whyfeet Evidence-graded dossier

Part VI

Works cited

Verification status is attached. verified means the work was located by title, authors, year, and venue in publisher or library records during the building of this dossier. unverified - do not rely would mark a claim we could not locate. None of the scientific entries below is in that second state. Page-level quotations of DSM criteria are paraphrased because the instrument is copyrighted.

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  4. American Psychiatric Association. (2013/2022). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; 5th ed., text rev.). verified (criteria paraphrased)
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  17. Hoffmann, H. (2025). Individual differences in excitatory and inhibitory sexual conditioning in humans. Archives of Sexual Behavior. doi:10.1007/s10508-025-03141-2. verified
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  19. Hoffmann, H., Peterson, K., & Garner, H. M. (2012). Field conditioning of sexual arousal in humans. Socioaffective Neuroscience & Psychology, 2, 17336. PMC3960046. verified
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  24. Klos, K. J., Bower, J. H., Josephs, K. A., Matsumoto, J. Y., & Ahlskog, J. E. (2005). Pathological hypersexuality predominantly linked to adjuvant dopamine agonist therapy in Parkinson’s disease and multiple system atrophy. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, 11, 381-386. verified
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  33. Money, J., & Lamacz, M. (1989). Vandalized Lovemaps. Prometheus. verified
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  37. Qur’an 5:6 (Sūrat al-Māʾida), wuḍūʾ verse; standard tafsīr (Ibn Kathīr; al-Jalālayn). verified
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  47. Thomas, J. C. (1991). Footwashing in John 13 and the Johannine Community. JSOT Press. verified
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  50. Wang, P. (2000). Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China. University of Minnesota Press. verified
  51. Weinberg, M. S., Williams, C. J., & Calhan, C. (1994). Homosexual foot fetishism. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 23, 611-626. doi:10.1007/BF01541815. verified
  52. Weinberg, M. S., Williams, C. J., & Calhan, C. (1995). “If the shoe fits…”: Exploring male homosexual foot fetishism. Journal of Sex Research, 32(1), 17-27. doi:10.1080/00224499509551770. verified
  53. Weinberg, M. S., Williams, C. J., & Moser, C. (1984). The social constituents of sadomasochism. Social Problems, 31, 379-389. verified
  54. World Health Organization. ICD-11, 6D36 Paraphilic disorder involving solitary behaviour or consenting individuals. verified
  55. Hebrew Bible: Exodus 3:5; Genesis 18:4; Deuteronomy 25:9; Ruth 4:7-8; Joshua 5:15; Isaiah 52:7. New Testament: John 13:1-17; Mark 1:7. verified (primary texts)

Notes on items sometimes mis-cited

Ramachandran & Rogers-Ramachandran 1996 in Proc. R. Soc. B is the mirror-box / phantom paper. The two amputee intercourse reports are in the 1998 Hebb lecture (Brain) and in Phantoms in the Brain. Citing 1996 for the fetish hypothesis is a common slip; this dossier does not make it.

Hoffmann 2012 “field study” is Socioaffective Neuroscience & Psychology, not Archives of Sexual Behavior. The 2012 Archives paper is the orientation/conditioning review.

Scorolli et al. 2007 is International Journal of Impotence Research, not Archives of Sexual Behavior.