Is tickling a core need for you

[MindOverWhatMatters]

I’m frustratingly not ticklish. I love tickling completely but I only tend to wiggle and spasm when there are light tickles combined with a handjob. Not sure if that’s being ticklish or just enjoying touching sexually.

Though my wife is very good at the above, she doesn’t have the fetish, so it feels sometimes that she doesn’t fully realize how much I enjoy that sensation, as it’s the closest I can get to feeling ticklish.

I know there are a lot of tickle enthusiasts that can separate playful and sensual tickling, but I’m curious to know if tickling is a core need for you.

In other words, I need sex in my life, but I also need to be touched with a focus on just tickling from time to time.

Not sure that people without the fetish fully grasp that component, but curious to hear from the community if tickling falls into the category of a core need.

 

[TickleYeti]

Hm, well I could be a bit of a skew as I'm on the ace spectrum, but honestly given the choice, I'd sooner skip sex and just keep tickling on the table.

Like sensual interplay adds some interesting elements to the experience of tickling but I'm kinda meh on sex in general haha

So for me yes, but with several asterisks of the answer lmao

 

[WickedTouch]

I guess it depends on how need is defined, but thinking about it from your example of need in the same way as sex, I could live without sex, exercise, socialization, and things like that, but I would be substantially less healthy and miserable. So for that kind of need, I'd say yes. But if we're talking about the kind of need like water or food, no. I actually process it as a form of socialization more than anything else. So from both angles (lee & ler), I have a need for it.

 

[wolfman40]

No, not a core need, it's tactile, gentle, sensual fun.

But not something I could have every day, I equate it to cheeseburgers, sure I love them, but I couldn't eat them all the time.

More important to me is the friendships I've built over the past 20 years within the UK tickling scene

 

[milagros317]

I regard it as a core need, but it doesn't have to be satisfied every day, nor even every week. Twice a month is enough for me not to go through tickle-withdrawal symptoms.

 

[ticklishfeet311]

It’s mainly sexual Tickling is for me, but it’s hard finding people as I’m disabled and specially to tickle my feet

 

[AI93JR]

Nah it's not a core need at this point in my life. But that's because in my college years I explored with tickling quite a bit. I've had quality tickle sessions. So yes to when I was younger. These days it's just like a every now and then. Like I recently got tickled because it's been a long time and I wanted to experienced a really intense one again. It's more so I have this thing with intensity that I constantly pursue so tickling is a part of that as I'm extremely ticklish.

 

[natscott6282]

still a major part of my life tbh

 

[4Pawz]

I can survive without it, but really, then it’s just a need that isn’t met. It provides a release for me that helps regulate my mind and body. It’s hard to explain, but it’s highly beneficial.

 

[AI93JR]

I can survive without it, but really, then it’s just a need that isn’t met. It provides a release for me that helps regulate my mind and body. It’s hard to explain, but it’s highly beneficial.

Definitely relate to the second part of that.

 

[Tzing]

100% a core need for me. Most of my life I've hated that, as it's only occasionally satisfied. But a core need nonetheless. Hence lots of porn and fantasies

 

[RednBleu4]

Not an absolute core, but it definitely helps spice up a relationship. If she’s not into tickling, then I feel deprived. But there are things that matter more to me than tickling, so I would say it’s an important pillar to me but not the central core.

 

[GarnettRose]

For me, it's an extension of my physical relationship, not just sex, but touch in general. I am an extremely tactile person and that is certainly a need for me. I don't think I could be in a relationship that wasn't touchy by nature. My husband and I hang on each other like squids. Tickling is playful and sensual but it certainly depends on the context. It's not technically a need per se, but it's become such an integral part of our intimate relationship that I would be morose if we couldn't anymore. I find it extremely difficult to reach orgasm generally, in some ways, the intensity of tickling provides a similar kind of release and relaxation during a scene or intimate moment.

 

[Sunriseticklee]

I consider it a core need.