November 12, 2025
"The largest group dedicated to 'barefoot living' in the UK has been forced to bring in strict rules after being infiltrated by people with a sexual 'foot fetish.'"
"The Facebook group, which has more than 700 members, was set up for people who spend their lives without shoes, from going to the supermarket to embarking on outdoor hikes.... '[T]his is not a foot fetish group,' adding: 'Nothing against you but it’s not that kind of group.' New rules have also been given to existing members about the sharing of photos after fears of infiltration. They include a ban on photos of 'just feet'.... 'We all know what feet look like!'"
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The open society of the UK has limits.
After due consideration, I've determined this is none of my business.
I've never understood the foot fetish. I knew a very hot Asian girl, who made money selling pictures of HER FEET and only her feet. I'm not sure they even saw her gorgeous face or body. I mean her feet were nice, but they were FEET! Oh well, to each their own.
Feets don’t fail me now!
They must have some way to screen these people from podiatry school.
Things I never wanted to know: You can go into a supermarket in the UK without shoes.
The entire history of the internet and technology at large is represented in this article. Or to paraphrase Von Clausewitz “You may not be interested in pron but pron is interested in you.”
At the bottom, related articles: "Kink groups 'promote fetishes' on campus" and "OnlyFans paid owner $701m after 24% increase in use accounts".
I would have thought a "related" article would have been one about men in women's locker rooms or something along those lines.
All organizations that are not explicitly right-footed will over time become left-footed.
Whiskeybum said...
“All organizations that are not explicitly right-footed will over time become left-footed.”
So they will eventually be taken over by Irish Catholics?
Barefoot is not uncommon in New Zealand, even in stores. Quite a few Māori go barefoot many places, and in some of their more ceremonial spaces even pākehā [Europeans] are required to remove footwear.
That said, New Zealand is, for the most part, wonderfully clean. There are some 'sketchy' areas in Auckland and Wellington [especially Cuba St] but in the smaller places things were nearly spotless. No gum, trash, or cigarette butts anywhere. Never saw any dog shit anywhere either, and it's a big faux pas to spit anywhere in public.
My then-13 yo daughter and I were there for a month in June '24 [winter] and travelled a lot on both islands because I have cousins in Dunedin, Hamilton, and the far north of the North Island.
Barefoot and pregnant first.
Barefoot and trans... just doesn't have a ring to it.
1. Almost as bad as what happened to Dunder Mifflin Infinity.
2. Chris: I recall seeing speculation that the fetish may have a neurological basis involving cross-feed between regions of brain involving representation of feet and sexual characteristics, so that one may need to be born with propensity for it.
Tee Pee Bob was a legendary Woodstock figure, who always went barefoot, even in harsh winters in the Catskills. Good friend of mine, but gone. Deserted the Air Force in the middle of the Vietnam War, and “hid” in plain sight in Woodstock for decades. Really did live in a tee pee on top of a mountain on a friend’s property. The soles of his feet were thick and leathery, like a Hobbit.
High arches are nice…
Modern content rules seek to prevent any pervert anywhere getting his rocks off for any reason.
This story feels like a real life Farside cartoon.
"There are some 'sketchy' areas in Auckland and Wellington [especially Cuba St] "
We're going to Wellington in March. Sixth trip to NZ, but first time to the North Island.
Stay away from Cuba St?
Rex Ryan is persona non grata.
If you don't toe the line, you get the boot.
Joe Rogan #2407:
“Okay. This is crazy. So for a long time, a giant percentage of people that lived in the south had hookworm. And hookworm is a parasite that you get in your feet from walking around barefoot.”
Watch where you step.
Goldilocks and the three photos of bare feet:
- This photo shows too much bare feet!
- This photo shows not enough bare feet!
- This photo shows just the right amount of bare feet.
Pedphilia. #NoJudgment #NoLabels
Rule 34 is inviolable
A feetish is a fetus... feature of podophiles. #NoJudgment #NoLabels #LoveWins
Seems to me that the salient part of this post is "fetishists infiltrate group." A cautionary tale, if you will.
Or just a description of what always happens, maybe. I'm not 100% sure.
All that aside. I go barefoot as much as I can at home, but I wouldn't go barefoot into a store or restaurant unless it was on the beach. Perhaps more offensively to some, I did breastfeed in public regularly, covering myself but leaving no doubt as to what I was doing, and I would again (if it were possible for me and if I had a baby to feed).
They want to abort a feetish that presents a burden for social progress, equity, and inclusion (SPEI).
700 members wow the thunderer is really reaching for a story
700 members wow the thunderer is really reaching for a story
This is why I think somebody at the Times perceived a larger cultural moment with regard to the infiltration of fetishists into otherwise pretty harmless groups. I'm a little surprised that whoever it was, the writer or whoever okayed inclusion of the story, got away with it, since By Definition all lifestyles are equally valid and to be celebrated.
but if you're a Islamic Male and you want to rape children - all cool. Just vote leftist. You'll be left alone.
Every great cause begins as a movement, develops into a fetish, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.
They should try to include people from all walks of life.
November: "We are implementing measures to weed out foot fetish types in our group."
December: "We regret to announce our group is disbanding due to a sudden, unexplained drop-off in members."
