If, like 30 Rock’s Liz Lemon, you harbor a “disgusting foot secret,” then boy, do we have some good news for you! No, it’s not a miracle ointment, but rather a sound argument for not taking off your socks in bed. As to the actual science behind it, well, that depends how much stock you put in TikTok relationship advice.
According to a ten-second clip posted to an account called @Fizzlemon, “A man is 80 percent more likely to orgasm if…if they is wearing socks!” Agreed, that feels somewhat dubious. But in a 2015 study out of the Netherlands, researchers used a PET scanner to better understand the relationship between brain activity and sexual stimulation. Turns out that—surprise, surprise—sockless subjects were less comfortable because their feet were colder and therefore less likely to orgasm.
