Darkwolf makes an excellent point on which I'd like to elaborate. We tickle folk tend to be very guarded about our tickling fetish. The thought of those we know in our daily circles finding out about it fills us with embarrassment, shame, even dread. I spent the entire decade of the seventies living in fear that somebody might find out how I really felt about tickling. Of course that was when I believed myself to be the only person on the face of the planet with a fetish for tickling.
In the early eighties I was out of the Army and working full time as a productive member of society. :wooha: Having been around the world and seen and heard much, I decided that I would no longer be ashamed or embarrassed about my tickling fetish, and began to freely discuss it. As I suspected, most vanilla people aren't as clueless to the world of fetish as we tend to think. When I talked about tickling, it was completely without embarrassment or shame. I would refer to tickling as if it were the coolest thing in the world, and some people became interested. I also stopped labelling it as a "fetish," a word that raises a red flag with many folks. Instead, I'd just say that I really like it a lot.
To bring this all around to a single point, let me say with as much earnest as I can, that when you compare tickling to the other fetishes out there, we struck the lottery, folks. Any one of us could have ended up with bestiality, necrophilia, pedophilia, brown or golden showers, not to mention Pain. Most fetishes are very limited in where they can take place. Tickling is different. We can take it out of the bedroom, out of the dungeon, out of the freakin gutter, and satisfy our tickling needs in the fully clothed realm of mainstream society.
