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''' | ''Diana’s breast is charming, brothers,'' | ||
''And Flora’s cheek, I quite agree'' | |||
''But I prefer above these others'' | |||
''The foot of sweet Terpsichore.'' | |||
—Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin | |||
==Foot aesthetics== | ==Foot aesthetics== | ||
Straight toes are attractive in both sexes. Toes that bend inward are unattractive and may be the result of wearing shoes that are too narrow. It could also be the result of a poor [[gait]]. However, if your feet are the only thing wrong with you, you're not actually an incel. | Straight toes and curved arches are attractive in both sexes. Toes that bend inward are unattractive and may be the result of wearing shoes that are too narrow. It could also be the result of a poor [[gait]]. However, if your feet are the only thing wrong with you, you're not actually an incel. | ||
===Callouses=== | ===Callouses=== | ||
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==Female feet== | ==Female feet== | ||
The | Smaller feet are generally preferred in women.[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17879647/] They may be preferred for their supposed femininity, due to sexual dimorphism in foot size, or as a neotenous characteristic.[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15971009/] One notable exception to the general preference for smaller feet are the Karo Batak people in Indonesia, who consider women with larger feet more sexually appealing. Locals were presented with drawings of women, identical save for subtle variations in foot size, and asked to rate them on their attractiveness. Both men and women rated the larger-footed women as most attractive and the smaller-footed women as least attractive. One villager was overhead saying: "Why would anyone like a woman with small feet? How would she work in the rice field?". Other cultures exhibiting the same trend include Cambodia, Papua New Guinea and Tanzania, which may indicate a preference for larger female feet in agricultural societies.[https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=170221] | ||
The preference for smaller feet may not take into account objective shoe size so much as the size of the feet relative to the woman's height. Women wearing shoes too small for them was also considered unappealing.[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312570759_Podolinguistics_a_different_perspective_What_do_men_really_think_about_women%27s_shoes_and_feet] | |||
== Male feet == | |||
Larger<ref>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17879647/</ref> or average-sized<ref>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15971009/</ref> feet are generally preferred in men. Men can fall into a bad habit of neglecting their feet, but women will appreciate it if you keep them relatively smooth and presentable. | |||
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
*[[:Category:Aesthetics|List of aesthetics]] | *[[:Category:Aesthetics|List of aesthetics]] | ||