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Catherine The Great had a tickle fetish

jimmy99

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Yeah, that information comes up from time to time! Pretty cool, huh? If you search "Catherine The Great" here on the Forum, I know you can find more information. I know in the 90s there was some story about Catherine having one of the females in her court foot tickled, probably not true. But I know somewhere it's been reported (possibly in the book "Sex Life Of the Foot And The Shoe") that she kept a collection of feathers, and that the Russian aristocracy employed foot ticklers to excite women before sex. I'll see if I can find the info, I know I have it somewhere.

The play "Catherine The Great" by George Bernard Shaw, and the movie of it with Jeanne Moreau and Peter O'Toole, finds her tickling him with her foot (and hands) on and off throughout a ten minute scene which you can find here: youtube.com/watch?v=g8FDp4OLdv4

If you search around on Google, you can find other mentions of tickling in actual scholarly articles about her. (Elizabeth I, also, by the way, there was some scandalous tickling of her that raised eyebrows when she was still a princess, that info is pretty easy to hunt down).

I'm assuming there wasn't any of that tickling fetish cropping up in the Helen Mirren miniseries they were profiling! Anyone see it?
 
It's a lot more niche and specific than something like "Catherine the Great fucked horses" which has me feeling like she at least had some sort of foot thing going on. Who the fuck makes up "feet tickling fetish" when the vast majority of the population wouldn't have known such a thing existed for decades/centuries. Whether or not the whole "ACKSHUALLY Imperial Russians tickled each others feet all the time!" shit is accurate, likely not, but still.
 
From "The Sex Life Of The Foot And The Shoe", 1976
by William A. Rossi. Copyright 1976.
Foot-Tickled To Passion. (full chapter)
Page 29


Another graphic example of the foot’s ‘sexual nerves’is found in the foot’s sensory-rich sole & its response,
often erotic & sensual, to tickling. The noted psychologist Albert Moll states that the sole of the foot has a
sensory quility “whose stimulation gives rise, directly or indirectly, to voluptuous sensations.”

As everyone knows, foot-tickling can drive some into flights of ecstasy & others to madness. Essentially, however, the response to foot-tickling is sexual. Says Aigremont, “The tickling of the soles of the feet has been used by many preparatory to coitus. It serves as a foreplay center so it might prolong the sexual enjoyment as much as possible.”
Foot-tickling as an erotic stimulus is age-old & universal. “The sophisticated lover”, says Renbourn, “knows that many women get intense erotic pleasure when the feet are gently stroked - like having the ear lobes nibbled.” Paintings of foot-tickling can be seen in the Louvre as well as in the Museum of Pius Clementia in Rome. They’re also commonly found in China, Japan, India, & Southeast Asia. Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut (1600 b.c.) used to prepare for her lovers with exquisite podocosmetic care. First the skin of her feet were rubbed & scented with oil of ani until it glowed as though coated with gold. Then as she reclined on a luxurious lounge, palace eunuchs tickled the bottoms of her feet with peacock feathers “to bring her to a pitch of sexual readiness.’

A short while ago a wealthy New York socialite visited her psychiatrist & asked whether she should “Break
the habit”. “What habit?” he asked. She explained the 2 or 3 times a week she thoroughly rubbed the soles & toes of her feet with dog food. Then she summoned her 2 Pomeranians & they eagerly licked the scent of the food from her feet. “It drives me to a sexual frenzy - the tickling sensation on my feet,” she confessed. “It brings me to orgasm
almost every time. Or sometimes I masterbate while the dogs are licking my feet. Doctor, is there, well, something wrong with that? With me?”

“Why not go the straight route with a man?” he asked.

“Oh, I enjoy sex with men, all right. But this foot-tickling & foot-licking thing is something special, something
extra. If I asked a man to do that - well, wouldn’t he think me mad or something?”

The doctor pondered the matter a moment, then said, “Why not ask the man? It might work, especially if you
make it mutual.”

She called a month later. “Doctor,” she said excitedly, “please excuse the pun, but we’re tickled to death. My
lover & I , we’re doing it to each other, & following it with real sex. It’s given sex a whole new feeling for
me.”

The Russians, especially among the nobility & aristicracy, were devotees of sexual foot-tickling. They had
learned it from the Tartar tribes. Foot-tickling for sexual arousal was used in the Muscovite palaces & courts
for centuries. Many of the Czarinas (Catherine the Great, Anna Ivanovna, Elizabeth, Anna Leopoldovna, & others) were ardent participants.
In fact, the practice was so popular that eunuchs & women were
employed as full time foot-ticklers. They developed this unique skill so well that their occupations brought
prestige & good pay. Anna Leopoldovna had no fewer than 6 ticklers at her feet, though more were employed to serve the other ladies of the court. The foot-tickling was usually done on the private boudoirs. While the ticklers performed their task they also told baudy stories & sang obcene ballads, thus creating a sort of orgiastic atmosphere. All this, of course, was to work the ladies up to an erotic pitch so that they could meet their husbands or lovers in a sex-impassioned mood. It wasn't uncommon for these women to experience orgasms while being foot-tickled.

