I think shitting on Americans for every little thing they handle differently is moronic but I will say I won't ever order food that's advertised as "footlong". That's just needlessly gross. I don't like to imagine the cashier lining up a sandwich with their bare sole for quality control but that's the kinda mental image the term conjures up.
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Wait to you find out how they measure the 6 inch ones.
Well that explains the shrinkflation
I was in the pool!!
When you're in the pool, there's shrinkage!
Do women know about shrinkage?
It's Footlong® not foot-long. Not to be confused with an actual measurement or size guarantee.
How about a sandwich shop where you can order a Big Italian?
Well if it's a sandwich shop you'd really need two Italians, even big ones.
Footlong sandwiches have nothing to do with the body part "foot".
They hardly have anything to do with the measurement "foot" since they are like 10.5 inches (~26cm) now or something (as opposed to the 30ish centimeters that make a foot).
This is part of the enshittificaton of Subway.
Their cookies are still dope tho.
I'm like 60% sure during the height of subway in mid-2000s-early 2010s the subway commercials actually did advertise the foot long as being 12 inch sub's for 5$ (goddamn the 5$ foot long ads were catchy). However unlike real measurements that have defined standards, as subway enshitified they weren't forced to change naming as they slowly shrank the sandwiches. Of course this is long enough ago that an entire generation doesnt know who Jared was so its okay to assume it was never a real foot long.
Some shit doesn’t make sense though which seem to be done for no discernible reason, like how keys have to be inserted upside down and move away from the door to lock it, or how fridge doors open from the other side, or how morons are elected to become the president
As someone who isn't into feet, I've always just assumed it's because uncovered feet are vaugely intimate. As in feet are mostly covered by shoes but when you get to see them uncovered it might just mean the situation has gotten intimate. I mean that's basically the idea behind any societal view which dictates that women should cover any particular part of their body, it's not that muslim people inherently find hair sexy, it's the societal norms which attached an intimate meaning to hair.
I have to agree with this one. I acknowledge that feet are indeed connected to genitalia via nerves, but I highly, highly doubt that's the reason that viewing a woman's bare feet makes some men horny. I don't think the foot fetish is about her and/or her nerves or pleasure at all. It's a simple matter of getting to see an often delicate looking body part that is usually concealed, and being allowed to interact with them in a sexual way. I'm more of a butt/thighs/hips guy, myself.
I agree with you both; it's the most logical explanation. See also: cultures that don't revere womens' breasts (likely) since they're never covered.
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I'm more of a butt/thighs/hips guy, myself.
There are so many unique things that arouse people. You know that rule that there's a fetish for everything. I strongly suspect it's a human wiring issue, some related evolutionary advantage that manifests as having things for feet, or hair colors, or freckles or untold less socially acceptable things.
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I've always just assumed it's because uncovered feet are vaugely intimate
Especially when they're in my mouth
I've yet to meet a woman who wasn't into a good foot-rub. It's my go-to opening move for the Netflix-and-Chill date and rarely fails to end in us at least making out. I never really got "foot-fetish" as a guy thing. It struck me more as a girl thing, with women using "rub my feet" as an excuse to initiate intimacy. And some guys just decided if a woman was showing any amount of feet, she must be coming on to him.
I mean that’s basically the idea behind any societal view which dictates that women should cover any particular part of their body, it’s not that muslim people inherently find hair sexy, it’s the societal norms which attached an intimate meaning to hair.
I think the issue isn't the presentation of hair, but of femininity. And the more extreme interpretations of this (hardly unique to Islam - Puritanical Christians, orthodox Jews, and other more fanatical patriarchal faiths also demand women hide themselves) are about disguising any aspect of a person that might lead to a man being aroused. Eventually, you're just shoving women into an entirely separate room, because the presumption is that men have zero self-control in any social setting.
so when you go to the beach or pool with friends it's intimate?
yes lol. have you seen a bikini? that's explicitly intimate and provocative. it's the most naked you're allowed to be in public without people calling you out.
beaches are often considered inherently sexual places. like "Beach episode" is synonymous with fan service.
