Addiction to Tickling

[Lionhart]

Hey TMFers!!I have lately been here at TMF pretty much on a regular basis,to be quite honest,am getting totally addicted to tickling.
I can not even make it through the work day without looking at some women that walks into my store and wonder how ticklish she must.Oftentimes I even have a conflict with myself about the "political correctness"(for lack of better terms) of stopping her and driving a conversation toward asking how if she,s ever been tickled.
Then 5oclock comes and head home,and I just can,t stop myself. I boot up the old puter whip up a quick snack. and check out some high quality TMF forums. Oftentimes spending more time on here than perhaps I should. Of course these tickling spells tend to happen every so often especially when I haven,t personally tickled somebody for a while so it really isn,t a chronic act.
I guess I would just like to know if any of you all ever experience this same calliber of addiction?Do any experience it even worse?Or would one say that I am going over the edge and need to check into a mental hospital.(hhmmmm wonder what kinda chick,s i,d meet in there?)
I,m just curious to see who share,s this addiction,and to what degree.Looking forward to reading you responses.
We,ll make it our own little TA (ticklholics anonymous) meeting

 

[Novus]

You are not the only one who feels like they are addicted to tickling. This is nothing to be ashamed of. If more people were addicted to tickling insted of drugs or "regular sex" then this world would be a much happier and healthier place.

 

[milagros317]

Some things are physically addictive, such as cocaine or nicotine. Clearly you don't mean that kind of addiction.

Any hobby or interest can become an obsession (or call it an addiction if you want to) by consuming more and more of your time. We all have only 24 hours each day.

I would say this: Until or unless you are thinking about tickling so much at work, that your work suffers, then don't worry about it. That is, unless it makes you unable to perform your job, then it is not a problem at work.

At home, do what pleases you. I spend (waste?) more time watching baseball games on cable then I would care to admit, but I do that at home, on my own time. Similarly for hours spend at TMF on the computer. I've never gone to this site at work, and don't intend to. (We have a clear policy about not using computers at work for personal matters, and a written copy was given to all of us.)

So, it's not an addiction, it's an interest or hobby.

 

[TicklingDuo]

I don't know as I'd necessarily use the word addiction with all of its negative connotations. But, there are certainly times (likely for most everyone here) when it can become somewhat of an obsession. As long as we don't let it get to the point of running our lives, we're okay.

Frankly I don't see our interest and pursuit of this as being any different from those who are into "vanilla" sexual encounters. (I won't use the word "normal", because it implies that we are abnormal.) Those who are can sit around checking others out and indulging in whatever fantasies and activities they like without giving it much thought. Because we our preference happens to be different, we tend to think of it as "odd" or "wrong" or "mentally unstable".

Why?! This is OUR sexual identity. It's only natural for us to follow it. The denying and suppressing of who we are is what makes us unstable, not the acceptance of it. Granted, we can't just walk up to strangers and tickle the hell out of them (esp. in the workplace) or kidnap someone to torment. But, that's true of ANY sexual preference.

Frankly, I suspect that our biggest struggle is the internal one we each need to go through to accept this in ourselves. Once we do, we've got it made. Will we necessarily all find partners into it or get our current partner to indulge? Who knows? I was blessed enough to find someone into it. Not everyone will. But, one thing to bear in mind...We are who we are, whether we have anyone to share it with or not.

In my own journey, like most here, I thought there was something "wrong" or "deviant" in my nature. While there well may be, tickling certainly isn't it. It wasn't until I accepted that fact that I was able to be comfortable discussing and engaging in it. One of the biggest aids to that self-acceptance for me actually ended up being places like the TMF where it was discussed openly AND where I saw that people had normal every-day lives that simply happened to include a love for tickling.

Bottom line? Join in the conversation and fun as you're comfortable with it. Slowly, but surely, you'll find it easier to accept.

Ann

 

[BigJim]

Lion, I feel pretty much the same way you do. I'm always checking out feet in flimsy shoes and ribs under short tops and wondering if they're ticklish. Of course if I thought about acting on that impulse I'D be the one who went in the cells.

