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Good Question, Shygirl!
...especially considering that this very question seems to pop up in many a conversation.
For me, I didn't think I was alone. As a matter of fact, I never thought about it as a rule. I just knew what I liked (tickling) and didn't over analyze it too much. I told whomever I thought would be intersted (read as sexual partners or friends who now think it's just "adorable" or "cute") and the incorporated tickling here and there like someone might any little kink.
Odd thing, out of the blue one day a tickler asked me about it.At first I played dumb thinking he was mocking me. When he showed me the online stuff I was just "tickled." 😉 It was lagniappe. (a.k.a. A little extra something for free.)Who knew that it was such a verifiable deal? I guess I did have a shiver moment with ONE person. When I got married, and decided to tell my huband the DEGREE to which I liked it, I was a bit nervous. Surprise, though...he somehow already knew! 😛
I never realized it was something that someone would choose to hide. Tickling is most definately a kink that you cannot indulge in without a partner at some point as someone has to DO the tickling...and some has to BE tickled. I mean...let's be real..lol I still can't wrap my brain around people who treat it like a form of cancer. *shrug* Just MY experience though.
Joby
...especially considering that this very question seems to pop up in many a conversation.
For me, I didn't think I was alone. As a matter of fact, I never thought about it as a rule. I just knew what I liked (tickling) and didn't over analyze it too much. I told whomever I thought would be intersted (read as sexual partners or friends who now think it's just "adorable" or "cute") and the incorporated tickling here and there like someone might any little kink.
Odd thing, out of the blue one day a tickler asked me about it.At first I played dumb thinking he was mocking me. When he showed me the online stuff I was just "tickled." 😉 It was lagniappe. (a.k.a. A little extra something for free.)Who knew that it was such a verifiable deal? I guess I did have a shiver moment with ONE person. When I got married, and decided to tell my huband the DEGREE to which I liked it, I was a bit nervous. Surprise, though...he somehow already knew! 😛
I never realized it was something that someone would choose to hide. Tickling is most definately a kink that you cannot indulge in without a partner at some point as someone has to DO the tickling...and some has to BE tickled. I mean...let's be real..lol I still can't wrap my brain around people who treat it like a form of cancer. *shrug* Just MY experience though.
Joby
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There was a time when I thought that I was alone in having a strong, sexually related interest in tickling, and that was long before there was an internet.
I discovered that there were lots of us out there in the early 1970's, when the House of Milan bondage magazines began to feature many tickling pictorials and stories. 😀
I discovered that there were lots of us out there in the early 1970's, when the House of Milan bondage magazines began to feature many tickling pictorials and stories. 😀
oh Patti, I remember the day I put tickling into the search engine and how amazed I was. I don't even think at that time I realized just what an interest I had in tickling or how my passion would be ignited by all I found and the knowledge that I wasn't alone in this. We have much to talk about Patti.
Judy...aka JPie
Judy...aka JPie
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Indeed, this subject DOES get brought up often, and IMHO...
...That's because the answer is all if not most of us! I know it certainly applies to me, and everyone I've ever talked to at a Gathering or similar function tells a similar tale. (Except DVNC, but he's the exception to many a rule, ain'tcha Daverino?🙄 )
How many of us 'Lers have stories of incredible restraint when tickling opportunities arose either chances to tickle someone and not doing so out of fear of being "discovered" or when tickling actually did occur, stopping WAYYYYYYYYYYYYY before we wanted to for the same reason?
And the 'Lees, well, while I'm sure it was almost as difficult for them for similar reasons, I've known so many (and male 'Lees please take no offense at my gender-biasing here) girls and women who will go out of their way to taunt someone into "teaching them a lesson" and getting themselves tickled, many times by tickling others to do so, in hopes that the same would be visited upon them as retribution. My ex's sister, for instance. Scores of others.
Ahhh, hindsight being 20/20, would that I could go back and do it all again, knowing what I know now. So many ticklish situations and opportunities gone by! 🙁 (heavy sigh) LoL
...That's because the answer is all if not most of us! I know it certainly applies to me, and everyone I've ever talked to at a Gathering or similar function tells a similar tale. (Except DVNC, but he's the exception to many a rule, ain'tcha Daverino?🙄 )
How many of us 'Lers have stories of incredible restraint when tickling opportunities arose either chances to tickle someone and not doing so out of fear of being "discovered" or when tickling actually did occur, stopping WAYYYYYYYYYYYYY before we wanted to for the same reason?
