have stopped chasing the owner of them, and we wouldn't be here now.
Ask any barefoot in public female friend: Many guys to this day will show an interest in seeing her dirty soles.
My wife uses the subway test.
She will walk through the city barefoot, into the station, and sit down on the train. In any given carload, there will be a man that can barely contain himself after she crosses a leg exposing her blackened sole for viewing.
Clean sweet feet are fine, but look at any fetish site, and see what the % of dirty sole content is! Much too high to be just a fluke.
Like anything, it is all a matter of preference.
 

If there is any hard evidence that early man had a particular interest/desire in dirty soles, I'd like to see it. I wouldn't be surprised to find that it's true but who knows. As for an interest in breasts being learned, I don't know about that either. Giving me some evidence on that if you can.

I think one of the basic reasons that most men, even men without much if any fetish, would like the sight of women's feet is because of how soft and feminine they can look. Like anything else, it depends on the who the feet belong to in the first place. As for dirty soles, I could see even a casual interest by a man who is studying a pretty foot that has been all grimed up with grit and dirt and be taken my the contrasts. Also, you don't usually see people barefoot on the subway, especially an attractive woman.

I think it's enough to hope that a basic attraction/interest in feet can become acknowledged as OK. I guess it would be bonus to add dirty soles. I don't know if soles really have to be dirty. That seems to be more a variation on a theme which is fine.
 

Yes, just a variation on a theme is a pretty good explanation.
There are some important differences though.
A western world female in this century will have little trouble convincing a not otherwise interested in feet male to take her pretty soft feet to his face.
Men are used to seeing well taken care of bare and almost bare feet as high fashion, and most will offer little resistance to kissing a well ventilated, nicely decorated clean foot. No fetish is needed, just present a cute or sexy example and at least 50% of men will go for it if the woman expresses the desire to have her feet played with and kissed in private.
You won't have to tell them to save themself for a more traditional climax, they will do that on their own.
It is much harder to convince a man to take your dirty soles if he doesn't already have a love for them. He must be in that 10% that already has fantasized about it if he is to partake.
From my experience, a man who likes dirty female soles will prefer them to anything else, continuing to kiss,lick,and suck them while climaxing in conventional intercourse with an appropriatly flexible partner.
That's where the definition of fetish needs to be examined.
Technically, there is no such thing as a foot fetish. The fetish is the use or substitution of an inanimate object for arousal and climax.
One can have a shoe fetish, or a nylon fetish, but not a foot or hand or breast fetish.
The definition has loosened over the years, and if the body part takes on a real preference it is sometimes refered to as a fetish.
One reason the love of feet has been refered to as a fetish for so long is that the English words fit together so well and comicaly. "Foot fetish" has a ring to it, and is a laugh promoter.
Your blog picture is fetish oriented, as the flip flop is part of the sexual image. Your long soft bare soles are nice, but they are just common feet to most observers. The addition of the flip in a non-traditional position makes your posed look arousing.
A dirty sole becomes even more complex. Being a body part, an attraction to it is not a fetish in it's original meaning and intent.
With no sandal, heel, or jewelry to turn it into a fetish, it remains free of that lable.
But add the dirty sole, and it becomes tricky.
You could look at the dirt itself as the fetish, or consider the shadowing and highlighting of the natural features as a result of the dirt as the same degree of fetish as a nicely designed sandal would offer. But, you have to add the idea that the sole is dirty because the owner has elected to do something very sexy and out of place- walk barefoot in a typicaly non-barefoot situation.
When I view your blog site, it is the picture of the celebrities walking barefoot in a city that is the sexiest visual.
Not posed, they are doing something incredibly sensual and sexy. We can't even see their soles, and just assume they are getting dirty in the process, but the act of being fully clothed yet walking barefoot in a public city setting is the turn on.
If your picture had your soles dirty, I would assume that you have been barefoot out and about.
The question would be, are your feet the object of affection, or the dirty soles, or the act of walking barefoot in public?
Either way, no true fetish, or no more of a fetish than if a male were attracted to a females legs and torso during dance moves, which would be considered quite normal and not fetish related at all.
But your flip flop? Fetish all the way. It is the inanimate object that is creating the sexualization of your otherwise everyday looking feet.
(FFG, I don't mean everyday as in mediocre. I mean as just feet. Your feet are of course way above average looking, and are an asset to be flaunted).

There is no hardcore documentation that primitive man found female dirty soles arousing. That concept is derived from evolutionary anthropological theory. If man were grossed out by dirty bare feet, he would have stopped the chase. if he were turned on by it, he could run even faster. It's all theoretical.
The sexualization of female breasts in modern culture is a well documented phenomenon.
Just Google " female breasts sexualization learned behavior".
Half of the results will be about breast feeding, and around 10 % will be directly related to the concept I have presented. There are some very interesting articles on how breast size enters the picture as well.

