6) Foot Fetishism
Attraction to feet and footwear is surprisingly common, being the most fetishized of all non-genital-related body parts or clothing. Freud believed that humans s3xualized feet because they resemble penises . . . somehow. University of California San Diego neuroscientist Vilanayar Ramachandran has another intriguing possibility.Ramachandran was researching the brain phenomena that can cause phantom limb syndrome and discovered it was likely caused due to the “body image map.” The parts of the brain that are associated with and control different parts of the body stayed active even if those parts had been lost.
Bizarrely, he discovered that for some foot amputees, the body image map could actually become rewired and s3xualize the missing limb, explaining reports by amputees of s3xual pleasure and orgasms from their phantom feet.It has long been noted that in the somatosensory homunculus, a visual expression of where touch is processed by the brain, the area associated with the feet and toes is adjacent to the area associated with the genitals. Ramachandran thought this could explain the common foot fetish: “Maybe even many of us so-called normal people have a bit of cross-wiring, which would explain why we like to have our toes sucked.” Not everyone was a believer, however. Discover Magazine‘s Neuroskeptic pointed out the feet and toes were the least erotic parts of the body. Quentin Tarantino, for one, might disagree.
Attraction to feet and footwear is surprisingly common, being the most fetishized of all non-genital-related body parts or clothing. Freud believed that humans s3xualized feet because they resemble penises . . . somehow. University of California San Diego neuroscientist Vilanayar Ramachandran has another intriguing possibility.Ramachandran was researching the brain phenomena that can cause phantom limb syndrome and discovered it was likely caused due to the “body image map.” The parts of the brain that are associated with and control different parts of the body stayed active even if those parts had been lost.
Bizarrely, he discovered that for some foot amputees, the body image map could actually become rewired and s3xualize the missing limb, explaining reports by amputees of s3xual pleasure and orgasms from their phantom feet.It has long been noted that in the somatosensory homunculus, a visual expression of where touch is processed by the brain, the area associated with the feet and toes is adjacent to the area associated with the genitals. Ramachandran thought this could explain the common foot fetish: “Maybe even many of us so-called normal people have a bit of cross-wiring, which would explain why we like to have our toes sucked.” Not everyone was a believer, however. Discover Magazine‘s Neuroskeptic pointed out the feet and toes were the least erotic parts of the body. Quentin Tarantino, for one, might disagree.
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