And the 'Lees, well, while I'm sure it was almost as difficult for them for similar reasons, I've known so many (and male 'Lees please take no offense at my gender-biasing here) girls and women who will go out of their way to taunt someone into "teaching them a lesson" and getting themselves tickled, many times by tickling others to do so, in hopes that the same would be visited upon them as retribution. My ex's sister, for instance. Scores of others.
Ahhh, hindsight being 20/20, would that I could go back and do it all again, knowing what I know now. So many ticklish situations and opportunities gone by! 🙁 (heavy sigh) LoL
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The first time...
Ah yes, who of us doesn't remember that feeling when we learned that we weren't the "only ones" who loved tickling? The delicious apprehension, the discovery of the too-good-to-be-true truth... That our numbers are legion. For me, it was back in the 80's, a young man on a TDY deployment in the Air Force, visiting Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas (ah, Vega$, ya gotta love that town). There are MANY adult bookstores in that city of sin, and well, as a young man, needless to say, I was intrigued but what lay within! 😀 🙄 I was wandering around in one after duty one evening, and a magazine caught my eye and stunned me to the core. HOM's "Tied and Tickled" sat there on the magazine rack, like some incredible grail. I recall standing there for a few moments before it even occurred to me to pick it up and look at it... standing there, incredululous, the stalled gears of my brain sluggishly registering that if there was such a magazine, there's a market for it. They didn't print this thing just for me! (well, technically that's not true... I still have that magazine, LoL) There was a demand for it that these publishers were filling, and (insert choir singing 'Hallelujah' here)
I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE!
Alas, it would be many, many years until I discovered our little family teeming on the Internet, and suddenly, life got a WHOLE lot more interesting! Woo Hoo! And truth be told, I owe Terry (TeroRizer to some of the Regular Gang) a huge debt of thanks for taking me under his proverbial wing and introducing me into the group. Life is GOOD! Thanks Terry! Love ya bro!
Man, this whole conversation makes me wanna just tickle somebody whole big bunches!
JPie1 said:
Ah yes, who of us doesn't remember that feeling when we learned that we weren't the "only ones" who loved tickling? The delicious apprehension, the discovery of the too-good-to-be-true truth... That our numbers are legion. For me, it was back in the 80's, a young man on a TDY deployment in the Air Force, visiting Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas (ah, Vega$, ya gotta love that town). There are MANY adult bookstores in that city of sin, and well, as a young man, needless to say, I was intrigued but what lay within! 😀 🙄 I was wandering around in one after duty one evening, and a magazine caught my eye and stunned me to the core. HOM's "Tied and Tickled" sat there on the magazine rack, like some incredible grail. I recall standing there for a few moments before it even occurred to me to pick it up and look at it... standing there, incredululous, the stalled gears of my brain sluggishly registering that if there was such a magazine, there's a market for it. They didn't print this thing just for me! (well, technically that's not true... I still have that magazine, LoL) There was a demand for it that these publishers were filling, and (insert choir singing 'Hallelujah' here)
I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE!
Alas, it would be many, many years until I discovered our little family teeming on the Internet, and suddenly, life got a WHOLE lot more interesting! Woo Hoo! And truth be told, I owe Terry (TeroRizer to some of the Regular Gang) a huge debt of thanks for taking me under his proverbial wing and introducing me into the group. Life is GOOD! Thanks Terry! Love ya bro!
Man, this whole conversation makes me wanna just tickle somebody whole big bunches!
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I went from a point in my childhood when I thought it was pretty normal because we played tickling games so much.... to a point where I suddenly realized that I loved tickling more than anyone else.
I didn't think it was wrong or scary or anything like that. I did, however, think I was alone in my super love for tickling. And it didn't stop me from tickling, or from receiving it. I didn't know why I loved it so much.
I never pictured people looking at me and saying I'm a weirdo (because of tickling). Being a female makes it so much easier, I think, because you can tickle the hell out of someone or have someone tickling you, and no one thinks anything of it. People don't look at you and automatically assume- HEY that person has a TICKLE problem! 😛 (Is it harder for guys?)
