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France - Ladies' wooden shoe
with upturned toe and fur ring - 16th Century
Innumerable corroborations in ethnographic and folklore studies
learn that the shoe has been worn for thousands of years as a sex
symbol and an article of sex communication, because it is the housing
for the erotic foot. Shoes are designed and worn, consciously or
subconsciously, to convey psycho-sexual messages. While the foot
has always been a phallic symbol, the shoe has been a yoni or a
vulva symbol. Over countless centuries the shoemaker and the shoe,
contrary to any other profession, has been a fond and favoured character
of poets, philosophers, storytellers, artists, composers and balladeers.
The effect of sexual mating in above shoe is obvious. With a fur
ring put around the phallus-like upturned toe part, a woman indicated
to a man that she was prepared to mate. |
Research and text by : W.A.H.M. Habraken-Oosterhout-Holland