High heels, why they are intimidating...

Think about what position you would be in if you decided you wanted to jump on some prey and snap it's jugular. You'd be on your toes right? Crouched to spring, you're never going to be flat footed. Ready to run? Your heels are up in the air.

There's always that thing you hear in women's studies that men want women to wear high heels because it makes their feet smaller. Who cares about that when they'd rather stare at boobs all day anyways? I think it is just that women in heels are in an aggressive position everyone subconsciously registers. For women, that's why the threat, the enhanced spirit of competition. For men that's why there's double takes. It may revert to a mode of appreciation, but probably at first there's just a tiny twinge of your inner caveman going "WTF? Is she going to rip my head off?" This also comes with a touch of adrenalie rush which is the same rush attached to sexual urges. Which confims what everyone already knows:

HIGH HEELS = SEX

Of course, the relative discomfort and balance issues right the threat factor immediately, but the initial impact is the same. That rush of "fight or flight" will always exist as a forethought.

Think of that next time you don those stilletos.