I got brave one day and put the word tickle in a search engine at school. I came up with so much information that it was amazing! There were people who felt like I did. These people wrote stories and had pictures and all kinds of things! But, even this didn't make me feel more "accepted/ comfortable/ I don't know the word I am looking for" with tickling. I think that takes time.
Even after finding TMF through Terorizer, and meeting other people who were into ticking, through Terorizer once again.... It wasn't as if I had this freedom where I could tell everyone or be open about my love for tickling to the whole entire world. I don't feel like everyone should know, and I'm comfortable with that.
But my family knows, a couple of friends know, and every guy I have ever dated, I've told them from the start.
What I do wish is that I had more tickling friends in Georgia. And sometimes, in that, it still seems a little lonely. Sigh LOL 😛
And now, I think it's pretty cool to know that there are other people who I can talk to and hang out with (even if you all are very very far away) about tickling.
Live, Laugh and TICKLE
Sunriseticklee
I didn't think it was wrong or scary or anything like that. I did, however, think I was alone in my super love for tickling. And it didn't stop me from tickling, or from receiving it. I didn't know why I loved it so much.
I never pictured people looking at me and saying I'm a weirdo (because of tickling). Being a female makes it so much easier, I think, because you can tickle the hell out of someone or have someone tickling you, and no one thinks anything of it. People don't look at you and automatically assume- HEY that person has a TICKLE problem! 😛 (Is it harder for guys?)
I got brave one day and put the word tickle in a search engine at school. I came up with so much information that it was amazing! There were people who felt like I did. These people wrote stories and had pictures and all kinds of things! But, even this didn't make me feel more "accepted/ comfortable/ I don't know the word I am looking for" with tickling. I think that takes time.
Even after finding TMF through Terorizer, and meeting other people who were into ticking, through Terorizer once again.... It wasn't as if I had this freedom where I could tell everyone or be open about my love for tickling to the whole entire world. I don't feel like everyone should know, and I'm comfortable with that.
But my family knows, a couple of friends know, and every guy I have ever dated, I've told them from the start.
What I do wish is that I had more tickling friends in Georgia. And sometimes, in that, it still seems a little lonely. Sigh LOL 😛
And now, I think it's pretty cool to know that there are other people who I can talk to and hang out with (even if you all are very very far away) about tickling.
Live, Laugh and TICKLE
Sunriseticklee
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Yep, I felt weird and absolutely alone. BD stories always turned me on but not the pain parts. I just ignored that tickling is exciting. How could something funny and silly and childish be a legitimate sexual turn-on? Who could I ever share that with?
I credit XXX spam as the catalyst for my awakening and acceptance of tickling. I figured, if I hadn't done anything to attract such spam yet was receiving it and couldn't stop it from coming, then I had nothing to lose by looking around at BD sites. Well, when I found TICKLING out there I swear the earth shifted. My world changed and so did my marriage. I've been younger and thinner, but I've never been happier.
I credit XXX spam as the catalyst for my awakening and acceptance of tickling. I figured, if I hadn't done anything to attract such spam yet was receiving it and couldn't stop it from coming, then I had nothing to lose by looking around at BD sites. Well, when I found TICKLING out there I swear the earth shifted. My world changed and so did my marriage. I've been younger and thinner, but I've never been happier.
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Even before I found it on the net
I always thought I was alone until I stumbled onto a book back in the early 90's back when I was about 18-20. called "Unusual Sexual Practices" or something like that. It had a heading for tickling and spoke of magazines that catered to this. I was flush!
I went to a local Adult book store and found some...it was amazing. There were even videos! So that was the first time I realized that this may actually be a "thing" and I wasn't the only person in the world who loved tickling.
I got a computer around '95 or so and remember doing a word search. I found the AMT and then things just kind of snowballed from there! I think the TMF is definitely the culmination of it all, though. It brings all the ticklers and ticklees into one place to converge.
It's a nice feeling to know that you aren't alone lol
I always thought I was alone until I stumbled onto a book back in the early 90's back when I was about 18-20. called "Unusual Sexual Practices" or something like that. It had a heading for tickling and spoke of magazines that catered to this. I was flush!
