One individual vividly remembers at age 8 seeing the bare feet of his next-door neighbor as she was getting out of a car.
Thus began a life-long interest focused on women’s feet. In the same way that many heterosexual men in the dominant culture focus on breasts or buttocks as part of their arousal, this individual focuses on his partners’ feet. Over the years,he has developed interests in both shoes and stockings, but his primary interest in feet has endured. At several points in his life, he has attempted to give up the interest, throwing away his media collection of foot imagery. Each time, he became depressed, had more difficulty with erections, and decreased sexual desire, until he began to focus sexually on feet again. Over the years, he has noted that the attraction to the specific type of foot has changed, but he cannot explain why. He admits that his sexual attraction to a specific woman is dependent on her feet. Whatever the process is that leads to the creation of one’s sexual orientation, consider the possibility that nothing is created. These individuals might be described as asexual and could fit all the sexual orientation criteria, except possibly lust
