Collectors of arcane sexual vocabulary may already know that "retifism" is the proper term for shoe fetishism, something which was perhaps most eloquently expressed by a quote from the "Rhubaiyat" of Omar Kayyam: "To kiss, dearest Saki, thy shoe's pretty tips, is better than kissing another girl's lips". Johnny Jaan captures our most earthward appendage in all its high-healed/sneakered/flip-flopped/stockinged glory, in a variety of modern- and retro-style galleries. There's also a fitting tribute here to shoe and stocking fetish photography pioneer Elmer Batters. For a more formal treatment of the subject, however, I point you towards the Curtin University of Technology (Perth, Australia) Department of Podiatry's informative History of Footwear and Foot Sex. Didn't know there was so much to learn about this sort of thing, did you?A. Tolesco

Johnny Jaan Photography (johnnyjaan.com)

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