I went to a local Adult book store and found some...it was amazing. There were even videos! So that was the first time I realized that this may actually be a "thing" and I wasn't the only person in the world who loved tickling.
I got a computer around '95 or so and remember doing a word search. I found the AMT and then things just kind of snowballed from there! I think the TMF is definitely the culmination of it all, though. It brings all the ticklers and ticklees into one place to converge.
It's a nice feeling to know that you aren't alone lol
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One night I typed "tickling" into a search engine about 8 years ago. Boom - solefullyyours.com had pictures and vid clips that I never knew existed. It took me months to venture outside of that site, but when I figured out how newsgroups worked, AMT was a regular stop. That's when I realized the enormity of the tickling community.
Uncle Steve
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i used to think i was a freak, and actually tried to surpress it out of my mind. whenever there was tickling on tv, i felt excited. but when i got older and started thinking about it more sexually, i did not like the idea. there was a while when i thought i was majorly fucked up (i still am, but not for the same reasons 😛 ).
but then, a magical day. i searched the net for tickling and RT was the first thing to come up. what a load off my mind! i finally found the TMF and hung around for a long time before joining.
so there you go, a success story.
but then, a magical day. i searched the net for tickling and RT was the first thing to come up. what a load off my mind! i finally found the TMF and hung around for a long time before joining.
so there you go, a success story.
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Re: Even before I found it on the net
shipshirt said:
🙂 It's nice to know and believe that I am normal and not weird!🙂
S
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I have been asked this question almost as frequently as "Where I am most ticklish?" and "Where is my fav spot to be tickled"
I have always taken great pleasure in responding to this question because reflecting to give an accurate answer sheds light on myself, for me as well...since introspective analysis is something I rely upon for personal growth.,...I am grateful to all of you who have made me think about it so that I can understand myself better.
First and foremost I can say that I have always loved being tickled...I was tickle-tortured by my father as a child through adolescence...(wait..he still tickles me ...lol...(He would tickle me until I wet myself or cried...not nice I know ...but as a child I would seek him out whenever he didn't initiate it so I loved it overall...)...anyway...my father , having an extreme foot fetish and tickling fetish himself had predisposed me to it I suppose....since I was extremely close with my father throughout my childhood I have always associated being tickled with love and signs of true affection....however...I never viewed loving to be tickled as anything other than simply ordinary...everyone around me were either ticklers or were getting tickled every day in my household...I never viewed it as weird or unnatural...then I met someone on the internet....(fell in love but that is another post🙂 Anyway...he shed an entirely different light on my "un-recocognized tickling fetish" I remember how I thought it was odd, not that he loved tickling but that he was talking about it...lol...in my life up to that point...no one ever talked about it really...not as being anything "weird" or something u were ashamed of...u just got tickled...lol...but as I entered and exited relationships with men, I never understood the reasons why there were so many "differences" between us in what we viewed as "love" and "happiness within a relationship" I wasn't consciously aware of my feeling rejected when they wouldn't tickle me more or would stop and get annoyed with me for wanting to "keep it up"....having met and loved this man I spoke of...caused me to learn about myself and my strong attraction to him because of so many things but certainly his love of tickling was of specific appeal to me....(and it still is🙂
So I have him to thank for assisting me in uncovering if not a desire to be tickled , information that made me aware that I not only had a right to desire being tickled more...and more...🙂...but that there isn't something inherently wrong with me because I love it. (I am not even sure he is aware of his part in this realization...I am not sure I ever told him...hmm...🙂
I do know that I have met many people over the last few years who have entered and committed to relationships where their spouse or significant other is not aware of or is unaccepting of their fetish(es)...I have learned through them as well as myself that I would never be happy (again) being in a relationship with a man who didn't tickle me...and I am speaking of a man who tickles me because he "loves" to tickle me not because he simply "will" tickle me...there is such a difference!
Soo....to summarize...I am very grateful for the first man I ever truly loved as well as the online community that has welcomed me and treated me so well....
~angel
I have always taken great pleasure in responding to this question because reflecting to give an accurate answer sheds light on myself, for me as well...since introspective analysis is something I rely upon for personal growth.,...I am grateful to all of you who have made me think about it so that I can understand myself better.
