Here's the thing. I'm no historian or anything but I've done a little checking.
From what I know, tickling media BEGAN out of pornography media. Therefore the models were always the chesty yet otherwise underweight (and buttless *snicker*) variety that you would ordinarily see in pornography. And so it generally has been the same with all sorts of tickling media. Tickling stories which all begin with the blonde, blue eyed 110 standard(zzzZZZZzzzzzZZzzzz). Oh....sorry....where was I? Oh yeah. Videos and pictures and cartoons all with that blonde or blue eyed...110 pound beau.....zzzzZZZZZZzzzz. Oops.
Anyway, this is MOST evident when you look at tickling media today and how it generally REFUSES to let go of any pornographic roots and continues to be sexualized as much as possible, even when many of us think that tickling is all about FUN. Look at the stuff that's out: Tickling NUDE women, using vibrators to show orgasms in what's supposed to be a "TICKLING" video...and the same kind of ticklee over and over and over and over. As I put it in another thread, variety is good. ALL kinds of women, ALL kinds of tickling, sexual and non-sexual, all body types, all skin tones, all hair types. I applaud producers like Andre (can't wait until ANA gets up and rolling again) who have always expanded things from that boring norm.
You know what the worst thing is? over on another board (who's name I won't mention) where a convo like this couldn't really happen, popele would say things like "If you don't like it, don't buy it." Gee....funny....right here, we have a lot of people voicing their opinions about what they definitely WOULD like to see and WE'RE the wrong ones?!?!?!
Then again, peoples, maybe it is time to express change with the almighty dollar while still keeping the media coming. IF you like videos, only buy those that DO feature plus sized or normative ticklers and ticklees or ticklees and ticklers of color or all of the various types that we've said we would like to see. Producers will have to notice that "Hey, 105 lb Scarlett's video didn't sell but 168 lb Tina's video sold off the meter! Hmmm....maybe I'll make more with her or with more ticklees like her!" They'd still get the money, we'd get the product we want in the future.
Sorry so long. Be easy folks.