So it turns out that the participants in this forum, like any other group of individuals gathered for a common purpose, approach their subject matter from different angles and different depths. This shouldn't surprise anybody- it's human nature.
What is surprising is how few people seem capable of stomaching it. For those who would like to stop reading at this point, let me be clear: this is a rant. There will also be a lot of comparisons between tickling and sex.
Not long ago, I saw a post about how to get a girl to let the poster tickle her. The result was overwhelmingly "why don't you try respecting her" and other such commentary, as well as a barrage of personal attacks of varying eloquence. People, not every tickle-fetishist wants to have a lifelong relationship with a dear friend who is also into tickling and meet on level ground, just like not every guy goes to a bar looking for a girl to take to church and meet his parents so they can get married and have 2.5 kids... it can just be about tickling, just like it can just be about sex- and at least in this country, no matter how morally indefensible you happen to find that pastime (in either case), it's not wrong. He didn't ask, "How can I be judged as morally deviant by a populace that participates in a fetish generally considered outside the mainstream practices of intimacy". He was trying to find a girl to tickle and wanted advice.
FM Concepts just posted a request for feedback on their clips and is considering no longer releasing their contents here. FM Concepts, are you effing kidding me? Personal attacks are par for the course when the subject is personal, which a fetish is (deeply) to many people. Keep doing what you are doing because it obviously works, and by the way your Dita Von Teese work is an all-time favorite of mine. To the "thread-flamers," grow up. FM Concepts produces a soft-core tickling product for a particular audience. If you want the more intense stuff, hit up Tickle Abuse. Want some sex mixed in? Tickle Torture has good stuff in that arena. It's all out there- domestic, foreign, nude, dressed... go get the stuff you want to see and leave producers to make the stuff they want to make- the profits will demonstrate the approval level.
The perennial posts about "Which female member of the TMF would you like to tie up and which male member would you give a feather to" are another shining example of a sincere lack of common sense. Poster(s): Most of the women on this site are not tickle-hungry nymphomaniacs dying to be left at the mercy of a near-stranger... and the ones who enjoy it as a fantasy in the dark corners of their imaginations don't generally want it in practical reality. You can post what you like, but be aware that it will bring judgment and poor reaction from the vocal majority. To the vocal majority: tickling is sexual for many people. Some of the sexiest women I have ever had the privilege of laying eyes on are regular posters of this forum, and like many males between 14 and 85 I have entertained fantasies about some of them. For some guys (and girls), that kind of voyeuristic vicarious approach is as close as they will ever get to the 'beautiful people' and while you may find it distasteful and which they demonstrated more eloquence or restraint in their commentary, understand their position and reveal the strength of character and class that you wish they had. What I see instead is one overzealous fetishist starting a thread and a few dozen snarky, self-righteous or cruelly sarcastic posters replying one after another.
To the Sanctum Sanctorum, the inner circle of the TMF: You are not unique and beautiful snowflakes. I know that some of you have been on the site since it stood up. Others have earned their reputation from attending NEST, or posting thousands of threads and replies, or by being part of the mystical minority that is 'beautiful women'... you are no better, no more moral, and no more fit to make anyone feel unwelcome than the first-time poster that found this site by accident. Your contributions to TMF are remarkable and are the backbone of this amazing site, but when you post some of the things you have posted (you know who you are) you bring discredit to the forum, the fetish, and yourselves. I have been involved in one way or another since the days when Realtickling was a series of blue hyperlinks to 45 second videos, before the "lifetime" membership... 1998? 1999? If I had found this Community the way it is today, I am not sure I would have gotten the enjoyment, comfort, or satisfaction from my fetish that I have... and that is a sad thought.
No one expects this to be Utopia. If you did, you have been asleep at the wheel. Adult conduct and responsible interaction is not unreasonable to expect. Moderators- effing moderate. I will be the last to support censorship, but if a reply doesn't have anything to do with the thread- delete it.
I don't expect many responses to this post and in all likelihood it will fade into obscurity in a matter of days- if you don't like it, I genuinely do not care. I am trying to put a message out to the people addressed in this self-proclaimed rant... if it bothers you or gets you worked up... I am probably talking about you. If you are part of the reason that lurkers remain lurkers, or make others feel uncomfortable about tickling (moreso than many do, as I did when I was first growing into my fetish), then shame on you.
