Sir, I am surprised by the accusations of my friend Igor Rezun of fabricating fakes. Of course, it's a matter of taste. If you don't like young girls, it's a little weird, but it's up to you. If you think that the beginning of the site was good, and the current state is bad, it is your right to think so. But why did you so easily agree with the accusation against him of faking interviews?

Dear DG, I respect you very much as an enthusiast, a good photographer and a good writer. I also noticed long ago that you stand for the peaceful resolution of conflicts, mutual respect and tolerance. Therefore, I appeal to you the complaint of Igor Rezun. Nastya Deniris is a very heavy person. Rezun says that it was hard for him to interview her. “She behaved somehow strangely, sometimes got angry for no reason,” he recalls. Perhaps they had a dispute over some phrases. But this does not mean that the entire interview was fake, which follows from your words. I ask you to remember what exactly Nastya accuses Rezun of. After all, you did not provide any links. I searched the entire site and did not find her statement about this. Maybe she complained to you privately? I beg you to explain why you had the impression that Rezun was to blame for Nastya in some way, so that he could answer all the reproaches.

I have just discovered this topic. Thank you for your kind words addressed to the website "Barefoot in Russia" and its owner Igor Rezun. I generally like your contribution to the forum, I have long noticed that we are on the same wavelength. Rezun has been engaged in barefootography since 2000, his site, founded in 2004, has shown approximately 300 models, has published 2,500 galleries, and enjoys 20,000 visits per month. In addition to his own creativity, Rezun provided materials on foreign barefooting on his website. Among them is a photo report from Scotland that you have found. But this is only a small part of the content of this site, which, unfortunately, has not been working since March 2019 for technical reasons. True, in July last year a new website was created https://newrbfeet.ru/ , there is also a Facebook page of the Studio “Russian Bare Feet” https://www.facebook.com/groups/906540522764343/ and the private Facebook page of Igor Rezun https://www.facebook.com/igor.rezoon?sk=about§ion=year-overviews&lst=100011200451720%3A1064247593%3A1595303826. And most importantly, you can get acquainted with all the photos taken over the entire time, at this link https://newrbfeet.ru/category/arhiv/. Not every webmaster can view such a huge number of photos for free! The site contains not only photos, but also interviews with famous barefooters that Rezun did until 2018. Unfortunately, there is no access to these publications right now. Something can be found by a special method in the archives of the Internet. But a lot has been lost forever. This activity has now been taken over by another person, Vladimir Zalessky, but his contribution to this heading is still insignificant.
In 2011, during a photo shoot in an abandoned building, retreating to fit the model into the frame, Rezun fell through the dilapidated floor and was seriously injured. His pelvic bones were crushed, he underwent six difficult operations, wears an implant in his body. But his work remains as optimistic and his enthusiasm and admiration for the beauty of a barefoot woman has not been affected. What other barefootographer has made such great sacrifices for the sake of art?
Yes, his method is slightly different from other barefootographers. He does not use ready-made models, but educates them. He has children, girls and mature women in a ratio of approximately 20: 50: 30 percent. But he never uses prostitutes as models. He stands for the popularization of foot fetish, for taking it out of the underground. Foot fetish is legal, it is not banned in any country in the world. Stop being afraid! This is his message. In everything that Rezun does, children under 18 can also participate. In life, he is a school teacher and author of role games. One of these games, which lasted for 10 years, was actually the Novosibirsk Association of Barefooters. Through it, he was able to attract many models for barefoot photographs. So far, Rezun has not had any trouble for filming minors. Of course, he always asked for parental consent. A written contract was drawn up with all the models that he shot (and in the case of minors, with their parents). What Rezun does is really both a project and a lifestyle. But it has also an erotic component. Of course, men also participated in the activities of the Association, and this is reflected in its photo chronicle, which was almost completely cancelled along with the Association itself by his personal decision in the winter of 2017, simply because he was tired of this game and others replaced it, but he used almost exclusively women in the art photography and, of course, he shot and shoots them in a different way than for the chronicle. Let me quote him: “We are convinced that a person who is inclined to barefoot walking, whether he is a man or a woman, cannot help but feel the eroticism of this process, the process of demonstrating his or her bare feet. The opposite would be contrary to both the theory of sexuality and common sense. We are struggling to ensure that foot-fetish moods (desires, motivations, products) get out of the category of socially “condemned”, “forbidden”, considered as “deviation” and so on. We stand for complete freedom of a person's sexual choice, his sexual preferences, for the legalization of a person's choice of a form in which his sexuality manifests." He expresses these thoughts publicly, realizes openly his sexual preferences and nevertheless is a well-known, respected person in his city. Thank you for reading my long message.

Hey, thanks for mentioning this forum here. I´ve checked it out and can say now that there are tons of interesting content. As for the language barrier, isn´t it time we took up Russian?

You are welcome.

It gives me the impression that aretifism is especially active in Russia. The difference between aretifism and foot fetish is, that aretifism is about barefoot.

I am not sure if it is because that Russia is much colder than other countries, so feet are hidden in shoes for much longer time. As a result, the desire to see barefoot is stronger. There are other cold countries like Canada, but the population is much smaller compared to Russia.

I guess that in hot countries where barefoot are easily seen, the percentage of aretifism or even foot fetish is smaller. Anyone from India, Southeast Asia can verify or disprove this?

In general, aretifism is only a small group compared to foot fetish. From my observation, the largest group of foott fetish is about Stockings, which I strongly dislike.