# altocalciphilia
## English
### Etymology

From Latin altus (“high”) +‎ -o- +‎ Latin calx, calcis (“heel”) +‎ -philia.

### Noun

altocalciphilia (uncountable)
* (sexuality, rare) A fetish involving sexual attraction to high-heeled shoes.
    Hypernym: retifism
** [1954, J[acob] E[dward] Schmidt, Sex Dictionary, and Lexicon of Related Emotions, La Crescenta, Calif.: Hannah Publications, →OCLC, page 84:altocalciphilia […]]
** 2002 February, Rod L. Evans, “altocalciphilia”, in Sexicon: The Ultimate X-Rated Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: Citadel Press, →ISBN, page 11:The executive liked to indulge in altocalciphilia and masochism by persuading women to dig their high heels into his chest.
** 2016 February 11, Mallika Nawal, “The Secret Spell Of The Stiletto”, in Swarajya‎, archived from the original on 2016-02-12:Then again, I’m most certainly not alone in my “shoey” fetish. Forget women, but men across the globe too have been suffering in their sweet-and-silent agony over their altocalciphilia, which is defined as an uncontrollable desire or sexual fetish for high heels—by far the most common sexual fetish around the globe.
** 2017 October 3, Lilah Ramzi, “Killer Heels Dominated at Visionaire’s 67th Issue Launch Party”, in Vogue‎, archived from the original on 2024-12-20:The theme of this issue? Fetishes as realized by photographer Steven Klein, especially: altocalciphilia (the fetish of high heels), pictophilia (the fetish for erotic pictures), and autagonistophilia (the fetish for being on camera).
** 2018, Nina Burleigh, “#FreeMelania”, in The Trump Women: Part of the Deal, New York, N.Y.: Gallery Books, →ISBN, part 5 (Ivanka Trump, First Daughter):Among the Trump women, Marla Maples is the only one consistently photographed wearing flats—sneakers and espadrilles—a result of her inner tomboy, her post-divorce downsizing, and her former publicist’s [Chuck Jones’s] shoe fetish. The diagnostic name for Chuck Jones’s problem is altocalciphilia.
** 2019, Dennis DiClaudio, “Retifism”, in “Inanimate Objects”, in The Deviant’s Pocket Guide to the Outlandish Sexual Desires Barely Contained in Your Subconscious, Bellevue, Wash.: becker&mayer! books, →ISBN, page 101:Altocalciphilia, the attraction to high-heeled shoes specifically, is probably the largest subset of Retifism. […] Richard von Krafft-Ebing hypothesized that most Retifists are also masochists, and this can be seen most acutely in Altocalciphilia, where the long and sharp heels are often used to inflict pain upon submissive men—most popularly in the genitals.
** 2020, Mike Zundel, “Fetish”, in “High Heels”, in Timon Beyes, Robin Holt, Claus Pias, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 250:This objectification in altocalciphilia—shoe fetish—is preserved through an optical casting of a perceptual frame that makes a ‘cut’ from the field; immobilizing that cut within a static framework (Bryson, 1980: 97), so as to produce a redundancy: the material dead object and its referent, which it presents (Berkeley, 1989). […] In opposition to glamour, the high heel as fetish performs a distinction: the sexual difference through the masculinization of the female body.
** 2024, Mark Griffiths, edited by Mike Sutton, Sexual Perversions and Paraphilias: An A to Z, Curtis Press, →ISBN, “Altocalciphilia” and “Anthropophagolagnia”:I am not aware of any empirical research specifically into altocalciphilia, but in researching this topic I did come across an interesting Master’s Thesis by Sancaktar (2006), who provided an analysis of shoes within the context of the social history of fashion, and which included a chapter on shoe fetishism. […] The “preparatory paraphilias” that typically precede serial killing and attack paraphilias, such as anthropophagolagnia, include agonophilia (sexual arousal caused by a sexual partner pretending to struggle), altocalciphilia (sexual arousal from high-heeled shoes), […]