What is surprising is how few people seem capable of stomaching it. For those who would like to stop reading at this point, let me be clear: this is a rant. There will also be a lot of comparisons between tickling and sex.
Not long ago, I saw a post about how to get a girl to let the poster tickle her. The result was overwhelmingly "why don't you try respecting her" and other such commentary, as well as a barrage of personal attacks of varying eloquence. People, not every tickle-fetishist wants to have a lifelong relationship with a dear friend who is also into tickling and meet on level ground, just like not every guy goes to a bar looking for a girl to take to church and meet his parents so they can get married and have 2.5 kids... it can just be about tickling, just like it can just be about sex- and at least in this country, no matter how morally indefensible you happen to find that pastime (in either case), it's not wrong. He didn't ask, "How can I be judged as morally deviant by a populace that participates in a fetish generally considered outside the mainstream practices of intimacy". He was trying to find a girl to tickle and wanted advice.
FM Concepts just posted a request for feedback on their clips and is considering no longer releasing their contents here. FM Concepts, are you effing kidding me? Personal attacks are par for the course when the subject is personal, which a fetish is (deeply) to many people. Keep doing what you are doing because it obviously works, and by the way your Dita Von Teese work is an all-time favorite of mine. To the "thread-flamers," grow up. FM Concepts produces a soft-core tickling product for a particular audience. If you want the more intense stuff, hit up Tickle Abuse. Want some sex mixed in? Tickle Torture has good stuff in that arena. It's all out there- domestic, foreign, nude, dressed... go get the stuff you want to see and leave producers to make the stuff they want to make- the profits will demonstrate the approval level.
The perennial posts about "Which female member of the TMF would you like to tie up and which male member would you give a feather to" are another shining example of a sincere lack of common sense. Poster(s): Most of the women on this site are not tickle-hungry nymphomaniacs dying to be left at the mercy of a near-stranger... and the ones who enjoy it as a fantasy in the dark corners of their imaginations don't generally want it in practical reality. You can post what you like, but be aware that it will bring judgment and poor reaction from the vocal majority. To the vocal majority: tickling is sexual for many people. Some of the sexiest women I have ever had the privilege of laying eyes on are regular posters of this forum, and like many males between 14 and 85 I have entertained fantasies about some of them. For some guys (and girls), that kind of voyeuristic vicarious approach is as close as they will ever get to the 'beautiful people' and while you may find it distasteful and which they demonstrated more eloquence or restraint in their commentary, understand their position and reveal the strength of character and class that you wish they had. What I see instead is one overzealous fetishist starting a thread and a few dozen snarky, self-righteous or cruelly sarcastic posters replying one after another.
To the Sanctum Sanctorum, the inner circle of the TMF: You are not unique and beautiful snowflakes. I know that some of you have been on the site since it stood up. Others have earned their reputation from attending NEST, or posting thousands of threads and replies, or by being part of the mystical minority that is 'beautiful women'... you are no better, no more moral, and no more fit to make anyone feel unwelcome than the first-time poster that found this site by accident. Your contributions to TMF are remarkable and are the backbone of this amazing site, but when you post some of the things you have posted (you know who you are) you bring discredit to the forum, the fetish, and yourselves. I have been involved in one way or another since the days when Realtickling was a series of blue hyperlinks to 45 second videos, before the "lifetime" membership... 1998? 1999? If I had found this Community the way it is today, I am not sure I would have gotten the enjoyment, comfort, or satisfaction from my fetish that I have... and that is a sad thought.
No one expects this to be Utopia. If you did, you have been asleep at the wheel. Adult conduct and responsible interaction is not unreasonable to expect. Moderators- effing moderate. I will be the last to support censorship, but if a reply doesn't have anything to do with the thread- delete it.
I don't expect many responses to this post and in all likelihood it will fade into obscurity in a matter of days- if you don't like it, I genuinely do not care. I am trying to put a message out to the people addressed in this self-proclaimed rant... if it bothers you or gets you worked up... I am probably talking about you. If you are part of the reason that lurkers remain lurkers, or make others feel uncomfortable about tickling (moreso than many do, as I did when I was first growing into my fetish), then shame on you.
