Sex and power of the Mighty High Heel Shoe!

High heels evoke both sex and power. They're both coquettish and dominant at the same time. This is its essence… its allure.

I watched a special the other night where Chris Rock was talking about strippers and their collective decision to wear clear high heel platforms, as if there had been a convention and the choice of footwear had been put to a vote.

I laughed, thinking, hey how did that come about anyway?

No idea.

In socio-academic circles, this would be a clear collective Meme as Dawkins would point out. And it is! It happened of its own accord. But the underlying agreement had its roots in the miasma of ‘sex and power’.

Strippers and hookers, and well, teases too, know this implicitly. High heels convey two messages to the viewer: one of sex and the other of power – Simultaneously!!

This is the allure of the high heel.

When someone wears 6 inch heels and clicks down the sidewalk there are two things happening at the very same moment, thrown into the air for all to feel. One is the feeling of subservience, the attitude of submission to the heel and to the sex it implies. The wearer of such a set of shoes is telling all about her she likes sex, enjoys looking sexy, is promoting sex and is open to the idea of sex. While the other message is of dominance, of power, of intrigue and mystery, that the sex beheld in the high heel shoe is hers to command and you better do her bidding if you want to come anyway near it!

This is the root of the fear and mockery of high heel shoes and boots. The high heels intimidates all. It is fearful to the woman to wear such heels because she is afraid that she can not muster up to that level of sexiness, that she herself could not perform to a level of sex the shoe conveys. What happens if she isn’t good at sex or is afraid of sex. The high heel shoe becomes Kryptonite to her.

Meanwhile, men go through a similar but distinctly irrational thought process of anguish. What if he can’t match the sexiness of the wearer? What if he is challenged and can’t be fulfilling to that sexy shoe clad woman. What if he can’t please her? Or even can he be with a woman such as that?

So the natural reaction is to fear the high heel. Mock it, assign them to the tacky and the slut. Ahhh, but that’s wear the high heel lives and that is why strippers and hookers use this power. They understand its psychic power, its underlying mystery and the sexy hold it has on us. And it only gets sexier the deeper down in the sexual nightmare of perversity it sinks.

As I always say, "If I have to have super powers, I guess I would have to be a villian. They wear the best damend clothes!"

Bless the high heel shoe. It knows how to live!

Heelfully Yours
Gillian