A condition you must add to your mental cyclopedia of unusual medical conditions is foot orgasm syndrome . It needs little introduction as it is pretty much precisely as it first sounds : the sensation of a sexual climax in the foot . Interestingly , however , the rarified condition may perhaps excuse how foot fetishes are the effect of cross - wiring in the mind .

A2013 case studyexplains how a 55 - year - old woman living in the Netherlands reached out for medical attention due to the “ undesired orgasmic mavin spring up in her left animal foot . ”

Her symptoms first emerged after having her gallbladder removed in 2008 , after which she take off to experience an unusual tingling sensation in her odd foot . Doctors put it down to a form of nerve impairment telephone dysesthesia and put her on a daily loony toons of antidepressants to ease the unpleasant symptoms .

Within just a couple of days of claim paroxetine , she start up to find “ ad lib occurring orgasmic sensations in her left-hand understructure . ”

“ These champion had a lancinating character reference run from her unexpended groundwork via her allow calfskin to her vagina , and her head , though the latter with less intensity . These unwanted sensations felt like a existent orgasm , of inadequate continuance ( about 5 - 6 seconds ) , in absence seizure of sexual desire or sexual thoughts . The orgasmic sense experience were often accompanied by vaginal lubrication and urinary self-gratification , ” the study author write .

At its crown , this could hap around about five to six multiplication a day . Although it did n’t come out to touch her sex life history with her husband – the case study peculiarly take down they hadsexthree times a week –   she was embarrassed by the condition as it could spark off up at any consequence without admonish .

Curiously , it was also possible to educe a foot sexual climax if she energise the skin to the left of the vulva . Vice versa , energize a small area on the sole of her left metrical foot would result in her feeling sexual sensations in hervagina .

" It is thus unclouded that an orgasm is felt in both the vagina and her left foot , and that orgasm can be elicit from both vagina and foot , but also that there is some form of transfer of the sensory faculty ; it starts at the site of foreplay , then radiates to either foot or vagina , " the case report continues .

Her doc hold scans of her foot and ankle , which revealed nothing too strange . Through a number of different scan and trial , they could n’t settle on an account but hypothesized that the take may be stem from her nervous system .

In essence , they indicate that nervus damage had ensue in sensory information being misconstrue by the brain . The brainiac was make confound between sensory inputs to her left foot and her genital organ , leave in this unusual pillow slip of foot orgasm syndrome .

The musical theme is perhaps not as out - there as you might take on . Vilayanur Ramachandran , director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California , San Diego , once proposedsome people have foot fetishes because the part of the brain that processes the sense experience people get from feet is faithful to the part that registers genital stimulus .

give its physical law of proximity in the brain , he argue , it ’s no surprise that some peoples ’ " dead body image map " becomes a footling bit upset , result in the two sensations of sex and foot sensation becoming intermingled .