When Did You Realize You Had & Fetish & How’d You Know?

[FoolHunter]

I always liked feet. I didn’t understand why it was only women when at first. Remember thinking I would have to stop because it was probably that sexism thing adults talked about (I think I was in 4th grade). I would later realize “I’m a dude, dudes are supposed to like girls, I guess. Maybe this more in line with that.”

I did not fully internalize how right I actually was at the time.

Eventually, I started google image searching stuff like “barefoot supetheroines” or “barefoot cosplay.” Got a lot of more “vanilla” foot stuff like Scott Blair and Scamwich at first. Seeing artists dedicate entire pieces to showing feet made me feel so much more than I was asked for, made me feel less alone. (also I was a stupid kid who thought Blair was doing official variant cover art.) I still had the feeling that this wasn’t something I wanted other people to know about, but now I knew I was something I was allowed to want.

Then I saw this image: https://www.deviantart.com/bad-pierrot/art/Bats-beats-Supergirl-332085250

I already did get a strange satisfaction from seeing women defeated/bound/punished/etc, but up until that point, I never made the connection. Being tickled was something I hated. Now it was something I could do to women, to their feet. And that’s how I got here (and some other fetishes).

As for how I learned what a fetish was. When I finally googled “superheroine feet tickle” as opposed to “superheroine barefoot tickle,” I got results to sites with “porn” in the title. I knew what that meant by then. Up until that point, I thought I was still effectively sexless. I had other baggage alienating me from my peers, wrote off sexuality as a “normal” people thing (despite “I’m a dude, dudes are supposed to like girls” being my justification for liking feet). That was when I truly knew I was straight. Not that I was not gay, not that I was not as atypical as I could’ve been, but rather that I had the heterosexual desires every other hetero guy has. Feet just played a bigger priority than... true vanilla sex. It was both isolating (it went from a irrationally embarrassing joy to something sexually explicit and niche) and sobering (I wasn’t an alien from outer space. There was a reason no one talked about this outside the internet. This has a concrete place in the world).

All of this before I entered Highschool.

(For those internet users*, Yes, I was way too young to be looking at the stuff I was actively seeking out. No, I never communicated with fetish accounts/discussions until this year with this account. As for writing, I’m out of Highschool at age 19.)

*I’m probably just paranoid. This is literally a tickle fetish forum. But better safe than sorry. Zachtickles is still fresh on the mind.

 

[Miss Serendipity]

I always had this feeling surrounding tickling even as a young child, of course I had no idea I was too young.

I was in my teens when it dawned on me I had a fetish and finding a community of people who felt the same way was a great validation for me.

 

[Echoplex]

I can clearly remember seeing the tickling episodes of TMNT when I was 4 and 5 and feeling something. When I was a teen, I definitely realized it was a thing. I think it was in high school that I found this forum and realized that it wasn't just me.

 

[duderino84]

I was probably 9 or 10 when I figured out I liked long hair for the use of tickling, but found out more around 16 that the stuff I thought was just "me being weird" wasn't just "bullshit" and was actually a fetish.

 

[wonderwoman33]

I have to say, about 3 to 4 yrs of age. always had dreams of being abducted by Amazon alien women and being tickled. Has to be from when I watched the episode of the 3 stooges, Space ship sappy. Never anything sexual just Tall strong women tickling me.

 

[BlueLine7045]

Swore I responded to this before but I guess not. I'm not sure what came first honestly. I think it just randomly happened. It started with trying to foot tickle all my babysitters and coming up with little games to play with them to sneak some tickles in here or there.

But I also saw a movie when I was in middle school I believe called "The Tux"ledo" starring Jackie Chan. Towards the end of the movie, there is a scene between Jackie Chan and Jennifer Love Hewitt where he ends up touching her neck and her face scrunches up and she begins to giggle. It was probably one of the cutest things I had ever seen. I'll leave what happened next out of it, but it was a first for me. That, and I also found an amazing picture circulating online of Beast boy as a snake tickling Raven's foot and she was laughing her head off. I was crazy about the Teen Titans so I loved it.

 

[luvgirlsfeet]

I was about 5 years old when it started

 

[yinzer]

Not sure exactly, but I remember when I was in 1st or 2nd grade having a crush on one of my classmate's older sisters and dreaming about tickling her feet. Feet, nylons, and tickling go back about as far back as I can remember for me. For years I thought I was the only one in the world, like I had this amazing secret no one else knew about like how do people even live without these fetishes I have? 😂

 

[ticklevids]

I was five and saw this and I knew immediately. I can tell so much more.... I love my history.

 

[hopefulscrambl]

Specifically this comic.

I'd been fascinated by tickling before, but when I read this at 15, i realised it was a sexual thing.

 

[piyr]

Early teens when my tickling thoughts and sexual thoughts became one.

 

[EBunbury]

A neighbour girl told me about attending a slumber party where one of the girls was in a mummy sleeping bag with a broken zipper. When she ask.ed for help getting out, she was gang tickled until she peed herself. After that the next girl who fell asleep was also pinned in her sleeping bag and tickled until she wet herself. The birthday girl's mother then made them stop tickling people, since mon now had two sleeping bags to wash. Hearing that sparked my interest.

 

[Rollo9]

Tough to say. I remember getting tied down and tickled by other boys at summer camp once, and though it was torture at the time, it was also fun. Of course, I was already fascinated by any scenes in TV/movies where the hero or heroine got captured and tied up.

I definitely didn't recognize these things as fetishes until I was a teenager, when I got loose on the internet and realized there were whole communities of people who were into this stuff.