Can women get away with it more than men?

[feetclimax]

Just wondering what the people at TMF thought about this, can women get away with liking tickling more than men?

Are women less likley to be looked at as weird pervy freaks than men would be if they confessed their love for tickling to their significant other, or even to regular friends?

 

[lk70]

Love of being tickler or ticklee? Generally speaking, I think men are more accepted as ticklers and women as ticklees. For either one to "confess" an interest to the contrary would be considered odd. (present company excepted, naturally)

On the other hand, if tickling is considered an odd sexual fetish, I would imagine more people would expect a man to display it and would be more surprised to learn a woman "had it." (present company still excepted, naturally)

 

[steph]

I think so maybe. It seems a little more socially acceptable for women to be openly affectionate in all kinds of ways in public, including tickling. And please don't misunderstand, I've been friends for decades with both gay gals and men, I adore them!
I'm straight but have always had deep ties to my European roots. Many of my straight girlfriends and I think nothing of giving a playful squeeze, a friendly hug, to hold hands in public...I wish it were as ok for guys...I think it's a real shame.
XOXO

Just wondering what the people at TMF thought about this, can women get away with liking tickling more than men?

Are women less likley to be looked at as weird pervy freaks than men would be if they confessed their love for tickling to their significant other, or even to regular friends?

 

[tickler_n_black]

Just wondering what the people at TMF thought about this, can women get away with liking tickling more than men?

My opinion?
YES.

 

[ticklkitten]

I look at this question a little bit differently than steph... I guess that I expect most guys I know to have a fetish. I think that more guys have one (whatever it may be) than don't.... but maybe I'm different. I've had my fair share of guys look at me SO odd when I don't always prefer things completely vanilla.

 

[Red Jester]

Yes. I doubt its more surprising for a guy to have a fetish than a girl, as all men are by nature more "sexually" driven than girls. But girls are less likely to be looked at as perverts. Mainly because people aren't as uncomfortable about girls being open about their sexuality.

 

[ticklkitten]

Yes. I doubt its more surprising for a guy to have a fetish than a girl, as all men are by nature more "sexually" driven than girls. But girls are less likely to be looked at as perverts. Mainly because people aren't as uncomfortable about girls being open about their sexuality.

exactly... girls are looked at so strange generally for liking something "different". Guys are expected to have something "odd" they like.

 

[NG02]

Yes. I doubt its more surprising for a guy to have a fetish than a girl, as all men are by nature more "sexually" driven than girls. But girls are less likely to be looked at as perverts. Mainly because people aren't as uncomfortable about girls being open about their sexuality.

I also agree with this point of view. As guy guys we are seen as being 90% hell bent on sex and for somone to confirm that one of us has a tickle fetish that would just be put under the same sexual catagory in most peoples eyes, making us look more weird than we already do. But with females I do believe it would be more excepted especially my males. That to me would seem to make a female more desireable, also do to the fact that they are more at one with there sexual and sentual sides then we are.

 

[ticklkitten]

I also agree with this point of view. As guy guys we are seen as being 90% hell bent on sex and for somone to confirm that one of us has a tickle fetish that would just be put under the same sexual catagory in most peoples eyes, making us look more weird than we already do. But with females I do believe it would be more excepted especially my males. That to me would seem to make a female more desireable, also do to the fact that they are more at one with there sexual and sentual sides then we are.

I guess we are going to have to differ here... honestly, I think you're wrong.

 

[NG02]

Yea everyones intitled to their own opinion. Thats the funny thing about answering a question like this, everyone has opinion and thats pretty much all they can give you. Some are saying the same and some might differ, but thats just what happens in this case. All you can really do is pick what seems more acceptable to you go with it cuz is not really somthing that can be acuratly proved, atleast not right now(until they take a world poll and see what everyone thinks).

 

[Luv2Tickle69]

It's all in the perception of the learned fact that one or the other have such an "unusual" or "un-vanilla" interest.

It didn't utterly surprise some of my g/fs or female friends that I liked to tickle their feet....it DID take a couple of them aback to learn that it WAS fetishistically oriented....it surprised them also to learn that I loved having my feet tickled as well.....but once they learned that (and applied said learning for themselves), it opened a door that had been closed to them (personally)...and even if others didn't quite "get it" 100%....you have to expect that....some people are very open-minded and try it regardless....others may not be too sure about it, but will give it a go and try it (sometimes with amazingly positive results)...and of course...there are others who are a "No Way, Jose" right from word 'go.'