First and foremost I can say that I have always loved being tickled...I was tickle-tortured by my father as a child through adolescence...(wait..he still tickles me ...lol...(He would tickle me until I wet myself or cried...not nice I know ...but as a child I would seek him out whenever he didn't initiate it so I loved it overall...)...anyway...my father , having an extreme foot fetish and tickling fetish himself had predisposed me to it I suppose....since I was extremely close with my father throughout my childhood I have always associated being tickled with love and signs of true affection....however...I never viewed loving to be tickled as anything other than simply ordinary...everyone around me were either ticklers or were getting tickled every day in my household...I never viewed it as weird or unnatural...then I met someone on the internet....(fell in love but that is another post🙂 Anyway...he shed an entirely different light on my "un-recocognized tickling fetish" I remember how I thought it was odd, not that he loved tickling but that he was talking about it...lol...in my life up to that point...no one ever talked about it really...not as being anything "weird" or something u were ashamed of...u just got tickled...lol...but as I entered and exited relationships with men, I never understood the reasons why there were so many "differences" between us in what we viewed as "love" and "happiness within a relationship" I wasn't consciously aware of my feeling rejected when they wouldn't tickle me more or would stop and get annoyed with me for wanting to "keep it up"....having met and loved this man I spoke of...caused me to learn about myself and my strong attraction to him because of so many things but certainly his love of tickling was of specific appeal to me....(and it still is🙂
So I have him to thank for assisting me in uncovering if not a desire to be tickled , information that made me aware that I not only had a right to desire being tickled more...and more...🙂...but that there isn't something inherently wrong with me because I love it. (I am not even sure he is aware of his part in this realization...I am not sure I ever told him...hmm...🙂
I do know that I have met many people over the last few years who have entered and committed to relationships where their spouse or significant other is not aware of or is unaccepting of their fetish(es)...I have learned through them as well as myself that I would never be happy (again) being in a relationship with a man who didn't tickle me...and I am speaking of a man who tickles me because he "loves" to tickle me not because he simply "will" tickle me...there is such a difference!
Soo....to summarize...I am very grateful for the first man I ever truly loved as well as the online community that has welcomed me and treated me so well....
~angel
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I just joined this forum and I was happy to find it. I didn't think I was alone, but wasn't sure that there was anywhere where people openly talked about it in a civilized way.
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shy girl said:
Actually, for me, I think it was the other way around, the internet kinda brought it to me. How? Not sure....😛 😉
Great topic! Something we all have in common!
This is truly a topic that unites us all. I can't remember a time when tickling wasn't special to me. As a child I was tickled often and for long durations by females. Older sisters, their friends, even certain teachers. Junior high and high school were probably the most bleak times for me, tickling wise. Like many teenage boys regard sex, I craved tickling desperately, but was too self-conscious and lacking of confidence. Had I just relaxed and been myself, I'd have done far better, but that's hindsight for you. 🙂 I believed I was the only person on the face of the earth with an obsession for tickling, and God help me if my awful secret was discovered.
My revelation that I was not alone was very similar to that of Affectionate Dan. The year was 1983. I was 26 years old. My company sent me to New York City for a week. I was walking down the infamous 42d street and wandered into an adult bookstore. As I was looking around the store I saw something that made me break out in a cold sweat. I was looking at a newspaper called "Fetish Times." The headline screamed in bold caps: SPECIAL TICKLE TORTURE ISSUE. For a moment, the rest of the world faded out and all I could see was that headline. That instantaneous understanding that I wasn't alone had me completely stunned, and it took several moments to recover. In retrospect, there really wasn't much to the newspaper. An article that talked about how tickling had a sudden rise in popularity in Sioux Falls, SD.
Still, it was a turning point in my life, and I decided I would stop treating my interest in ticking as an embarrassment, but rather as a legitimate interest. From that point on, I had no lack of tickling in my life and still don't to this day.
This is truly a topic that unites us all. I can't remember a time when tickling wasn't special to me. As a child I was tickled often and for long durations by females. Older sisters, their friends, even certain teachers. Junior high and high school were probably the most bleak times for me, tickling wise. Like many teenage boys regard sex, I craved tickling desperately, but was too self-conscious and lacking of confidence. Had I just relaxed and been myself, I'd have done far better, but that's hindsight for you. 🙂 I believed I was the only person on the face of the earth with an obsession for tickling, and God help me if my awful secret was discovered.
