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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
You forgot this phrase toots....
"In your opinion"...
Typically the hierarchy is something like this
1. Foot Fetish (main fetish)
2. Legs (niche within a niche)
3. Feet (as you see each is a part of a bigger classification)
4. Foot Worship (at least how most of the industry would see it)
5. Stockings (which is why you find stocking/pantyhose on foot fetish sites)
6. Pantyhose (which also makes you wrong. Or more accurately, your opinion on the matter)
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Which is of course your opinion..they are all related but separate fetishes. There is a good deal of overlap because of the nature of them but people can have a fetish for pantyhose and not really be interested in the body part that it is covering. Just as people can be interested in feet or legs and not care about anything put on them. Micro niches are niches within niches..ie breaking them down to smaller parts of a bigger niche. So, foot fetish is a niche/fetish..pantyhose feet is a micro niche. Pantyhose is a niche/fetish and pantyhose feet are also a micro niche of that niche but both niches/fetishes that are completely separate from one another.
Not to mention that clinically (yeah, I study too much) they are different fetishes simply by the nature of the object/item the fetish is for. A body part fetish is classified differently then a texture or shape, fetish, for example.
So, yeah, I get your break down but they are different fetishes/niches that happen to overlap at parts AND when they do overlap the people from the perspective fetishes/niches are looking for different things out of the picture. A foot guy is primarily focused on the foot whereas a pantyhose guy is more interested in the pantyhose on the foot and what those pantyhose do to the foot when worn, etc.
I have spent WAY too much time researching the nature of fetishes and how they develop in the years I have been (slowly) writing my book and interviewing people who consider themselves to have fetishes. I feel like I should be drawing one of those circle diagrams with interlinking bits to demonstrate.