Wait to you find out how they measure the 6 inch ones.

It's Footlong® not foot-long. Not to be confused with an actual measurement or size guarantee.

Footlong sandwiches have nothing to do with the body part "foot".

They hardly have anything to do with the measurement "foot" since they are like 10.5 inches (~26cm) now or something (as opposed to the 30ish centimeters that make a foot).

This is part of the enshittificaton of Subway.

Their cookies are still dope tho.

How about a sandwich shop where you can order a Big Italian?

That explains it from a having your feet played with side, but not really from the finding feet hot side.

it's also just a reaction to sexually transmitted epidemics, interestingly enough.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9819924/

I think the more important overlap is in the brain itself. We have known that regions of cortex that register genital stimulation are adjacent to/overlap with the area hat registers foot stimulation since Penfield did the first mapping of cortex in the 1930s.

In answer to "that's true for perception, but why the excitement for looking" lays in that the homuncular representation is not a simple one. We know that there are multiple homuncululi tied to different types of perception, and there is more modern work that ties the planning and goal systems to the functional centres around key points of the homonculi. The physical closeness of the two is possibly responsible for the mingling of the two representations. Back in the day there was even a mechanism for it - "ephaptic excitation" - where axons running in a bundle could activate neighbouring fibres through changing the ionic composition of the fluid around them.

I have to agree with this one. I acknowledge that feet are indeed connected to genitalia via nerves, but I highly, highly doubt that's the reason that viewing a woman's bare feet makes some men horny. I don't think the foot fetish is about her and/or her nerves or pleasure at all. It's a simple matter of getting to see an often delicate looking body part that is usually concealed, and being allowed to interact with them in a sexual way. I'm more of a butt/thighs/hips guy, myself.

I've always just assumed it's because uncovered feet are vaugely intimate

Especially when they're in my mouth

don't forget the shame. the wrongness of it is very much part of it. like, most people think feet are kind of gross, so it feels taboo to like them. taboo is one of the strongest things in fetishes. "this is so wrong/dirty" is a powerful thought for the horny mind.

honestly, if/when society becomes more accepting of foot fetishes i bet that will actually decrease the number of people that have one. if society stops shaming them it likely won't get them off the same way.

I've yet to meet a woman who wasn't into a good foot-rub. It's my go-to opening move for the Netflix-and-Chill date and rarely fails to end in us at least making out. I never really got "foot-fetish" as a guy thing. It struck me more as a girl thing, with women using "rub my feet" as an excuse to initiate intimacy. And some guys just decided if a woman was showing any amount of feet, she must be coming on to him.

I mean that’s basically the idea behind any societal view which dictates that women should cover any particular part of their body, it’s not that muslim people inherently find hair sexy, it’s the societal norms which attached an intimate meaning to hair.

I think the issue isn't the presentation of hair, but of femininity. And the more extreme interpretations of this (hardly unique to Islam - Puritanical Christians, orthodox Jews, and other more fanatical patriarchal faiths also demand women hide themselves) are about disguising any aspect of a person that might lead to a man being aroused. Eventually, you're just shoving women into an entirely separate room, because the presumption is that men have zero self-control in any social setting.

so when you go to the beach or pool with friends it's intimate?

I appreciate them for making kicking nazis easier

miss the old days