What does the Bible say about having a fetish?<\/a>\u00a0You used the word “fetish” to describe your desire, but I suspect that after you read the article you are thinking that is too strong of a term to describe your behavior and thoughts. While feet are sexually arousing to you, it isn’t that sexual behavior with your wife can only be expressed through her feet. It is for this reason that I think you used too strong of a label for yourself.<\/p>\nI am also going to disagree with you about being born with this fetish. Children are not sexual when they are born. In normal situations, a child is not really aware of sex as a personal matter until after puberty. Now you might have been fascinated with feet for as long as you can remember, but that is not the same as a fetish.<\/p>\n
What can happen, and likely happened in your case, is that during puberty when the awareness of sex came into being, your fascination with feet became tied to your sexual desire. At puberty, the brain has new functions to operate, but it has no experience. A human learns by first overgeneralizing what is new, and then pruning off what doesn’t fit. Thus, as you learned to express your sexual desire included in that was your fascination with feet.<\/p>\n
In some ways, you saw it as a safe outlet. You weren’t lusting after any particular person, you weren’t staring at the parts of people normally associated with sex, it didn’t lead to pornography, so it became a “safe” indulgence.<\/p>\n
In many ways, this is a deviation from typical male behavior. Some guys get fascinated by a woman’s breasts, others by a woman’s bottom. You just picked a slightly more unusual area. So long as you don’t let it control your behavior, just consider it one of your quirks. But at the same time, realize that as you indulge in pleasuring yourself while focused on feet, you are reinforcing that tie and it is possible to do so to the point that you aren’t interested in intercourse, only in masturbating to the thoughts of feet. That is a fetish and crosses the line into being wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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