Lingerie is highly eroticized in media. Films and television programmes often show women stripped down to their knickers and bras in steamy scenes that are often all young men in their adolescence have access to, and the erotic images of women undressing become firmly associated in men’s minds with the lingerie itself. The thin fabric, the last bit of clothing concealing her from the viewer’s gaze, becomes an erotic object itself because of the feelings of arousal, fascination and frustration it causes. This association is often impossible to separate as men get older, and the lingerie and knickers themselves are as desirable as the women who wear them.

The women who wear knickers and send them to men get as much pleasure as the men receiving the knickers do. While they are wearing them, the women think about the men who are to receive the knickers, choosing knickers that the men find desirable and pleasuring themselves while wearing them. Although these transactions usually occur over the Internet, there is a deeply personal aspect to it that excites women, many of whom become aroused at the idea of a complete stranger receiving her used knickers and gaining sexual satisfaction from them.

In a way, this fetish has an aspect of exhibitionism for the women who send their used knickers to men. These women lead entirely normal lives while wearing the knickers they are going to send to men, keeping it a secret from most of the people who know them. They send their most intimate garments to men who cannot get enough of them, but who will usually never see them in person or even in any photos that the woman does not choose to send to them. The power dynamics that women experience in their daily lives are completely reversed, giving them all of the control over what the men see and what they receive.

Why used knickers in particular when there is so much pornography on the Internet for free? Many men are not aroused by images on a screen because it is so impersonal. Watching pornography does not feel like sex. Pornography cannot replicate the scents of women and the feelings and arousal they invoke. Used knickers, as women’s most intimate clothing, capture these scents. The knowledge that they were worn by real women, often women whom the men have had some communication with, is much more arousing to men than the detached and almost clinical camera angles in modern pornography. Men who enjoy used knickers are more attracted to the images they form in their imaginations.

When men buy used knickers from women, they are buying much more than the knickers themselves. Women who sell them post pictures and communicate with the men through messages and webcam feeds. Some women who have regular customers even take requests on the colours and types of knickers they send and provide photos of themselves wearing them. Others may engage in domination and submission dynamics with the men who contact them, often while wearing the very knickers that they will eventually send. This allows the men to relive the memories each time they see the knickers sent to them. The idea of a woman ready and willing to do whatever she is asked or even told to do is very exciting to most men, and to receive a memento of an experience is even more arousing.

What makes used knickers so appealing and desirable varies from man to man. Many enjoy the knowledge that they have part of a woman’s life that is so intensely private that only a select few people ever see it. Others enjoy the scents and feeling of the knickers themselves, fantasizing about different colours and fabrics. Some men like certain types of knickers exclusively, such as thongs or lace, while others have no specific preference as long as they have been worn. Most men get pleasure from each of these aspects of the used knickers they receive.

The deeply personal nature of their interactions with the women who send them the knickers is usually a major part of the used knickers fetish, since there is nothing stopping men from buying knickers on their own. Many men who buy used knickers do not have much interest in knickers that are new and unused. Although they are pleasant to look at, they are not as exciting as used knickers.

The used knickers fetish seems strange to many people who are not interested in it themselves, but to the men who do enjoy used knickers, it is a core part of their sexuality and desire. Fetishes do not usually occur from a conscious choice, so embracing them is often all that fetishists can do. Most men do not feel trapped or ashamed of their fetish, but revel in the taboo and secrecy surrounding the knickers and their interactions with the women they receive them from.

For a student by the name of Linda Loo, she has found an alternative and unconventional way of earning cash. What she does is sells her dirty panties, socks and assorted clothes to high paying customers. In fact, Linda Loo or LL, even has her own website to boot. Essentially, LL is pandering to the foot and clothes fetish underground. Furthermore, LL says she can rake in somewhere between $1100 and $1600 a month. To her, this is better than a minimum wage job at a cafe, retail shop or restaurant. 

Furthermore, LL says that she would not even have time to work 15 hours a week at a normal job. The reason she got interested in this sort of job is because she saw an advertisement as she was checking her email one day. It has been a lucrative way for LL to earn cash online. Moreover, all of her orders are done privately through Paypal and she has a strict order policy online.

The rules of the game consist of no emails or private information exchanged, other than the buyers mailing address. LL uses a post office box in a nearby city. The items that she is willing to sell include panties, bras, socks, shoes, shirts and pants. Some of her clients request the items to be sweaty, stinky, bloody and other signs of wear and tear, so to speak. For the more personal items, LL says she gets closer to $300 a pop. For example, if someone asks for a pair of panties, she can fetch more than a pair of sweaty socks.

What is more, she has a strict no relationship policy where the customer cannot ask for any photographs or email addresses associated with her account. Further, it is a simple and highly strategic business model that LL follows. In addition, her name is disguised as well as her identity. She has seen other sights where there are pictures of the girls who sell the clothing. LL feels this is a deal breaker because it risks her identity. The objective is to be discreet and anonymous.

Most of LL’s clients are anonymous as well. In fact, her clients use PO boxes as well as disguised names. She says this also keeps the risk of danger down as well. One of her fears was developing a stalker or mysterious person that would harass her, however, she says this fetish underworld is relatively less insane as some of the other and more violent ones she has heard about. Above all, LL feels she is conducting a business alternative that is not comparable to prostitution or stripping.

The irony behind this business is that LL gets to buy new clothes all the time. Some of her clients are attached to the idea of her wearing and dirtying special designer clothing. So, what LL will do is cover the expenses and then charge a subsequent fee for her “service”. Despite what people think, LL claims she is providing a service in a market where there are a lot of unusual patrons for this type of fetish. Moreover, LL says that this is not an uncommon market or fetish. Some clients, she says, have asked her to photograph her feet as she removes her socks. However, she has refused offers of taking nude photographs of her private parts. LL keeps this at a rather PG level as well as anonymous.

However, although there are many sites that offer this type of business, LL chose a more restrictive and low-level risk. What that means is LL offers a non-nude and non-visual site that strictly adheres to an anonymous but satisfactory fetish website. She will sell her socks and shirts for around $75, her pants and sweatshirts for $100 as well as her bras and underwear for $250 to $325. On rare occasions she will charge extra for clothing plus photographs of her removing them, if the client requests it. She never pays for shipping and with the extra income she can eat regular, shop for things she wants and pays her rent. In addition, LL says if she builds her clientele over the next year, she will be able to pull in even more money. In the end, her goal is to be financial stable until she is done with school. To be sure, this is a temporary way for her to make money, that will end within the next two years.