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...
The entire history of the internet and technology at large is represented in this article.
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One of my earliest memories of the internet was searching for something online and coming across a site devoted to chronicling all movie scenes that depict things being inflated.
Listing movie/scene/thing inflated.
I sensed a disturbance in the force.
I go barefoot around the house. I might go barefoot to go outside to collect the mail or put the trash out if it's not too hot or cold. Beyond that, I'm wearing shoes to protect my feet from hot or cold pavement, hard or sharp objects, etc., not to mention anything dirty on the ground. I'm not a hobbit and I'm not going to pretend that I am one.
700 members...
Hell, my local town pickleball club has 900. Perhaps we should be alert for a fetishist infiltration.
Seems to me that if you went barefoot all the time you'd have ugly callousy dirty feet, which doesn't seem too appealing to me, but then, I don't have that Thing.
Kinda like the last place you'd enjoy naked people would be a nudist colony.
Original Mike, five times to NZ and never been to the North Island? If you're a beach guy, hit the Cormandel penninsula - we spent a day at Sailor's Grave Beach, which was spectacularly beautiful, and only saw about three other people.
Thanks for the advice, tommyesq. Not this trip, I'm afraid. The bulk of this trip will still be the South Island (that's where the astronomy is). We've got 3 weeks on the North Island. When we started planning we had big plans, but quickly realized we didn't have enough time to do it all. This trip is will be Wellington, Napier, Taupo, and New Plymouth (so the SW corner). We'll keep the Cormandel peninsula in mind for the next trip.
I walk the dog barefoot down the sidewalk in nice weather. Neighbors, friendly, think it's weird and tell me, but our relationship is good and I tell them I don't care and I am not bothered by their shoe fetish.
Does Mack Hollins of the NE Pats' know about this group?
Podophobia, obviously.
I've got Alley Oop feet. The only shoes that are comfortable for my massive dogs are made by Xero. The souls are dead flat and very thin and pliable to approximate a barefoot-like experience. After spraining both ankles dozens of times playing basketball as a youth, it's always been easy for me to twist an ankle on a Rocky trail. I discovered barefoot style footwear at least 10 years ago or more about that time not the book about barefoot running took off. Ever since I adopted the flat shoes I have never twisted my ankles. I work on my feet all day and my dogs are never barking.
I hope to never see someone barefoot at the grocery store.
Don't forget: you're the worst person in the world if you suggest that there may be men who pretend to be women so that they can enter women's bathrooms and locker rooms.
Message: We're odd, but we're just not odd in that way.
My lame attempts at humor are so pedestrian that nobody even notices.
Quentin Tarantino hardest hit.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/quentin-tarantino-foot-fetish-rumors-184103755.html
NKP--Mack Hollins is not the only New England Patriot who takes an interest in this stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkvBhMIAWHA
My introduction to this was Fox TV's cartoon series "King of the Hill."
Peggy feels ashamed of her big feet until she meets Grant Trimble, who tells her that her feet are beautiful and even videotapes them. Soon Peggy's big feet are a hit on an internet fetish site: `peggysfeet.com'.
Barefoot, bareback, brokeback... a clear progression of the liberal triad. It's understandable why they would seek a no kinks community.
I was told that going barefoot made you get infected by hook worms and turned you into a dumbshit. I guess they were right.
At first I thought who’s being harmed?
Then I realized that photographs have ability to steal soles.
Good thing nothing like this would happen with men pretending to be women to get access to restrooms as some sort of fetish.
When I was an undergraduate at Cornell there was someone who nearly always dressed in a t-shirt and shorts and no shoes. Ithaca has long winters and it can get cold. Once when we had light snow I was surprised to see him walking across campus in low-top Chuck T's.
I've seen pictures of people in Australia out in public - including at the supermarket - in bare feet.
I've never understood the foot fetish.
Yeah. I had a buddy in the USAF. One day we were at a public pool and there was a co-ed who was very, very attractive.
I mentioned it to him. "Oh, she's cute. But look at those feet."
I laughed. Seriously?
Yes.
I go barefoot on the beach all summer long, and only wear shoes to go out other places. I finally had to go back to boots in late October, not because the water was too cold, but because the air was, and I needed long pants. I'll probably go back to shorts and barefoot in April or May, when the air temps get back to 60.
"When I was an undergraduate at Cornell there was someone who nearly always dressed in a t-shirt and shorts and no shoes. Ithaca has long winters and it can get cold. Once when we had light snow I was surprised to see him walking across campus in low-top Chuck T's."
A friend of mine went to Cornell, and his internet handle is "Barefoot."
This hobbitty nonsense is rather gross, and I suspect rather unsafe in a Western country (needles, broken glass). I have an aunt who does it in Korea, and while it's probably marginally safer there, I still find it terribly offputting.
All that said, while I do feel sorry for these people that their hobby has been invaded by fetishists, this seems like an entirely predictable outcome that one could probably have foreseen immediately after the first picture of dirty feet got uploaded into the group's feed. Or maybe it's just that my brain has been rotted by thirty years of internet culture.
boatbuilder, we got it, all right. But we're polite folk. Maybe just a private chuckle now and then.
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