For me, I think it started more as an interest in female feet and then transitioned into the tickling. Probably didn't help that seemingly EVERY kids show in the 90's had either a barefoot scene or a tickle scenario.
It did seem like that didn't it..
I remember countless times as a child sitting on the floor by my mother's feet. Sometimes I would put my hands on them too, for some reason I liked the way this felt.
Add to the fact I was a very shy child, so I was forever looking at the floor, but instead I saw so many feet lol. School girls in my class all with their cute shoes and white socks, mature and young teachers and assistants in sandals. I remember one such teacher, she wasn't the best looking woman thinking back, but we would always have this story time at the end of the day. She would read to all of us and I would be completely distracted by her bare feet in sandals, toes curling, rotating her foot. It was so distracting. If memory serves I would purposely try and sit as close to the front as possible lol. I also used to think, I wonder if she would burst out laughing if I tickled this foot with a feather
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This habbit also carried on to secondary school, I was again distracted by girls feet and teachers too, when ever they were in sandals.
Oh yeah! It doesn’t surprise me I ended up with a foot fetish..
As for the tickling that comes with it I think. I was also thinking of ways to tickle a girls feet and when I got my first gf I started properly experimenting lol.
However this was also when I realised how ticklish a girls hips and underarms could be too, so I started tickling my gf there first..
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