Tickle fetishists say that tickling makes life fun, spices up sex,is pleasurable, enjoyable etc, but really how can we know what being vanilla is like? Maybe you consider vanilla people to be boring,or having less fun, or missing certain pleasures, or having the misfortune of lacking fetishes, but they may actually fell way much better than fetishists. Even are having a bit less fun (but I dont think they do as they are very happy the way they are) they at least are accepted by society. Being vanilla means being showered with huge amounts of acceptance. I cant change the society so I have to change myself to fit into it. Tickling is something childish,something that doesn't fit with a grown man. The women of my people like fighters, warriors, brawlers, any kind of man with fighting spirit. They would prefer an ugly thug over a handsome wealthy high-ranked man, because the thug is brawler, and fights, while the high-ranked man sits on his ass and calls his guards when it comes to fighting. Some of them may like a guy who is into tickling, but most of them would consider him a moron and avoid him,or even worse make fun of him and humiliate him in the most malicious ways mostly like the bad girls act toward nerds in American movies. Even if he is an extremely handsome man,and they would like to have sex with him, they wouldn't want someone like that in the long run (as husband or permanent concubine) because tickling just doesn't fit with fighting. One experience exchange with this American guy who came to our high school in an experience exchange program featured the following scene. Two girls were poking and squeezing each others' ribs and sides and the American guy (I think John or Alan was his name, but I dont remember exactly) asked them "How old are you? That's childish behavior!". That showed me crystal-clear that tickling is deemed as childish internationally. To me being caught tickling someone would be like being caught playing with little kids' toys,and to be caught masturbating at a tickle video would be like being caught masturbating at a video featuring some kids playing a very childish games and it makes me even feel guilty. Even though the actors are adult it's like someone poured child life essence into a lifeless adult body and now the child has an adult body but still acts like a child. That's how I feel looking at those videos. For example there's a foot fetish video featuring a lot of tickling on dailymotion.com about two girls that candidate for a place in the ranks of a sorority. There's plain to see they're at least 18, but the way they act you'd say they're hardy 12 years old. Or that clip from tickling paradise featuring a babysitter tickling another actress that plays the role of a little girl because she is short and small, both those actresses look so childish tickling each-other that it's almost impossible to believe to believe that two grown women can act so childish. If I had girlfriend I want to respect her in the first place,and I cant respect a person that doesn't act his/her age.And a bondage or spanking fetish are much more socially acceptable, the society has almost no problem with it,only a small crowd of people with antiquated vision may have a little problem with it, but the rest of society consider spanking and bondage as normal as vanilla sex, but with tickling it's not the same thing. Believe it or not I even visited a psychologist trying to solve this problem, I told her I have a fetish,and she asked me "Is it spanking" I said no, and took up left and never came back to her. The point is if the word fetish makes even a professional psychologist think of spanking then spanking is something totally acceptable that 95% of people are vanilla and don't have anything against, but tickling is not like that. One day I asked on a bdsm forum, what do they think of tickling, and they said "It's not a fetish, it's just a stupid behavior practiced by retarded people". If fetishists say this words, how could tickling be accepted by vanilla people who are 95% of population?