I think it's linked to a lot of different fetishes. I personally have trichophilia (hair fetish) but it doesn't really have as many videos or custom requests specifically focusing on that as feet do because WAM videos usually feature hair getting messy anyway. Usually feet are only featured if it's a foot fetish video.
We generally group fetishes/kinks by an outside view point - it involves mess, therefore is WAM. If you are looking at it from a psychology point of view I suspect the internal view point is the aspect that would need studying to draw worthwhile conclusions.
So for me I like to see women squirming, the mess does that, but so can spanking or stripping in the right context. A very different kink to someone who gets off on the texture of mess. But we might still both get off on watching a woman getting her knickers filled with mayonnaise.
So I think there are lots of subsections of WAM/Sploshing that will have many cross over elements with other kinks, but where they cross and which kinks there are correlations with will very much depend on the inside aspect not the external.
StephanieCD said: Lot of trannies here too, you can relate coverage of mess and being covered to all things femme.
I can't speak for all CD's here but for myself I've notched up my penchant for crossdressing if I'm going to get messy down was rooted in differing expectations society had for each gender whilst I was growing up.
Come home caked in mud from playing mud? That's boys being boys and being as gross and horrible as was expected. On the other hand were expected to sweet and beautiful. Even the private school I went to reinforced this as come rain, sleet or snow Games lessons for the boys would continue with football, rugby or cross country running that went through a bog/swamp whereas the first sign of rain and the girls' netball, field hockey or what have you moved from the Astroturf pitch to inside the sports hall.
To be gunged as a bloke that's normal and expected. Crossdressing as a guy was a fuck you to the taboo of guys being pretty or showing any hint of femininity. Then getting gunged once glammed up was then a bigger fuck you to the idea women shouldn't get messy. Being able to get messy like that with a woman for me is like tossing away all the usual social expectations and connecting on another level. Give me the choice between a woman rolling around in a puddle of goo with a beaming joyous smile liberated from those social expectation versus what was society's idea of the ideal woman whose unhappiness of being a prisoner to so many expectations from others is hidden below a cosmetic layer and I will always opt for the former.
Now granted lots of those social expectations no longer bother me personally as I'm quite happy to forge my own path. If this results in a nomadic existence of being an outsider travelling on the fringes of various groups then so be it. I have my own logically derived ethics to guide me and the people I cross paths with our worth it. Whilst I may not be bothered by them I remain conscious of what expectations that were and still are so as to be able to respect and protect that part of the lives of those that play with me.
Though as much as I've just ragged on about social expectations my shadow archetype/inner Devil's advocate does raise the question whether if those social expectations didn't exist would I even find sploshing as enjoyable or even be a splosher? After all the delightful naughtiness of breaking social taboos/rules is fundamental to kinky fun. Sure without those rules I wouldn't have tormented myself when I was younger for struggling to conform to them but I might not have explored the joys of sploshing in the first place. As much as many of us would like more social understanding for our kinks what if that understanding meant less people would be interested in exploring sploshing for no longer having any kinky naughtiness to tempt them. There's probably an interesting theoretical debate to be had there as whilst some social expectations are clearly harmful are some like "don't play with your food," a necessary social constraint for sploshing to retain a kinky thrill? But that's a subject for a different topic
But yeah in summary growing up with the societal message that boys were gross and messy and girls were clean and beautiful, my dressing up to get messy is my way of meeting messy women halfway and sticking two fingers (Commonwealth style, just the middle one if you live the other side of the Atlantic) up to as many social expectations or taboos as possible.
Anyway as I've taken this off on a little tangent so to rectify that regarding links to WAM I'll drop the obligatory link to the Fetish Map Katherine Gate's put together as it may interest some. I believe this was the last revision, it's certainly more developed than the one at the end of my copy of Deviant Desires https://i.redd.it/42o3wau04ue31.jpg If there's anything to conclude from this map is that given enough people someone somewhere will have made connections between pretty much any kink or fetish. Whilst I not any more interest in feet and shoes than the average person (I'll include them as part of full body worship or massage but don't seek feet/am aroused by just feet) I can see how a connection can be made between those that like feet/shoes and WAM. Being told not to jump in muddy puddles by an authority figure being a rule to break for a kinky rush immediately comes to mind. Especially if said authority figure would make a big deal about the appearance/presentation of your shoes. Links between other kinks and sploshing may be less straight forward but someone somewhere has probably found a way to make them.
I have both, but I don't think they are linked together-- it just so happens that my brain is fuarked and I have these fetishes. Interesting (to me, at least), is that I have had the WAM fetish for as long as I can remember. Like as a little kid seeing girls pied on television shows made me flush, etc. I wasn't even aware of sex at that point. I developed a foot fetish in my 20s (thanks ubiquitous porn!!). Finally, I don't know that either is "technically" a true fetish in that I don't need either to get off. Been having sex for a long time and never wammed with a partner. Yet I am here every day looking for good pie in the face content, so, if it ain't a fetish, call it an obsession.
I like feet, but I would say I have a kink for them. I love women of almost all shapes, sizes and colors. I've said before that someone physically attractive to me can turn me off within 5 minutes of meeting them if they're a jerk. Likewise, I've fallen for people that originally wasn't really attracted to.
If I had to rank parts, I guess I'd say I'm a leg man. And feet are just extensions of the legs. I don't have a specific thing for shoes of any certain kind or toe sucking or footjobs, but I guess I really like stockings.
For me, I don't think that's really tied to WAM though, but just a separate thing I like and it's not really as strong as a kink or fetish.
I don't care for shoe filling personally. I do like barefeet though and mixing with wam, yes please. In fact, I find feet pieings and messy footjobs sexy personally.