A few years ago, while I was visiting Russia & studying their foot wear industry there, the director of a large
shoe plant employing some 7000 showed me a private collection of historical shoes from different parts of the
world. In a corner was a vase containing several long, brilliantly covered feathers, & also slender artist's
brushes with exquisitely soft bristles. As I touched them I recognized that they were ladies' foot ticklers.
The director smiled & said, "Ah, you seem to know what they are. Well, as old as they are, they are not out of
date. They are prized by some of our Russian women today. Perhaps you would be surprised to know that the
wife of one of our highest party officials & some of her friends of equal standing, are known to . . ." His voice
faded & the subject was abruptly changed. Later, in Hungary, & Czechoslovakia, I saw similar foot ticklers.'
Yes, the foot is rich with its own”sexual nerves”. It is no mere coincidence, as cited earlier, that the foot
possesses such an abundance of sensory spots. This clearly evident by the common erotic responses to such
acts as foot-tickling, foot-massaging, foot-biting, toe-sucking, foot-kissing, etc. Sensual response to such
actions is inevitable because first, we are dealing with a naturally erogenous part, & second, because all such
actions involve touch, the most sexual of all the senses.

May not be the best source of information, but that's at least something. Thanks again, Jim, for the post! Don't be a stranger!!! 🙂
 
Second link works. It seems to be more speculation, though not a bad read.

What Internet posted seems like it could be more reliable, but like he said, may not be the best source either.
 
Again, hardly anything, certainly not confirming she had a fetish, but from "Catherine The Great", by Christine Hatt (2001), a quote attributed to her during a conversation with (presumably) a writer of some sort (it's on the right hand side of the page at the bottom)....remember "writing on paper" required a quill feather back in the day! She certainly had an understanding of human skin! 😛

from Catherine the Great by Christine Hatt (2001).png

So basically tickling just happens to keep coming up regarding Catherine The Great, in one form or another, going all the way back to George Bernard Shaw (1913)....actually further, going all the way back to contemporaneous accounts of conversations she had. I wish we could get such coincidence for Marilyn Monroe! Or Mata Hari! Or Cleopatra!
 
Let's cut to the chase here... Who wouldn't LOVE to see Helen Mirren having her bare feet tickled, either as Catherine the Great, or as anyone... mmm... 🙂
 
For those who are interested in the life of this great sovereign (IMO Russia's best) BESIDES the fetish, I highly recommend the series Extra Credits History made on her:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1-OC_4cx_o

The story of her youth, rise to power and reign is absolutely fascinating, and stands as a personal favorite of mine
 
Regarding foot tickling in Russian history, this was posted by Matt62 in this thread . Matt writes: "The other day I was reading Lionel Kochan's 'The Making of Modern Russia' [1983], a perfectly respectable work, and came across the following reference to Catherine the Great's predecessor, the Empress Elizabeth (c1741-61)":

"[She was described as] 'abandoning herself to every excess of intemperance and lubricity'...Her days she devoted to relaxing en deshabille; her nights to love-making and dancing and masquerades...A particular penchant was to have the soles of her feet tickled...At some of the court balls, Elizabeth combined the fetish of the foot with transvestist [sic] tastes; the men must dress as women and the women as men. In this way Elizabeth could display her tiny feet and shapely legs..." etc, etc, etc.

from DVNC (moderator) in this thread:
One can simply do the research to prove it true. This info has been distributed online since back in USENET days. Looked it up and found references in the library. Have since seen it in several libraries.

Goes along with the references for it being used as torture. One need only do the research.


Here's Oddjob's research project on tickling:
http://www.ticklingforum.com/showthread.php?122511-A-Treatise-on-Tickling
 
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Honestly I'd be surprised if people weren't touching eachother's feet or tickling eachother (at least unintentionally) when fucking each other for centuries. Aren't people supposed to "Enjoy the goods" like as in "enjoy all the goods of another person"?

I've got a friend and former classmate who is teaching medieval history in university. On that matter, the first thing he told me, and tells his students during their first class with him is : "People back then were still people, same as us. They might have adhered to different beliefs, and even then, those beliefs were not so different from ours, but they were just regular people. They had the same needs, and probably a very similar behavior as ours in a lot of ways". Therefore, I do not think it'd be too far-fetched to say most of our kinks have been present since the dawn of mankind. I am sure there might even have been cavemen, Romans, and holy knights with foot/tickling fetishes, and pretty much in the same proportions as nowadays, if not even more (people were way freer than us in the medieval times).

See CAB's excellent We Have Always Been Here for a hilarious take on this: https://www.deviantart.com/ceeaybee/gallery/36289019/we-have-always-been-here
 
I just deleted a lot of posts in this thread. If you don't like this topic, or you don't agree with this topic, my suggestion would be to not click on it.

You don't have to fight with someone about whether or not they believe the same thing you believe. Have the opinion in your head and go on with your life.

And in any case, please do not resume the side-conversation I just cleared up.
 
I guess if she had a Fetlife, the Fetish list would be...exhaustive.
 
I guess if she had a Fetlife, the Fetish list would be...exhaustive.

She'd write in perfect Russian (though she was not a native speaker of it): PEASANTS NOT ALLOWED TO PM ME under her portrait :blaugh:
 
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