When did you discover you were not alone in the tickling world?

[Texas_Tickle]

For the longest time I thought (as most of us did) that we were the only ones who walked the face of the earth with a love for tickling? I mean, up until I just happened to type 'tickling' in the Yahoo search page (this was before Google)

And lo and behold, I saw that other people had actually dedicated web pages to the topic. Granted there were not as many as there are now (I counted about 15 or 20), but that was such a huge weight off my back, to know that I was not alone and not just some freak with a perverted fetish.

 

[baldadonis]

January 24, 2002. It never even occurred to me that anyone else had these feelings about tickling other than me until I discovered the TMF. Hooray for google.

 

[general thade]

Camp Tickle

As you can see from my extremely LARGE post count, I post alot and you all know and love me dearly, but I've been around for a long time and I couldn't pass this topic up.

I discovered I wasn't alone in this world when I fired up my trusty Lynx browser (no pictures yall just text) and discovered the story section at camp tickle..... this had to be around 1996.... Memories yall, the memories

 

[Texas_Tickle]

As you can see from my extremely LARGE post count, I post alot and you all know and love me dearly, but I've been around for a long time and I couldn't pass this topic up.

I discovered I wasn't alone in this world when I fired up my trusty Lynx browser (no pictures yall just text) and discovered the story section at camp tickle..... this had to be around 1996.... Memories yall, the memories

Good ol Camp Tickle. One of the first sites I came across, myself.

 

[venray]

As you can see from my extremely LARGE post count, I post alot and you all know and love me dearly, but I've been around for a long time and I couldn't pass this topic up.

I discovered I wasn't alone in this world when I fired up my trusty Lynx browser (no pictures yall just text) and discovered the story section at camp tickle..... this had to be around 1996.... Memories yall, the memories

Camp Tickle.....Those were the days...

 

[KrazieDog]

Good ol Camp Tickle. One of the first sites I came across, myself.

Yep ufodude had a great site and one of my favorites, but Max's was the first and best for me. It popped up and I was like

 

[MrMidnyte]

Winter of '99, I came had access to the web and typed tickling into the ask.com search engine. I don't know why I decided to do so....

 

[AffectionateDan]

Ah yes, who of us doesn't remember that feeling when we learned that we weren't the "only ones" who loved tickling? The delicious apprehension, the discovery of the too-good-to-be-true truth... That our numbers are legion.

For me, it was back in the 80's, a young man on a TDY deployment in the Air Force, visiting Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas (ah, Vega$, ya gotta love that town). There are MANY adult bookstores in that city of sin, and well, as a young man, needless to say, I was intrigued but what lay within! I was wandering around in one after duty one evening, and a magazine caught my eye and stunned me to the core. HOM's "Tied and Tickled" sat there on the magazine rack, like some incredible Holy Grail. I recall standing there for a few moments before it even occurred to me to pick it up and look at it... standing there, incredululous, the stalled gears of my brain sluggishly registering that if there was such a magazine, there's a market for it. They didn't print this thing just for me! (well, technically that's not true... I still have that magazine, LoL) There was a demand for it that these publishers were filling, and (insert choir singing 'Hallelujah' here...)

I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE!

Alas, it would be many, many years until I discovered our little family teeming on the Internet, and suddenly, life got a WHOLE lot more interesting! Woo Hoo! And truth be told, I owe Terry (TeroRizer to some of the Regular Gang) a huge debt of thanks for taking me under his proverbial wing and introducing me into the group. Life is GOOD! Thanks Terry! Love ya bro!

 

[LD_Tickler]

Well, I discovered my tickling fetish and also that I was not alone simultaneously. I never actually realized I had a tickling fetish until I stumbled upon the Magic Touch website about five years ago, so I instantly realized that I liked it, and that there was a market for it so there were others like me. The TMF wasn't a stone's throw away.

 

[Strider]

I got internet access for the first time when I was like 14 or 15. 'Tickling' was practically the first thing I typed into Yahoo. I'm not exactly sure what I expected to turn up, but I must say I definitely did not think I would find that it was as widespread as it was.

 

[daddy]

For me the first time I realized I was not alone was in the adult book stores and I saw The Vid Tied & Tickled 1 sitting on the shelf. I was about just like Dan was...lol...I must have starred at it for 20 minutes wondering what to do. Well, I shelled out the whopping 65.00 USED for it and I still have that till this day.

As far as online, it was Tom's Adult Tickling Site that I found first along with Ticklegal's Homepage. Man, I couldn't wait to get home from work every day to just absorb everything I could. It was like a new door to my life opened. Tom and I ended up good friends and chatted over the phone quite often. Turned out we only lived 1 hour from each other!

