I'm 49 years old and while I've lived here in Phoenix for the past 19 years, I was born in San Francisco and lived much of my life in the SF Bay Area.

I'm an average kind of guy. I wouldn't consider myself to be a "catch" by any means, but I'm a fairly likable guy and always enjoy having friends. I'm reasonably intelligent (actually I scored rather nicely on my IQ test) and have a natural talent when it comes to music. I guess it's no wonder that I immersed myself in music during high school almost at the expense of my required academic classes!!!

I've been gay all of my life, although I didn't come out of the closet until later on in life. I tried for years throughout high school to deal with the awful feelings I had, justifying them as just feelings of friendship, when in reality I simply had strong feelings of attraction towards other guys my age. Finally, after much soul searching I finally came to terms with who I am as a gay man. It wasn't an easy road, but hey, I made it and I'm better off for it!!!

Well by now you're probably wondering, so what about the socks??? Fair enough... After all, this is a sock website and with the ID "azsocks" it's probably clear that this really is about socks, or more specifically, white socks. Well let me start off by saying that it is without a doubt, a fetish, at least that's how it started off. There is something about white socks which really "gets me going." I think guys wearing jeans with white socks are sexy, and I always enjoy it when I get the EXTREMELY rare pleasure of seeing another guy walking around in his socks. Now previous readers of this website have heard me refer to my enjoyment of walking around in socks as being a fetish. In the beginning I would say that it probably was. Now it's more.

I had a dialogue with another sock guy on the Internet some years back and he was commenting on my pictures. He mentioned as to how he could see that even though the pictures were posed, there was still something very "genuine" about how I appeared, how the pictures of me outside in my socks didn't seem "forced." I had mentioned that going about my business throughout the day without any shoes on is just the way I choose to be. Some people would say it's about showing off my socks. I've been accused of being a narcissist more than once and this website would seem to suggest that, but that's not the real reason, even though I do get a kick when others enjoy seeing me in my socks. For me it's about living my life in my white socks. It's practically become an expression of who I am as an individual. Do I enjoy walking in my socks? Yes. Does it turn me on when I go to different places and run my errands in my socks? Absolutely! Is it just a fetish? No. It has become a lifestyle.

Why do I call it a lifestyle? Because it can range anywhere from walking around the office at where I work in socks to driving to the grocery store and doing my grocery shopping in my white socks. Like I said, it's a lifestyle. When people ask me if I ever wear shoes I tell them that my basic rule is that I will only wear shoes if I absolutely must, otherwise I pretty much do everything throughout the day in my white socks. This of course then begs the next question, which is do I ever wear dark socks? Only when the situation calls for it. I can find certain brand of dark socks enjoyable, but my first love will always be white cotton crew or OTC (over the calf) socks.

Now I don't mind saying that for the LONGEST time I was totally embarrassed by this. I kept thinking that I was the only person around who had these feelings towards white socks, that I was a freak, that there was something wrong with me, that I was dirty... wait a minute... Hey that's the same garbage I told myself when I was just trying to deal with being gay!!!! Well you would think that after accepting myself as gay that dealing with a burgeoning sock fetish would be easy. Well no it wasn't. I had to go through the same exploration and understanding with it as I did with being gay. What did help was to discover that I wasn't the only gay guy in the world who felt this way, that there are actually quite a large number of guys just like me. Of course having the Internet at my disposal helped me to find these other guys, and then through the course of events, along with the help of my husband, I slowly began to accept myself as a white sock lover. I've come to understand that it's simply a part of who I am, which is no different than being gay is a part of who I am. Just as there are people who truly feel comfortable and natural wearing no clothes on (i.e. nudists), I feel most comfortable when I'm wearing a t-shirt (or flannel if the weather is cold), jeans and white socks, both indoors and outdoors. I live my life in my jeans and my white socks. Like I said, it's a lifestyle!

