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Tuesday, July 9, 2002
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I can't even pretend I understand this taste for retifism but this fellow writes very well about his adventures wearing women's shoes. I certainly like a women in a nice heel. I know they are bad for the body and would never advocate their use. But still, if my lover wanted to wear them who would I be to complain? Cameron Kippen discusses the shoe fetish, or retifism, in this piece from the Curtin University of Technology. Apparently "published research indicates fetishists have poorly developed social skills, are quite isolated in their lives and have a diminished capacity for establishing intimacy." I'm sure in spite of this observation there are doubtless many, if not most, retifists which are able to handle themselves in society and many who would argue with these types of declarations. Here's the Deviant's Dictionary definition of retifism where it is posited that the retifist is, at least in part, driven by the shoe as a structure of dominance. Some, such as "Boot Boy", are into dominance to the point of humiliation. Chris Flanagan has a great painting which turns this fetish into something highly charged and beautiful
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