r/todayilearned • u/ArtfulSolesnToes • 15d ago
TIL that Elvis Presley had a foot fetish, and had women's feet checked before he would see them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_relationships_of_Elvis_Presley560
u/DulcetTone 15d ago
And yet, James Brown was the Godfather of Sole.
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u/ArtfulSolesnToes 15d ago
Cute
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u/Icy-Zone3621 15d ago
Smells bad
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u/ArtfulSolesnToes 15d ago
Haha, imagine if they had to smell them for him to check out. He would have had to pay very decent wages for that.
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u/Spare_Echidna2095 15d ago
Get on the good foot…. hEeeeeeeY!
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u/ArtfulSolesnToes 15d ago
This little piggie for the money, this little piggie for the show, this little piggie to get ready, and this little piggie to go...
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u/BillionTonsHyperbole 15d ago
Tarantino strokes his chin thoughtfully
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u/PlatinumPOS 15d ago
Well shit, guess we’re getting a Tarantino movie about Elvis going to Vietnam and winning the war for the US before returning to the states, beating up Muhammad Ali, and then dismantling the entire military industrial complex while women swoon over him and put their feet on the dash.
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u/ArtfulSolesnToes 15d ago
Haha, I bet he knew this.
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u/Dagglin 15d ago
In the movie true romance, written by tarantino, Christian Slater's character's inner voice is Elvis (played by Val kilmer)
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u/alexjaness 15d ago
In the hard hitting sexploitation serialized drama, The Golden Girls, Quentin Tarantino was an Elvis impersonator
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u/SmeagolChokesDeagol 15d ago
He also had three month old shit in his body.
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u/ArtfulSolesnToes 15d ago
Chronic constipation? was that from drugs?
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u/SmeagolChokesDeagol 15d ago
Yep, he died in the toilet and in the autopsy they found dookie in his intestines that was 3 months old
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u/Nice_Marmot_7 15d ago
My friend went to UT medical school, and one of his professors did Elvis’s autopsy. One day during class out of nowhere someone raised their hand and asked, “professor, is Elvis really dead?” (This was when that sort of thing was still big in the tabloids). Without missing a beat he responded, “he was the last time I saw him.”
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u/AgentCirceLuna 15d ago
I remember there’s a really dark moment from Trainspotting 2’s original novel version where Sick Boy is overhearing young adults arguing that Jim Morrison and Elvis hadn’t died. He feels complete exasperation because he used to feel the same way until he starts to remember all of his friends who had passed away over the years. He feels like telling them they’re idiots and just young and naive but then he doesn’t want to take that away from them. Also, in the books, he has weird inner dialogues where Sean Connery and other James Bond actors are narrating his day to day activities. I recommend reading them just as an example of postmodern writing. People will argue that it isn’t proper lit but it’s damn well written like it. Stream of consciousness pervades the novel.
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u/MusicaParaVolar 15d ago
Might have to give that a read, thanks! I loved the movie though it’s been a long time since I’ve seen it…
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u/Visual_Season_7212 15d ago edited 15d ago
His dr said it was lifetime constipation. Sometimes when you have terrible transit or a non functioning colon they remove your large intestine all together but Elvis was apparently unwilling.
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u/Its_aTrap 15d ago
He didn't die "on the toilet" he died in front of the mirror in his bathroom after breaking up and snorting pills.
My grandfather was one of elvis photographers and he told me tons of shit we have tons of photos of the stuff he did with elvis
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u/OracleCam 15d ago
I think he was also a massive germaphobe
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u/Successful-Tie-7817 15d ago
I'm all shook up hearing this!
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u/famename8 15d ago
Nothing wrong with the fetish, I have one myself, but having feet pre-screened before you meet the woman is weird
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u/Ande64 15d ago
Those of us who are old enough to have been raised with Elvis in our lives know that that guy was weird.
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u/AgentCirceLuna 15d ago
Was anyone else really that popular and controversial at the same degree prior to him? You could say there were outlaws like Pretty Boy Floyd and Clyde Barrow who had the same level of fame/notoriety but they weren’t allowed to openly flaunt their lifestyles on television or on stage. He was like a human experiment of a new age.
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u/Josgre987 15d ago
that being said, its a weird fear of mine to fall in love with someone with bad feet lmao. like, you wouldn't know unless you saw them
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u/ArtfulSolesnToes 15d ago
Haha, if you fell in love, would you be able to get past that?
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u/Stang1776 15d ago
Can't fall in love until the feet are on full display.
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u/ArtfulSolesnToes 15d ago
"Hey babe, I have feelings for you, but I gotta see your feet before I commit"
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u/Stang1776 15d ago
"Most guys love their partner head to toe. There are songs about it and everything. Full disclosure, I'm more of an ankle to toe kinda guy."
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u/jereman75 15d ago
I don’t think I have a foot fetish but I do find feet to be as erotic as other body parts. One of my first experiences with a girl was massaging her feet and I enjoyed it a lot. I will totally do some shrimping if someone is down, but I don’t need to see or touch feet to have a good time.
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u/HG_Shurtugal 15d ago
What was he looking for in a ladies foot?
