I have wondered the same about pretty obvious signs they were into it about a couple former friends in the past, but was too shy to ask or tell them about myself. This was like 20+ years ago for one and about 16-17 yrs ago for the other though and we have not remained in touch since all that time with either one... What sort of hints do you mean?? I felt like the friends I'm talking about from years ago, the signs were super obvious and just no one talked about it lol... The signs being instigating tickling fights or games (a lot, like nearly every time she saw me, with the first one...) or talking about being ticklish a lot with no prior prompt to bring it up somehow... Becoming flirty/physical after a while of instigating tickling fights... Not trying very hard/at all to fight off/get away, in fact the 1st again wanted to play games of "who can hold still longer"... Lol, the other one was a guy flirting with every chick within a mile and I thought he was a douchebag player, til he just tells me out of nowhere when he kept hanging on me/trying to hug me and I was trying to push him away, how I can't grab him bc he's really ticklish and not to tell anyone .. then making almost no effort to get away or stop me at all when I started tickling him bc f*ck it, why not if he was getting handsy on me and any other woman in reach all night, and maybe he did it to get me to be physical with him and to try to get me to ultimately hook up with him, but he chose pretty much exactly the right way to go about doing that lol... And seemed to enjoy me tickling him enough that I sort of doubted he was just using his "play" to get laid by this and was actually really into it... Fooled me if he wasn't anyway �� ... even with all those ridiculously obvious signals I was still too chicken to talk about it or ask flat out if they were turned on by tickling
... I was young though, I might be less of a scaredy about asking it now. ��
Well now you really have me intrigued!! To answer your question regarding which kinds of hints....
Well, sadly not any of those kinds - Yet! I just mean a couple of times we were hanging out together drinking, there was what seemed to me an almost intentional 'overusage' of the word "tickling" and "tickle"... When describing a sensation she felt when an insect was crawling on her. This was with no prompting on my part, either, which is unusual lol, as I've been known to try to "trick" girls into saying the word or leading them into a conversation which might contain the word in their response to me....
For example, I was asked to remove a ladybug from her pinky finger while she was carrying some firewood and the ladybug was, according to her, "tickling the hell out of me" .... Naturally my ears perked up then
But I chocked it up to pure coincidence in that moment and we proceeded with the evening's plan. But the very next time we hung out together, months later, we were inside in her living room on the floor and she was recalling a story about her feeling a spider crawling on her thigh. She said the word tickle twice during that story. "I kept feeling this tickle... " That, made me take a step back for a second, recalling our last encounter, and it kind of grabbed me by the chest!!! Is this just a word that is common to her vocabulary? Does she know about my kink? If so, she would have to have been well-researched... I'm not 100% private about it, but to find that out about me you will naturally have to do a considerable amount of digging, and then come to a logical conclusion after the fact. Maybe there is some mutual friend we have that knows and filled in the blanks for her, or pulled her to the side and said "Let me tell you what his deal is... " Maybe she's trying to lead me into something. What if I take the bait and she wants to use it for the purpose of ridicule? Lol What if maybe, after all these years, she "likes" me like, like likes me to some degree? Which would be outstanding because I'm pretty sure I always like liked her!! She's the guarded type though, and I understand why. I'm careful with my own heart as well, but I digress...
I couldn't come up with a definitive answer to any of these questions so I hid my nervousness as best I could and we continued the evening. I think my deer in the headlights expression only lasted for a mere second, and I can thank the Stoli for that. All the sudden I got really thirsty �� Like, Marco Rubio thirsty, with my vodka glass!! Lol
An already-long story short, this woman and I went to high school together. We didn't see or communicate with each other in over 20 years. If not for the advent of facebook, we probably would not have crossed paths still to this day.... She had always had a boyfriend when I knew her then, and in a high school setting there were plenty of girls to occupy my ticklish ruminations. She has since been married and has a child, as have I. Both of us are no longer with our ex-spouses, and, as far as I know now, neither of us are seeing anyone....
Frankly, I would like to begin spending more time with her because I think we have much more in common than I realize ��