Now everyone can enjoy her new blog, completely free of money or any other sort of catch. Just the barefoot girl, and her life.

I am curious as to why she exactly left. I'm gonna take a guess here, and just say that Paul was being unrealistic. She's a true free-spirited barefooter Paul, not one of your models. She's not into it for the fetish or selling out, but for the true feeling of it. And I think that's what makes her so special.

This may be a fetish site, but you can't go around and expect everyone to cater to your own fetishes just because they fit the bill. Foot fetish =/= barefooting. In fact, I've known some barefooters who are outright offended with the idea of people jerking off to pictures of their feet. Maybe Sierra felt that way as well? I dunno.

All I know is, she's a free-spirited girl, and I think everyone deserves to observe her spirit in its entirety - not just the feet. Besides, haven't any of you seen her new baby bunny!? Everyone, on the count of...3....2....1

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww~n!

"Now everyone can enjoy her new blog, completely free of money or any other sort of catch. Just the barefoot girl, and her life."

-Yes, that's true. And that's the best for Sierra, for Paul and everyone.

"I am curious as to why she exactly left. I'm gonna take a guess here, and just say that Paul was being unrealistic. She's a true free-spirited barefooter Paul, not one of your models. She's not into it for the fetish or selling out, but for the true feeling of it. And I think that's what makes her so special."

-For a guess, I think you're guessing too much. It sounds a bit like you're judging Paul just based on a guess, on suppositions, and that seems unfair to me. I could also guess that Paul could have been paying her on the basis of certain amount of pictures posted, with certain frequence. If this was not being accomplished, I could guess also that Paul stopped paying her.

"This may be a fetish site, but you can't go around and expect everyone to cater to your own fetishes just because they fit the bill. Foot fetish =/= barefooting. In fact, I've known some barefooters who are outright offended with the idea of people jerking off to pictures of their feet. Maybe Sierra felt that way as well? I dunno."

-May be? This is a fetish site, everyone knows that, and so does Sierra. Once again, you're taking many things as certain based on plain guessing. I've never read any post by Paul suggesting Sierra how to manage her diary, or what to post. To me, it seems he gave her enough freedoom about how to make her diary work.

"All I know is, she's a free-spirited girl, and I think everyone deserves to observe her spirit in its entirety - not just the feet. "

-I agree on this. Sierra is one of a kind, a very special, kind, spontaneous and unique lady. She will share her life on her blog as far and as often as she wants to. She might even decide one day to stop posting at all, she's in her full right to keep her private life private. She is a true barefooter, and she doesn't need to prove it to anyone by publishing pictures online to gain attention.

"Besides, haven't any of you seen her new baby bunny!? Everyone, on the count of...3....2....1

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww~n! "

-Yes, it is a very cute bunny!!! :-)

I completely agree with DG. (As often, I've to say.)

But i want to add a thing, also.

Take a look here:

http://profile.imageshack.us/user/realbarefooter/

(Pics taken last week, after THREE DAYS from the last shoe , three days barefoot in woods and on rocks ... three DAYS, not three YEARS!)

I've spent many of the last years with this girl.

She is BOTH a "barefooter" and a "fetishist" (not for "feet", but for her own capability to stay barefoot: she has a HUGE, ENORMOUS "fetish" for this).

Now take a look at Sierra's foot, here:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_gpDhBIqwfY/Tg5H...00/SANY2933.JPG

Compare the two pictures, and draw your own conclusions.

Is not sierra a fetishist?
OK.
"Good for her". (?)
Is Sierra a free spirit? ... even better, for her.

But SHE'S NOT A BAREFOOTER, TOO.

Simple enough.
I know what I say.
So, all of this freedom... and all of this... teaching, is a little bit wasted.

SHe DOES HAVE the (RARE!) gift of tough, very tough soles, let's give the devil his due.
This is evidenced by a couple of old videos showing things that NOBODY BUT HER showed before on the net.

