Erotic and sadomasochistic foot and shoe

Abstract

The foot is an erotic symbol of great power for primitive peoples as well as in highly advanced societies. The foot has always been a badly- treated organ, at the same time an inexhaustible source of contradictory praise and disparagement. The foo t and the shoe are inseparable. Since more than 1000 years, the shoe is a sexual symbol and serves as a sexual mode of communication, because it is the cover of the erotic foot. The fetishism of the foot and the shoe has aroused marks of delirious love, always sensual, sometimes mystical. Foot sadomasochism, is a very ancient sexual perversion that consists in taking pleasure in inflicting physical pain to oneself or to others. © Springer-Verlag Paris 2006.