Dan Savage

Again, we don't describe a thing for asses or boobs as sexual fetishism, even though asses and boobs aren't sex organs. So they're technically non-sexual body parts. They're important secondary sex characteristics. And yeah, it's usually easy to tell, but not always possible to tell the difference between a man's ass and a woman's ass.

Again, we don't describe a thing for asses or boobs as sexual fetishism, even though asses and boobs aren't sex organs. So they're technically non-sexual body parts. They're important secondary sex characteristics. And yeah, it's usually easy to tell, but not always possible to tell the difference between a man's ass and a woman's ass.

A little easier to tell the difference between a male chest and a female chest in almost every case, but not in every case. Same goes for feet. Like boobs and butts, a thing for feet is a gendered or sexed attraction to a secondary sex characteristic.

A little easier to tell the difference between a male chest and a female chest in almost every case, but not in every case. Same goes for feet. Like boobs and butts, a thing for feet is a gendered or sexed attraction to a secondary sex characteristic.

I've never met a straight male foot fetishist who would opt for men's feet in a pinch, or a gay one who would opt for women's feet, because men's feet don't look like women's feet and vice versa. I mean, there was someone out there for a while selling fleshlights... Toys you can insert your penis into and fuck that looked like feet.

I've never met a straight male foot fetishist who would opt for men's feet in a pinch, or a gay one who would opt for women's feet, because men's feet don't look like women's feet and vice versa. I mean, there was someone out there for a while selling fleshlights... Toys you can insert your penis into and fuck that looked like feet.

It was a little disturbing because to casual observers, it looked like a severed foot, but they sold male and female versions, which means it wasn't a unisex sex toy. So all that seems to distinguish a crazy sexual fetish for a particular body part from a simple sexual attraction to a particular body part is how common that attraction is.

It was a little disturbing because to casual observers, it looked like a severed foot, but they sold male and female versions, which means it wasn't a unisex sex toy. So all that seems to distinguish a crazy sexual fetish for a particular body part from a simple sexual attraction to a particular body part is how common that attraction is.

Zooming out for a second, some gay people are really bothered when comedians make fun of a politician like Lindsey Graham or Tim Scott, both senators from South Carolina, for, well, not being gay because neither of them have ever come out as gay, but, you know, reading gay. Both men have been known to set off people's gaydar. Jokes about Lindsey Graham don't bother me.

Zooming out for a second, some gay people are really bothered when comedians make fun of a politician like Lindsey Graham or Tim Scott, both senators from South Carolina, for, well, not being gay because neither of them have ever come out as gay, but, you know, reading gay. Both men have been known to set off people's gaydar. Jokes about Lindsey Graham don't bother me.

I don't mind seeing politicians who work hard to keep homophobia alive pay a personal price for that. I don't mind seeing homophobes hoisted with their own homophobic petards. And if we can convince people there's something gay about homophobia, then homophobes will think twice before shoving their homophobia down all of our throats. But these jokes really do bother many gay people.

I don't mind seeing politicians who work hard to keep homophobia alive pay a personal price for that. I don't mind seeing homophobes hoisted with their own homophobic petards. And if we can convince people there's something gay about homophobia, then homophobes will think twice before shoving their homophobia down all of our throats. But these jokes really do bother many gay people.

I imagine there are foot fetishists out there who are bothered, who object to their sexual interests being used like this. And the HUD video isn't the first image we've seen of Trump kissing Elon Musk's feet. Imagine they object in the same way and for the same reason some gay people object to jokes about Lindsey Graham being gay.

I imagine there are foot fetishists out there who are bothered, who object to their sexual interests being used like this. And the HUD video isn't the first image we've seen of Trump kissing Elon Musk's feet. Imagine they object in the same way and for the same reason some gay people object to jokes about Lindsey Graham being gay.

But foot fetishists, they can't jump online to call out these jokes about their kink. They can't challenge the political weaponization of their kink without outing themselves. Which means most of them...

But foot fetishists, they can't jump online to call out these jokes about their kink. They can't challenge the political weaponization of their kink without outing themselves. Which means most of them...

can't come to their own defense, which is why, after watching this video, which again, if you haven't seen, consider yourself lucky, but if you want to see it, it is in our show notes, which is why today I rise in defense of foot fetishists everywhere. Donald Trump is gross. Elon Musk is disgusting. Both men are dangerous.

can't come to their own defense, which is why, after watching this video, which again, if you haven't seen, consider yourself lucky, but if you want to see it, it is in our show notes, which is why today I rise in defense of foot fetishists everywhere. Donald Trump is gross. Elon Musk is disgusting. Both men are dangerous.

Sucking someone's big toe is neither gross nor disgusting or a danger to anyone else. And people with a thing for feet, while rarer than people with a thing for butts or boobs, they're not the gross and disgusting freaks we need to be worried about right now.

Sucking someone's big toe is neither gross nor disgusting or a danger to anyone else. And people with a thing for feet, while rarer than people with a thing for butts or boobs, they're not the gross and disgusting freaks we need to be worried about right now.