I was a member of the Dirty Sole Society around 1996-1997. I called Maggie Scott and another female member who lived in Colorado but was from Connecticut. I contributed a list of barefooter-related websites. I was ejected by Paul Lucas who was very upset I did not first email the two women in question and that the URL's were mostly of female barefooters. I have no ill will towards gay men, however, if the DSS (now SBL) was a group of people with similar likes and (barefoot) preferences, what is wrong with contacting other members who willingly shared their contact info? I don't want this to turn into a SBL bashing session. Also, not everyone has the ability and/or comfort of being full-time barefoot (work, etc.) and posting pictures of themselves as such. On my MySpace page, I emphatically state I am NOT a foot fetishist and have had to Deny/Block many such inquiries despite my very clear warning. I simply prefer going barefoot, I like barefoot women and to me dirty feet are a sign of someone who is dedicated to being barefoot and not just slipping off shoes on the beach or grass in the park.
Do you know the real irony of it? OK, at the risk of bashing SBL I won't mention names, but the person I believe to be the new head of the SBL befriended me on Facebook and MySpace and then sent unsolicited friend requests out to any female who happened to appear barefoot in any of my pics. Now some of them weren't even barefooters, they just happened to go barefoot now and then. Anyway, I had to explain to all my friends why they were getting creepy emails from this barefoot-obsessed guy. I was told that he even sent sexual emails to a few of them. So, how could they dare kick you out for calling two girls? Do you see now why I don't even want to be associated with people like this? I just want to talk with and hang out with other young hippie-minded people who go barefoot because they don't like shoes... not because they are obsessed with feet.
You mentioned that before. I think thats not a foot fetish....anyone who goes through that kind of effort has a psych problem....a major one....