Aeveirra
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** This was a little long, but TOTALLY worth typing it!
I am a scientist, which by nature means I love using data! <3. Sadly, I have yet to gather numerical statics for the following statement....
(But I do not think Its' exaggerating) to state that;
A LOT of people on here (who are into tickling as their "main playtime activity of choice"), also have a Foot Fetish. I don't think I actually need numbers to say this though, lol. Honestly it should come to no surprise that these two kinks (tickling, and feet) would seem to be a natural and logical pairing, especially for those of us on the TMF
This post is an evaluation of how & why this dual-kink develops, and includes some of my own ideas, experiences and conclusions on the subject.
~ Again; I don't have exact figures on some of this stuff just yet, so I'm just state my hypothesis; "The paraphilla pairing of tickling & foot fetishism is very common, but more prevalent amoung LERS. "
~~~ I'll also explain why I think this might be the case.
So, Why do Podophilla (Foot Fetishism) & Knismolagnia (Tickling Fetishism) "overlap", or seem to "go together" so well?
A big reason for why these two phillias would co-develop is because foot fetishism is THE most common sexual phillaa that exists. Many people reading this have likely heard this before. Interestingly, By Contrast Knismolgnia is actually a rather uncommon, and semi-rare sexual phillia. (Most people even greatly dislike tickling in general).
I say thats a "big reason" because the consensus among sex- psychologists is that Podophillia makes up to 65%-70% of the people who have any type of one or more "fetish(s)". Which means that statistically, a lot of people on the TMF are likely to follow that same pattern. As well as combine that with their interest in tickling,
So why is it that these two would go together? One connection, is the' sensitivity of the feet, and their relation to the concept of tickle torture in mainstream culture. It just so happens the feet are an *extremely* ticklish area on the majority of humans, thus making that area a perfect tickle-target. The high-sensitivity of the soles & toes has even become synonymous with the idea of tickling itself.
(As seen in countless of cartoons, movies, books etc...)
Neurological roots of Sexual paraphillia development
The reason for the existence and prevalence of such strong sexual desires to begin with, is neurological in nature. The SMC or "somatosensory cortex", processes tactile or "touch" sensations. Among many others, is a region along the SMC specifically for the genitals, and that is directly next to the area specifically for the feet+toes.
Basically the "touch" processing areas of the genitals and feet are almost at the same place, and right next to each other. Is it a coincidence that the feet are the worlds' #1 sexualized body part? No, and this proximity is why that happens.
Brain activity in either area can "leak out" beyond itself, and into other areas nearby, which causes intermingling of the neuropath connections to form between them.
(High connectivity between two or more areas- anywhere in the brain, often cause one area to stimulate the other, and or both simultaneously.)
In short; when you masturbate, some activity in from "genital region" of the SMC diverts to into the "feet area", and that's why uncontrollable toe-curling during an orgasm is so common.( *Giggles* Isn't neuroscience amazing!?!)
Anyway....
Continued flow of activity to both areas can cause the SMC region for the feet to become neurologically "paired" with the region of the genitals. Which means; Physical stimulation of one part, neurologically affects the other, and vice-versa.
The brain simply translates this mutual activity as something like this;
(Feet + Genitals) → (feet = genitals)
(During intercourse) → (feet = genitals).
This "classical conditioning" of the brain can happen accidentally and somewhat quickly - just from repeating certain behaviors.
Hence- why the feet are so widely sexualized.
But, even though the conceptual "feet+tickle" connection exists, many people who have a foot fetish, DONT like foot-tickling all that much. ( Duh.... Most people really don't , sadly )
**** But for someone with both tickling, and foot fetish;
If,
( Tickling= arousing ), and ( Feet = arousing )
then,
(Foot+Tickling) → (Reinforces Both kinks)
With the "feet vs tickling" dual-kink being so common though, it seems like they got that way from"feeding off each other". Like killing two birds with one stone: foot tickling = works for both tickle and foot lovers, and reinforces both desires at once.
I wonder if someone has one of these fetishes, can they "activate" the other?...For instance, let's say somebody who didn't know they had a foot fetish, gets the chance to tickle-torture a person who they really like while their feet are in stocks. If this experience was really exhilarating to them, could it spark an interest for that person to adopt a new kink?
