>>7924480>>7928856>>7991512>>7993107The more accurate and peddled explanation I have seen for it is that the sexual attraction to feet are placed in a specific location in the sensory map of your brain, right next to where the genitals would be. So your horny brain recognizes feet to be pretty much right next to the genitals.
Also read a nice little passage, in the old days, like 300-10000 years ago, you would not be expected to be barefoot, except if you were a peasant maybe. Everyone wore footwear, and to be caught barefoot and to show your feet to everyone else was considered lewd and promiscuous, simply because feet are not something that people usually show.
It's like the forbidden body part, a part of the body that is always concealed, now couple that with the social stigma and implications of barefeet, and the fact people with foot fetish most often than not have, "crossed wires" in their brains that make them like feet, you'll find historically we have liked feet for a long time.
People think the fetish is degen, the fetishists are often obnoxious and so forth. While in todays day and age that's pretty true, people even in the middle ages have been appreciating feet for quite a long time. It's just how we work as humans.
Another thing to add; High Heels. Created by men, for men, to make them taller. Realize that showing your feet is "feminine," as women jump onto the fashion trend and popularize it. Now you have women wearing high heels, it makes them taller and it profiles their feet, exposing most of everything but their sole. Now people call high heels, "elegant," and "sexy", when women wear them. I wonder why.