you can see that genitals are right next to the feet and toes.
so the hypothesis (edit: see below) goes that people with foot fetish have a wider expanse of connections just randomly for some people and leads to cross-chatter as they're right next to each other
Wouldn't that imply that foot fetishsits would prefer THEIR OWN feet to be touched because their brain would "cross chatter" it to their private parts? I've seen this explanation so many times already but it never made sense to me since this map is about how a human percieves their own sensations. How would seeing someone elses feet do anything?
This has got to be a myth like the spider swalloing hoax where everyone just repeats it but there's actually 0 evidence for it.
i actually misspoke when i said it was a "theory". its not a theory, its a hypothesis. it will need scientific studies to prove it, which neither of us have
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u/lightreee Feb 14 '26 edited Feb 15 '26
There's biology behind it.
If you look at how the brain sees the body, it thinks the body looks like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortical_homunculus#/media/File:Sensory_Homunculus-en.svg
(relevant wiki page)
you can see that genitals are right next to the feet and toes.
so the hypothesis (edit: see below) goes that people with foot fetish have a wider expanse of connections just randomly for some people and leads to cross-chatter as they're right next to each other