...find a perception that closely matches yours.....and odds are the experience will be wonderful when applied....

 

[Celsus]

It's not about males typically being dominant or women being typically submissive (which may be true), what I think it's all about, is that it's regarded more negatively when one has a fetish for doing something TO somebody else.

I think the fact that it seems less odd for women to enjoy being tickled, is because they don't have an invasive pleasure. We seem to be looking at lees, and that's where the inequivalence comes in. For female lers, I suspect they run into the same reaction as male lers, perhaps only lessened because guys are often sex driven drooling machines who are willing to accept whatever to get a girl in to bed.

Personal experience only, of course.

 

[feetclimax]

i have to agree with that, on majority scale anyways, with most males the odds are pretty high that they would do anything as long as it ended up in bed so i think alot more males would accept their female halfs if they had this fetish where as it is less for most women as they have more standards than just getting into bed. Not stereo typing, in my experience their are more males that think that way(do anything to get into bed), than females.

Hence odds of women getting away with it with their male halfs is slightly higher. As far as friends go though, i dont know, i did have a friend at college and she really loved to tickle people at random, it was almost constant, yet no of the other friends including myself made anything of it, we just saw it as playful and harmless. I wonder what if it would have been different if it was a male. especially with the whole harrasment issue and things like that, its mostly males who are seen as the culprit for such acts, by hey that could be just seen from my own experiences and the type of area i was brought up in maybe, who knows.

 

[TickVix]

I think it's a toss up. Only thing is that it appears to be more men into it than women but I wouldn't necessarily say that women can get away with it any more than men. I mean women enjoy tickling just as much as men do for the most part. Well some do anyway

 

[rhiannon]

I think that women can indeed get away with it more than men! I think a woman could tickle any unsuspecting man on the street without him being too upset (unless she's really ugly). But a man doing the same thing with an unsuspecting woman will most likely get hell for it.

 

[TicklingTips]

I think it may be more expected for women to enjoy being tickled as opposed to men, as this fits in with the whole cute submissive thing. However that may be only non-sexual tickling. I think people would be equally surprised to find either sex found it to be a turn on.

 

[TangerineTicklee]

Liking tickling: yes.
Tickle fetish: ...maybe.

 

[rhiannon]

I think nobody is actually expected to like tickling, neither women nor men!

 

[SlaverTickler]

Just wondering what the people at TMF thought about this, can women get away with liking tickling more than men?

Are women less likley to be looked at as weird pervy freaks than men would be if they confessed their love for tickling to their significant other, or even to regular friends?

When it comes to anything sexual I think women have a much harder time in general society. They are still expected to hold up the high end for morals even though social evolution has proven they can be just a pervy and horny as men to a certain point. So in my own long winded way I would say no they aren't.

 

[rhiannon]

They are still expected to hold up the high end for morals even though social evolution has proven they can be just a pervy and horny as men to a certain point.

Uh...no. 🙂 Unless it's your grandmother you are talking to. 🙂

Imagine two people out on a date. Maybe even the first date. If the guy tells the girl he has a tickling fetish, she will most likely be freaked out. If the girl tells the guy the same thing, he will be like "GREAT, she's KINKY!" 🙂

 

[sasaxrah]

Girls aren't supposed to have fetishes. Good girls, anyway.

 

[wishfoot88]

hell yeah, one thing i have learnt from my experiences with my fetish is just one simple rule line that can be applied to nearly anything.

"for a woman, its cute. for a man, its weird"

this applies to tickling, feet, bondage, nearly anything.

at least, thats what i reckon.

 

[rhiannon]

Girls aren't supposed to have fetishes. Good girls, anyway.

And who exactly wants a good girl? 🙂

 

[fightinggirl666]

We certainly can get away with a lot more. For one most guys welcome the attention 😀 while it doesn't neccessarly work the other way with a guy getting a girl uninvitied. Also I think our tickling is generally seen as more cute/playful while a guys is more likely to be seen as "trying to cop a feel" /sexual sort of thing. Of course for anybody, guy or girl, there are limits - some people will never like being got and it defently helps if you at least are on good terms with the person you are about tickle (i.e. nobody can just do it to strangers really) but yeah in general we get away with more than guys and can general tickle people in more situations without getting odd reactions.

 

[asutickler]

And who exactly wants a good girl? 🙂

Good girls are just bad girls waiting to happen... Ya know? 😉


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