Curious Question on Tickling

[tummyticklish01]

I was wondering if tickling during your childhood affects your relationship to tickling as an adult. Like perhaps if a certain parent or relative or sibling tickled you quite a bit, would you be closer to them when you get older, or vica versa?
Also, would it help your love for tickling grow, or stop it in it's tracks.
And one more thing, would it matter if you were a tickler or ticklee as a child??

 

[mrhm53755]

I witnessed this neighborhood girl get gsng tickled mercilessly and was hooked ever since. I was about 9 years old when it happened. My sister and I were never tickled as kids so this was my first real encounter to serious tickling.

 

[thefeatheroom95]

Tickling and being tickled as a child has made my fascination with tickling better. My aunt used to tickle me a lot as a child because she said i didn't laugh enough. We are now very close many years later and she is one of my favorite person in the family. I also have a few friends that i have had since childhood and we used to ( and still do) tickle each other a lot.

 

[TickledToDeath]

I was both tickler and ticklee throughout my childhood and my love for it grew stronger every day.
I was alot closer to the relatives and or even friends with whom I tickled and or was tickled by.

It was a show of affection and playfulness which as always been very important to me and still is.

TTD

 

[tklr5150]

I always used tickling to enhance social relationships. When older cousins visited from New York I would often ask them to tickle me (I was roughly 6 or 7 at the time). In school and day camp, particularly, tickling was a big part of my interaction with girls. It was all playful and they enjoyed it to, which I think is a big part of why I developed a tickling fetish.

 

[chode]

When i was very young my uncle used to tickle me alot. I fucking hated it and I didnt really like him. All of my cousins and i hated when he was around because he would pester the shit out of us. Now that i am a grown man I dont think i am any closer or distant to him because of what he used to do. As far as it nurturing my love for tickling? I dont think it had anything to do with it, but i am no psychologist. I just think its cool fore play, and when done consasually it is a great stress releiver.

 

[hiram]

curious question on tickling

If I were some kind of competent shrink I might be able to get to the bottom of this. It seems as though it has to do a bit with the first of adult's boost coursing through my veins. I grew up in a family of tickle people. Yet up to about the age of eight or nine, I hated it, hated getting tickled and hated watching someone else get it.

Then one day, for some reason, that all changed.

My dad used to tickle my mom. Before that magic age, I couldn't stand it. My older siblings and cousins tickled everyone in sight in the family. I can't describe how much I hated getting tickled, a fact, no doubt, that delighted the ticklers no end. Then when that all changed...

I had a female cousin from another state that came every summer for a few years to stay with my grandparents for a month. She was about 4 years older. She would get these tickling games going a few times every year, and she was the tickler. She would get some of us to pin others down so she could tickle to the death. What a riot! Those were some fun games. I never saw her after those few years. I have no idea where she even is these days.

Then there was one aunt who had the tickle bug in the worst way. She was both tickler and ticklee, and was about the most fun aunt I had. She had a great laugh, was a merciless tickler, would never surrender when she was the victim, and I enjoyed it when she was in the neighborhood all the way up to her passing, sadly, about ten years, or so, ago. She's the one that once sort of suggested that you never stop tickling someone on the "exhale." No matter how they shake their head, or how wide open are their eyes...or what...if you are tickling, and the ticklee is still trying to laugh, even if they have zero air left...you help them along ever more enthusiastically until they overcome it and take a breath. Then you MAY give a little rest. IF you like...

I'd say I liked her the best. She had a great sense of humor. Even if no tickling was going on, there was usually laughing when she was in the room. (As an aside, it's my belief that's the quality above all else that makes a woman beautiful, be she tall, short, fat or thin.) Who knows, she may be the one that turned me on to this tickle thing more than any other person.

Hiram

 

[mysterytic]

From Childhood

For me it has always been a sexual thing. The only thing tickling from relatives could have done to me would have been to turn me off. Did get to tickle a lot of neighboorhood girls when growing up, that was alwlays a boost.

 

[terorizer]

Wow! Great question TT01!

I guess I like Hiram grew up on a tickling family. My mom, brother and I used to have regular tickling contests on the floor. One of my uncles was know exclusively for chasing and tickling the kids. My cousins to this day regardless of gender will exchange tickles and it's still not uncommon to see my aunts (all grandmothers mind you), playfully poke or grab one another. <<I'm reminded of one picnic where my mom was bending over looking for something in the ice chest, and her little sister couldn't resist getting the back of her knees>>
And whatever tickling there wasn't within the family, there was amongst friends.

I pretty much was always a tickler, though I can recall getting myself into situations where my mom's girlfriends would tickle me. (Hey, what little boy doesn't like attention from women??) I don't think I'm any closer to the family or friends I had tickle fun with, because I'm no less closer with those I didn't. I also don't think it caused me to have a love for tickling, but I do think having experienced it to such a degree, from such an early part in my life and with the people I trusted and cared for (and who cared for me), did have an effect on me. It's probably why I associate tickling with trust, love, affection and intimacy.

 

[DallasFootTickler]

I think the affect childhood tickling has on adult life depends on the circumstances of the tickling. Two separate girls with whom I was intimate with, each had bad experiences with tickling as children and thus it wrecked their outlook on it as adults. Each of them allowed me to tickle them for a small period of time during the relationship then eventually the memories it brought back for them prompted them to ask that the tickling aspect of our relationship cease. I of course never tickled either one of those women again out of respect for the uncomfortable feelings from each of their pasts it caused to surface.

- DFT

 

[Cinori]

As A guy with A Psych degree I have an opinion on your question. Your childhood experiences definatly have an effect on your view of this, and most things as an adult. How you react to it, however, varies greatly from person to person. No 2 people react the same way to the same stimuli, although, certain reactions can be more common then others. I knew 2 people, A girl I dated and A guy I was friends with, both of whom related stories of being tickled Sadistically by their fathers as children. Both ended up reacting very negatively to being tickled as adults, yet both would do so to others whenever the opportunity arose. This adult response to feelings of "victimization" in childhood is not uncommon. On the other hand, A woman I dated A while back had childhood ticklee experiences and learned to enjoy that role as an adult.

 

[john2510]

I certainly can't speak for everyone... but I had very positive tickling experiences as a child, which I am certain led me to my fascination with it as an adult.

My first positive sensual experience with a member of the opposite sex was when I was in elementary school. For some reason a little girl and I were left alone (tsk... tsk...) in the classroom. One thing led to another and I found myself playfully tickling her... especially her feet.

The look of joy and laughter on her face was something I will never forget, and has probably effected my interaction with girls ever since.

I believe my mild foot fetish similarly arose from that incident and others like it.

I would guess that most people's fetishes (and fears for that matter) came from youthful experiences, but I can't know for sure. Mine do 🙂