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Can't go nowhere with you,'Cause your feet's too bigCan't get into bed next to you,'Cause your feet's too bigCan't stand you'Cause your feet's too bigCan't tolerate you'Cause your feet's too big.
In the song,“Your Feet's Too Big,” Fats Waller crooned an ageless story: The foot is often viewed as a monstrous, malformed, and malodorous appendage totally lacking in utility, charm, or sex appeal. Why this eternal castigation of the foot? Consciously, we are aware that the foot serves invaluable functional use in ambulation and stability; without it, normal movement would be impossible. Yet, the foot's purpose stays in the closet, and we continue to either scotomatize its existence or denigrate it with jokes or hostile expressions. Although the reasons for assailing our bad, smelly, and dirty feet may at first appear enigmatic, some light on the foot's denigration may beshed by a study of language, mythology, psychoanalytic literature, and clinical work.
The emotional reactions we have to our feet range from extreme disdain to erotic pleasure. The enormous sensual arousal in having one's feet rubbed by a partner is detailed in many current sexual