Ever been "outed?"

[mpath]

I don't know if this question has been asked before or not, but it seems that many of us keep our true passion for tickling/being tickled behind closed doors so to speak. Hence, I was wondering: Has anyone ever had their tickling fetish revealed (outed) without their consent and/or made public to an unintended audience (e.g., coworkers, family, etc.)? If so, what happened?

This has never happened to me, and like many others I'd prefer it never does. Still, I suspect it has happened to some of us out there, and they survived....or did they? 😕 😛

Thanks for reading! 🙂

 

[tklr5150]

Once. I was hanging out with a girl I was semi-seeing who knew of my fetish and a bunch of her friends. She blurted it out matter-of-factly in course of the conversation, and I was embarassed but acted cool. The only follow-up to that was one of the other girls there tickle-attacked me for a couple minutes. I doubt any of them even remember anymore, if they even noticed then.

 

[TickledToDeath]

Interesting question.

One would think that people would not tell anyone of their love of tickling for fear that, THAT person would HAVE something on them and would, in a sense, "blackmail" them somewhere down the line threatening to reveal their little tickle secret 😀 😉 to others. Even if they completely trust such a person, that fear factor will still be there even if only miniscule in measurement.

Some people would freak if ONE person found out let alone publicly.
As for myself, while I do not reveal my passion for tickling to everyone, I am relatively open with it and really wouldn't care if it were publically revealed.

IT'S ONLY TICKLING!!😀

TTD

 

[terorizer]

Well, I have been outted to my immediate family by default. My mom happened upon some of my tickling "paraphanalia" once or twice... which means my dad knows and probably an assortment including, but not limited to grandma; aunts; and cousins. My brothers know...but as far as my family in general, it doesn't bother me them knowing and I don't believe they think really much of it, except that my behavior growing up makes a lot more sense now! LOL My mom brought it up VERY briefly only once.

Some friends of mine know, but they don't give it a second thought unless it occurs to them to tease me about it. Once I accompanied my best friend to a dungeon where she was playing. Well I'm standing there and her Dom is there, along with several other players and one inquires who I am. She yells out, "Oh HE just wants to see you tie and TICKLE me!!" I shook my head while some of the other BDSM people just rolled their eyes.

Tero- who was too simple to take today off work...

 

[UnclStevel]

😱 Oooohhh yea... I used to take care of a younger friend of the family, and I found out later that he was a snoop. 3 years after he had lived in my home, a mutual friend told me of a time that they found 2 fmconcepts vids in my closet and they watched them in amazement. He said, "Those girls weren't even nude?!?!?!?" Needless to say, they both found it very strange, and I just stood there frozen until I blurted out, "You guys know I like a variety of kinky stuff."

I just refuse to act like it's a big deal, and haven't had any problems yet.

Now where are those videos..... hhmm

Steve 😉

 

[MarzJuggalo]

Yeah.

There's an easy solution to keep your paraphanalia safely kept away from the public eyes! First of all....Go buy some VHS tape labels, and put them on your tapes that you buy, and write like "Friends" or "E.R." or whatever the hell you want. Just make sure you don't forget what they are. Second....if it's computer files you're worried about.....there's a couple solutions. Floppy disks, which aren't the best idea, or a cd burner, those babies can hold like 700 megabytes per disc! or, if you don't feel like moving them off your computer in fear they might get scratched on the CD, all you have to do is lock 'em away in a zip file and password that sh!t. Oh, and if you like to print your pictures and keep 'em in a shoebox, don't keep them in the shoebox, lol. Store 'em somewhere else, like...I dunno! Think of something creative, like under the TV set in your room, under the bed mattress, ummmmm.........behind your dresser......stick 'em in book pages, anything like that.

 

[dodger]

Nope. Mine is still my own little secret. No one has found out. Whew!

