Boot fetish

I've been chatting with a guy online for just over a week who seems quite nice.  He has a normal, boring job, he has normal, average looks, and completely normal, generic hobbies.  By all accounts he seems completely, unbelievably, normal.

So that brings us to this past weekend.  He's overseas visiting family back in England for a few weeks, so our chats have been at weird times due to the time difference.  (Yes, another English guy.  Does anyone else find it weird that I keep attracting Brits and Aussies?  I should rename this blog Kiki's Adventures with Dudes from the Commonwealth.)

Anyhoo, on Saturday evening he popped up on msn after a night of heavy drinking on his part.  It was kind of entertaining chatting with a drunk person because of all the typos and nonsense.  But something interesting definitely came out of it.  Apparently Captain Average has a massive boot fetish!  I never would have guessed!

And it's not just any old boots.  He really likes the ugly, chunky-heeled boots that were maybe cool in 1998.  The ones that Buffy probably wore, and the ones in which Jennifer Love Hewitt uselessly ran from killers.  (You can totally picture those boots now, right?  I know!)

This  is close, but somehow still not clunky enough in the toe.

So the conversation quickly turned into what kind of boots I own, and do I like to wear short skirts with them, and does wearing boots make me feel sexy.  I answered his questions, but I wasn't feeling particularly flirty so I tried to steer the conversation back to a less sexy topic.  (You probably think I'm no fun, but what can I say?  Typing about footwear does nothing for me.)

Eventually he asked if I would show him my boot collection over webcam.  At first I thought, sure why not?  It's not like he asked me to strip for him.  It's just boots!  But then my second thought was, I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that.  Even though I'd just be sitting there in boots, the fact that it'd be teasing him makes me feel weird about it.  

I think if I'd gotten to know him and we started dating and then I found out about his boot fetish, I'd feel totally differently.  I don't think turning on your partner by wearing something they find sexy is strange at all -- boots and a miniskirt is another man's leopard-print teddy.  (FYI, typing "leopard-print teddy" just made me barf a little.  If you own one, I'm totally judging you.)  My point is, finding out in a drunken chat about Captain Normal's fetish was just way to soon!

So here's a question for you readers.  If someone asked to see your boot collection over webcam, would you do it?  I mean, it's just boots, right?  But also strange because you've never met in real life.  I don't want him to think the boot thing freaks me out, since it's actually the webcam with a stranger thing that freaks me out.  I guess if he likes me, he'll understand.