Accepting Your tickling fetish

[tk0]

What was it like when you first realized that you had a tickling fetish.

 

[David Tyler]

When I was 4 years old, I did a drawing of a girl's stocking feet with a word balloon asking for them to be tickled.

I've always known it turned me on. I would seek out scenes in movies where women's stocking feet would be tickled. I discovered 'North to Alaska' at a pretty young age.

Made a set of stocks when I was in high school. And, yes, they got used on the neighborhood girls.

The term 'fetish' didn't enter my vocabulary until I was an adult.

 

[Senshi1]

I still remember the exact moment it kicked in.

When I was a smelly, sweaty, greasy, perverted 12-13 year-old piece of scum, I saw a write-up for a cheesy TV series about the porn industry. In the write-up, it mentioned a director who "makes tickling fetish videos". Upon reading that, I instantly got a weird feeling in my stomach and knew I had to watch it. I did. Actually, I taped it and re-watched it a bunch of times. The rest is history. 😀

 

[conehead180]

I didn't actually realize I had one till I found this (and a certain other) site. I just thought that it was entirely because of twisted desire to tickle anything female (don't understand? Maybe I'll explain sometime). But then as I started looking around at stuff on the sites, I realized that it was more (or less?) than what I originally thought it was.

However, I think the topic is a little misleading of the question. I mean, realizing that you have a fetish is one thing, but accepting that you do have it is something completely different. Just mentioning it.

 

[Budweiserbob!]

All my life I always liked tickling. When we played "Sleeping Lions" in primary school I would always be the tickler and try and make them squirm. When ever something tickled someone I would always try and make it happen again. When ever Ihad an opportunity to tickle someone, I took it.

But when I was a child it was only something fun to me, never sexual. I always knew I liked to do it more than other people but I considered it a normal thing.

But when I was 12 I realised I had a tickling fetish when trying to figure out what my fetish was. For years I used to believe I never had a fetish. Breasts, Asses, Legs never seemed to turn me on as much as I'd hoped so (well, the legs are a middle area. they're sorta connected to feet! 😀). But when I first tickled a girl I liked in year 8 I felt something weird and something go a lil hard "down there". So later that night I sat in my room and "fantasised" about a tickling experience and it was then I knew that I had a tickling fetish.

I felt a little alone at that point because I felt like I was the only one with a tickling fetish, because it was a weird fetish (at the time) and because TT wasn't up until my early 20's I would believe I was the only one for a long long time. Well, until I was 14 and saw a foot/tickle fetishist on tv talking about it. I can't remember the show but it opened my eyes! O_O

 

[TKLVR181]

I'm like Conehead. I've known it gave me a funny feelin in my "tummy" since I was little, but one day I googled it an' found this place. Lurked for waa-aaay too long, was really embarrassed about it. Then I started posting and realized everybody here isn't some sort of perverted freak---we're (mostly) all human beings here🙂

Wow, that was a bit more detailed than I had planned!😱

 

[gilmourwaters]

I was VERY VERY young when i started to REEEEEEEAAAALY like tickling and womens feet.The issue for me wasn't accepting it..that came naturally...the issue was getting my need satisfied!

 

[conehead180]

I'm like Conehead. I've known it gave me a funny feelin in my "tummy" since I was little, but one day I googled it an' found this place. Lurked for waa-aaay too long, was really embarrassed about it. Then I started posting and realized everybody here isn't some sort of perverted freak---we're (mostly) all human beings here🙂

Wow, that was a bit more detailed than I had planned!😱

You think you've been here for a long time? I've been here since '03. THAT's a long time!

 

[leenotler]

I can't remember. It was just one of many things that seemed exciting all along. I never though about accepting it or not. For me, various fetishes have become dominant, then faded, to be replaced with another. I did think about rejecting all fetishes, to become "mainstream", thinking life would be easier with no magazines or computer files to hide. The tickle fetish started to fade when I stopped feeding it pics, etc. I decided I might live without it, but why should I have to? It was too much fun to try to discard and would probably be replaced with some other fetish. It dominates again.

 

[conehead180]

I can't remember. It was just one of many things that seemed exciting all along. I never though about accepting it or not. For me, various fetishes have become dominant, then faded, to be replaced with another. I did think about rejecting all fetishes, to become "mainstream", thinking life would be easier with no magazines or computer files to hide. The tickle fetish started to fade when I stopped feeding it pics, etc. I decided I might live without it, but why should I have to? It was too much fun to try to discard and would probably be replaced with some other fetish. It dominates again.

