Laughthirsty Lr
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This fetish is many different things to many different people and it's truly hard to get any two people here to agree on any one format or subject. But don't you just love how people who have zero passion and who are clueless as to what this fetish is about try to explain to the world in cold medicinal and psychological terms what and who we are never having met any one of us? Acting as if each one of us is exactly the same with the same desires? What is the freakin' purpose?
I'm shocked how Psychology Today has changed from being at the forefront of opening people up to new ideas in psychology, especially about sex and fantasies, to that mechanical and dispassionate article that makes us about appealing as a kettle of dead fish.
I've collected a massive amount of legit materials about tickling (not write-ins) from a vanilla standpoint, including Dr. Joyce Brothers and other psychologists. For a better taste of what Psychology Today used to be like in regard to a time when the world was more accepting as our fetish didn't yet exist but was on the horizon due to a brave few souls, travel back in time now to the early days way before we existed here, before I was born, maybe before many of you were born too, and there's several issues that covered how in-depth tickling & bondage used to be played out.
Such as this one from October 1977, one of my favorites, where they covered a daring early Kujman club demo at The Project in NYC that involved his very erotic style of audience hands-on themed play with bondage and tickling used as torture-
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There's actually several throughout the 1970's and early '80's about tickling, s/m and bondage. Two of them also interview [him] about his club demos on both coasts with wonderful photos very racy for the era.
Another good one from 1984 about spanking and tickling covers the West Coast fetish explosion, which for some reason Doctors tried to lump spanking and tickling together for a while.
Found this. Thought it might be interesting.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/search/site/tickling
OmahaTickler makes a good point. While most of us are just ordinary people who happened to like the way tickling feels and/or derive some sort of sexual or just plain humerous pleasure from tickling others, psychology at least historically is very critical of people like us. The word "deviant" doesn't bother me. If they want to lable me then, so be it. It just shows their lack of willingness to accept something that they don't understand.
Modern psychology may be a little more understanding but, I wouldn't know as I no longer read books on sexual psychology.
I feel like I read enough back when I was fascinated with it to learn more about my interests and such but, this thread is starting to make me curious again about the approach in todays psychology toward knismolagnia/titilagnia
and sexual fetishism as a whole.
As for being "normal" noone truly is. We just like to beleive that we are so that we can call others "weird".
I've never felt normal a day in my life and you know what? It's not so bad. I have a conscience and I get along with nice and kind-hearted people. Everyday isn't the best day for me but, I endure and move on and so can anyone else.