Have you ever noticed how shy American men are about displaying their feet?  About displaying any part of their bodies, really?  Go to any shoe department or store at any mall, and watch as men go through what appears to be - for them - a painful experience equal only to the yearly proctological exam.

They sit there, their shoeless feet curled in a fetal position under the chair or bench upon which they sit, scanning the room to see if anyone is looking at them or their feet.  It's as if seeing them shoeless makes them, like Clark Kent after a healthy dose of kryptonite, completely powerless.  And watch them when the salesman returns with the shoes.  How many actually allow the clerk to slip the shoes on?  Probably 1 in 100 - and that one is definitely a candidate for our club!

Why do you suppose that is?  And why do you suppose that it's not the same way in Europe, where men seem willing to bare their soles and other bodily organs at the drop of their pants?  Is it that European men are just more liscivious?  Or, is it simply that they are more comfortable with their bodies?

Europe, existing in some form for thousands of years, has been through it's puritanical period.  Many of them, in fact.  Just look at the Spanish Inquisition.  They've had their moments of censureship in the name of piety.  But, they got over it.  And fact it, Europeans have been looking at the naked body for as long as there have been naked bodies.  The Greeks conducted the first Olympic games in the buff, and one can't stroll a street or a square without finding at least one naked man or woman crafted in stone or plaster adorning a building or monument.  And with plumbing being what it is in some of the older cities, it's not uncommon for both men and women to be seen in the courtyard, performing their morning ablutions in the fountain.  With all of that nudity going on all around you, who has time to be embarrassed by bare feet.  Hell, European men will strip down to nothing to try on shoes - if that's what they'll be wearing when they put on that particular shoe.

Not so, in America, which was founded by Puritans (pure people) who were trying to escape the randiness of the homeland.  Actually, the less pure in Europe just got tired of the bullshit and kicked them off the Continent, but that's another story alltogether.  The fact of the matter is, though, that America was founded as the conservative alternative to the hedonistic lifestyles of the Europeans.  And, as we see with Mr. Bush, nothing has changed.  We are still a nation of prudes and perditionists, all incapable of displaying even the most basic of human body parts - the foot - without screaming "pervert!"

Fortunately, the Internet has allowed us access to our European cousins across the big pond, and we need not be denied the feet that are so important to our brotherhood.  As the attached photos prove, the European male has no problem baring his soles and other tasty tidbits because it's simply the way that it's always been.....

So, here we are...at my blog...The Search for the Perfect 10!  Which isn't about Bo Derek....

So, what exactly do you think it's about?

Surfing?  Well, pretty close.  The 10 best something or other?  Getting warmer.  The ten best-looking men?  Oh, you're really close now....Try combining the first one with the last one....The best looking surfers? 

Oh, for cryin' out loud...it's about the hottest feet!  Male celebrity feet, to be exact.  You know...ten toes, perfect 10!  It's really a simple concept...And, I can hear it now:

"You are one sick f*#ker, you know it?  Blogging about men's feet.  That's just sick..."

"You must be one of them fags...Are you a fag, mister?"

"God, man...I'm gay, too - but I don't go around creating a blog for male celebrity feet.  You wanna give us all a bad name?"

"Hey, faggot...wanna smell mine?"

And on it will go...

To all of you I say:  Then move along, please.  This is my blog, I can do with it what I will - and you don't have to look at it.  But, I'm willing to bet that at least a few of you keep coming back to see what I've got going on.  Some of you may even become devoted fans.  We'll see....

A little background, if you don't mind.  I have been into men's feet since I was...oh, about three.  I used to get pre-pubescent erections whenever I saw a man's feet in a magazine or newspaper or on TV.  I think it's because my father, God rest his soul, used to play with me with his feet whenever I lay on the ground nearby.  I suppose I started to associate men's feet with affection and love and attention.  So, as I grew up, they naturally became something sought-after, both sexually and as a comfort thing.

Of course, it hasn't been easy.  It's not as if there are a whole lot of heterosexual foot fetish things going on, let alone homosexual ones.  And in the gay community - where virtually everything that one does different than the clones of West Hollywood or the Castro or Christopher Street or Montrose or Oak Lawn is suspect - I was just considered a greater freak among lesser freaks. 

A good friend of mine, Michael Andrews (God rest his soul,) who was a former Miss Gay USA and a former La Cage regular in West Hollywood, had a foot fetish - and the things that were said about him backstage were just horrific.  So, it's no wonder that I don't exactly fly my fetish from a banner, as it were.

The fact is, in New Age thought, feet represent our understanding of others.  Our empathy, our sympathy, our compassion.  Based on that fact, I am a charitable organization unto myself.

All of that notwithstanding, this blog will be about male celebrity feet.  Obviously, because the feet are just a part of the body, there will be other body parts FEETured in the photos that I upload.  So, for those that aren't too thrilled with the concept of podophilia (foot fetishism,) just ignore the writings and enjoy the pictures.  We'll all get along much better that way....