| QUOTE (Southerncrossfire44 @ Sep 7 2024, 06:14 AM) |
| I think that while the overall demographic of people who have a foot fetish of some kind is fairly large (at least as to other fetishes), the specific subset of people who like feet that are dirty from walking outdoors is fairly small. Even so, it's still a reasonable number worldwide, given that there are people here on this forum from a number of different countries. The real problem I think is in generating content. If you just want to see clean feet in an apartment where the girl pulled off her shoes and socks right before the camera came out and will put them back on again immediately after, those girls are a dime a dozen across social media and other websites. It's even easier to find if you don't need to see a face. On the other hand, outdoor, dirty feet content requires either a professional model doing a job, or actual, real life barefooters. The models (rightfully) expect to get paid fair rates, as Pavel or The Feetosopher will tell you. The real life barefooters might post stuff for a little while, but they almost always eventually get turned off by the attention they get from fetishists. Since it's not a sexual thing for the real life barefooters, they get sick of the comments asking them to crush bugs, or step in dog turds, or whatever. So basically, you end up with pay sites that struggle along until the financial losses are too much and they shut down, and real life barefooters who post for free, but disappear quickly because of the creep factor. Also, old school internet forums like this one are a dying breed, even if the subject is popular. Anyway, just my thoughts on the situation. |
Brilliant analysis, amico.. I fully agree with that!
And great to see that you are still active on this forum every once in a while .. I pop up here very rarely.If I had to rely exclusively on "real life 24/7/365 genuine female barefooters" to produce material for Barefoot Urban Girls.. the site would simply not exist (well, I am pretty sure that someone here would have been very happy about that!
).There is a widespread misbelief about "hired models on barefooting paysites" to debunk.
Myself, Hal, Pavel do not pay modelling fees to convince to walk barefoot in the streets women who would never do that, even less so for free. Except for barefooting comfortably on very harsh terrains and/or blazing hot surfaces for a long time (there is just an extremely tiny minority of women in the "civilized" world who are able to do that), plenty of "normal" women can walk barefoot in city streets in "ordinary conditions" for hours without any difficulty. I can be 100% sure about that because most of the girls that I have shot for Barefoot Urban Girls in over 20 years can be labelled as attractive "normal" women.
A major barrier to recruiting new talent for barefooting-themed paysites is the "socio-cultural stigma" attached to barefooting in public in the "civilized" world. Most women are afraid of appearing gross, uncharming, etc. to the average male or female observer if they walk barefoot in the city with filthy soles.
Another major barrier is the (fully understandable) reluctance of many women to authorise the publication on the web of pictures and videos that portray them in such a "socio-culturally improper" activity.
Add dirty feet close-ups, full awareness that the pictures and videos are clearly intended to serve as jerk-off material for guys, and the fact that a part of that stuff will stay on the web FOREVER, no matter if you have become, say, Prime Minister.. well, you have a truly unsavory mix to digest for most ladies.
The modelling fees that we "barefooting porn producers" pay to models are mostly an incentive to ignore that very socio-cultural stigma, and to win that very reluctance.
