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Aretifism is a sexual attraction to people who are without footwear. While such people are necessarily barefoot, wearing transparent hosiery, or wearing shoes or sandals without socks, the attraction is usually not to the foot but to its naked vulnerability.

[edit] Explanations of Aretifism

• Historically, lack of shoes was associated with submission before authority by servants and slaves. Likewise, aretifism is often associated with the D/s aspect of BDSM.
• Another explanation could be that the individual in question loves the idea of feeling dirt, grass and soil under their feet. He might also find society's ideas surrounding footwear to be constraining; but instead of acting out that desire on his own, he stimulates it by developing a sexual fetish towards walking and seeing barefoot people.

[edit] See also

• Sexual fetishism
• Retifism
• Foot fetishism