I mean, you're not exposing your sex organs! Just your feet. Yeah, soles are supersensitive by design (no hooves, claws, etc) but EVERY FUCKING BODY has them. What's to goggle? So much human behavior is pre-determined by social rules, conformity, and groupthink. Fuck it! Go bare!
I wish more people would go barefoot but with social media saying that going barefoot is bad for your feet and shoe company say that wearing shoes will help you with back pain and with hammer toes and fallen arches . But wearing shoes gives you back pain and hammer toes and fallen arches and bunions . When I wore shoes my back would hurt and my feet would hurt my knees. But when I would go barefoot I wouldn’t hurt so I started going barefoot more and more and then I told myself I will not wear socks or shoes unless I have to so I started my barefoot lifestyle and I have asked foot doctors and most of them would tell me that going barefoot is really really bad for you because you might step in broken glass or really sharp things or even lite cigarettes and that can cause a lot of health problems. But a few told me no going barefoot is the best way to have healthy feet and no back, hips, knees, or having hammer toes or bunions. I will never change my barefoot lifestyle for anything I love it and I wish more and more people would go barefoot everywhere and see what they are missing out on and feel and see the health benefits of going barefoot.
People just need to try going barefoot and see how natural it feels and not believe everything social media says about going barefoot is bad for you .
I go barefoot as much as possible. My foot ankle, and knee problems faded away. It makes all those parts work as intended, not insulated in a comfy, squishy shoe.
I Googled it .... I still think the only way the barefoot revolution will take place is to promote it as a sport. "" Promoting barefooting as a sport is generally more effective—and less problematic—than promoting it as a lifestyle or counterculture for several key reasons: 1. Clear boundaries and purpose When barefooting is framed as a sport, it has defined contexts: training, competition, technique, and performance. This makes it easier for the public to understand when and why people are barefoot. By contrast, presenting barefooting as a lifestyle or counterculture blurs boundaries. It implies being barefoot everywhere, all the time, which can feel intrusive, impractical, or ideological to outsiders. 2. Reduced social resistance Sports are socially accepted deviations from the norm. People expect athletes to do unusual things in the name of performance—think of gymnasts’ chalked hands or swimmers shaving body hair. A countercultural framing can trigger defensiveness: It challenges social norms It can be interpreted as moralizing (“shoes are bad”) It invites conflict with businesses, schools, and public spaces Sport framing lowers friction because it doesn’t question everyday norms—it just creates a specific exception. 3. Stronger credibility and legitimacy Sports rely on: Evidence (training methods, biomechanics) Measurable outcomes (speed, balance, endurance) Institutions (clubs, competitions, coaching) This gives barefooting external validation. People are more likely to take it seriously when it’s associated with performance improvement and athletic discipline rather than personal ideology or identity. 4. Better alignment with science and health discourse Barefoot sport can be discussed in neutral, evidence-based terms: Foot strength Proprioception Injury prevention or adaptation Surface-specific training Lifestyle promotion often drifts into absolutist claims (“shoes cause all foot problems”), which are easy to criticize and harder to defend scientifically. 5. Avoids stigma and stereotypes Countercultures often get stereotyped as: Anti-social Anti-establishment Unhygienic or unsafe A sport identity reframes barefooting as disciplined, intentional, and goal-oriented, countering common negative assumptions. 6. Easier pathways for newcomers A sport offers a low-commitment entry point: “Try this drill barefoot” “Train on grass once a week” “Join a club or event” A lifestyle pitch can feel like an all-or-nothing identity shift, which discourages curiosity and experimentation. 7. Long-term sustainability Sports evolve through rules, standards, and adaptation. This allows barefooting to: Integrate with existing athletic communities Coexist with footwear rather than oppose it Scale without provoking backlash Countercultures often burn bright but stall due to internal purity tests or external pushback. s framing makes barefooting easier to accept, easier to try, and more likely to grow—without unnecessary social conflict.
Its an easy answer. Where are your shoes? Its like a sport going without them the challenging terrain or just navigating the terrain between here and the store and getting better at it. Its a fun sport I think it would catch on.
Going barefoot IS a sport: you have to adjust your gait and the muscles that control it. It does take a few months. Then you have to keep doing it (like skiing, bowling, running, tennis, whatever) to maintain proficiency, improvement, and to develop thickened sole-skin to withstand those pebbles, sticks, thorns, shards, etc. The fact that it feels SO FUCKING GREAT is your key motivator!
I do know that some people think it’s against the law to be barefoot in public and in public places. And some people just don’t like looking at people going barefoot. And the rest of them think if you are barefoot you are homeless or dirt poor. And theirs a mix of people think it’s gross being barefoot in public places even when they see people having their bare feet on the dashboard. I knew a guy that didn’t like seeing anybody walking around barefoot even his own girlfriend he would tell her that she had to wear socks or shoes she can’t be barefoot. But this is a guy that does yoga and he does it barefoot .
