Toe Cleavage Gets Foot Fetishist Hot

A foot fetishist may be on the loose in Cambridge. He seems mostly harmless and is more interested in taking pictures of toe cleavage, so don't be alarmed if you see him sniffing around your sexy open-toed summer shoes.

At first, this story seemed more like 10 o'clock news material, so we were surprised to see the Globe getting in on the foot fetish action. They focus on a yoga instructor who unknowingly showed the foot fetishist some yoga stretches (isn't that the way all these stories start?), and he took off her sock, took cellphone pictures of her foot, and tried to hug her.

When police arrived, they had a little chat with the footsie-lover and found that a) he lives in Watertown and imports his fetish to Cambridge and b) he likes feet more than a Sex and the City staff writer. In fact, he had 21 pictures of female feet on his cell phone.

Another woman claims that the man touched her feet at Neena's Lighting back in April. He asked for a "foot light" (so clever!) and tried to translate his request by taking his shoe off and somehow getting her to take her shoe off. In foot-fetish-speak, does that mean he got to second base? Anyway, he made the uninvited gesture of massaging her foot.

It's Cambridge, so most people are going to shrug at the sight of a foot sniffer or just let him do his thing as is their wont. He must be going wild at sniffling the foot sweat of vegans and crunchy granolas in flip flops. Come to think of it, Cambridge might be a foot fetishist's heaven if they are into the whole natural thing.

Image from Wikimedia Commons from Ottilia Luther.