You can indulge in a good cake, but not eat enough to be full. But, as ever, that doesn’t mean that the cake necessarily gratifies you. Adding octopus to a chocolate chip cookie is not “appropriate.” So having cake while on a diet is indulgent because cake is not “appropriate” for a diet. I think of behavior as indulgent when it’s in excess of what’s necessary or appropriate, using “appropriate” in the non-moralistic sense, the sense of “do these things go together?”. In fact, it’s the indulgent nature of fetishism that explains why I often think of it as an aesthetic flaw. It might satisfy something in its own right, but it wouldn’t fundamentally “gratify”. But the shot wouldn’t really be fulfilling the underlying desire the way that a shot of naked breasts might. A lingering shot of a woman’s clothed breasts might be there because the filmmaker likes to look at breasts. More often I’d describe the inclusion of fetish content in unrelated art as indulgent, rather than gratifying or pornographic. The individual foot shot might be pornographic, but not the whole movie.
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In other words, it wouldn’t be foot porn unless the creative decision-making for the movie centered on how to film feet in the most gratifying possible way. But the movie wouldn’t be foot porn unless the point of it had to do with fulfilling the director’s desire to see particular shots of feet. A director might include a shot of feet in a movie because they feel something sexual with regards to feet. Fetish is subject matter whereas pornography is execution. This is why you can judge something pornographic aesthetically more easily than something merely fetishistic. But it doesn’t necessarily mean gratifying the desire. To “fetishize” something is to frame it through the lens of that desire. Pornography sets you up for payoff and then pays it, whereas fetishism is the basic desire for payoff.
One that prioritizes giving the artist or audience what they want. The difference between the two is that fetishism is an attitude about something, whereas pornography is an artistic structure, even genre. Surprising because I know I complain about too-much-fetishism, so how could I also be complaining about not-enough-porn? I had the surprising thought the other day that I missed pornography.
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