what got you started?

^ for me too, exactly. By age 3 or 4 I was fascinated by girls in leotards or stockings in a gymnastics class. I desperately wanted to see them tickled. Didn't have the courage to actually ever try. By 4 or 5 I had figured out how to fantasize about this and masturbate, even though it was many years before anything came out when I did this.

40+ years later, I STILL go crazy for any dancer-look when girls wear bodystockings or tights.

Mostly from seeing it in cartoons and some books and then some cousin tickling. But what really launched it into outer space was babysitters. There were a couple I'd go after who liked it and we'd play a lot, and also a couple who absolutely hated it and I was intensely thrilled at both. Had some major fun times and battles and quickly became obsessed.

Other than everything I previously mentioned? I tickled a few girls in high school just randomly and I grew an interest.