The biggest question I get is "when did you know you were into socks?" Well let me start off by saying that before I was into socks, I was SO into barefeet (and still am). I always had a fascination with guys walking outside barefoot, but it wasn't until I was about 11 years old that I developed a "sexual fascination" with barefeet. Not just the feet mind you, but the whole idea of being barefoot outside really gave me a charge. However four separate events were to occur which would change that and turn me into the white sock lover that I am today. First, I was walking to a friend's house (I had shoes on) one summer afternoon and noticed that some people across the street were relaxing in front of their house, and one of the men had his shoes off. Now I had seen this man (mid 30's) in his barefeet (He had some of the most beautiful barefeet and soles I had ever seen!) walk around many times but this was the first time I had seen him in white socks. He was sitting on his driveway against the back of his car with his legs stretched out in front of him. The soles of his white socks were slightly dirty, just enough to show the foot print. I kept stealing glances at his soles as I was walking down the street. I found it oddly fascinating.

The second event was actually a commercial for a laundry detergent. In the commercial two men were playing tennis and they both had their shoes off! The camera would do close-ups of their blackened soles as they were playing tennis, and I found myself just staring at the TV screen. It was the most amazing commercial I had ever seen!!!

The third event happened several months later. There was a kid (about my age) who lived next door to me. He was an avid soccer player, and had what I felt were among the sexiest barefeet I had ever seen. Well one day he was playing soccer in his front lawn (the grass was quite wet) with some friends and he was playing in his white socks! Now, for those of you who have never walked around in wet, white socks, let me tell you that getting the socks wet tend to make them "flop around" quite a bit. Well, being that his socks were not only wet, but that he was also running around on his lawn, made his socks very loose off of his feet. Now I was in my bedroom (which lucky for me had a beautiful vantage point of this wonderful sock activity taking place just next door) and was mesmerized by the nature of his white socks. Then he had to chase the soccer ball across the street. As he crossed the street his wet sock soles just picked up all sorts of dirt and made his soles totally black. Then, just as he was about to pick up the soccer ball, he stopped dead in his tracks, lifted his right sock sole (which faced me perfectly) to remove a small pebble stuck on his foot. What I saw was absolutely amazing!!! I had never seen white sock soles so dirty from playing around on wet grass. It totally blew me away!!! He then came back and actually took his socks off to play some game of tag in his barefeet. Now as I said before, I do love barefeet and his are stunning! After playing around in his barefeet for a time he took his filthy socks and actually put them back on to play more soccer! That was when I first thought that there might actually be something to these white socks!!!

The fourth event happened towards the end of my 7th grade year. We had an early morning P.E. class and we were playing softball. One of my classmates (who I had a huge crush on) was wearing baseball cleats. I had noticed that his socks were rather old because the elastic on the cuff of the socks was so worn out that they just fell around his ankles. As we were about to walk back to the locker room this classmate walked ahead of me (on the very wet grass again) and was stunned to see that he had removed his cleats and was walking in these old worn socks!!! Now, not only did his socks flop around because the grass was wet, but because the elastic on the sock cuff was gone it caused the cuff of his socks to fall right to where his ankles were and the toes of the socks were flopping a good three inches in front of his feet!!!! What sealed this entire ordeal for me was that he was taking pretty big steps which allowed me to get a really good look at the soles and I could see his sock soles actually get wetter and dirtier with every step! From that moment on I have had quite the love affair with white socks! Now I still am very much into barefeet. I love the look and "feel" (Just have a guy rub his socks/barefeet against my socks/barefeet and watch what happens to me!) of a well shaped foot and I really enjoy going in barefeet whenever the occasion allows, but my first love is now, and will always be, white socks!!!
 
