Do you ever feel silly about liking tickling/being tickled?

[sparkychao]

I was talking to a close friend recently and we ended up playing some ridiculous game she made up where we'd have to take turns revealing secret interests to each other, and then we got to act on them, within reason, of course. Stuff like no forcing sex and no beating each other up (both of us bruise easy)

Anyway, I told her about my tickling fetish and it made her laugh a little. I felt a little insecure about it so I asked if she was laughing AT me rather than WITH me. She giggled again and said she thought it was cute before she put her adorable feet in my lap and let me tickle.

I didn't actually enjoy tickling her as much as I should have because it felt...Well, silly. I felt dumb, like there was something wrong with me for taking sexual pleasure in tickle torture, like I was being childish or perverted.

So I ask you all, has your fetish ever made you feel this particular way? If you have a story you wanna share, all I ask is that you put it in a spoiler tag if TT has one, or keep it short and not quite detailed so people don't end up scrolling forever.

 

[Senshi1]

First off, congrats on having such an understanding - and obliging! - friend. 😛

And as for the question, yes, I used to be REALLY self conscious about it. I've changed, though, and now it doesn't bother me. I'm curious about all kinds of different fetishes, many of them weirder than even tickling, so it doesn't really blip. Then again, I also generally don't share those things with people in my day to day life. Most people who know me IRL know through conversation that I'm into "kinky stuff", but they don't know any details.

 

[TKLVR181]

I used to, and to some degree, get this way about leeing. I started out this crazy life as an all 'ler and gently came 'round to being a switch, but that was something of a painful process. I grew up having to be the strong one in my family, eldest of ten grandkids and parents who weren't really emotionally present--not to mention I'm disabled, I'm chairbound. So, I was the tough chick.

Even now that I'm married to another switch, have been for nearly seven years now, and have no need to feel ashamed, sometimes I still do. Sometimes when I get leeish it's hard for me to act like it, much less put it into words. Online when I rp I have a tendency to fight against it and try to overpower the other person and be the 'ler, sometimes out of shame.

Thankfully most of the people in my life call me on my BS. My husband usually can tell I'm leeish before I've even fully realized it myself >/_/> I'm thankful for the patience of others ^^;;

~K

 

[chicag0]

I've never felt weird about it. I always felt like I didn't choose it and there were a lot worse or odd kinks to have. I knew it was uncommon and that I might get weird reactions from romantic partners, but I figured it wasn't that big of a deal.

I've had a few people respond by laughing when they heard it, but it was still a positive response. They didn't try to humiliate me or ridicule me and ultimately they were cool with it.

 

[Volsung1]

At least she let you indulge a little, that's a good sign actually...

 

[arachnid95]

Not usually. I do get occasional moments of objectivity, though. Like, I'll be watching a clip or something, and I'll suddenly see what I'm doing from an outsider's point of view, and I'll think: "I'm sitting alone at my computer on a Friday evening watching a woman tickle torture a grown man's feet, and this activity is giving me a hard-on." But then I'll shrug and keep watching, and the moment is forgotten. XD

 

[MistressValerie1]

If I stop to think, I feel silly about it, especially as I have gotten older. Still, as many have said at this forum, there are other fetishes that are much weirder 🙂

 

[sparkychao]

Yeah, there are much weirder, much more dangerous, and much more taboo stuff. I just personally feel like it's a little ridiculous sometimes.

 

[DarthGrinn]

Hey fetishes are weird, and weird is awesome. Let me step outside of tickling for a moment just share a recent story involving a fetish confession:

I have a crush on a close female friend's penmanship. It's just so adorable. I spent last semester's calculus class sitting next to her, and not-so-secretly gushing over her notes. Thanks to the constant state of brain-tingles and borderline arousal, I barely passed the class, but I have no regrets.

This semester, my friend transferred to another campus to finish her degree. Just two nights ago, while we were IMing, I asked her if she still takes her adorable notes. I had always openly complimented her penmanship, so this was not an out-of-character comment. She lol'd and said she still does. I told her straight up that I have a crush on her penmanship, and she was not surprised. In response, she sent me screenshots of her notes, and told me how weird I am lol.

Back to tickling; I grew up being a tickle monster. It's always been a part of my life, so I have never felt weird or silly about it. Same with my foot fetish. I can't recall ever being ridiculed for it. I do feel very fortunate though, and I don't take that for granted, as I know that people can be super judgmental.