If you want to have some fun, conduct a little experiment yourself!
You recall how nice smooth sidewalks can feel to bare feet, and smooth tiles can be even more pleasant.
It's cold out by now, so take a trip to an indoor shopping mall dressed as you normaly are, but leave the flips at home.
Keep the tops of your feet clean and sexy as usual, but don't worry about letting the bottoms get dirty from the streets and stores.
Be yourself, and aknowledge the smiles. When questioned , just admit that you always go barefoot because you love the way it feels so much. Try a casual bar or coffee house where it wouldn't be so uncommon for a stranger to strike up a conversation.
The dirty sole enthusiast population will surprise you!
Go with a shod female friend to a club. You will never again doubt that 20% number, because you will attract both the clean and dirty sole enthusiasts.
First time barefoot shopping/city walking females are shocked at the positive attention they receive, and at the calibre of the sole loving guys.
For you this is just an experiment, but for some less popular, lonlier ladies this information has changed their lives drasticaly.
My wife and I have transformed several bored divorces that had been out of circulation and lonely into very popular gals with this secret! Since so many people already love going barefoot already, the simple act of doing something that is fun has turned into their secret weapon.
A normal looking, clean lady dressed typicaly from the ankles up, but with clean (tan is good) tops of feet, and dirty soles, with no shoes in sight, cannot spend an hour out in town without friendly comments from desireble men.
Not that women should use physical attributes to lure men, I mean all of this as just further proof of the principles I have been discussing.
The big surprise is that women think they must wear shoes of some sort to look presentable to men, but in reality going barefoot instantly gives them the advantage in 40% of men, with 1/4 of those at their mercy from that point on.
If you try it, be sure to take a nice photo of your dirty sole for your blog. It will add a new dimension to the flipflopgirl.
 

I love how you cite these percentages. Maybe you include them more to make a point. As I say, I'd be interested to see some of your source material. And, again, it's not that I doubt it. Going barefoot is not something new to me and, as you say, there are plenty of comfortable and easy ways to enjoy it, on a casual impulse, like hotel lobbies or the mall. The feel of cool tile or marble, or carpet, or a nice polished hard wood floor. It's mostly a girl thing and it's accepted and, yes, guys find it cute and they do look. I don't know that I want to start documenting my barefoot walks. I do understand where you're coming from. I'm curious about your wife, as you say, walking around the city and onto a subway barefoot. I can't help thinking that's dangerous to her feet. This isn't New York, is it? Well, any city sidewalk, would be gross to me. In no time at all you'd have black sooted soles. Is that really a turn on? Do you lick the grime off her feet? I don't know. But I'm sure it's a turn-on and every bit as legitimate as fixating on flip flops. It is interesting what you say about the foot being just foot until something else is added, like a flip flop. That I'm not so sure I agree on. From my experience, a beautiful foot is all it takes. True, you add something and it can be a bonus. Also true, that something all by itself can become eroticized: the flip flop all my itself. When the flip flop all by itself becomes an erotic object that seems to really get to the root of the meaning of a fetish. But the classic term "foot fetish" does carry a lot of weight and I think it means quite a lot too.
 

Your an artist, I'm a scientist/engineer.
True, I am pretty quick and free with the stats, but really I only intend for them to be a rough guide.
The truth is that there is very little research on all of this. As arrogant as it might sound, much of the documentation has been overseen by myself and a few associates.
By the way, it is mostly a girl thing as you say so far as walking barefoot in public being considered cute, but take a look at the membership of The Society For Barefoot Living
www.barefooters.org

The membership is predominantly male, which was a surprise to myself as well.
Apparantly going barefoot in public is a cute thing for girls to do, but is practiced by males to a greater extent. Originaly I thought the membership was skewed towards males because girls didn't need a support group for going barefoot in public as much as the guys did, but according to their research more guys go barefoot in public than ladies.
My personal observations are the opposite, as I assume yours are too, but who are we to argue with a group 1200 strong!
They are unanimous in their belief that it is rare for a female to find it cute for a male to be barefoot though, and I agree.
It's really not as dangerous as it seems to you. again, visit www.barefooters.org and you will see that the human foot is much more capable than you have been taught.

Yes, the dirty female sole is a real turn on to myself and thousands of other men.
No, as dissapointing as it might sound to some of them, I don't lick it.
The visual stimulation is as exciting as it gets, and though I will caress and kiss, I will limit the licking to the cleaner and well accentuated arch.
What can I say, I'm pretty normal after all.
The foot itself is the erotic image to me, not the dirt nor the flip. The dirt just adds to the excitement of the barefoot in public vision, and serves to exagerate all of the beautiful curves and lines.
I guess I'm not a true fetishist by any means.
 