 

[primetime]

like others have said, i wouldnt call it addiction, but hell, i think a lot of us go through our days sometimes and wonder if a particular person is ticklish. because i cant tickle someone all the time, sometimes it is great just HEARING if someone is ticklish. you know, like when you are talking with someone and the topic comes up. then they say something like "My feet are so ticklish, just touching them drives me insane." no, i may not tickle their feet at that moment, but that comment alone drives me wild.

the good thing is, we are NOT alone. cool huh?

 

[tklr5150]

Personally, I can't understand the mechanations of a mind that sees ticklish beauty all around and DOESN'T latch onto that thought like a rabid wolverine 😀 If that's addiction, it hasn't hurt me so far.

Now, the crack addiction, that's been more problematic . . .(j/k 😛)

 

[Sunriseticklee]

Well...

There are times, like now, that I feel the need to spend my online time elsewhere… Like sites for students/ teachers and such. And I feel just a little bit guilty playing tickle when I do think there are better things for me to do. Yeah well… LOL I do it anyway and I am still able to get my work done so I see no harm in it….

However… there are other times when I am just craving tickling BAD… And I just suffer LOL because tickling is not something that occurs for me (REALITY) in everyday life. But that is for most of us. We just don’t experience tickling everyday. (God bless those of you with Significant Others who understand and enjoy it!) Even during my WORST cravings, I don’t think I am addicted. It’s a feeling that just comes and goes. And it is something that we deal with.

If you feel that it is unnecessarily consuming your life, it is up to you to cut down or even things out. Tickling is wonderful for me, but it isn’t my entire life. (otherwise I wouldn’t have one!) LOL 😛

Live, Laugh and TICKLE
Sunriseticklee


I think this is my 300th post. Whoopee... Ok All finished now. Heehee 😀

 

[njjen3953]

Years ago, when I was exploring my desires, I was in therapy and told the therapist that I would stay up nights on phone sex lines. I was desperately looking for answers.

She suggested that I contact SAA(Sex Addicts Annonymous) I had a real problem with that suggestion. I asked her how I could be addicted to sex(or sexually related activities, like tickling and BDSM) if I was not experiencing it in real life?

I agree with most of the people here. It is more of an obsession than an addiction, even if you are actively tickling or being tickled.

Just be careful that you do not start tickling everyone you encounter on the street. Now THAT would be cause for alarm. LOL

Jen

 

[BigJim]

Re: Well...

There are times, like now, that I feel the need to spend my online time elsewhere… Like sites for students/ teachers and such. And I feel just a little bit guilty playing tickle when I do think there are better things for me to do. Yeah well… LOL I do it anyway and I am still able to get my work done so I see no harm in it….

You do it because you love us Sunny! 😀

 

[P50]

Originally posted by Ann of TicklingDuo
<I>Frankly, I suspect that our biggest struggle is the internal one we each need to go through to accept this in ourselves. Once we do, we've got it made. Will we necessarily all find partners into it or get our current partner to indulge? Who knows? I was blessed enough to find someone into it. Not everyone will. But, one thing to bear in mind...We are who we are, whether we have anyone to share it with or not. </I>

I suggest we award a degree to Ann based on that one writing alone.

(By Ann again)
<I>In my own journey, like most here, I thought there was something "wrong" or "deviant" in my nature. While there well may be, tickling certainly isn't it. It wasn't until I accepted that fact that I was able to be comfortable discussing and engaging in it. One of the biggest aids to that self-acceptance for me actually ended up being places like the TMF where it was discussed openly AND where I saw that people had normal every-day lives that simply happened to include a love for tickling. </I>

Ooops, I forgot to include "with honors".

How many of us have held our secret awful shameful hideous frightening dangerous rabid harmful destructive (and whatever I left out, that too) <B>affliction</B> under emotional lock-and-key so that we wouldn't be "discovered" by the "normal" people ?

I sometimes want to chop off my own head for failing to tickle a woman who made it clear as glass that she was a tickling enthusiast. (I started a thread on a very closely related subject here on the TMF.)

Sick addiction ? Because one wants to be happily married ? Because one doesn't want to start a relationship that will end up in divorce ? Because one wants physical and psychological and emotional interplay between two people with complementary contributions to the same goal in an exclusive man/woman relationship ? This is sick ?

Did it ever occur to anyone that if it isn't tickling, there's something else that replaces it in every single marriage in the country ? Are <I>those</I> marriages harboring "sick" people who are "addicted" to whatever_it_is in <I>their</I> lives ?