It was in March 2016 when I dove into the adult fetish industry and was regularly posting photos of myself on Instagram. I wore tights and stockings, latex outfits, socks, high heels, leather, etc. I posted them because I looked pretty and sexy dressed like that. One day, I received a comment from one of my followers asking me if I could sell him the socks I was wearing that day.

I couldn’t believe it. This man was ready to pay for my sweaty socks? I spent a few minutes researching this fetish on Google, and I realised that this man was not an isolated case. 
After negotiating the reasonable price of 60 euros per pair, I decided to proceed with the transaction, and so began my one-year relationship with a man I called Sock Daddy. 
He asked me to add him on Snapchat and I started sending him snap photos of my feet that were visible for 10 seconds. In return, he sent me a few shirtless selfies. He was a fairly young, normal looking man, who told me he was going to the Ecole de commerce in Paris. 

 Foot fetishes are common, and there is evidence that this particular interest has existed for a very long time. For example, consider the Chinese practice of foot binding, which was recorded for the first time over a millennium ago and is considered as a widespread form of foot worship.

These days, sock fetishes are likely less popular than shoe or lingerie fetishes based on their respective representations in porn and eroticism. But everything associated with a sexualised part of the body is popular, and anything that captures the fragrances and fluids associated with this body part will also have its share of fans. 
But there are simple fans, and gentlemen eager to pay dearly for the object of their fantasy and desire. How much would you pay to own Napoleon’s hat, Jimi Hendrix’s guitar, or Ronaldo’s soccer shoes? We give value to objects that have been used by people that we desire and admire, as if the object was impregnated with this person. Owning an object that represents our heroes enables us to feel closer to them.

This is how I became the girl who sells her used socks on the internet. I asked a cam girl friend who sells her underwear on her personal website what she thought about all of this. She told me that most of her clients were “very afraid to start, but once they started buying her lingerie or worn clothing, they could no longer stop”. She also said that those who had seen her physically have a stronger connexion than the other clients. It’s a submissive relationship that makes them come back more and more, she told me. However, foot fetishists, in her experience, will generally buy objects worn by many women, as they are rarely satisfied with only one woman.

After Sock Daddy made the payment, he kept asking if the socks I was going to send him were “safe”, that I shouldn’t wash them, and that nobody else could touch them. I asked him why it was so important that they were dirty and unwashed, and he told me that he enjoyed the challenging of making something very dirty again. 
 After I sent them to him, I kept thinking that it was an easy and comfortable way to earn €180 for 3 pairs of €15 socks, but there was another reason why I did it. The truth is that I was incredibly flattered that a perfect stranger thought that my feet, which I’ve never found to be very beautiful, were incredibly sexy.