Like the beach scene in saving private Ryan
i mean... we saw parts of them that we don't normally. there's even a taboo around seeing those parts. taboo is the heart of many fetishes.
Or Top Gun.
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don't forget the shame. the wrongness of it is very much part of it. like, most people think feet are kind of gross, so it feels taboo to like them. taboo is one of the strongest things in fetishes. "this is so wrong/dirty" is a powerful thought for the horny mind.
honestly, if/when society becomes more accepting of foot fetishes i bet that will actually decrease the number of people that have one. if society stops shaming them it likely won't get them off the same way.
Ehat about people who like feet naturally? I'd much prefer it wasnt strange to think feet are attractive.
many people wonder that, why are feet so desired? sure, there are people that are into every crevice of the body, but feet seem to be winning the popularity race by a lot? hell, even otherwise vanilla people like them sometimes
the answer issss... (probably) that our spaghetti wiring of the nerves is to blame. you see the nerves responsible for feet connect to the spinal cord riiiight next to where our genitals connect as well. so sometimes the more intense signals tickle the unintended paths next to their intended one. some people when they orgasm (myself included) can feel a wave of electricity running down into their feet, even making one or multiple of their toes curl.
Lumbar spine L1 – the first lumbar nerve is responsible for sensations around the groin and genitals, and has a role in motor control of the hips. L2, L3, L4 convey sensation for the front and inside of the thighs, and extend to the inner aspect of the lower legs. L5 nerve region covers the outside of the thighs extending into the outer aspect of the top of the lower legs.
Sacral Spine S1, S2, S3, S4, S5 nerves provide some nerve supply to the genitals, as well as the anus, sacrum, buttocks and the backs of the thighs. The pudendal nerve is the nerve bundle comprising nerves from S2-S4 and which is the primary nerve of the perineal area.
That explains it from a having your feet played with side, but not really from the finding feet hot side.
One causes the other
Making other people feel good feels good.
I think the more important overlap is in the brain itself. We have known that regions of cortex that register genital stimulation are adjacent to/overlap with the area hat registers foot stimulation since Penfield did the first mapping of cortex in the 1930s.
In answer to "that's true for perception, but why the excitement for looking" lays in that the homuncular representation is not a simple one. We know that there are multiple homuncululi tied to different types of perception, and there is more modern work that ties the planning and goal systems to the functional centres around key points of the homonculi. The physical closeness of the two is possibly responsible for the mingling of the two representations. Back in the day there was even a mechanism for it - "ephaptic excitation" - where axons running in a bundle could activate neighbouring fibres through changing the ionic composition of the fluid around them.
I avoided the Wikipedia entry because all of the the examples censor the genitalia. It's such a strange decision but the inclusion is necessary for this discussion.
I don't really see a difference. They list the genitals next to toes and feet. The wiki at least describes the concept more simplistically, which I think is the most important aspect.
sounds like it's a double whammy then! really no wonder feet are so popular
it's also just a reaction to sexually transmitted epidemics, interestingly enough.
huh
right!! I came across this article at some point a year or two back, and it's kinda lived rent free in my head since then lmao
it kinda sounds like- our genetrics tell us "right so let's dial back on normal fucking but uhhh ah! yes fuck some feet idk"
Nothing more European than a metrosexual
Heck, the US can't even standardize on meters. We have volt meters, amp meters, flow meters, sound meters...
[I'll show myself out]
I appreciate them for making walking easier
I appreciate them for making kicking nazis easier
Heh, this guy's toast.
miss the old days
What's with the black lines, making it look like Thern, iPhcne?
they probably fucked up while trying to censor the actual part they wanted to censor
You can suck toes like you can cocks or boobies or whatever it is you like to suck. Humans just like sucking things. Also, they're cute.
Metres measure absolute distance, but feet measure how distance feels. One foot is a short distance, and a hundred foot is s long distance.
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