Well Beaverjack, more power to you. The best I' ve ever been able to get from a pair of boots is about 4 or 5 years before I walked the soles off of them and the uppers were too beat up to sew a new pair of soles on. Of course if my boots set in the closet most of the time, they might last ten years too. As far as the silicone being for use on " wimmen" if you tried to put this stuff on them you had better be prepared to get a mouthful of knuckles, as opposed to anything more fun.