Fetish Venice

Researchers have spent far less time studying men's attraction to women's legs than the typical man on the street devotes to gazing at them and maybe finding himself spellbound by them. It's fascinating how many discussants on this topic seem to regard a woman's legs aesthetically almost as much as they do sexually -- as monuments of, or testimony to, a woman's general comeliness or beauty. More than a century ago, Freud was so bold as to link the human aesthetic sense to sublumated sexual desire. And though there may be some questions as to just how "sublimated" we canconsider a man's attraction to female legs, there's no doubt that such an attetional focus is at a farther remove from from other more direct, points of male sexual interest - or to the sex act itself.  Wondrously gazing at a woman's legs might have mostly to do with a man's innate attraction to the sensual, rather than the more explicitly sexual.