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Foot: A Playful Biography

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This is a small hardcover book, and very short at about 50 pages. It's NOT a foot fetishist book (especially considering that there are only about 5 or 6 photos of women's feet within), it really is what the title conveys: a concise bio of the foot and footwear in history, from the ancients up to a brief mention of the Internet foot fetish craze. If you can get it used here (I found it under one of the marketplace sellers for like $3.50) it's worth it for the short read. Truth be told, the factoids that make up the text are usually basic common knowledge thingies like Chinese footbinding, descriptions of foot diseases, shoe crazes through history and snippets from poems that mention feet. I was actually interested in more on the erotica of female feet but can't blame Ms. Vanderlinden (a children's book author apparently!) since this wasn't the goal. A very nice format and a curiosity for the shelf...if you're ready for your houseguests' questions, especially when they see the "playful" jacket photo.

Another book for my library in psychology turned out to be mildly disappointing. Although this book does provide some insight into the novel subject of podophilia, after cross referencing some other books written prior to this one in the same genre, it becomes obvious that these passages were either paraphrased or quoted in this book. There is way too many visuals and they distract from the elegance of the book. This had a great potential to be something useful, but it goes down hill quickly. Save your money and pick up William H Rossi's, The Sex Life of the Foot and Shoe instead....