 

The other big question that I get is, do you actually work in your socks? Well, yes I do. I work in a very casual office environment and sit away from most of my co-workers so I can pretty much do what I want, however anytime we have any corporate managers come through our office (which unfortunately happens several times a year which can last a week or two) then the shoes (I usually wear some Sketchers boots) need to be worn. However, once I'm out the door the boots come off and I'm in my socks heading for the car to drive home and that's usually the last time I'll wear those boots for the remainder of the day. Does anybody say anything to me at work during those times when I don't have my boots on? No, and again that's probably due to the fact that I'm left alone in my part of the office, so whenever there aren't any corporate managers around I'm allowed to pretty much walk around in socks whenever I feel like it. Whatever the reason, I'm a very lucky guy in that I can pretty much go anywhere I want and do so in my white socks.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Without a doubt the greatest fun I have is being able to enjoy the great outdoors without any shoes on. Why? Again I have to go back and say that this feel perfectly natural for me. For me it IS liberating. I enjoy the opportunity to go on outings and have my shoes off and just feel the ground beneath my white socks. Now the one puzzler is that I appear to be the only outdoor white sock walker here in Phoenix. I would have thought that there would be more people like me given the incredible climate we have here, especially in the autumn through springs months. However I have yet to see another outdoor sock walker in all my activities. I am hopeful that one day I'll become friends (No relationships please. I'm already happily in one!) with another guy who enjoys sock walking as much as I do who will go on the occasional outing with me.

Now oddly enough, the second most asked question I get is, "Do you actually play guitar and perform at a church in your socks?" Well the answer is most definitely YES! Now I'm sure that everybody thinks I play the guitar in my socks for the same reason that I would do anything else with my shoes off. Well that is only partially true. You see, the truth of the matter is that when I started performing I used to have terrible stage fright. It would get so bad that I would forget the words I was supposed to sing and forget which piece of music I was working on. One time I became so nervous that I started playing an entirely different song from what the rest of the band was playing. Now that's stage fright!!! Oddly enough however, I found that playing with my shoes off would ease my stage fright so that I was able to perform without any difficulties. I guess indulging in my sock fetish in that manner while performing was enough at the time to calm my nerves during any musical performance I was giving. Now even though I haven't really had that bad a problem with stage fright lately I still pretty much continue to perform music shoeless. At the same time though there is now actually a practical reason for me to perform and play guitar in my socks. I work with some sound equipment which utilizes some tricky foot pedals and switches. If I were to try to use these pedals and switches with my shoes on I almost always end up stepping on the wrong switch or trigger the wrong function. I really found that only when using it shoeless was I able to operate my foot switches with the kind of precision that I need, so now I'm actually forced to play without shoes on just so I can use all of my special guitar effects. Oh well... I'm not exactly crying over that situation! Between the way I resolved my stage fright to the use of my guitar foot pedals have only helped me to see that this has indeed evolved from being just a fetish to the lifestyle I lead now!!!
 

Another activity that I'm really fond of doing is sockdriving. I've been doing this ever since I got my first car over twenty years ago. There is something about the feel of the gas pedal, brake and clutch underneath my socked feet that I really enjoy. I also think that part of the attraction to sockdriving is much like sockwalking, going someplace without shoes on. What the sockdriving has done is simply open up the number of places that I can go now and sockwalk. I've now had the pleasure of being able to sockwalking all over the state of Arizona and even in California. There is also something quite enjoyable about driving on an Arizona Interstate in my socks, stopping off at a rest stop and then going for a walk and stretching my legs in my socks. Two years ago I even went to Palm Springs and drove there in my socks with no shoes to speak of. When it came time to check into a motel I walked into the lobby in my socks, and of course, spent the entire time in my socks. I hung out by the pool in my socks (I didn't go swimming), walked around all of the motel grounds, and even had breakfast in their recreation room the next morning in my white socks. No one really seemed to notice until it came time to leave and I stopped off at a gas station. There were a number of people who gave double takes when I went to fill up the car and saw me in my socks. I have to admit that I did find it somewhat amusing at how they would look at me, but what's most important to me is simply how it feels to go driving in my socks. It feels wonderful! Everybody should give it a try!!!
 