I really don't know for certain... But Maybe? Based on how the brain processes sensations and associates their activity to certain areas
...it could be quite feasible it does, and that it has already happened to thousands of people- on this site in particular.
**btw I'm not saying thats a bad thing, lol. Just a theory that tries to explain how & why such kinks become related to each other.
Actually, It seems like the two would go together naturally. I mean feet were pretty much designed to be tickled... Why else would they be so sensitive? Further, how can you explain their neurological proximity to the genitals? Lol,. **
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** This next part is my own experience, which was the opposite of developing a double-fetish. Lol, it's interesting - trust me ***
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I have always known that I had an interest in tickling since like, my childhood lol. But that young, I didn't actually know it was "something that could be sexualized". I just liked it.... a lot. lol. Like many people here with a foot & tickling paraphillia, I too would always notice when someone around me was barefoot, but my thoughts about it were very different from the one I most commonly hear, which is; "I want to tickle such-and-such persons' feet". My thoughts were essentially the opposite.
I like the idea of being tickled, much more than I do than doing it to someone else. So, I never had desires to tickle others' feet. I just took notice and imagined myself being tickled, instead of the barefooted person I saw. I think this is why I never developed a foot fetish, because that desire to act just wasn't there.
Back when I hit puberty, I thought I had a foot fetish then. Every time I would shoeless feet I would fantasize about tickling - but just in general. ! At age 11-12 or so, I still didn't know that tickling was even considered a fetish- but I did know what a foot fetish was. I guess thats why I thought that's what I had, because I couldn't grasp the concept of "sexualized tickling" being a real thing that people do- outside my imagination.
But when my family got our first home computer, I soon realized after some google-image searching, that I really didn't like feet as much as I thought I did. Just seeing pictures of them alone didn't really do anything for me.
**AMAZINGY enough - I actually remember the exact moment I typed in the words; "tickle torture" in the search bar ... And OMG....I was *SO* happy when I learned that tickling (as a sexual fetish), actually existed!!! Before that day, I wasn't even sure if anything beyond tickle me Elmo would come up if I searched for "tickling porn" or something.
- Needless to say, after said discovery I don't be,I've have ever searched for foot-only related pictures again. Hahahhaha
Back to a few years before that point in time though, I truly believed I had a foot-related kink or something... But it turned out I didn't.
I only liked the tickling aspect that they reminded me of. To a pre-internet age 11 year old who didn't know knismolagnia existed.....
What what was i supposed to think?
I think the biggest reason why I Didn't develop the feet&tickli double-kink that many others have, is because I'm a ticklee. (both physically, and mentally). I never had the desire to tickle others, not once whenever I saw someones' bare feet. All that time feet just reminded me of how hott I thought tickling is. But that indirect arousal may have lead me to believe otherwise for a long time. (Pretty insightful, right?
When I would imagine "tickle torture", I imagined it being done to ME, and as not something I would do to others.
Also, I didn't un-intentionally combine the two kinks together that often during "playtime activities", because my MOST ticklish area is my lower waist /along my sides. My Feet are only like my #3rd or #4th most sensitive area. So I didn't place as much emphasis on foot tickling as I did my mid-upper body.
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~ This is a simplified version of how I think some people with a tickling fetish might react to seeing feet. (When they may only have a minor interest in foot fetishism.)
1) LER: sees bare soles → Desire to tickle feet →Desire for tickling+/ feet
2) LEE: sees bare soles →Associates feet with tickling →Desire to be tickled
** In both cases, feet act as a "trigger" for tickling but in different ways. The LER is more "active", vs the LEE who's more passive about it. I think it has to be partly true, because for me I used to get turned on by seeing feet, but only because it made me think about someone tickling me. I guess for the Ler, I can see how easy it is to overlap these kinks.
I hope this post was interesting! I also hope that I helped explain how why/tickling and foot fetishism occurs/ frequently overlaps, And also explain why not everyone who has one of these two kinks, always has them both.
