Do you think that the tickle fetish is creeping into the mainstream conscious?

tk86 said:

In part, for sure. We’ve been marginalized from the start. The word “fetish” creeps people out to start with, and when these negative stories come out, like the recent post about the schoolteacher tv episode, the “pervert” label is applied yet again. It’s often the only place people will hear about the tickle, er, fetish. So instead of being part of healthy sexuality, as it should be, tickling is forever branded by many as perversion.

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See, your main problem is the classification nomenclature you gave it. Take away "fetish" and tickle people normally, and you're saving yourself grief. As for Kendrick.... could be one fairly unpopular actress vying for attention.

What really irks me is how some therapist is desperate to make correlations between *if* tickling will interfere with basic living shit just because someone didn't like it.

duderino84 said:

See, your main problem is the classification nomenclature you gave it. Take away "fetish" and tickle people normally, and you're saving yourself grief. As for Kendrick.... could be one fairly unpopular actress vying for attention.

What really irks me is how some therapist is desperate to make correlations between *if* tickling will interfere with basic living shit just because someone didn't like it.

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"Take away "fetish" and tickle people normally, and you're saving yourself grief"
the article is an exemple that it doesn't work if its obssessive. and it shouldn't, its her right not to like it.
I mean, if we say 'this is not a fetish', people still will get its a fetish. "i tickle people because its funny". come on.
People are not that stupid. People get it.
I'm talking about obssessive tickling and torture, not cuddling.
If you tie up people on a TV show and put a goat to lick their feet, there's no use to write 'its a joke' above it, as if the audience is blind

The main problem is people don't accept it because its different and have preconception. not the name you give it.

Please, tell me if people can't tell the difference between this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSvOa42Zlcs

and this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyxX5X9QAZU

even if they didn't read about tickling on the internet

Tickling is becoming no more mainstream than any other fetish.

The general population has knowledge that people can and do get off on a lot of things, from tickling to balloon popping to being choked and so forth.

Most when they encounter some specialty porn go "Huh. Guess that's a thing." and then move on, probably to a video clip of what gets them off.

So tickling like all the other fringe fetishes is in general awareness, but you are not gonna see it be featured in mainstream things other then as a joke, or a plot point to reinforce the oddness of a character. "Gee Gidget, that Jack is sure a weird one always trying to tickle us..."

Because you sit in the center of the fetish you are sensitive to every mention and appearance of it anywhere, but to the other 99.9% of the population its nothing that occupies more then a passing thought.

Myriads

rapazrox said:

"Take away "fetish" and tickle people normally, and you're saving yourself grief"
the article is an exemple that it doesn't work if its obssessive. and it shouldn't, its her right not to like it.
I mean, if we say 'this is not a fetish', people still will get its a fetish. "i tickle people because its funny". come on.
People are not that stupid. People get it.
I'm talking about obssessive tickling and torture, not cuddling.
If you tie up people on a TV show and put a goat to lick their feet, there's no use to write 'its a joke' above it, as if the audience is blind

The main problem is people don't accept it because its different and have preconception. not the name you give it.

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Right but see, there's a difference between outright saying you're doing it to get a boner and coincidentally having a boner when you're tickling. It makes the spectacle (your goat example)
more just generally suspect. Which to me is better than detailing things. Guys might be into anal, but really, weigh which one is worse, that or the tickling.

tk86 said:

This is the mainstream right here https://tribune.com.pk/story/1592211/4-broke-tickled-anna-kendrick

And there’s a lot like it.

This is NOT a judgement on boundaries etc. They should always be respected. But unfortunately this is what the majority of people see, articles like this where we’re branded as weird.

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That's an article from 2017. Did you searching for a "negative" mention, and this was the best you could do, or did you hold onto your pain for 3 years?

I JUST REMINDED! A meme humour blog/page on facebook on my country posted something like "when I want to troll my girlfriend" and simply posted a gif of a girl being tickled on a rack. tickle abuse or uk tickling, dont remenber. like 2 people laughed, ALL THE OTHER comments were telling him to 'go back to the """deep web"""" or stop posting porn. he deleted.
thats internet, fellas.