Think your foot fetish is weird? Are you embarrassed about it? Think again! According to researcher V. S. Ramachandran foot fetishes are perfectly explainable. In cognitive psych this thursday my professor analyzed foot fetishes. Basically our sense of feeling is all located on a sensory cortex strip in the brain. Parts of our bodies have a part corresponding piece of brain tissue on the strip that allows us to feel things. Unfortunately the parts of our bodies are not in any particular order on the strip in accordance with where they are located on our bodies. One would think that hands would be next to arms on the strip, but they are in seemingly random order. Notice where feet are located?
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- Leg
- Forearm
- Wrist
- Hand
- Thumb
- Eye and Light
- Nose
- Face
- Lips
- Tongue
- Primary visual cortex
- Where images are first processed
- Sex organs and feet
Example of a foot fetish: Carrie always walks around barefoot, and she always has her toenails painted. Her feet are so sexy... all I want to do is make love to them. I must have foot fetish.
Celebrities with foot fetishes... Ludacris, Britney Spears, Pharrell, Andy Warhol, Elvis, Quentin Tarentino, Enrique Igleasias (gasp really I guess he could touch my feet if he really wanted????), Ricky Martin, and Jack Black.
Some researchers have hypothesized that foot fetishism increases as a response to epidemics of STDs. Right-O doc. I'm not into feet. But whatever, I thought this was interesting. People who like feet are still weird, maybe just a bit less weird. However, a brotha can't fight psychology. Happy sucking (or rubbing or whatever it is that they do)!
This reminds me of something we learned last year in one my classes - turns out not only are things in a different order, but there are varied amounts of brain that are devoted to different areas depending on how much we need them, how much sensation we're able to feel with them, etc. The visual representation of what a human would look like if brain regions were proportional to the amount our brains devote to them is called a homonoculus... look it up!
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Yeah we talked about that too, that the area devoted to your hands and tongue are so much bigger then say an elbow.
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