I understand it's a fetish but I feel like it's become increasingly common . Personally not a fan as I feel it obstructs the view of the girls but I can easily just fast forward so to each their own. Just curious to know if this is mainstream now and i'm just out of the loop?
Last I saw statistics, foot fetish was one of the most common fetishes out there. Seems like a solid marketing choice to throw that bone.
fuccaneer Fair enough, didn’t know it was so common. Thought it was a smaller niche
It would be nice if the feet aren't front and center and blocking the view completely. Like, bring the feet up close the camera so the people with that fetish can get a good look, but don't have them touching or in that central portion of the camera's field of view where they obscure the girls' face/body.
I am not into feet, but I do like the concept of having the feet close to the guy's face/in the air..
I totally agree with Hairsational, the execution is not done properly sadly, have the feet in the air close to the camera but without blocking the view...
I've got you.
Relative prevalence of different fetishes
This study is pretty old now and the methodology isn't the best. If you want something more contemporary,
Fetish Tabooness and Popularity.
Methodology is still a bit "eh", but at the study author has delved into who participated in a LOT of detail.
Polar Wow, people even fetishize catheters and pace-makers..
Who is going to step up and give the pace-maker lovers their first porno?
Polar Relative prevalence of different fetishes
Link doesn't work for me, here's another one
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6501716_Relative_prevalence_of_different_fetishes
Just keep it private, if you can:
https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/conviction_for_sex_with_bike_sparks_freewheeling_debate/
Less a fetish, and more an unfortunate accident, but it made me laugh:
Posted without comment.
(OK one comment, there were still publications on this subject 50 years later...)
Polar Also known as Morbus Kobold... I think the picture is fake. But the medical PhD thesis from 1978 is real (and in German). It is also available as audiobook on Spotify (not joking).
Trigger warning: contains pictures.
https://blog.baazee.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/DOKTORARBEIT_Penisverletzungen_bei_Masturbation_mit_Staubsaugern.pdf
Hairsational Wow, people even fetishize catheters and pace-makers..
That pacemaker fetish must be a typo. Btw:
Polar Thanks. Lol, turns out I'm more vanilla/'average' than I thought (except for some minor exceptions, I'm
pretty much a 2 and above on the y-axis) . Absolute blasphemy that high heels aren't at least at the same level as skirts imo
The way I read the chart it looks like Feet and Armpits are both very low on the interest side. People also don't think it is very taboo and only gave it a 1 or less on the interest scale. So to me people are not that into Feet. I don't care either way
The applicability here is fuzzy. The author even stated:
Though in general, I would consider my data in this particular set to be more trustworthy when it comes to comparisons between fetishes as opposed to absolute prevalence of fetishes.
Though looking at the methodology used, its probably about as good as anything. However, I would object to the classification of many of the included topics as "fetishes" in the normal use of the term. You could easily have called them "random shit having to do with sex". Remove those and the distribution and scale shifts.
The chart's relatively low interest in feet does kind of fly in the face of my knowledge. Granted, I don't keep up with "the literature" but up til now everything I had seen had placed foot fetish (and related clothing) near or at the top of prevalence.
This got me thinking that maybe foot fetishism has "aged out" in this world of Western sexual liberalism. Similar to how hair and ankles were so sexualized in certain past segments that groups/religions forced women to cover them (I'm referring to Western stuff like Catholics and early Protestants--not Muslims). Maybe whatever nature/nuture affects that inspired foot fetish in the past isn't that much of a thing in tech-friendly modern Western cultures.
Though I think, in the end, that the answer to the OP's original question is that its a combination of aggressiveness of customer requests and of the producers' own relative attraction to feet. We've all seen how a small very vocal minority can effect change, so 2 guys screaming "FEET!" all the time could inspire creators. The producers have to be willing to take that risk though and that will be impacted by their own feeling toward feet. A relevant example would be one specific producer's obsession with armpits.
And missionary is just one of the easiest positions to fuck in with easy access to feet.
I am surprised nobody has made some sort of survey/study about feet fetish etc? If I would be porn director I would gather all the possible data majority of people like and dislike. I might be wrong but I think foot fetish is not that common. My guess is about 6%.
If 90 % of VR porn consumers like normal cowgirl/doggy/missionary, why would I spend my time, money and effort to do something else? It is little bit frustrating that Alex Nash and others "ruin" their scene every time with foot fetish. Ruin is not probably the right word, but as Hairsational said: It would be nice if the feet aren't front and center and blocking the view completely. Also this foot fetish is out of ordinary scene. For example if missionary is 10 minutes long and there is 4 minutes of foot fetish -> only 6 minutes of interesting scene.
Does SLR have some sort of statistics about this one? I think you could see how people spend time/watch different segments inside a video? Problem might be how to do right comparison?
What about this one: https://www.sexlikereal.com/scenes/look-at-my-eyes-51389. What is the feet -segment (timestamp about 54 minutes) popularity compared to segments next to it?
Same goes for this one: https://www.sexlikereal.com/scenes/big-n-juicy-36241
This one is also interesting because foot fetish is properly segmented and rarely is almost beginning of video (timestamp about 2 minutes): https://www.sexlikereal.com/scenes/cum-in-my-little-teen-pussy-38899
Please SLR can we have some data about these ones and maybe someone can calculate and write some thesis about foot fetish inside SLR platform 
Don't have to have feet in a video but I do like being able to see them in missionary at least. When the average person has sex with a woman in missionary you're not always holding her legs and feet straight out to the sides.
Feet don't have to be the focus but it is nice when they are at least in frame. Also for those who don't think feet have a big following, particularly in mish, this sub: r/missionarysoles, has nearly 300k subs.
Picouser You're getting into that territory that inspires so many arguments/debates here.
"SLR content caters only to the mainstream and niche content has barely any presence. MORE FEET! MORE NON-POV! MORE BBW! etc etc"
vs
"Mainstream is more popular so content providers are wasting their time with niche stuff and niche-lovers should be happy with what little they get"
vs
"Mainstream is boring. Give us something different. No, not feet/nonPOV/BBW...something different."
RBDCLN
I agree that feet is nice to see if they're in frame, but just not front and center. I have a foot kink myself, but for whatever reason, I'm not a fan of having feet right in front of my face. For some context, it's a turnoff for me whenever a girl's wearing shoes, socks, or heels during sex. It's either bare feet or I don't like the scene nearly as much.
When I see feet off to the side during doggy or mish, it's nice to see. One of the best positions is when the actress is laying on her stomach giving you a bj and you can see her feet moving about. Such scenes are perfect for bj, ass, and/or feet enjoyers!
RBDCLN When the average person has sex with a woman in missionary you're not always holding her legs and feet straight out to the sides.
I think this statement goes for VR porn in general. The directors seem to have a hard time letting things look natural. I'm fine with feet in my face or to the side. The problem is that they don't lets things look normal but instead say now it is time to appease the feet people. So we get 4 minutes of just unnatural looking feet put up as close to the camera as possible.