 

[TickledToDeath]

dodger

YET! 😉 😀

 

[mpath]

Great responses so far, guys... 🙂

It would seem (from this small sample at least) that few major catastrophies have occured as a result of being "found out."

btw...
Before I lived alone, I kept my vids in a locked suitcase...inside another locked suitcase (both were combination locks)...unobtrusively placed in a closet...LOL
When locked, I would maintain certain conditions (e.g., recording the last relative position(s) of the numbers, among other more subtle things) so that I would immediately KNOW if it had been tampered with.

guess you could say I was a little concerned about snoops... 🙄 😛

 

[Kevin Duckett]

Being outed.

I used to think I was some kind of freak because of my passion for tickling,so I tried never to let anyone find out about it. I was somtimes able to tickle my girlfriends by engaging in a bit of playful wrestling in bed,but I could never really open up and reveal how much I loved tickling. Then I discovered that there were magazines and videos devoted to the subject and began to realize that I wasn't alone. I started buying them,but still kept them hidden. A few years ago my roomate at the time happened to find a couple of my magazines. Pretty soon the subject came up in conversation and I had to admit to my fetish. Well,after that it wasn't long before just about everybody knew about it.(My room mate had a big mouth.) I had to put up with a lot of jokes and teasing for a while,but eventually I learned to just laugh it off. Now I don't care who knows about it. I still haven't met anyone else who shares my passion, but, it's good to know that there are places like this where I can at least communicate with fellow tickle fans.

 

[Darkknight]

Two summers ago I had a female roommate and when I could I would get a quick foot tickle on her but nothing she'd think twice about.
One particular weekend I was out of state and forgot to take a tickle video out of my vcr in my room. Out of paranoia I always do and she'd have no reason to be in my room... well, the one time I didn't....

We were moving out in a couple of weeks so she had her boyfriend come over that weekend to clean the rugs. When I get home, I notice a lot of the stuff moved off the floor onto my bed. No big deal. But as I'm clearing stuff off my bed I see my VCR has a tape sticking out of it!!

My tickle vid! It wasn't a FMC tape where it's just #'s on the label but one that said something like, "Don't tickle my feet" or something.
I just froze. She never said anything to me or looked at me funny. The Friday before she was leaving, she had her boyfriend sleep over.

I woke up to laughter as my room is right next to her room. I thought nothing of it...but it was continual laughter. So now I can't sleep.
So I figure it would stop after 5 minutes. It doesnt! So like a perv I put my ear next to the wall and all I hear her doing is giggling and laughing for the next 20 minutes, I know cause I was staring at my clock! The 2 years I was roommates with her, I've never heard continual laughter like that.The tv wasn't on or anything! He was tickling her and probably her feet!!!! I could tell by how she was laughing that she was trying to keep it in but almost wanting me to hear it!

I have no idea how long she kept laughing because I put on my headphones in frustration.
🙂

DK

 

[mpath]

did you ever kill your roommate, Kevin?

LOL

Thanks for sharing that. That's certainly an "outing" if I ever heard one. Glad you survived. 😛

Interestingly, I suspect that those who teased you/laughed at you had things of their own they'd rather not have made public. I wounder how often things like that happens when people actually simply want to divert attention from their own quirks and idiosyncrasies.... just to conform to everyone's idea of "normal."

Perhaps we've all been guilty of that at some time or another. 😕

If there's one thing discovering my "taste" for tickling (several years ago) has done for me is helping to make me more open-minded. Not too long ago, I remember defending a woman's choice to, say, "dance" at gentleman's clubs for money--good money--to a friend with "very* conservative values. He could not see how anyone "normal" could ever do something like that willingly--let alone enjoy it. I basically just suggested that everyone is different & has their "thing" and/or things they don't mind/like to do/enjoy; who's to say what's right/wrong about that? I can't recall how I would've responded before I knew about my personal "thing," but I probably would have just passively gone along with him and not said anything that might make ME seem in any way abnormal.