That's exactly what I did. See, I first join this site way back when I was still in high school, and of course, being in high school meant I had to be a certain way. My whole life was practically about being "the popular guy that all the other guys think is cool and all the girls think is hot". Of course, being that kind of person meant that I couldn't have anything "out of the ordinary" about me, so I tried to cut myself off from tickling all together. however, unlike with you, it didn't go away, just festered on.

As the years passed I slowly began to realize that maybe it was just apart of who I am, and as much as I may not like who I am sometimes, I have learned to accept it (sorta).

 

[MistressValerie1]

When I entered adolsecence I became fascinated with notions of tickling others, but I never acted on my fantasies until I was much older. I used to feel guilty and weird about my desires, but I have gradually come to accept them as just another turn-on.

My interest in squishing began at a much younger age and caused me considerably more guilt because I thought I was the only person who was interested in it. It took me many more years to accept it as a part of who I am, but I am finally at peace with my unconventional desires.

 

[durandalai1]

i personally don't think it's weird at all, so the term accepting doesn't really fall int othe equation for me. I don't see it as a problem, so i don't think i really have to accept it. Besides, almost everybody tickles somebody sometime, it's all just a difference in point of view. Some people do it just for fun, or as a gag, while other people might find it sexual. And unless you were really confronted by your partner or someone else you really wouldn't have to think about it. And even then, like I said, it's not weird, i'd say at all. If it was something terribly disturbing you'd never see it in mainstream anything, but since it's not, that's why you see it everywhere.

I wouldn't give it up.

-Tycho

 

[SoleScratcher1]

Well, when I was young, I don't know how I got it, I just had a fetish for female feet!

 

[leenotler]

That's exactly what I did. See, I first join this site way back when I was still in high school, and of course, being in high school meant I had to be a certain way. My whole life was practically about being "the popular guy that all the other guys think is cool and all the girls think is hot". Of course, being that kind of person meant that I couldn't have anything "out of the ordinary" about me, so I tried to cut myself off from tickling all together. however, unlike with you, it didn't go away, just festered on.

As the years passed I slowly began to realize that maybe it was just apart of who I am, and as much as I may not like who I am sometimes, I have learned to accept it (sorta).

It faded, but I don't know if it would have disappeared, or come back with a vengence. When I joined TT, I searched old TK image threads for many hours every day. Tickling became more intensely erotic than ever. I was worried about being obsessed. Once I started posting, it settled down. It was there, but not all consuming. Either it burnt itself out, or talking about it reduces the obsession. My work has changed recently to make me much more isolated. Perhaps isolation drives obsession and community diminishes it. I'm sure TT has helped many in various ways.

I'm not sure what my identity means. Is it just a set of behaviors, like fetishes? Am I rejecting me, if I add or remove a behavior? The crime would be to reject part of me to satisfy the arbitrary conventions of others.

 

[DannyMc]

Tickling On The Take

Since my youth I've loved tickling , not to say that when I was young I was tickled alot because I wasn't ,very rarely. I can't quite put my finger on the time or inncident that got me started but I know it's always been there. Any chance I got to tickle a girl I'd take it ,if it was in my neighborhood or school or work.I would tickle my girlfriends even though they did'nt seem to be to ticklish and even less into it . Alot of the women I've been around have been very attractive and had the preetiest feet a guy could ask for which attracts my tickling fetish the most. Nothing gets me going more than extremly ticklish women . I know from all the pokes and little tickles I've recieved through my life that I'm ticklish most everywhere and the time will come when I'll find how ticklish I really am .

 

[TKLVR181]

I used to feel guilty and weird about my desires, but I have gradually come to accept them as just another turn-on.

Yea, I had the same problem until...I started posting regularly here! Thanks guys! 😛

Edit: Or was it until I started talking to you guys like one of the community? Anyways, THANKS!😀

 

[MistressValerie1]

Oddly, my interest in tickling has been more variable than any of my other erotic interests. There have been times when I hardly thought about tickling for as long as a year, while at other times it has been my primary passion. My current interest is higher than it has been in the past, partially fueled by some of the fantasy ideas I see here 😉

 

[Frost King]

I think i noticed that i liked tickling when i was eight when watching teenage mutant ninja turtles and i got aroused seeing april o neal get tickled as i got in my teens thats when i noticed that i liked female feet but i thought i was the only one who liked tickling and female feet unto now.

