Boot worship is the extreme adulation of boots in BDSM, almost always carried out while the dominant partner is still wearing the footwear. It sits next to foot worship as a close cousin: some of the heat is really about the boot being the last layer around a master or mistress’s foot. The foot is usually treated as one of the "lowest" and least appreciated parts of the body, so kissing and licking it already counts as humiliation. Boot worship pushes that one step further. The submissive willingly worships the dominant’s boots, and often without even being asked. That reverence for the leather wrapping the dominant’s foot can be an expression of extreme devotion or loyalty, a concrete admission of inferiority or defeat, or both at once. For readers who live in boot, foot, and leather kink, this is not a polite accessory scene. It is service, humiliation, and worship aimed at the thing that walks on you.
Definition and the usual menu of acts
So boot worship can include sniffing or inhaling from worn boots, as well as licking, kissing, or cleaning their exteriors by licking. Other activities include polishing the boot, and chewing and eating leather shoes or boots. Sometimes the dominant will choke the submissive by forcefully inserting a booted foot into the submissive’s mouth. The dominant can also kick the submissive while wearing boots. The dominant can make the submissive eat food smashed by those boots, or even the food that already sticks to the bottom. Boots are also used by the dominant for ballbusting. A more passive version has the submissive lying prone and being "trampled" by the dominant partner. Heeled boots may lend themselves to sucking, in an approximation of fellatio, plus anal and urethral insertion. The dominant can also beat the submissive with the footwear while still wearing it. They can have the submissive lying down in front of them, then place their boots over the submissive’s mouth, face, or body instead of the floor—using a person as the stand for the leather.
Bootlicking also carries a political meaning: being a sycophant, or showing "deference to power undertaken entirely for its own sake, rather than out of fear or even material gain." In a kink scene that same posture is the point, not a secret to hide. The submissive is not pretending to respect power. They are putting their mouth on it.
Harder play: slaps, face-standing, group trampling, ignore
The following setups sit at the more extreme end. First, the dominant may slap the submissive’s face using booted feet instead of hands. That practice can be among the harder ones, because the pain it causes is rather significant. Second, full-weight face-standing is another cruel play. As the name says, the dominant may stand completely on the face of the slave, crushing any resistance. Third, multi-trampling: a group of sadistic dominants can trample one slave at the same time. That can be a large humiliation when the slave is abused by more than one dominant, especially when the slave is naked while the dominants are all fully clothed. Fourth, ignore. A group of dominants can have a "night out" using a slave as a boot rest, foot rest, or carpet. That is objectification play. Although not much pain is induced compared with trampling, the slave can be psychologically—and willingly—abused to a large extent.
Related corners of the same fetish map include boot fetishism, bootblacking as BDSM service work, foot fetishism, mysophilia, and shoe fetishism. Boot worship is the service-and-humiliation layer on top of those attractions: not only wanting the boot as an object, but kneeling to it because it is on the person who owns you. In video and live play alike, the image is simple and readable—leather at mouth height, a body under a sole, and a power difference you can smell.