Needless to say I was so excited that I wanted to share my passion with the world the way I saw it, and so opened my website HotelTickle which I hope touched many peoples lives just like Tom's did mine!

peace out,
daddy

 

[terorizer]

And truth be told, I owe Terry (TeroRizer to some of the Regular Gang) a huge debt of thanks for taking me under his proverbial wing and introducing me into the group. Life is GOOD! Thanks Terry! Love ya bro!

Fortunately, I can type even when the monitor is blurry... *sniff* Love ya right back big guy! I guess neither of us woulda thunk that day walking into Sudwerk's eh? hehehe

On topic - I was the ripe old age of 14 (circa 1986) when sneaking into my big bro's porn stash and came across a Hustler section called "Sex Play" That month's topic: Tickled Pink a guide to erotic tickling. That's when I had my concrete proof, but unlike most here, I KNEW there were others out there. There just had to be.

 

[StevePerry4Ever]

When I was 13. We were doing history projects in school and i first used a search engine, altavista and thought, hey, if i can find pictures of the civil war, i might find some tickling pictures too. So i went home and search altavista for tickle and came across Mistress Chloe's site. I remember thinking... "tickling websites!!! that make tickling videos!!!" And then one of the best feelings ever, realizing i wasn;t the only one in the world who liked tickling. From there i expanded my searches finder tickler29's artwork, the Laugher's website, tickling paradise, sw tickle, and finally finding a home among the internet tickle world at the TMF. Ummm... er uh, when i was... *cough* ...18 of course.

 

[ParanoidChant]

Oddly enough, the first time the light bulb ever clicked in my head that acarophilia may be more than a one-case example was through a chatroom. I used to go to this awful teeny-bopper chatroom as a kid coz I couldn't find any other chatrooms (search engine? the hell's that?) and would playfully rp-tickle cute girls there. I'm a loser, I know.

Anywhats, one day I chat with this girl and the subject comes up -- and she immediately leaps into a '/me' tickle assault, which I found amusing and intriguing. Anyway, she had to go not soon after that and I ran into her again some time later.

Same subject comes up. The pattern is such that the ultimate question 'why do you like tickling so much?' comes up and we both soon realize that we have more than just a playful fondness for it. Internet exploration follows shortly there after.

So, the mysterious winds of time leads me away from the teeny-boppers and the girl I knew all too little and has lead me to ... you guys.

You have her to thank for having to put up with MEEEEEE.

 

[kered]

When I saw a Tied and Tickled magazine around 1994.

 

[Tiger.Lily]

I was probably 9 or so when I first typed in "tickling" in the Yahoo search engine. I think it was the 5th grade for me.

Anywho, I clicked on the BDSM/fetish group, and up came about 10 different web pages. My first two loves were Josie's and TeroRizer's (in fact, I'm on Terry's right now). I was totally obsessed. Ah, love.

 

[nylontickler(m)]

when...

I joined this site in 2002. Thank GOD I did!

 

[milagros317]

In the mid-1970's, when I was in my mid-20's, I saw a tickling article with photos in the magazine, "Bound to Please," published by House of Milan. That was the first time that I realized other people also found it sexually stimulating.

 

[tickmankyle1]

my first time was in like 1995 and i saw a tied and tickled magazine and there was someone from the college near me who was into foot licking willing to trade for tickling

 

[Ferbtones]

"research project"

when i "researched" tickling as part of a science project for the nervous system, i came across many sites dedicated to tickling and those interested in it. (including TMF) d: thats when i realized i defiently wasnt the only one with a love for tickling

 

[C.K. Storyteller]

Seems like most of us came to this realization as the Internet became more prevalent. I wonder if there were ever people who lived their whole lives without ever knowing there were others out there. . .

Anyway, I was a freshman in high school, and my neighbor had the Internet. I spent the night at his house once, and stayed up until 2 or 3 on his computer, discovering a world I never knew existed.

I also didn't know how to clear private data, so who knows who found out about it, but at that point, I didn't care.

 

[aurora5150]

i first discovered that i wasn't alone when i came across a clips4sale site. then i tried for months to figure out how to meet actual people who enjoyed this like i do. it took me a couple of months but then i found this site and i've been grateful ever since. it was such a sense of relief to talk about tickling with people who understood. thank you tmf

 

[ticklerNI]

iv always loved to tickle but my "im not alone" realisation was down to one site:

tklovers.com

i sat on that site 4 hours on end reading all the stories. it was through it i found the TMF and i havent looked back since

i miss u tklovers.com.....

 

[dman68]

I'm kind of the same story as most, I typed "tickling" into the yahoo search engine and found the old realtickling site. To this day, I don't know what possessed me to type that in, but I am sure glad I did!

 

[tickleshotel]

In the late 1990's , when I got my own computer and did search on Yahoo on "Tickling" , came across the Josie Pussycat page,as well as the "Hoteltickle" and then found the TMF and the rest is history!