For all the talk that feet are one of the leading paraphilias/partialisms, the media has always loved to harp on the negative aspect of the foot fetish.
It's actually sort of interesting to consider. Anyone who has a "foot fetish" on a TV show or a news report is lumped in with the kind of guys who'd randomly approach a woman and sniff her feet without her permission, or steal shoes, or whatever other behavior we've determined to be inappropriate. Look at the criticism the media had for Rex Ryan, the NFL coach who was accused of filming a foot fetish video with his wife as the model!
And yet at the same time, one of the most popular books in the US in the last couple years is "Fifty Shades Of Grey," a trilogy of "Twilight"-inspired books (yes, really) about a young woman who enters into a contractual BDSM relationship with her boss. Thinking a woman's feet are sexy, that's weird. But handcuffs and whipping and rough sex? Let's write mainstream books about it and turn it into a movie! (Meanwhile, plenty of people in "the know" are complaining that "Fifty Shades" is hardly a good representation of what a healthy BDSM relationship is...but apparently lots and lots of bored housewives and teens don't care.)