Silly, huh? Oh well, live & learn. 🙂

 

[Kevin Duckett]

Killing my roomate

Hi,MPATH. No, I didn't kill my roomate,though at the time the thought had occurred to me. But,being as he was my nephew,I had to forgive him. I find it very difficult now to trust people with personal information though. If they're gonna betray you with something like that,who knows what else they'll do?

 

[Slappy McGee]

I have never been "outed" by anyone, unless you consider a female friend of mine guessing that I had a thing for feet, and asking me if she was right.... must have been the fact that I play with her feet a lot..... I told her I did, and was shy about it, so lets keep it between us... a short conversation ensued, I told her I liked to tickle too, I was drunk at the time so I didn't care really then, but later I was a little worried she might think me odd, but now I am glad she knows, and she has never seemed to care or mind me "playing" with her a bit.

however..... when I lived on campus in college, I stumbled across my roommate's stash of magazines dedicated to cute feet... That was actually how I found out such things even existed. I never mentioned it to him, and he still doesn't know that I know he has a thing for feet, nor that I do too. I wouldn't want him to have one of those "deer in the headlights" experiences that have been described in this thread.... I would hope that most people would have enough tact and understanding to not just confront someone with something like that if they found out accidentally, I mean how could they not know it would create at least an awkward moment. I think the way something like that is handled would make all the difference in how freaked out I became over it, if it happened to me.

 

[starfires]

My freshman year in college, the dorm had a brand new Ethernet setup -- 2 sockets in every room, multiple T3s from the gateway, etc. Transfer speeds went up to 640kbps, pretty good for that year.
I had the bravery/stupidity to share some tickling clips on the local network. I thought people in college were supposed to be a bit smarter, more openminded, less insecure than in K-12, but I was never the less subjected to repeated teasing and ridicule, and given the conspicuous nickname of Elmo. Being the "smart-weird" type since kindergarten, I was used to teasing and ridicule, so I dealt with it as usual. Eventually I stumbled across the university network use policy, and decided to take the stuff off the network, as it constituted pornography in intent if not in letter. I've been more careful since then about being overt and in-their-face about my perversions.

 

[ktickler]

Several times...

Hi there,

I haven't been "found out" per se. However, I have been "asked" about my interest/obsession with feet and tickling. This usually happens with women who I feel are trying to make me feel uncomfortable or to embarrass me. It usually occurs in a conversation and they say something like:

“Oh, you gotta be careful with him. He is a tickler.”

or,

“If your feet are there, he will attack them. You gotta watch out.”

Some times, it catches me off guard. However, most of the times, I try not to make a big deal about it and try to play along to show them it does not bother me. I can make it work to my advantage some times and get a few tickles in.

My significant other definitely knows about my foot fetish and my tickling obsession. However, she does not know (as far as I know) that there is this wealth of material in the world about tickling (i.e., magazines, videos, dungeons, etc.). She some times even brings it up in conversations as some known fact that I have a foot fetish and I like to tickle people.

Lately in my life, I have tried to be more open about my interest and “talk” to my possible victims about it. Most of them are cool about it, although there is a few who can make me hide again for a while with their bitchy attitude.

I guess most of my family and friends know by know about my obsession with feet and tickling, but I am sure they do not see it as something sexual or as a fetish. I am OK with that…

Bye,

Knight Tickler

 

[Mimi]

Yes, very recently!

I have always been fairly honest about my fetish with friends, and in the long run, it has payed off for me (I get lots of tickles from my ever-so-obliging male friends!). But I NEVER wanted my family to know. It was a sort of paranoia of mine.

Well, the cat was let out of the bag a few weeks ago. My Dad knew there was a forum and chat room online that I spent a good deal of time at, but never pressed further with it.

Then one night, about 2 weeks ago, we were sitting around together just after dinner. My father all of a sudden blurts out, "I found out where you have been chatting." I just sat there dumbfounded for a minute or two, gaping at him, and finally sputtered out "PLEASE tell me you are kidding!" He replied with "I guess you didn't realize how good my snooping skills were!"

