Are you born with it?

[Delgma]

If I had to say, I'd say I was born with it. Yes, it IS possible that some experience very very early on in my life, so early I don't remember it, caused me to develop my liking for tickling. I remember early on, far before it became sexual, I would try to tickle any girl I could. Even before my hormones developed, I never wanted to tickle guys. And... yeah. I have nothing else to say. ( I never know how to end posts... )

EDIT: Oh, geez... I just noticed this was an old post. Sorry.

 

[ticklehound]

sensory homunculus

This is what rajee is most likely talking about. The way I learned it - the part of the brain that ultimately receives sensation from the feet is physically close to the area that receives sensation from the genitals. check out the link and see the pic.

make of this what you will.


http://www.macalester.edu/~psych/whathap/UBNRP/Phantom/homunc2.gif

 

[stacyshippen]

I'd say without question (at least for me) it had to be genetic...I had an extreme interest in tickling from my earliest memories, and yet I have no recollection of any real tickling taking place in my family (except for what I inflicted on my poor siblings -- hehe).

For those of us who demonstrated tickling fetishes from extremely young ages (significantly before puberty), we run the gamut of family history. Nature versus nurture? Maybe both, but I'd lean for some of us to the former. I'd like to think that my being a ticklephile isn't due to some traumatic, repressed incident in my childhood, and I am sure many others feel the same way.

Frankly, nothing about this (or most other fetishes for that matter) indicates a "deviant" behavior that merits psychoanalysis and ferretting out of some deep dark secret. Unless the need to tickle/be tickled impairs our ability to relate to other people in ways other than through tickling, it's just an extra means by which our bodies and minds react to and desire sensation, affection and contact with others. Which in the end, is what being human is all about 🙂

Cheers,
Stacy

 

[Deleted member 2452]

and now the definative answer...

all pendantic elemants aside, i would say it(tickle fetish) is genetic. i would also say that for many, it doesn't come to the fore till an external event takes place. a few ladies here on the tmf have said they never thought about tickling till such& and such happened, in their 20's, and even 30's.
the external stimuli brought out their deeply hidden desires.
i my self have had a love of tickling, and feet since i can remember. some momories date back to when i was only 3. as a small kid i would engage in tickling games. i associated tickling with tickling girls, and girls tickling me/other boys. i knew from at least age 4 that tickling was "unusually exciting" to me. all of my early fantasies were about tickling girls, and touching girls feet.
it's genetic.
oh b.t.w., i was held a lot as a child, and not abandoned, and i still have a strong foot fetish.
steve

 

[Sunday_10pm]

Well there you go. There's still not a shred of proof, but we now have the definative answer. If only you'd turned up at the start steve, we wouldn't have even needed to talk about it

 

[Sadistictickler]

Well, I guess it's born in me too 😛

As far as my memory goes back I've always been into tickling. It's quite odd but I can still remember that a girl who was in my class when I was 4 said: "You shouldn't tickle us, it makes us wet our panties!" (which is ofcourse, a translation 😛)

 

[chrisheaven]

born

born with it

 

[ericr]

I agree with those who say born with it. Being ticklish and being tickled are among my earlist memories.

 

[P_Bustleton]

My tickling fetish is most definitely not genetic. My father used to tickle me a lot, and I'm sure that's what caused it. But even though it was my father who tickled me, I still found women attractive and the thought of tickling them was exciting. For me, sex and tickling were linked very early, but I'm pretty sure I wasn't born with it.

 

[vegasfootboy]

are we born with it??

hmmmmm,,, this has always been interesting to me...i can only speak for myself and from my own personal experiances,,looking back on my life now, i can say that i was definately born with it as probably were my sisters as well,, my older sister, she would have boyfriends over to the house and would always wind up on the couch massaging and tickling her boyfriends feet,, ive even spoken with her lately about this since she and most of my family already knows that i have a foot fetish ( tickling is still a bit secret ) my sister did admit she has a liking for feet,, and theres my lil sister, who has a fetish for her own feet,, and has since she was just a few years old,, i remember her laying on the couch with her blanket, she was always playing with and tickling her own feet lol! she is still the same way now,, always playing with her feet and putting them up on the dash board when driving with someone,,even after i told her that there are certain guys who are definately watching lol! she seemed to like hearing that,,and as for myself, i cant remember a time when tickling and feet diddnt give me that warm fuzzy excited feeling,,and as i look back on my childhood i remember my father always playing with my mothers feet as well as my sisters,, ( not in a sexual way idiots),, now i have a 10 year old son of my own,,and he definately has a major foot fetish,, when i go shopping at the mall and bring him with his eyes pop out of his head when he sees cute girls wearing flip flops,, he actually stares at there feet! which embarasses me big time cause the girls do notice him doing it lol! at that age i guess you dont worry about hiding things like that,,i did read in a science journal that fetishes are a genetic thing,,even at my present age this fetish is always amazing me,,