Language

The Lexicon

The Lexicon preserves the language of the Lifestyle — its words, concepts and traditions. It records meaning; it never prescribes practice. Where usage varies between Houses or lineages, each is set down with equal respect.

Practices

Feet Worship

The tradition of expressing consensual admiration, service or devotion focused on the feet.

Definition

Feet Worship, sometimes written Foot Worship, is a family of consensual practices in which admiration, service or devotion is focused on the feet. It ranges from brief attentive acts within a scene to sustained ritual practice within a dynamic, and appears across many traditions in Leather, BDSM and consensual authority communities.

Historical background

Feet Worship has a long presence in fetish culture and has been widely acknowledged within educational literature and community practice since the modern development of BDSM as an organised subculture.

Discussion

The line between Feet Worship as fetish, as service and as ceremony varies between individuals and communities. Multiple orientations are widely accepted.

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