 

[TKLVR181]

I think i noticed that i liked tickling when i was eight when watching teenage mutant ninja turtles and i got aroused seeing april o neal get tickled

Ahh yes, the spark that lit many many fires...the old classic...*reminisces*

 

[ipptkl40]

I was younger than 8 even. It was definitly the Brutus tickling Olive. He used to tie her up all the time. I didn't even know what sex or "arousal" was. I still remember once he had her tied and was trying to brand her but with a branding iron - I mean think about that - that's like Drawn Together or Family Guy stuff nowa days!!! I awlays remeber "stirring" When Alpha [sp?] on the little rascals had his foot stuck, I forget where, but a dog licked it or bees where tickling it, something like that. And a Tom and Jerry episode too.....what are the odds those artist had foot fetishes??

 

[UberTicklish1]

What was it like when you first realized that you had a tickling fetish.

Someone else pointed it out to me. I knew I was always into bondage and S&M. I did some research and wrote some fictional stories about S&M scenes, some supernatural, some not - and someone pointed out that I always had tickling in them. Which wasn't really explored on the BDSM newsgroup I was part of. They pointed some tickling ones to me and - BAM! - I knew I was home.

I still like pain as well - nothing like getting a good spanking and if done right a flogging is more like a deep tissue massage - but tickling is what really gets my motor going. And the first time I was tickle-tortured before sex I had my first real orgasm.

 

[melbournianguy]

I have been into tickling as long as I can remember. Every opportunity I would take as long as I thought I could get away with it and not have anyone think that I was weird.
I suffered most of my life thinking that I was the only one and that I was really, really stuffed in the head. But then I went to a friends house who had this new thing called the internet, I typed "tickling" into a search and WOW!! When I saw my first tickling photo I just about exploded. After 28 years of thinking I was the only one in the world I almost cried. I am now 34 and have had a couple of tickling experiences. It still dominates my thinking and none of my friends know. I still feel alone except for on here, but I so much need an outlet for these tickling needs.....I have no idea what to do and the pain continues.......

 

[yami]

Umm... do you know those episodes in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? You know, the old series? Well, I saw the episodes that involved tickling when I was 4 (or around that age). I guess when masturbation kicked in, I associated tickling with the act. When I actually learned what masturbating was, I associated tickling with sex.

That pretty much sums it up.

 

[conehead180]

I have been into tickling as long as I can remember. Every opportunity I would take as long as I thought I could get away with it and not have anyone think that I was weird.
I suffered most of my life thinking that I was the only one and that I was really, really stuffed in the head. But then I went to a friends house who had this new thing called the internet, I typed "tickling" into a search and WOW!! When I saw my first tickling photo I just about exploded. After 28 years of thinking I was the only one in the world I almost cried. I am now 34 and have had a couple of tickling experiences. It still dominates my thinking and none of my friends know. I still feel alone except for on here, but I so much need an outlet for these tickling needs.....I have no idea what to do and the pain continues.......

aussie, I know exactly how you feel, although I don't think I'd say it dominates my thinking, except in times of boredom sometimes. I also feel very alone much of the time right now (though not just when it comes to tickling, unfortunately). All I can really say is just keep on living life as much as you can. I know it may not mean much coming from me, since I'm still very young, but remember that 34 really isn't considered that old anymore. Just keep on keeping on, and if there's something that you really want out of life, just go out there and pursue it as much as you can. And don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise.

 

[leenotler]

I have been into tickling as long as I can remember. Every opportunity I would take as long as I thought I could get away with it and not have anyone think that I was weird.
I suffered most of my life thinking that I was the only one and that I was really, really stuffed in the head. But then I went to a friends house who had this new thing called the internet, I typed "tickling" into a search and WOW!! When I saw my first tickling photo I just about exploded. After 28 years of thinking I was the only one in the world I almost cried. I am now 34 and have had a couple of tickling experiences. It still dominates my thinking and none of my friends know. I still feel alone except for on here, but I so much need an outlet for these tickling needs.....I have no idea what to do and the pain continues.......

I had a milder, but similar internet experience. None of my friends know. I'm not sure anyone will ever know. It still embarrasses me just to type the words "my tickling fetish". Sometimes I wonder if feeling bad for lack of tickling is really an outlet to channel other frustrations. If I was happy with everything else in my life, would I mind if I was unsatisfied in that one aspect? Others have noted increased interest in tickling when bored or depressed. If my interest in tickling become truly obsessive, I might see a therapist. Not to try and remove it, but to balance it with the rest of my life interests. For what it's worth, I feel bad that you feel bad. I feel good that there is the Internet and TT and a place for some expression like this.