My strange encounter with foot fetishists

Around five years ago I started to receive requests online for photos of and details about my feet. I’ve been asked for foot pictures intermittently ever since. Most of the gentlemen are upfront about what they’re after (‘send foot pic plz’), but one man went above and beyond in his pursuits. Posing as an academic, he sent several emails to my work account claiming dozens of women in the British media had submitted their shoe size to help him with a research project. He was just waiting for my details to finish his ground-breaking study. Although I never responded, I commend his efforts.

I was never able to work out what triggered this attention from foot fetishists, but now I think I’ve figured it out. In the course of doing ‘research’ for an article running in the magazine, my Spectator colleagues recently stumbled across wikiFeet, the internet’s largest ‘collaborative celebrity feet website’, home to unlimited foot content.