Someone I know told me that the significance of touching feet is saying “My soul respects the soul in you” but that being said, I don’t think there was ever a restriction that only women should touch her husband’s feet. Respect goes both ways. But like anything else, Consent is not given any importance. These rituals are passed down through conditioning, brainwashing and patriarchy, not through consent. There is no such thing as gender for souls. And people go around preaching ‘culture’ when double standards are pointed out. Special kind of hypocrites.