If you are a researcher and have never tried a shoe you actually are not a researcher at all but a person writing half truths about shoe fetishes based on false and incomplete theories of others. A shoe fetish is separate from all of the other fetishes you write about.
Unless you have ACTUALLY seen a woman wearing Gucci Gladiator boots (below) you miss the full scope of their power and attraction. If you can feel them it is even more incredible.