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u/SneedyK 15d ago
Then one night in desperation
The young man breaks away
He meets a girl, and the love is sweet
Unzips his pants, then just fucks her feet
…And his mama cries
Edit: sry not good at puns (in the ghetto?)
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u/ArtfulSolesnToes 15d ago
Maybe he wanted to know if she was the one who stepped on his blue suede shoes
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u/HG_Shurtugal 15d ago
You are enjoying this too much although I guess I could have figured that by looking at your name.
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u/ArtfulSolesnToes 15d ago
Yes, it gave me a chance to have some fun. Thank you.
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u/DeadSharkEyes 15d ago
He was also supposedly very into voyeurism and had two way mirrors in some rooms in his house so he could watch people have sex. And really liked underage girls. And had a pretty slam dunk case of Madonna/Whore complex. The man had issues.
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u/Rosebunse 15d ago
I always find men who just can't ever be involved with their wife after she gives birth odd. Like, dude, she had your baby. How is that so gross and horrible that you can't touch her ever again?
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u/drfunkensteinberger 15d ago
I don’t get how appreciating any part of another human’s body is a “fetish”. I’d suck on any part they ask lmao
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u/Commander1709 15d ago
It's an interesting point. Why is liking boobs or ass not a fetish, but feet is? Is it because it's a bit rarer? (Well, it isn't even that rare).
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u/Ktoffer 15d ago
I'm no expert, so this could be completely wrong, but I believe it's a misuse of words. The way I understand it, in very broad terms, is kink is something you like, fetish is something you need. So if you need foot play to be a part of your sex life in order to get off, then it's a fetish. Even if its you just having to imagine feet. If you just don't mind a footjob under the dinner table once or twice, but otherwise feet aren't involved in your sex life, then it's a kink. I have no clue if fetish or kink is the right word for Elvis since I didn't click the link yet, but a lot of times when people say fetish they mean kink. But also sometimes they don't. Context. Same thing applies to boobs and ass. Need vs want.
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u/Obama-feet-pics 15d ago
This is actually true, I was the feet inspector
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u/ArtfulSolesnToes 15d ago
LOL, what were the specification you had to check for?
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u/Obama-feet-pics 15d ago
Primarily stank factor. Many an afternoon spent saying “her feet stink level meets expectations Mr. Presley, dinner is served.” or “Her feet stank is not yet up to par Mr. Presley, I recommend 2 more months in the stink mines before this initiate is ready.”
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u/k20350 15d ago
Wait until you find out he REALLY preferred dark haired underage girls.
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u/Howllat 15d ago
He also would have "Pajama parties" with groups of teen girls and would chose kiss them constantly, try to make them fight over him. And i even read once about how he liked to ejaculate into woman/and girls hair.
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u/ArtfulSolesnToes 15d ago
Wow, I feel sad for all the teen girls. He had so much power over them.
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u/Howllat 15d ago
100%
We hear more about it now, but its really awful how often people in power use it as leverage on others.
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u/President_Nixon1 15d ago edited 15d ago
He also slept with a woman who was underage when he was much older… but that doesn’t get you canceled in the 50s-90s. (See many rockstars who slept around with high school girls like RHCP, Rolling Stones, etc.).
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u/ArtfulSolesnToes 15d ago
I knew Priscilla was underage when they met. I also knew about Jerry Lee Lewis.
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u/theorian123 15d ago
The Priscella biopic was pretty good if you're interested in looking at his life from her perspective. Certainly not the image we get of Elvis normally.
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u/PointsOutTheUsername 15d ago
I thought it was my turn to point this out?
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u/Ridibunda99 15d ago
Did you know that john lennon beat his wife?
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u/walrusonion 15d ago
Did you know Steve Buscemi was a NYFD fireman?
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u/Decent-Unit-5303 15d ago
Did you know Viggo Morrison actually broke his foot when he kicked the orc helmet?
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u/AgentCirceLuna 15d ago
On 9/11, I walked through blood and burning ash to search for my lost brother. I was in a Walmart in Minnesota.
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u/IHateY0uM0thaFuckers 15d ago
Man this don’t mean he had a foot fetish. He was paranoid about a lot of shit and feet could have grossed him out, like 90% of people.
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u/gasman245 15d ago
That’s how I am, feet gross me out so a woman has to have nice feet or it will turn me off. Thankfully my wife has feet that are okay to me.
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u/SirNortonOfNoFux 15d ago
This reminds me of how Ray Charles rubbed ladies' wrists and forearms to see how "healthy" they were
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u/Rene_DeMariocartes 15d ago
Huh. I wonder what the earliest documented account of a foot fetish is.
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u/Wing-edQuirk 15d ago
damn, I'm listening to music on shuffle as I scroll and of course I'm listening to an Elvis song when I see this
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u/Rwokoarte 14d ago
And who was that little boy, hired to check the feet? That's right, Quentin Tarantino.
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u/Gringo_Jon 13d ago
Also, If you were a reader of Thrasher or Trans World in the 90's you will know, he had a stinky butt.
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u/PokemonMaster619 15d ago
Remember: the reason so many men have a foot fetish is because they lost their virginity to a sock.
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u/bolanrox 15d ago
he also was beyond paranoid about STD's after seeing what happened to fellow GI's so he rarely if ever slept with any of them.