• Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    201·
    4 hours ago

    Another poster said the commentor is talking about a youtuber named gabi belle, who afaik posts ZERO sexual content and even if she did that still wouldnt make her an object for your personal sexual satisfaction.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    87·
    5 hours ago

    Gotta love the footies. They’re harmless and locked in. At the rabbit hole that is sexual fetishes, they just hang around the entrance… looking down.

    I don’t think about feet at all, until a story like this pops up.

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
      2·
      1 hour ago

      Gotta love the footies. They’re harmless and locked in. At the rabbit hole that is sexual fetishes, they just hang around the entrance… looking down.

      That sounds like description of a cave diver.

      • imadethis@fedinsfw.appEnglish
        11·
        4 hours ago

        I think we must have had very different experiences in life. I think the only fetish I ever hear about in the news in a ‘bad way’ is feet.

        In the past two or three decades, I want to say there have been at least one or two stories per year about some cop in the area letting people off of tickets if they’ll let the officer lick their feet. We have incredibly large furry conventions, anime conventions, tattoo conventions, reptile owner conventions, and probably more that touch on various kinks and fetishes, but you never hear about any of those sexual shenanigans in the news… so feet fetish folks finding themselves featured on frontline feeds frequently from the news is quite the contrast.

        • Jesus_666@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 minutes ago

          Well, there was Rainfurrest, which was so bad that I know the name off the top of my head without even being in the furry scene. From what I’ve heard it was an outlier organized by people who’d been banned from other conventions so by no means typical.

          But it’s not like I’ve never heard of a furry convention going wrong.

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 hour ago

          Oh yeah there are a ton of bdsm conventions, major cities will often have multiple a year. And there are issues and drama for certain, but we generally try to police our own and our problems tend towards being that well established members of the community who do a lot sometimes utilize the trust and respect they have to be predatory, especially to new people, just like every other community.

          Foot fetishists’ misbehavior is the stuff like you described, though they’re really outshone in awfulness by body type fetishists, who do the same stuff and so much more

          And tbh I think foot fetishists’ big problem is their misbehavior comes from the shame and awkwardness they have about it. And i bet you can find similar stories with far more common body part fetishes like breasts and butts. Like, I’m a breast fetishist for sure and don’t get the appeal of feet, but I know some folks who are all about feet and are totally respectful people and I know plenty of folks who can’t act properly about tits.

        • kboos1@lemmy.world
          6·
          3 hours ago

          Letting people off the hook in exchange for foot stuff an entirely different problem. I think the focus misplaced.

          • pticrix@lemmy.ca
            2·
            1 hour ago

            Yeah, that’s an ACAB problem more than a footsie problem. This is a mathematical function that always resolve to the same constant : let police(x) a function that describes an action (x) that is done by multiple officers over many iterations, and we can say that police(x)= bastardry

        • cabbagepatchcrabs@retrolemmy.comEnglish
          3·
          2 hours ago

          That’s uh…that’s wild. I suppose it’s true though, you dig deep enough into just about anything and depravity will surface one way or another.

          • imadethis@fedinsfw.appEnglish
            5·
            3 hours ago

            I haven’t gotten a ticket in years, but I think the absolute cheapest tickets are over $100, speeding will be somewhere between $180-300 depending on how much over you were going, and the really big boys like repeated no insurance or passing school busses can climb to $500-1000.

    • f314@lemmy.world
      22·
      3 hours ago

      I mean, the word «fetish» itself is named after feet, so they’re literally the OG.

      Looks like I was misinformed about that!

      • cabbagepatchcrabs@retrolemmy.comEnglish
        4·
        4 hours ago

        Going to acktually on you here but…

        It began as:

        “material object regarded with awe as having mysterious powers or being the representative of a deity that may be worshipped through it,” 1610s, fatisso, from Portuguese feitiço “charm, sorcery, allurement,” noun use of an adjective meaning “artificial.”

        which eventually morphed into:

        Figurative sense of “something irrationally revered, object of blind devotion” appears to be an extension made by the New England Transcendentalists (1837). For sexual sense (1897), see fetishism.

        Which…checks out in terms of our current understandings of the word. (But still is used as an object in magic in other circles). Which, if referring to a foot as an object of obsession…definitely “more” valid than saying “furry fetish” which is more of a “kink”.

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 hour ago

          In the sexual sense a fetish is delineated from a kink in that with a fetish it’s often considered necessary for attraction/sexual satisfaction to the haver. So strictly a person with a sadomasochism fetish can’t get off without receiving or administering pain, whereas a person with a sadomasochism kink will sexually enjoy it, but can also get off from vanilla sex.

          But they’re often used interchangeably. Also within bdsm kinks can be nonsexual, with some folks not getting off on it, but still enjoying it.