Stuart Wolfendale

Footie

There is nothing more wrong with having a foot fetish than having a passion for sprouts. It would be a little surprising to detect either in a 16 year old boy but whereas he could probably eat bowls of  heavy veg in public without getting into trouble, he cannot drop down on one knee, stroke strange girls’ legs and run off with their shoes. One very determined Form Three boy did that six times in Tin Shui Wai –where else- before he got nicked and had a small shoe collection confiscated.Principal Magistrate Kwok Wai kin states that this was a ‘ behavioural deviation rooted in browsing pornographic web sites’ which the boy had been doing. That just goes to show what magistrates know about porn sites. Alright, Google was offering a thousand foot fetish sites before I got tired of counting but no amount of porn is going to talk a boy into feet from a standing start. It might ratchet up his enthusiasm and give him ideas about whipped cream and raspberry jam but the root is in the fetish and neither I nor, I wager, Mr. Kwok knows where they come from.Mr. Kwok doesn’t know how to send fetishes away either. He just told the boy to stay away from the internet. The fetish is in the boy, not cyber space. It’s quite happy in there. He just needs a bit of help in learning how not to let it out on strange maidens on the way to school. And diversify a bit maybe. When he finally finds a young woman who shares his passion for footie, then out can come the cream and raspberry jam and it’ll be bliss, even in Tin Shui Wai