Honestly? I think that just like in real life with tickling videos and such, the people tickling the models are balding middle-aged men, they're ugly or they're nerdy.
How many handsome, or sexy, or handsome AND sexy AND YOUNG male ticklers do you see in those? Not many or none at all. They're usually freaky looking or nerdy looking, chubby, incredibly skinny and not in shape.
And just like in tickling videos the producers strive to have attractive women. Why would an artist want to draw a haggard, aging woman? For the same reasons a video producer does what they do.
By all extends and purposes of the videos, the art is much the same way. And in that regard, its quite realistic.
Perhaps, in some cases, people want to portray tickling fetishists as these sort of creepy, nerdy gremlins who can't control themselves so they draw them that way. A stereotype for sure.
Now, personally, this wouldn't apply to my art. If I'm going to draw a male tickling a female then common sense would dictate that if the girl is even going to be in this situation with this guy willingly and he's not some pervert or guy off the street, he's got to look well-kept or at least normal or decent in order to make her comfortable with the atmosphere. I like for there to be this cute sensuality in my tickling pictures, and whether the tickler is male or female theres a nuance thats definitely carried out in that.
Its my opinion that the appearance of the tickler in a tickling picture is just as important as the ticklee themself. The two are an item and both TOGETHER make or break the picture, and they have to go together. To do otherwise would make the picture look unbalanced or project a different emotion or situation. In hentai, when things like rape, forced masturbation, etc, are drawn, the perpetrator is almost always a middle-aged business man whose butt ugly, hairy and looks creepy. Perhaps theres a subtle connection with male ticklers in cartoon erotica. Perhaps these artists want the tickler to be seen as forcing this on the ticklee, so drawing him in such a way that makes them look intrusive and unsavory is used to carry across the feeling of unwillingness in the picture. By drawing the tickler as a stark contrast to the ticklee (ugly and coarse vs beautiful and soft), it projects a sense of unpleasantness and discomfort, and sometimes thats what the artist is going for. (Think Jabba the Hut with Slave Leia and you'll see what I mean).
Because quite obviously if its a hot hunk doing it to her, it visually looks more consensual and could ruin the picture if thats not what you want.
But there are plenty examples all the time of the male tickler looking cute, normal or unlike you say all the time. When its not so, its usually an exageration or private joke.
