The Foot-Fool
Tale no. 4 - The Foot-Fool ‘I am employed as a ‘foot-fool’ in the lobby entrance to an exhibition on ‘The History of Male Slavery in the Gynarchy of Barbaria’. The exhibition is permanent and attracts many tourists on a daily basis – mainly female, and many of them from overseas. Free males are also welcome to attend the exhibition, but, unlike the women, they have to pay a small entrance fee. The exhibition is only open to adults aged 18 or over. My specific role is to greet all the female guests (and only the female guests) as they enter the exhibition by humbly and respectfully kissing their feet. I am secured in a kneeling position, with my head humbly bowed, over a wooden footblock on the floor on which the ladies can place their feet for kissing. My role is to make them feel welcome, happy and relaxed. Therefore, to lighten the mood, I am forced to wear a ‘foot-fool’s’ mask. This consists of a black rubber mask which completely covers my ugly, slave face apart from slits for m