Like many others, I have a foot fetish.  However, I have not been able to find any information as to they why's of this fetish, even in terms of speculation.  I really would like to better understand this aspect of myself and others.

Does anyone have any information on this or know of a good source to research?

-Hoot.

sucking your big toe instead of your thumb while in your mother's womb

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is simply association.  A basic conditioned response.  (Pavlov's dogs salivating at the sound of the bell is the most well known example)

Sexual fetishes usally begin early on, since your hormones are racing, and you don't have much control over when you cimax.  Essentially the last thing which you were thinking about or doing prior to having an orgasm will now have a conditioned response of being a turn on.  You associate the artical, action, sound, or whatever with the feeling of an orgasm.   The more often you use the same scenerio, the more dependant you will become on it for achieving an orgasm.  

A benign fetish (such as the foot fetish you have) really isn't a problem unless it gets in the way of your normal sexual funcitioning, and you find yourself unable to climax or become aroused without it.

If that is the case, and you want to break the habit, you may want to try switching your thought pattern to something more common right before you climax.  Work on lengthening the distance between your foot thoughts and your climax, and you will eventually begin to find the more 'normal' thought patterns become associated with your orgasm.

A much harsher way is to use aversion therapy on yourself.  Tempt yourself with the stimulus, but as soon as you begin to get aroused, do something which causes you pain or which you find extrememly unpleasant.  This is a difficult one to do to yourself, because you have to be strong enough to follow through on it every time, and not get tempted to allow any of the good feelings, much less achieving an orgasm come out of it.  Make sure that you don't cause any damage though.  You just want to begin associating the fetish with a negative response, wich will eventually cause your reaction to the stimulus to become neutral or possibly even negative (Just make sure that you 'punish' yourself well before you have any hope of achieving an orgasm, otherwise you may begin to associate pain with having an orgasm -S&M)

If you want to read up more on it, any Psych books on Behaviour modification should be sufficient or aversion therapy should be useful.

very good early comfort - psychological.
sexual- womens feet like the rest of their bodies were covered and concealed and cross the span of cultures such tender secrets were reverred and hot spots to say the least.
Any fetish can be debated by the medical comm and the lifestyle kink comm as to its origins. I think like anything else its a very personal matter only you know where it started for you personally.
Me.. it turns me to putty. But I have a high fetish for it as well. After 11 years as a Domme and men starting on my feet before going anywhere else.. it has a way of getting to ya.

Probably because it is somewhat a forbidden area that is considered dirty.  I share your FF and love nothing better than fucking a great pair of feet.

As far as I know, no one really knows why we are turned on by some of the things we are turned on by.   Don't worry about it to much, just enjoy it!! I as well have a foot fetish and just look forward to the times when I can indulge it.

First I truly believe that whatever gave you your first sexual excitment, will turn into your fetish.  Like an additcive drug you always want to get that first high.  My ex-roommate a therapist told me this - when you are a little pervy-child around 2,  you are at crotch-height. You get excited looking at someones crotch and then from embaressment you look down at your feet, so later in life excitment = feet.

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http://podiatry.curtin.edu.au/fetish.html

esp the part about having a fear of the vulva (and the fetish being a substitute for the vulva).  I wouldn't say that I had a fear, but when I was very young (under 16) I was repulsed by pictures of the vulva, but was attracted to breasts as long as I can remember. I was attracted to feet at an early age, but sometime after being attracted to breasts.  The vagina came later.

http://www.yoni.com/loverf/vulvaintro.shtml