______________________________
Source for brain SMC regions
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qE1lQ3gUy...e8/k6xZjrv_m7A/s1600/Somatosensory+cortex.jpg
I am a scientist, which by nature means I love using data! <3. Sadly, I have yet to gather numerical statics for the following statement....
(But I do not think Its' exaggerating) to state that;
A LOT of people on here (who are into tickling as their "main playtime activity of choice"), also have a Foot Fetish. I don't think I actually need numbers to say this though, lol. Honestly it should come to no surprise that these two kinks (tickling, and feet) would seem to be a natural and logical pairing, especially for those of us on the TMF
This post is an evaluation of how & why this dual-kink develops, and includes some of my own ideas, experiences and conclusions on the subject.
~ Again; I don't have exact figures on some of this stuff just yet, so I'm just state my hypothesis; "The paraphilla pairing of tickling & foot fetishism is very common, but more prevalent amoung LERS. "
~~~ I'll also explain why I think this might be the case.
So, Why do Podophilla (Foot Fetishism) & Knismolagnia (Tickling Fetishism) "overlap", or seem to "go together" so well?
A big reason for why these two phillias would co-develop is because foot fetishism is THE most common sexual phillaa that exists. Many people reading this have likely heard this before. Interestingly, By Contrast Knismolgnia is actually a rather uncommon, and semi-rare sexual phillia. (Most people even greatly dislike tickling in general).
I say thats a "big reason" because the consensus among sex- psychologists is that Podophillia makes up to 65%-70% of the people who have any type of one or more "fetish(s)". Which means that statistically, a lot of people on the TMF are likely to follow that same pattern. As well as combine that with their interest in tickling,
So why is it that these two would go together? One connection, is the' sensitivity of the feet, and their relation to the concept of tickle torture in mainstream culture. It just so happens the feet are an *extremely* ticklish area on the majority of humans, thus making that area a perfect tickle-target. The high-sensitivity of the soles & toes has even become synonymous with the idea of tickling itself.
(As seen in countless of cartoons, movies, books etc...)
Neurological roots of Sexual paraphillia development
The reason for the existence and prevalence of such strong sexual desires to begin with, is neurological in nature. The SMC or "somatosensory cortex", processes tactile or "touch" sensations. Among many others, is a region along the SMC specifically for the genitals, and that is directly next to the area specifically for the feet+toes.
Basically the "touch" processing areas of the genitals and feet are almost at the same place, and right next to each other. Is it a coincidence that the feet are the worlds' #1 sexualized body part? No, and this proximity is why that happens.
Brain activity in either area can "leak out" beyond itself, and into other areas nearby, which causes intermingling of the neuropath connections to form between them.
(High connectivity between two or more areas- anywhere in the brain, often cause one area to stimulate the other, and or both simultaneously.)
In short; when you masturbate, some activity in from "genital region" of the SMC diverts to into the "feet area", and that's why uncontrollable toe-curling during an orgasm is so common.( *Giggles* Isn't neuroscience amazing!?!)
Anyway....
Continued flow of activity to both areas can cause the SMC region for the feet to become neurologically "paired" with the region of the genitals. Which means; Physical stimulation of one part, neurologically affects the other, and vice-versa.
The brain simply translates this mutual activity as something like this;
(Feet + Genitals) → (feet = genitals)
(During intercourse) → (feet = genitals).
This "classical conditioning" of the brain can happen accidentally and somewhat quickly - just from repeating certain behaviors.
Hence- why the feet are so widely sexualized.
But, even though the conceptual "feet+tickle" connection exists, many people who have a foot fetish, DONT like foot-tickling all that much. ( Duh.... Most people really don't , sadly )
**** But for someone with both tickling, and foot fetish;
If,
( Tickling= arousing ), and ( Feet = arousing )
then,
(Foot+Tickling) → (Reinforces Both kinks)
With the "feet vs tickling" dual-kink being so common though, it seems like they got that way from"feeding off each other". Like killing two birds with one stone: foot tickling = works for both tickle and foot lovers, and reinforces both desires at once.
I wonder if someone has one of these fetishes, can they "activate" the other?...For instance, let's say somebody who didn't know they had a foot fetish, gets the chance to tickle-torture a person who they really like while their feet are in stocks. If this experience was really exhilarating to them, could it spark an interest for that person to adopt a new kink?
