ROFL! I'd managed to miss this post for the last few days. Are we REALLY debating whether or not male ticklers are viable? *sigh*
SOME males are good ticklers
SOME females are good ticklers.
SOME people just suck. SOME of those never bother to learn either.
Substitute "sexual partners" for ticklers, and repeat the segment.
I've had lousy female partners. I've heard various women complain about partners, both for tickling and for sex, from both hetero- and homosexual bends. Some folks just aren't good at responding to a partner, on BOTH ends of BOTH topics. Alas.
F/F in video has been preferable, statistically, according to every company that's shipped tickling video content to all preferences, that I've seen comment on such. I recall an article in some psych mag in college, speaking on the topic of why this is so, and that mag's article-writer declared it was 'cause men are threatened by other men in the visual scene AND 'cause men dig the feminine visual. It doesn't help that most men don't have a personal comfort for male visuals in a sexual scene, nor does it help that most men in the tickling scene's video don't meet the approval of the viewing males, either for visuals or, oddly, intellect (no lie. SY got complaints about a video where someone's boyfriend was in it with her, 'cause he seemed too damned dumb).
Personally, I've seen videos where the guy present and active was not offensive, and I've seen f/f scenes where the woman 'ler sucked rocks at the task. It VARIES.
Oh, and I officially declare Dave2112 a rather effective tickler, and all around swell guy. Why? 'Cause I feel like it, and he actually DIDN'T do the macho thing here, which makes him extra-super-cool t'me.
Good t'see ya, Drew70, you line-crosser, you. Sorry y'don't dig that whole Master/slave deal, but it's a consentual, voluntary bit o' personally selected kink, for those participating here. It's allowed, and several of the moderators here participate in such. As a consentual CHOICE, when done freely, such submission is enjoyable by many men and women. It ain't MY thing, either, but I dig that Jen enjoys bein' Jen. I dig the idea of folks doin' right to their lovers, and she and he do right by their rules. It's about acceptance of the fact that, within our kink, there are other kinks, and frontin' on one is making a statement - that it's cool to front on ours.
Yes, I DO know folks that think tickling is annoying, enraging, etc., and that bondage is abhorrant. They don't step in here, though.
Hope ya stick around, Drew70. Hope y'learn t'deal with the variants of our kink, here. They're here, long term, in numbers. You're a valued contributor in AMT, and thus I figure you capable of such here.
My $0.02,
dvnc
p.s. no, y'don't have to agree wit' me. It's just my perspective.