Footsies
Footsies (also footsy or footsie) is a flirting game where two people touch feet under a table or otherwise concealed place, often as a romantic prelude. It is a game played either as an act of flirtatious body language, or simply for enjoyment. Although footsies is not inherently romantic, the nature of it as playful touching is often done between romantic partners as a sign of affection, and most often without discussion. The term comes from a 1940s humorous diminutive of foot.[1]
Effects
[edit]In a 1994 study on secret relationships, participants (college students from the US) played a partnered card game in which a subset were instructed to play footsies with their card playing partner.[2] Of these, individuals whose footsies was kept a secret rated the attractiveness of their partner significantly higher than either those who did not play footsies, or those whose footsies was publicly known.[3]
In popular culture
[edit]American comics author Robert Crumb published an autobiographic comic strip named "Footsy" in 1987[4] which deals with "his teenager encounters with the feet of various lusty creatures at school" and is a "typically self-lacerating portrayal of one of Crumb's myriad sexual fetishes".[5][6]
See also
[edit]References
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- ↑ "Footsie". oxforddictionaries.com. Archived from the original on June 26, 2013. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
- ↑ Bryan Marquard. "Daniel M. Wegner, 65; Harvard social psychologist unraveled mysteries of thought and memory". The Boston Globe. Retrieved April 15, 2015.
- ↑ Wegner DM, Lane JD, Dimitri S (1994). "The allure of secret relationships". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 66 (2): 287–300. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.66.2.287. Retrieved April 15, 2015.
- ↑ Lan Dong: Teaching Comics and Graphic Narratives: Essays on Theory, Strategy and Practice, McFarland & Company, 2012, p. 21
- ↑ The Return of Robert Crumb, Time, August 20, 2002
- ↑ The Complete Crumb, Vol. 16