I always thought the tickling fetish is something guys are more into than women. Even though I've met a couple of women who were into it in my life, just through regular walks of life, not any fetish sites or places.
So if some person on this forum or other places says "Hi, I'm Suzie (or whatever female name) I love being tickled" and it's a picture of a woman posing with bare feet, I often wonder if it's really the woman or some guy roleplaying, pretending to be a woman in his life who is not into the fetish and so she wouldn't roleplay herself.
For those of you with more experience, please comment: are there really as many women into tickling as would appear from this and other sites?
This is kind of a difficult question for me to answer, but I’ll give some thoughts I have. There are likely more than you’d expect, but less than you’d want. Firstly, regardless of gender, there are not a lot of people fixated on tickling in the whole of the world population; It is just a rare thing. Within the group of those with the fixation, they are scattered all across the globe. Without the online factor, that makes the rarity tangibly feel even more pronounced. But we live in a world largely connected online, and in that world, it can sometimes give the illusion of the fixation being much more common than it is.
When looking at proportionality, there are almost certainly more men with the fixation than women who are active in the community. I don’t think it is easy to know how that translates to actual fixations—only participation online. Sometimes I think people get the impression that there are more women with the fixation than there actually are because of the large amount of content featuring them, but my understanding is that a sizable portion of those women are not into tickling so much as they are experimenting or taking a gig as a general kink model. Now, none of that is to take away from the fact that there are still quite a bit of women in the community, but perhaps not near as many as are represented. And as you suspected, there are definitely male-playing-female catfishers and the like. I’ve ran into many of those myself (and some others I’ve suspected but never verified with enough confidence). Another factor that can muddy the perception of the ratios is that, In my experience, women in the community by and large are much more likely to be reserved, careful, and untrusting. in online communication (and rightly so—you wouldn’t believe my wife’s and friends’ DM’s—No, what you’re imagining…it’s almost certainly worse!). But that means that more of them are less visible online, where as more of the men in the community generally tend to think less of things like predators, abuse, and other vulnerabilities. The disproportionate supply and demand also creates a heightened sense of eagerness and desperation in more men, which feeds into differences in perceived levels of engagement.
But yes, real flesh and blood women exist with real tickling fixations. I’m married to one and we have played with several who were kind enough to put their trust in us. It takes time, energy, and patience, but each of them deserve that investment from anyone they hope to share their vulnerabilities with.
