Join us on November 14th for the launch of Solemates 👣 with author Adam Zmith, chaired by Lux Pyre.
Why are feet so hot? Why did feet show up in poetry written during a medieval outbreak of gonorrhoea? When Jesus washed his disciples’ feet, what kind of love was he showing? What do different cultures think about feet? How did early sexologists convince us that loving feet is deviant?
These are just some of the questions explored through this history of toe-botherers. With his trademark curiosity, Zmith time-travels through sex archives, online forums and millennia of art, exploring why even common fetishes are seen as weird. His essays take care to remove shame and disgust from foot fancying, inviting readers to dip a toe into our deepest desires.
From Tarantino films to Bible stories, Renaissance paintings to OnlyFans, Solemates is the rich, messy, and often surprising history of our love of an overlooked body part, climaxing in an argument for pleasure.
Photo Credit: India Latham
Adam Zmith
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Adam Zmith is a writer and podcast producer whose work explores the beats of our bodies, in the past, present and future. He is the author of Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures (Repeater Books, 2021), which won the Polari First Book Prize 2022. As a writer he has also made work for theatre and film. In podcasts, he co-produced The Log Books podcast, wrote and produced the BBC podcast series The Film We Can’t See, hosts the Free Sex podcast, and is co-director of the production company Aunt Nell.S
About the host:
Lux Pyre (he/him) is a writer and performer working with intimacy, humour and public spectacle, both online and in physical communion. Lux runs the erotic reading night ORAL, which he programmes, hosts and performs at.
Recent work includes chairing the panel 'Who Is the New Ethical Slut?' as part of LoveHub'24 by the Love Tank and Fringe! Film Fest, and performing as part of 'Cruising Monologues'. You can next find Lux performing confessional, participatory new work at 'Sliding Slow' at Spanners on 30th October, and reading erotic horror at Queer Horror and Monstrous Erotica at the Common Press on Halloween