As I previously mentioned, I don't know any other people here in Phoenix who are into outdoor sock activities like I am. I've yet to meet any other sockwalkers or sockdrivers, but I'm always on the lookout for any "kindred spirits." That's why I put this website together.

Jeroen in the Netherlands was one of those friends who I drew inspiration from. He was one of

Jeff in Indiana (Jeff is NOT my boyfriend. He has a boyfriend named

Another friend who inspired me in ways I can't describe is David in New York. We've been friends for so long that I can no longer remember how exactly we came into contact with each other. If memory serves we first came into contact with each other through a gay message board on AOL, back when AOL had gay message boards. The contact was casual as we mostly talked amongst each other through messages. This was still in the early days of the Internet so the sharing of photos had yet to really take off. Then some years later I found a sock community site through Yahoo (the exact Yahoo site no longer exists) in which David was the moderator. I saw his photos and started up a dialogue. It was then that I found out it was the same David I knew from AOL and a magnificent friendship was born. I didn't have a digital camera at the time, but David did and he was more than happy to share his photos with me!!!

That friendship dates back to the mid 90's and he has supplied our community a nice sized catalog of photos for us all to enjoy (if you want to see them just click on either of his photos), and even though David doesn't do photography much anymore, he's still an avid sockwalker, and in my mind, one of the original sock superstars I've ever known!!!

Now I must talk about my friend Kel. This young man is a truly interesting character! As I just said, he's young (I would guess mid-twenties) and is from New Zealand. According to him this is a country where it is not uncommon to see sockwalking going on. Add to all of this is that he now lives in China (I don't know where exactly). I first saw a couple of harmless, indoor photos of him in his socks on the website (at the time called) Sockstars. We corresponded a bit and he told me that he was living there as a student. He liked my photos, but out of fear (something which I could easily understand) would only go out in his socks at night, usually to the market around the corner or somewhere near where he lived. Well Sockstars wasn't a website I frequented so I lost contact with him, only for us to "bump into" each other again on Flickr.

Kel and I started corresponding again as I would praise his pictures, not just for the sexual nature of them (after all they are sock photos), but also for their artistic merit. Kel then told me that I was the one who inspired him to do what he's doing. Well I don't have to tell you how that made me feel. I was beyond flattered and that's when I knew for certain that we, as sock/foot people, have become our own community with an identity of its own. As for Kel himself, not only is he a truly talented photographer, not only is he a fantastic member of the same sock walking community that many of us are part of, not only is he UNBELIEVABLY HANDSOME AND SEXY, but he is a truly good person. He has a very sweet spirit about him, and knowing that just makes his photos even that much more appealing. He is a wonderful young man and I'm deeply honored to call him friend!!!

Now lastly, my friend Jordan, who in addition to having had his own website is probably the single NICEST guy I've ever had the chance to get to know. Not only does he take some of the HOTTEST sock pics I've seen, but he has a smile that could charm anyone!!!

He used to have his own website, but has recently taken it down. That was unfortunate at the time as he's the consummate sock/footman! However, we are all in luck because Jordan decided to join Facebook in August of 2010, and he has blessed us all by sharing his wealth of sock and barefoot photos there! If you're tastes are more in line with dress socks or sheers then Jordan is your man. Also, of all the sock/foot guys that I've met on the Internet, no one has feet as sexy as this guy!!! They are unbelievably amazing! I do have just a few other photos of him so if you get the chance, take a look at some of his other pics. Just click on any of his photos you see here and they'll take you to my small collection. You'll discover that not only does he have GORGEOUS socks and feet, but he is one unbelievably sexy man!!! He's one of the greatest guys you can have the pleasure of knowing and even though I have never met him face to face (although I hope I will someday), I can say that I'm unbelievably blessed to have Jordan, not just as a friend, but as a close friend.

