I’m sorry if this isn’t the place to put this, I could just use advice from wherever possible rn.
I 19F just finished my first day of the new semester and am kinda stressing out over something that happened in my last class. I didn’t really think much of this when it happened but after talking about it with my friend I feel so creeped out and stupid.
Since it’s the first day of school we just did the typical introductory stuff, and since it was a studio art class there were no desks or anything, just chairs in a circle. I was wearing sorta baggy jeans but I guess the way I was sitting they would sometimes show my socks underneath.
When the class ended everyone got up and started leaving, but before I stood up this guy a couple seats down came to me and told me he noticed my socks and said they were neat (they’re just white with sunflower designs on them). He said his girlfriend loves socks and that he wanted to take a picture of them to show her.
I love socks too and at the time this seemed like a sorta sweet and fun little thing for his gf so i agreed to let him take a picture of my socks. I feel dumb about this part but he noticed the socks were kinda long (they go to my knees) and he encouraged me to pull my jeans up a bit to show them in full for the picture so I did.
He took out his phone and I expected it to be a quick snap of a pic and then done, but he held the phone for a bit. At this point I’m sure pretty he was actually recording a video. I feel so gross rn. He asked what the rest of the socks looked like so like a fucking idiot i took off my shoes and basically let him take pictures of my feet.
I don’t know what I was thinking. Sometimes I get flustered over male attention and it all happened so fast honestly, and I was trying to match his energy a little. He seemed confident and collected and i genuinely believed he was just some outgoing dude who wanted to show his girlfriend something she liked. I thought it might normally be weird but I figured there’s no way he intended to be creepy if he already had a gf and it was just cool to learn of someone who shared an interest with me. Atp who even knows if he even has a girlfriend though.
Like I said i was expecting it to be a quick snap of a single picture of my socks but he sorta lingered for a little and got multiple angles. He probably had his camera pointed at my feet for like 10 seconds and he like orbited around them to get angles of all sides including the bottoms. And again i’m sure it was a video and not pictures because the phone was always facing my feet and i think i even saw him zoom in a couple times. It was hard to pick up on how weird it was because he kept making conversation during it saying stuff like how soft they looked and asking if I have other socks like this. I just answered truthfully because it seemed like a personable conversation but looking back it feels so obviously unsettling.
After a few more seconds it wrapped up and he put his phone away and kinda tried chatting with me while we left the classroom. He kept asking questions that seemed like smalltalk but my friend is telling me they were obvious attempts to gather more weird info about my socks. Like he asked how long my walks are between classes and what I thought of the hot weather and stuff. I thought those were just regular questions people ask but my friend thinks they were asked with creepy intent.
I honestly don’t find myself in many conversations with guys at school so I really can’t tell how normal this is. Part of me feels really naive that i even have to ask this, but was i used for fetish content or is there any possible way this could be a misunderstanding? I really just want to believe the intentions were pure because i don’t know how i’m gonna get through a semester with this guy in my class if he has stuff of me on his phone to get off to.
My friend says i should tell someone about this but i dont even know where to begin with that and i cant be sure i’m not just overreacting. Plus i was technically okay with it at the time so what could i even do?
tl:dr a guy in class asked to take pictures of my socks for his girlfriend but i think it might have actually been fetish related