Dita Von Teese, Quentin Tarantino and Tommy Lee are among the wold’s more famous foot fans; they are just three of 70 million people with this fetish.
Tess Forsyth
We tend to think of a foot fetishist simply as someone who sees feet and thinks, “Damn, look at those feet. They are fine!” But a marked sexual interest in feet, or podophilia, falls under the broader category of “paraphilias.” In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, paraphilias are defined as sexual arousal to objects, situations, or individuals that are not part of normative stimulation. This arousal, according to the manual, may even cause distress or serious problems for the fetishist. So where does the fetish come from?
The current discussion of peak oil is creating a lot of doom-and-gloom scenarios about life after our energy supply runs dry. It makes one wonder, is our future going to be less like Star Trek and more like Mad Max?
STIs, or sexually transmitted infections, have been a feared and stigmatized topic since biblical times. In contemporary times we see a prominent stigma surrounding these infections. People are often labelled as “dirty” or “overly promiscuous” due to their affiliation with STIs. These people find themselves affected by a stigma that suggests all STIs are unmanageable problems that cause a person to be tainted for life. Though stigmas have been helped along by popular culture and old literature (for example, every Shakespeare comedy written), it is often taboos that prevent communication about STIs.
The UVic tennis club hosted its sixth annual UVic Invitational Tennis Tournament Feb. 4 and 5. The club, with upwards of 80 members, sent 16 of its best to compete against visiting Canadian and American universities.
Sex without consent isn’t sex. It’s sexualized assault. Period. But how do we know when we’re engaging consensually? Better yet, how can we actively ensure enthusiastic consent in our relationships? When we actively work to ensure consent is present, we have sex where we’re communicating and enthusiastic.
In a small filing cabinet under the desk of Society for Students With a Disability (SSD) President Michael Allen-Newman, the story of Alkis Gerd’son unfolds in a stack of court records and affidavits.
Former UVic Students’ Society (UVSS) director-at-large David Foster has resigned from the Board of Directors in order to pursue legal action against the UVSS on behalf of off-campus disability advocacy group Access UVic.
On Sunday Feb. 12, everyone is invited to express compassion, care and community by participating in the fourth annual Memorial March for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.
In the early 1960s, an annual week-long event was hosted at UVic known as TWIRP Week. “The Woman Is Required to Pay” Week was an early attempt at turning the tables on patriarchy where the “women wear the trousers and the men wear the flowers.” Women across campus engaged in activities usually reserved for their male counterparts, including carrying books, buying coffee and participating in sporting events.
After more than three months of committee deliberation, the University of Victoria Student’s Society (UVSS) has passed a motion disciplining UVic’s anti-abortion club Youth Protecting Youth (YPY) for hosting the contentious “Choice Chain” demonstration in November. The demonstration featured club members standing in the quad holding large pictures of purportedly aborted fetuses with the word “choice?” overtop.
Have you forgotten to plan something extravagant for your loved one? I understand that midterms have been on your mind. Whether you’ve got to study or have a paper due, have no fear. I’ve got some great tips and activities you can do with the biggest or smallest budgets. Think outside the chocolate box.
In 2004, journalist Michael Parfit and filmmaker Suzanne Chisholm arrived on Vancouver Island to cover a stranded male orca’s reunification with his family. The reunion never happened; instead, a political fight over the whale named Luna escalated. Both realized the story was only beginning, but the last thing they expected was to become part of it.
Dita Von Teese, Quentin Tarantino and Tommy Lee are among the wold’s more famous foot fans; they are just three of 70 million people with this fetish.
Tess Forsyth
