The foot fetish is widely understood to be the most common fetish in the world.
It is impossible to say how many people have foot fetishes, but various studies, surveys, and guesses show that a huge percentage of us are swept off our feet by feet.
The foot fetish is also known as podophilia or foot partialism. When someone finds that looking at, touching, smelling, or thinking about feet brings them sexual and psychological pleasure, we say they have a foot fetish.
However, as with so many kinks and fetishes, foot fetishism is more of an umbrella term. Many people with a foot fetish have a very specific kind of foot fetish.
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40 Foot Fetishes for Every Taste
1. High Heels
Most of us turn our heads for a beautiful body in high heels. A high heel fetish is very common. From skinny spike heels to stilettos to chunky platforms to stripper height, high heels is one of the most popular kinds of foot fetishes.
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2. Running Shoes
On the other hand, or should I say on the other foot, running shoes is also a massively popular kind of foot fetish! Mostly men, but lots of them, both gay and straight, really love sneakers.
3. Trashed Running Shoes
Ever come across a Facebook Marketplace ad for trashed sneakers and wonder who would buy totally worn out running shoes? It’s a thing.
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4. Sneaker Destruction Fetish
For some kinky lovers, looking at a trashed sneaker isn’t enough. They like to watch the sneaker being destroyed or take part personally.
5. Bondage and BDSM Boots
For some, the foot has to be in boots, black or red, thigh high, latex or leather. The bondage aesthetic orf BDSM style boots that are seemingly impossible to walk in, sometimes with buckles, is the only thing that does it for some.
Foot and boot fetishes are almost as common among gay men as they are among straight men, or maybe more so? Gay fetish cultures have long had BDSM involving boot worship and boot blacking.
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6. Big or Wide Feet
There are people with a very strong preference for oversized or wide feet. There was a King of the Hill episode about this, where Peggy unwittingly filmed her feet for porn for people with this kind of foot fetish!
7. Tiny Feet
Others get off on slender, small, tiny feet.
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8. Chinese Foot Binding (Lotus Hooks)
For a thousand years, China had a weird and painful foot fetish that meant breaking feet and then binding them to fit into little shoes that looked like hooks.
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9. Foot Olfactophilia
It’s extremely common for a foot fetish to be focused on the scent of the foot. The kind of foot is not necessarily important, but the scent is a major turn on.
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10. Sock Sniffing
Like panty sniffing, sock sniffing is a thing. Socks are full of that funky foot odor and may feel intimate like lingerie to someone with foot olfactophilia or a general foot fetish.
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11. Raw or Rough Feet
Don’t assume that everyone wants artificially groomed and painted toenails, all soft. Many foot fetishists have a specific thing for rough, calloused feet.
12. Cracked Heels
Some people who get turned on by rough, dry feet want callouses and cracks galore.
13. Hairy Feet
A foot fetish is often specific to hairy feet, a common preference for gay men with a foot fetish.
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14. Pantyhose and Nylons
The foot in pantyhose: this can be about the look of the toes and foot inside nylons, or the unique scent that brews when a foot gets sweaty inside airless pantyhose.
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15. Trampling
For some, the interest in feet is all about being stepped on, walked over, or ball crushed. Someone who gets excited about trampling might have a thing for bare foot trampling or being trampled from feet in a particular kind of boot or shoe.
16. Footjobs
Instead of a blowjob or hand job, feet rubbing a cock are what it’s all about.
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17. Foot Massage
Many kinds of foot fetishes are visually based, but some get off most on touching feet.
18. Foot Worship
Foot worship can be about spending a lot of time with the foot, gazing, touching, kissing, licking. Foot worship is also about submission, humiliation, and other BDSM play.
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19. Wearing Women’s Shoes
Crossdressing is a common fetish and for some dudes it’s mostly about walking a mile in her shoes.
20. Pedicures
Tidy pretty feet after a pedicure are lovely. Some are turned on by freshly done feet, or by watching or doing the pedicure themselves.
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21. Flip Flops
There are many kinds of foot fetishes that are very specific to feet in a particular kind of shoe. Flip flops, with that strip penetrating and separating the big toe from the others, is a very popular one.
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22. Mature Feet and Footwear
Yes, even sensible shoes have their admirers! These folks get aroused by older feet, tired feet, swollen feet and ankles, in orthopedic or sturdy shoes.
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23. Chubby Foot and Ankle Fetish
Some people have a strong attraction towards chubby feet, fat ankles, or the feet of big beautiful women (BBW).
24. Sweaty Foot Fetish
The sweaty feet kind of foot fetish is usually about the smell, but for some foot lovers, it is the sticky, tactile feeling.
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25. Toe Sucking Fetish
Some foot fetishists are only in it for the toe sucking, or that plays a very strong part for them.
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26. Long Toe Fetish
Some foot lovers get excited by very long toes. And for some, it’s only the second toe or Morton’s Toe that they want long!
27. Anklets and Toe Rings
Foot jewelry is what drives some people wild.
28. High Heel Pumps
Pumps are a very strong fetish for those with this kind of foot fetish. Some love a variety of women’s footwear, but others are only aroused by her foot in a pump style shoe.
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29. Slingback Shoes
For others, it’s about the closed toe and the strap around the heel and ankle.
30. Ankle Strap Sandals
Or else, it’s the open toe and the ankle strap!
31. Crocs Fetish
It was just a matter of time. Anything that exists, is part of someone’s fetish! You’ll find your fellow Crocs fetishists on many a Reddit forum.
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32. Pointe Shoe Fetish
The ballet pointe shoe is a sexual and also a non-sexual fetish. There are countless people who passionately adore the pointe shoe and a whole industry selling posters, photos, and even the shoes.
The foot’s form and the shoe that holds it is a very beautiful thing to some, and sexually intense for others. This is one of those foot fetishes where other kinds of shoes or aspects of feet don’t really do it unless the ballet shoe is involved.
33. Long Toenails
It might seem very particular, but this kind of foot fetish is quite common. When there is a preference for long toenails, any other kind of feet might not be arousing at all.
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34. Toenail Foot Fetish
There are even different preferences for long toenail fetishists. Some like the toenails uniform at the edge of the toe, some like toenails that going over.
If you’ve ever been at the mall and seen someone with impossibly long toenails with sequins and sparkles, you might have wondered how practical it was for walking. This kind of toenail is a very specific fetish for some foot lovers.
35. Short Toenails
On the other hand, some want none of that. They love short clipped toenails.
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36. French Manicure
Some foot fetishists love the look of the French manicure, clear with very white tips.
37. Ankle Fetish
Some people excited by ankles don’t get off on the foot at all. It’s just there. Some love the whole deal, but the ankle is the most important part.
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38. Foot Arch Fetish
A high arch is important to people with this kind of foot fetish.
39. Pinky or Big Toe Fetish
For some, it isn’t really a foot fetish. It’s the toes.
40. Penetration with Feet
Vaginal, oral, or anal penetration by foot can be part of BDSM, or it can be the full monty for someone with a foot fetish.
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