Another wonderful post, Boardster. I especially like your link to the barefooters group. I think I like how they separate the sexual component. I'm not sure. I guess for them it's good to just focus on the promotion of walking barefoot.
 

Oh my gosh - don't check this blog for a few days and there's a flood of comments to wade through! I like the thoughts and observations I've just read. Lots of subjects have been touched on.
Like you ffg I have to question the %'s boardster quotes and would like to know where they come from.
I also have to say that in my observations you see many more females going barefoot in public than males, no matter what the SBF says. I believe that it is much more socially acceptable for a female to be barefoot in public than a male. My personal belief is that is has a lot to do with a double standard that exists. Women have much more latitude in footwear (or lack thereof)and attire in general. I could write pages and pages on that subject!
I also believe that going barefoot and having a "thing" for feet are two very distinct things. There is certainly some cross membership among the two groups but being in one does not necessarily mean you belong to the other.
Its the same thing for sole fans. Some like them dirty (showing a propentsity by the owner for flaunting social convention by going barefoot publicly)and some, while enjoying the sensory feedback going barefoot provides, or having an appreciation for a bare foot abhor the thought of a dirty sole. Still others, like boardster and myself, enjoy barefooting themselves and like to see a dirty sole and wouldn't dream of licking one clean.
I know the SBF tries to distance themselves from the fetish community. Here's an interesting perspective I picked up:
"What makes a foot lover a foot fetishist? Both the intensity and exclusivity of the desire. If you'd rather have sex with your lover's feet than any other body parts, or if you must focus on feet to reach orgasm, or if you'd usually rather screw a shoe than a person, you're a foot fetishist. The technical term is "podophiliac." If you are turned on by attractive feet or sexy shoes, but your sexuality doesn't completely revolve around them, you're more what I'd call a foot lover, a foot appreciator, or maybe you're just playing footsie. You don't have to be a certifiable foot fetishist to appreciate feet, or to enjoy having your feet appreciated. "
Susan Block, Ph.D.
From reading the post and comments on this blog I say we (me, boardster, and you ffg) are foot lovers. We all appreciate the foot and going barefoot. We all have had sexual experiences with feet but they are certainly not the be all and end all for us.
I don't know that it would be a bad thing for you to document a barefoot walk or two. It would be interesting to read your observations on not only what you were experiencing but also what others' reactions to your lack of footwear is. Think about that.
Take care
 

I do have a very busy day but I did want to include your comment, bft4evr. I think we all show what are preoccupations are in our writings here. boardster does have his own agenda, which is cool. i think he has his own spin on all this. and so do you. and so do I. Well, as I've said, if we could at least get foot lovers some more love among the general public, that would be a big barefoot step in the right direction.
 

Just curious , I have already aknowledged that the stats are mostly my own un-scientific results.They are from interviews and discussions with many people over several decades, and were part of collaberation with others with different "agendas" than my own.
Do you two (ffg and bft4evr)think they are that far off from your experiences?
I would guess that ffg initially thought 10% too high a number for dirty sole lovers, since it is not that commonly addressed.
I am pretty confident in my numbers, and try to keep any personal preferences out of the mix.
The barefoot people that admit to fetishization of the foot that I have collaberated with are all pretty sure of the 20% number of males having sexual interest in the bare feet of females, and some believe the 10% dirty sole lovers to be an underestimate!
I always thought the number is conservative, and deliberatly kept it there in an over reaction to not letting my own preference skew the results.
My dirty soled wife also believes the number to be slightly higher.
Anyway, my agenda is more about opening up the opportunities for barefoot life than it is about creating more barefoot females.
I'm a lot older than you FFG, and have been happily married for 20 years.
My wife has the cutest barefoot feet you can imagine, and her dirty sole pattern could win awards on a fetish site.
One reason I only go there for research is that my wildest barefoot fantasies are lived out daily, and I have no need for external stimuli outside of marraige.
Our barefoot activities with others revolve around the sheer joy of barefooting, not the sexualization of it.
That's not to say we are not open to it.
If someone were interested in exploring with us, that's a different story.
But, we don't go out looking for it.
 

sorry for the delay over any oversights to anyone. i did want to post this last post from boardster. and i did want to say that i do feel there is definitely a deeper sexuality goin on within the general public, specifically the so-called "prudish" American public and that feet do play a role but we're far from embracing that explicitly and openly. we're still mostly somewhere is the "getting used to joking about it" stage.
 

I'm a clean foot guy. I love the softness and smell of a freshly cleaned foot. Add to that some nicely painted toenails and I have hours of enjoyment.
 

Johnny honey, you are a gentleman and a scholar. Of course you have fun with nice pretty clean feet. That's my style and I appreciate a guy who digs that.