My revelation that I was not alone was very similar to that of Affectionate Dan. The year was 1983. I was 26 years old. My company sent me to New York City for a week. I was walking down the infamous 42d street and wandered into an adult bookstore. As I was looking around the store I saw something that made me break out in a cold sweat. I was looking at a newspaper called "Fetish Times." The headline screamed in bold caps: SPECIAL TICKLE TORTURE ISSUE. For a moment, the rest of the world faded out and all I could see was that headline. That instantaneous understanding that I wasn't alone had me completely stunned, and it took several moments to recover. In retrospect, there really wasn't much to the newspaper. An article that talked about how tickling had a sudden rise in popularity in Sioux Falls, SD.
Still, it was a turning point in my life, and I decided I would stop treating my interest in ticking as an embarrassment, but rather as a legitimate interest. From that point on, I had no lack of tickling in my life and still don't to this day.
I went through it...lol. Through my childhood and teen years, and even into my early 20's before I got online, I thought I was the only freak in the world who loved to be tickled so much, and for whom it had an arousing effect.
Then one day, a few months after I got a computer and got online (believe it or not, I was so sure of my fate as the worlds only ticklephile that I never even did a search for 'tickling' on the web), I hooked up with a local friend of mine on ICQ. She had been a teen tickle pal of mine, but I always figured she'd outgrow it. We talked for a bit, and then she said "Why don't you come join me in the chat room I'm talking in?" I opened my mIRC and replied "Okay, I'm in...what's the name of the room". When she came back with "#ticklefun" I almost fainted. I shrieked "You mean there are other people who actually enjoy tickling?!" Before she could even reply I was in the room and holding onto my chair in pure awe.
It immediately became my new home online, and I wasted no time in discovering the many tickephile outlets on the internet.
When the chat room closed down several years ago, I was quite lost wandering around the net without a place to go. When I decided to join AMT one day, one of the first posts I received was made by Jeff, advertising the TMF. I logged on, registered right away, and have made my home here ever since. God bless this place, and God bless all my fellow ticklephiles 😀 😀 😀 😀
Mimi
Then one day, a few months after I got a computer and got online (believe it or not, I was so sure of my fate as the worlds only ticklephile that I never even did a search for 'tickling' on the web), I hooked up with a local friend of mine on ICQ. She had been a teen tickle pal of mine, but I always figured she'd outgrow it. We talked for a bit, and then she said "Why don't you come join me in the chat room I'm talking in?" I opened my mIRC and replied "Okay, I'm in...what's the name of the room". When she came back with "#ticklefun" I almost fainted. I shrieked "You mean there are other people who actually enjoy tickling?!" Before she could even reply I was in the room and holding onto my chair in pure awe.
It immediately became my new home online, and I wasted no time in discovering the many tickephile outlets on the internet.
When the chat room closed down several years ago, I was quite lost wandering around the net without a place to go. When I decided to join AMT one day, one of the first posts I received was made by Jeff, advertising the TMF. I logged on, registered right away, and have made my home here ever since. God bless this place, and God bless all my fellow ticklephiles 😀 😀 😀 😀
Mimi
Actually, as I've mentioned before in other threads, I discovered that I was not alone about 30 years ago. I was reading a tabloid when I came across an "article" about a "nutcase" who kidnapped a young woman off the street, spirited her down to his basement, locked her into a home-made set of stocks and tormented/raped her. The article came complete with several "police photos". What caught my attention (besides the "police photo" of a stunning, naked - as far as I could tell, anyway - blonde) with her bare feet sticking out of the stocks, were a few sentences in one of the middle paragraphs (& I remember the text vividly): "But the agony of aching muscles was nothing compared to what Karin's sadistic captor inflicted on the girl. She said it was obvious that he got a sexual kick from tormenting her. Sometimes he tickled the bottoms of her feet until she collapsed in sobbing hysteria.......". That short segment of text was a revelation to me: Someone else, besides me, found tickling erotic (albeit, in a pathological way - assuming, of course, that there was ANY truth to the story in the first place, given the propensity of tabloids to "stretch" the truth). Irrespective of the veracity of the story, someone at that tabloid felt that there was a possible market for it; therefore, I was not alone!!!! From that moment on, I was determined to find all the others who were like me, a journey that has lasted all these years & eventually led me to the TMF.