I really don't know for certain... But Maybe? Based on how the brain processes sensations and associates their activity to certain areas
...it could be quite feasible it does, and that it has already happened to thousands of people- on this site in particular.
**btw I'm not saying thats a bad thing, lol. Just a theory that tries to explain how & why such kinks become related to each other.
Actually, It seems like the two would go together naturally. I mean feet were pretty much designed to be tickled... Why else would they be so sensitive? Further, how can you explain their neurological proximity to the genitals? Lol,.
** - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
** This next part is my own experience, which was the opposite of developing a double-fetish. Lol, it's interesting - trust me
*** ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
I have always known that I had an interest in tickling since like, my childhood lol. But that young, I didn't actually know it was "something that could be sexualized". I just liked it.... a lot. lol. Like many people here with a foot & tickling paraphillia, I too would always notice when someone around me was barefoot, but my thoughts about it were very different from the one I most commonly hear, which is; "I want to tickle such-and-such persons' feet". My thoughts were essentially the opposite.
I like the idea of being tickled, much more than I do than doing it to someone else. So, I never had desires to tickle others' feet. I just took notice and imagined myself being tickled, instead of the barefooted person I saw. I think this is why I never developed a foot fetish, because that desire to act just wasn't there.
Back when I hit puberty, I thought I had a foot fetish then. Every time I would shoeless feet I would fantasize about tickling - but just in general. ! At age 11-12 or so, I still didn't know that tickling was even considered a fetish- but I did know what a foot fetish was. I guess thats why I thought that's what I had, because I couldn't grasp the concept of "sexualized tickling" being a real thing that people do- outside my imagination.
But when my family got our first home computer, I soon realized after some google-image searching, that I really didn't like feet as much as I thought I did. Just seeing pictures of them alone didn't really do anything for me.
**AMAZINGY enough - I actually remember the exact moment I typed in the words; "tickle torture" in the search bar ... And OMG....I was *SO* happy when I learned that tickling (as a sexual fetish), actually existed!!! Before that day, I wasn't even sure if anything beyond tickle me Elmo would come up if I searched for "tickling porn" or something.
- Needless to say, after said discovery I don't be,I've have ever searched for foot-only related pictures again. Hahahhaha
Back to a few years before that point in time though, I truly believed I had a foot-related kink or something... But it turned out I didn't.
I only liked the tickling aspect that they reminded me of. To a pre-internet age 11 year old who didn't know knismolagnia existed.....
What what was i supposed to think?
I think the biggest reason why I Didn't develop the feet&tickli double-kink that many others have, is because I'm a ticklee. (both physically, and mentally). I never had the desire to tickle others, not once whenever I saw someones' bare feet. All that time feet just reminded me of how hott I thought tickling is. But that indirect arousal may have lead me to believe otherwise for a long time. (Pretty insightful, right?
When I would imagine "tickle torture", I imagined it being done to ME, and as not something I would do to others.
Also, I didn't un-intentionally combine the two kinks together that often during "playtime activities", because my MOST ticklish area is my lower waist /along my sides. My Feet are only like my #3rd or #4th most sensitive area. So I didn't place as much emphasis on foot tickling as I did my mid-upper body.
••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
~ This is a simplified version of how I think some people with a tickling fetish might react to seeing feet. (When they may only have a minor interest in foot fetishism.)
1) LER: sees bare soles → Desire to tickle feet →Desire for tickling+/ feet
2) LEE: sees bare soles →Associates feet with tickling →Desire to be tickled
** In both cases, feet act as a "trigger" for tickling but in different ways. The LER is more "active", vs the LEE who's more passive about it. I think it has to be partly true, because for me I used to get turned on by seeing feet, but only because it made me think about someone tickling me. I guess for the Ler, I can see how easy it is to overlap these kinks.
I hope this post was interesting! I also hope that I helped explain how why/tickling and foot fetishism occurs/ frequently overlaps, And also explain why not everyone who has one of these two kinks, always has them both.
______________________________
Source for brain SMC regions
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qE1lQ3gUy...e8/k6xZjrv_m7A/s1600/Somatosensory+cortex.jpg
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