Great topic AND discussion..
My take...
"I've had it since I was a tiny ticklish tot. And I feel uncomfortable about it every day and have been from the time I snuck encyclopedias out of the library as a kid to my clandestine forays into TMF today."
I am totally with you on this one Stacy!!
I also looked up tickling in the dictionary/encyclopida just read the frickin' word!!!
I think we all though at one point or anyother that we were "weird" for LOVING tickling...I mean your buds/girls talk about boobs and butts and vanilla sex and maybe the french kiss but not tickling or spanking or bondage.
And because we are "different" we put guilt to the attachment because we must be guilty of something for loving tickling...
I think what happens here is that folks can get into tickle overload..you go from reading the word tickling in a dictionary, maybe the occational real life experience(or mainstream scene) that you play over and over and over again in your head and then you come here and you get read stories, find out there are THOUSANDS of us, see images, watch tickling clips, order movies all from behind a computer screen and no one needs to know.
I think that is why we see the going away for a while, then they come back after a few months, weeks, days...it is a PART of us but not the whole...moderation is the key, which can be very tough when one has held back all these feelings for so long.
And THEN you happen to go to a gathering...GOD LORD does that change everything!!! Then you really KNOW there are others out there...and they have toys!!!
Because for a good portion of us tickling is linked to our sexuality it can REALLY be tough...as the less tickling we get, the less "sex" we get or sexual stimulation...
I too have done the pull back and forth thing and recently thought about pulling back but simply decided it is a part of me that needs to be moderated but not closed off...its not going away so I might as well enjoy who I am.
All the best!!!
Tickle On,
Tommytikl