Needless to say I was 50 shades of red, and I simply wanted to crawl into a hole and die. Both he and my mother sensed my discomfort and both chimed in "It's ONLY tickling! There is nothing wrong with that! It's completely normal and acceptable. We don't know why you were/are so embarrassed about it." My mother even added "I even used to fantasize about it." All the while I kept asking them if we could PLEASE change the subject! Then my Dad confided that he was even in the chat room with me the night before, and I didn't even realize it!

In closing, I guess I am grateful for the fact they were both very cool and understanding about it. They did not consider me strange or freakish, and they respect and support my fetish 100%. It's still uncomfortable knowing that THEY know though. *Sigh* If only I could turn back the hands of time! LOL

Mimi

 

[TicklingIsLife]

Nope, not yet.🙁
I do plan on letting the world know someday....🙄 😀

 

[UnclStevel]

Mimi, I'm turning red in the face just thinking about your story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[mpath]

oh my!

Mimi, Mimi, Mimi!

I don't know what to say to that!

I think I would've taken your first solution to that dilemma:
you know....crawled in a hole & died! LOL

 

[Slappy McGee]

Mimi,

I hope you have recovered from that whole situation. I know it wasn't much fun at all, but hey, at least they attempted to be understanding.

 

[Slappy McGee]

Knight Tickler....

in regards to your comments about how girls seem to bring up your interests in public to embarrass you or make you feel uncomfortable.... that just seems unbelieveably uncool of them to do such a thing.... if they are your friends they should know better. Think about this... what do you know about them?? most "friends" know a bit in passing about each others' sexual interests, and if perhaps the next time one of these female "friends" embarrasses you on purpose, you might counter with something like "well, hey, you like it up the ass" or "well, at least I don't swallow", basically whatever applies to them personally. Maybe that will give them a taste of their own medicine, and might encourage them to shut the f--- up next time, and save you a little humility...

then again, that might just piss them off..

maybe try a more civilized approach and explain to them that you would prefer to not have your sexual interests broadcast to groups of people in the future.

either way, well placed words can go a long way.

 

[MadKalnod]

I haven't been outed about tickling yet, though almost all of my friends know about my foot fetish. They're all okay with it (one even told me he's begun noticing more when women are barefoot because of me) but there's one who finds it just a little too fascinating and unique. It took me well over a year to get him to stop introducing me to his female colleagues and co-workers as: "This is my buddy Mike. He likes women's feet." It was even worse when he was drunk.

Mimi, your experience could have been worse. Much worse. My brother recently told me about this true incident he witnessed at college. He was at the apartment of a female friend of his who made some extra money by working for a phone-sex line. While he was there she got a call and she went through the usual routine with the caller, until voices became familiar...

Caller: "Tulip? Is that you, Tulip?"
Tulip: "Daddy?... DADDY!?!"
Caller (In angry Dad mode): "What the hell are you doing working for a phone-sex line, young lady?!?!"
Tulip (With remarkable calm, given the situation): "What the hell are you doing calling a phone-sex line, Daddy?!?"
Caller: (pause... ) "A fair question. I think this is where we both hang up and never speak of this again. Especially not to your mother." CLICK.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it's much funnier as well.

 

[Slappy McGee]

madcalnod.....

that.... was.... the ... funniest...story....EVER!!!!!!

 

[mpath]

This thread is generating some GREAT responses!
and several hilarious ones as well.. lol

I've only commented on a few, but I think everyone has added value to this discussion. It really shines a light on how differently many of us cope with being "outed."

I sometimes wonder how I'd handle it if my ex tried to use her knowledge of my fetish against me somehow. You know....blurt something out to the wrong ppl at the worst possible time. (Fortunately we've always been on amicable terms, but still the fear remains.)

and on that note...
I don't think I would retaliate overtly if someone decided to "out" me, but then again, I'm not sure. If it's done maliciously, with malice of forethought....in the heat of the moment, one never knows.