(Nobody but the girl I refer to, obviously ... take a look here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT7aP2X3LyU

)

Ok, so Sierra is... "the only girl appeared on the net who's able to run barefoot on stones without feeling (or showing?) any pain, like the ... Queen of Barefooting I've crossed my life with".

(Able to run on stones FOR SOME SECONDS, but let's suppose she can do it for one hour, why not?)

But she's not a barefooter.

She simply takes off her shoes a moment before the camera begins to take pics.

HER FEET SAY IT, despite her words say the contrary.

So any ... judjment about fetishism, given by her or given by taking her as an example, is redundant.

Flowwer




(PS: the girl I refer to runs on stones WITHOUT PROBLEMS WITH SOME THUMBTACKS PLANTED IN A BARE SOLE, but it's yet another planet.)

Sierra isn't a foot fetishist. She's likely has aretifism.

It's relatively different. I'd say, in fact, most barefooters have a case of it.

It was pretty clear: I have it too, and the girl I refer to in my previous post has it in a huge form.

But what I've said is that Sierra, thanks to that .... "feeling when she's barefoot", is TOUGH, ok. (Maybe the toughest seen around here.) But she is not a barefooter as she asserts to be.

Sierra may not fit your definition of a barefooter, but she fits mine. I certainly don't think she just took off her shoes for photoshoots. If nothing else, she was very open and shared a lot about herself, which is more than most can say.

You're kidding, right?

Flowwer must be kidding. Saying this kind of thing is attacking Sierra's honesty

I'm NOT attacking as well I'm NOT kidding.

I'm not "attacking" because I'm REPLYING.
I'm replying to a post that, more or less, says "SHE is a barefooter, YOU are fetishist".
Obviously, this is not offending in a direct way. It's an idea, and I respect anyone's ideas. But it's "making a difference", so I simply ... don't like it!
(Can I?)
So, I answer: OK about the feticism.
But SHE'S NOT A BAREFOOTER.
I DO KNOW what a barefooter is, and she's not.

And I'm not "kidding". This is not even to be demonstrated.

These are a real barefooter's BARE feet after three days without shoes:


These are a real barefooter's BARE feet after LESS THAN ONE HOUR on asphalt (at an excruciating temperature, but it's another story):


And most of all, these are a real barefooter's BARE feet after having washed them, oiled them, caressed and massaged them ... but they're BARE:


Take a look at Sierra's pics and draw your own conclusions.

Sierra's TOUGHNESS is another matter. Fully undeniable, even if not as huge as she thinks it is. An interesting subject, I repeat it, but not the subject of this post.

*sigh* You, sir, are an idiot.



What's that!? Callouses!? Well, I'll be. In case you don't believe, here's the actual link: http://cjaoov.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=48#/d307fl5

Perhaps you'd like to see them with a face?



Oh, perhaps, you haven't see this particular youtube video?

Not a barefooter still? Here's an idea: Stop acting foolish.

>> *sigh* You, sir, are an idiot.

The day I'll reply on such a basis is yet to come.
Luckily for me.



>> What's that!? Callouses!?

Wasn't talking about callousity: but rather about the EVIDENT marks of a CONTINUOUS barefooting.
And you've not understood. (...)
But I'm betraying what I wrote: anyone can draw his own conclusions.
(Just a few words about Sierra's "callousity": she ... almost have not. Just like the toughest barefooters. In fact Sierra's toughness is not in discussions: she does is tough. And toughness surely doesn't come to her from this ... "callousity", that's probably more a weak spot than a defense for her. I'm pretty convinced about it.)



>> Perhaps you'd like to see them with a face?

I'm very very sad I can't offer to this group the face of who probably is the toughest barefooter alive, if limiting to the (let's call it) "civilised world".
But she's my ex-not ex-ex-not ex-ex-not ex-ex-not ex-girlfriend: yes, we're doing the classical "fast and loose". And here, ok, I do am an idiot.