Footsies
Footsies (also footsy or footsie) is a flirting game where two people touch feet under a table or in another concealed place, often as a romantic prelude. It is a game played as an act of flirtatious body language or simply for enjoyment. Although footsies is not inherently romantic, the playful touching involved is often between romantic partners as a sign of affection, typically without discussion. The term comes from a 1940s humorous diminutive of foot.
Effects
In a 1994 study examining clandestine relationships, participants, consisting primarily of college students from the United States, engaged in a partnered card game in which a subset was instructed to engage in footsie with their card-playing partner. Among these participants, individuals who kept their footsie interaction secret rated their partners' attractiveness significantly higher than those who either did not participate in footsie or whose footsie actions were publicly acknowledged.
Utilization in Popular Culture and Medicine
The American comic book author Robert Crumb ↗ published an autobiographical comic strip entitled "Footsy" in 1987, which explores "his teenage encounters with the feet of various lustful creatures at school" and serves as a "typically self-lacerating portrayal of one of Crumb's myriad sexual fetishes".
In the context of the training for the plantar fascia, a device known as a footsie roller is utilized in relation to the foot.
The term "footsies" was coined within the fighting game community to refer to "the mid-range ground-based aspect of fighting game strategy." The term was likely chosen due to its resemblance to a prevalent strategy in fighting games, where a player maneuvers in and out of their opponent's striking range, employs rapid, weak moves (such as a crouching light kick) to provoke their opponent into attacking, and subsequently capitalizes on their unsuccessful attack.
External links
- More information is available at [ Wikipedia:Footsies ]
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