Now I'm sure some of you are wondering why I'm gushing so much over this guy. Well, to be perfectly honest there is something of a mutual admiration society going in between me and Jordan. Some years ago we started writing to each other only to find out that he was someone that I had already corresponded with in the past. I didn't recognize him because he used a different alias at the time. Once he shared that with me we started talking to each other like old friends from childhood. I continued to mention how much I really loved his pictures (and I mean LOVE) when he shared that he had been admirer of mine for a very long time. Not only that, but I was something of an inspiration for him in his Internet endeavours regarding his own website and pictures. The conversations since then have become more personal and out of respect for Jordan they will not be shared here. However, one thing is certain. I am truly a blessed man because of people like Jordan, Jeff, Jeroen, David, Ricky, and so many others that I can't even mention. If you're among the many that I've neglected to mention, please accept my apologies. In this community I have found so many friends that trying to keep track of all of them, let alone remember everyone's name is an overwhelming task. Besides, if I tried to list all the wonderful people that I've come to know I don't think I would ever get this website finished! I've appreciated the fact that we have all had a strong common interest to bring us all together, and I'm grateful that I can also count you all as friends. From the bottom of my heart, thank you!!!

There is one final person I want to mention. My husband Keith. He IS my husband as we are legally married in the state of California. We did have a Holy Union (which I thought of as a marriage ceremony even if the government and the "not so right" wing Christians say otherwise) which was held at the church we attended at that time. We exchanged rings, exchanged vows, and even had a wedding cake! As far as I was concerned he was my husband then, and now that we had a marriage ceremony in California he's my LEGAL husband now and there's nothing that anyone can say or do to take that away from us!!! I mention him because of his wonderful support. He is, by his own admission, not into socks or feet like I am. However, he is an extremely understanding and wonderful man and accepts that enjoying socks, and sockwalking like I do, is not just a part of who I am... It IS who I am! His support has gone so far as to taking some wonderful pictures of me when we've been out on trips or on vacations. We could be at a park or a museum and he'll see something and say, "stand there," and he'll take a picture of me! That may not seem like a big deal to many of you, but to me it means everything! This is the unconditional love and acceptance that he gives to me. It's difficult enough to come out as a gay man and find happiness. It's another thing to come out as a socklover or foot fetishist and to not have one's own partner/spouse be accepting of it. My husband has been fully accepting and understanding of who I am and how I choose to live my life. For me, there is nothing more liberating than to have his love and support in this.

I want to finish this up with a request. Some of you may be fine with me walking in socks while others will not. If you don't approve or even share how I feel about sockwalking all I ask is that you accept me for who I am, just as I'm accepted for being a gay man. My sockwalking harms no one. Please, just allow me to walk outside without shoes on and enjoy my life.

So that's about it. At the bottom of this page you'll see a link that leads to my Flickr Photo Album. It contains all of the pics you've seen here so far and much more. I do hope to continue to modify this page occasionally as personal time permits. I also just added a blog to this website where I will write down and share any fun sock stories or adventures. I might even post a new pic or two there. The only thing is if you do go visit my blog to make sure you have the sound for your computer turned on. Not only will you possibly like what you read and see in my blog, but you just might like what you hear as well!

Now I've just uploaded the latest batch of sock walking photos. These were taken at a memorial park next to our Capitol here in Phoenix. I went there early in the morning before people started showing up (too many people can always ruin a photo-op) and got in some really great pictures where you see my socks get dirtier and dirtier with each passing picture. Just click here to view them. They're not on Flickr yet, but will get uploaded fairly soon. For now these pictures can only be viewed here from this website. You can also download these pics to keep as part of your own library for now. Once I move the photos up to Flickr the original large sized pics will be made unavailable to download, so get them now while you can!!!

So that's it!!! I hope you all have a great life and those of you who enjoy socks find the same amount of fulfillment with them as I have!!!

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