On a tangential note, & I apologize in advance to all those who wish I would "give it a rest," this same journey to the TMF also led me to a meeting with the woman I will be marrying later this year......😀 😀 😀 😀
R
On a tangential note, & I apologize in advance to all those who wish I would "give it a rest," this same journey to the TMF also led me to a meeting with the woman I will be marrying later this year......😀 😀 😀 😀
R
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This is amazing!!! I feel exactly like you guys and it all happened pretty buch the same.
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bellyfeather
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There are definitely some people (friends) that I would not tell of my fetish and probably never will.
I also felt like a freak for way too long...
The first inkling that there were others like me out there was when I discovered a couple of letters in the regular Penthouse magazine. These would appear very infrequently, but they were there, at least.
Eventually I found a featured article in Penthouse Variations, which led to the discovery of the aforementioned HOM and all that, including the frustrating depictions in all those "mainstream" videos by companies like Prestige and CalStar.
But I never really felt at home until I got my first computer several years ago and discovered the online community. Instead of porn companies throwing bones at the "fetish" (I hate that word) market, here were real people, including (dare I say it) real women (!) who shared my same wiring.
It was mentioned earlier here that "maybe it's different for guys," and indeed, I think it is, especially in the "bad old days" to which I alluded. Young men usually struggle somewhat with their sexual identities under the best of circumstances. When this discovery period leads to a sense of identity on one hand but also a sense of isolation on the other, then it can be very painful..believe me, I know. Another factor is that, along the way, many men have had painful experiences in which even a playful, short tickle has led to their being accused of a sadistic or cruel act. This has happened to me (from what I've read on here, I'm a "light" tickler, too) and I KNOW I'm not the only one. That kind of thing can plunge a man further into the closet.
The discovery of the online community brought me nearly to tears, much as the discovery of the materials I alluded to earlier did in different times. I am thankful for everyone here at TMF, because the TMF is of course the greatest find of all. You all have made my road a less lonely one.
The first inkling that there were others like me out there was when I discovered a couple of letters in the regular Penthouse magazine. These would appear very infrequently, but they were there, at least.
Eventually I found a featured article in Penthouse Variations, which led to the discovery of the aforementioned HOM and all that, including the frustrating depictions in all those "mainstream" videos by companies like Prestige and CalStar.
But I never really felt at home until I got my first computer several years ago and discovered the online community. Instead of porn companies throwing bones at the "fetish" (I hate that word) market, here were real people, including (dare I say it) real women (!) who shared my same wiring.
It was mentioned earlier here that "maybe it's different for guys," and indeed, I think it is, especially in the "bad old days" to which I alluded. Young men usually struggle somewhat with their sexual identities under the best of circumstances. When this discovery period leads to a sense of identity on one hand but also a sense of isolation on the other, then it can be very painful..believe me, I know. Another factor is that, along the way, many men have had painful experiences in which even a playful, short tickle has led to their being accused of a sadistic or cruel act. This has happened to me (from what I've read on here, I'm a "light" tickler, too) and I KNOW I'm not the only one. That kind of thing can plunge a man further into the closet.
The discovery of the online community brought me nearly to tears, much as the discovery of the materials I alluded to earlier did in different times. I am thankful for everyone here at TMF, because the TMF is of course the greatest find of all. You all have made my road a less lonely one.
AffectionateDan
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Well, we've been known to hold Munches and/or Gatherings just BECAUSE...
...They happened to be visiting and the timing worked out. So if you're ever out west and wanna meet the West Coast Gang, say the word. We're always looking for an excuse to get together! Come on out and get tickled in the warm California sun.
😎 😉
JPie1 said:
...They happened to be visiting and the timing worked out. So if you're ever out west and wanna meet the West Coast Gang, say the word. We're always looking for an excuse to get together! Come on out and get tickled in the warm California sun.
😎 😉
