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tickle fetish origin

Ah, childhood flashbacks. Also that movie is adorable.
 
All of the formal research that's been done on the topic seems to lead to fetishes actually not being linked to childhood experiences. It's more likely that you were simply born with a tickle fetish (like many of us are), and that scene just excited you when you were younger because the fetish already existed!
 
PrncessTicklish said:
All of the formal research that's been done on the topic seems to lead to fetishes actually not being linked to childhood experiences. It's more likely that you were simply born with a tickle fetish (like many of us are), and that scene just excited you when you were younger because the fetish already existed!
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This is actually a good point; for example, my own tickling fetish stems from a love of female stocking feet. I’ve had that particular fetish since I was about five years old (not that I knew what it was back then!), but don’t remember a specific encounter that set me on that particular path. I just remember always getting a bit tingly at the sight of female stocking feet whether in a photo, on TV or real life.

Maybe I was just born with it after all...!

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I just remember this scene as particularly exciting when I was younger but maybe you're right, my fetish probably doesn't come from there. Anyway this is the closest thing to my fetish that I remember from my childhood!
 
Born with it and wired that way, to be sure...but various experiences can indeed hone it without our even realizing it. Throughout my growing up, tickling my feet was my mother's favorite token way to really make me laugh, and each time she ever started with me, I relished it every time. I would usually sprawl out on the floor in the living room while we watched TV...she sat on the sofa. More times than not, I'd have the tops of my bare feet nestled close to where she sat, and it wasn't usually too long before I'd feel her softly skittering her fingernails along my feet. There were no fetish-oriented sensations or conflicts of ideals, I just loved how it felt and how much she could get me to laugh.

As I got older (maybe...13 and beyond), the thoughts of sharing similar experiences with girls my age would foster more excitement than I knew what to do with. I thought I was considerably left of center for it until I discovered my first issue/copy of "LEG SHOW" magazine. Once I read that issue cover-to-cover, I realized immediately that I wasn't alone, or too left of center after all, and it enabled me to be a bit more open and tactfully bolder in my endeavors (by then, I was 17). I never pushed the envelope with anyone, always respected limitations (after all, it isn't for everybody...much as we wish it could be), and some of my greatest experiences were shared with females where mutual trust, respect and a genuine 'like' was established between us.
 
Mine came from being really into bondage at a young age... at about 13- 14 I came across a video of a girl being tickled while hogtied and pretty much fell in love...been into it ever since
 
I'd love to believe the "born with it" theory...but I'm not so sure.

I've read articles on "imprinting"...something that happens to you at an early age. They used "crushing" as an example...a very young boy sees a bug crushed by his mother's high heel, and that imprints on him.

I do know this...like some of you...I had a very ticklish mother who wore pantyhose all the time, and coincidentally that is where my very strong interests lie...

If anyone wants to share thoughts one-on-one please PM me...
 
No one is born with it, but I think because of our affinity towards tickling, memories involving it may be more vivid.

Or, probably more likely to be true, something occurs in childhood that strikes us in such a way as to manifest into kink later in life.

I had a creepy neighbor growing up and tickling became a big childhood phobia for me. I hear it's not uncommon for fears to turn into kinks. Spanking is probably a good example of such.
 
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PrncessTicklish said:
All of the formal research that's been done on the topic seems to lead to fetishes actually not being linked to childhood experiences. It's more likely that you were simply born with a tickle fetish (like many of us are), and that scene just excited you when you were younger because the fetish already existed!
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Can you point us in the direction of the formal research you mention? Everything I've read says otherwise.
 
chicago said:
No one is born with it, but I think because of our affinity towards tickling, memories involving it may be more vivid.

Or, probably more likely to be true, something occurs in childhood that strikes us in such a way as to manifest into kink later in life. ...
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I'm in a similar camp. I posted an article here back in 12/2013 written by a therapist who claimed the origions are connected to experiences in childhood that get connected to our sexuality later on. Something about the physiological responses during those experiences being the same as those we experience during sex. The article didn't supply any reseach in support but it seems consistent with my experience. The therapist since pulled the link or I would post it again. Looks like everything she publishes is for sale now.
 
chicago said:
No one is born with it, but I think because of our affinity towards tickling, memories involving it may be more vivid.

Or, probably more likely to be true, something occurs in childhood that strikes us in such a way as to manifest into kink later in life.

I had a creepy neighbor growing up and tickling became a big childhood phobia for me. I hear it's not uncommon for fears to turn into kinks. Spanking is probably a good example of such.
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There's lots of evidence that childhood trauma, fears or just unwanted touching of various kinds can produce auto-sexual attraction later in life to similar situations. That said, most aspects of the people we've become seem to include some of both nature and nurture components, so I don't think a natural, born-with-it predilection would be impossible in this case either. But that actual experiences contribute -- no doubt to me.

And it fits with the mountain of evidence that a high percentage of pedophiles were themselves molested as children. Promiscuity is also linked with childhood trauma. Why would tickling be different?:
https://www.healthyplace.com/blogs/...9/childhood-sexual-abuse-ptsd-and-promiscuity
 
Yeah, I have to agree that it likely is nurture, not nature, the kind of think Freudians salivate over. My first inkling was around age 5 or 6, when I suddenly became "excited" (whatever that means pre-puberty) at the sight of a barefoot woman, then I saw foot tickling in various mainstream media and made the connection, then other ticklish body parts came into play. I can't recall any particular imprinting experience, as tickling wasn't a big thing in my family---a traditional Italian family, where sex doesn't exist, until someone gets knocked up--which would be a great research question: Are fetishes more common in families in which sex is never discussed, i.e., an environment conducive to experimentation/deviance, with no adult guidance through adolescence?
 
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