Couldn’t agree more. I often wonder why these haven’t caught on considering tactile stimulation is often a core need.
It IS a core need, especially in today's society, where we seem to force detachment, and not just by 'device use' ... Now you can barely offer to assist a woman (who obviously needs help with loading their trunk with heavy groceries). without being treated as a potential threat...and unfortunately, I understand their position. So I offer and if they refuse, I nicely exit and go on my way.
As to why touch therapy in the form of tickling spas is not more common?
Well a variety of reasons...all understandable....
Many would say, if you need touch therapy, just get a massage. And yes that may provide enough for many ppl. But some ppl need / want more. They may not want a 'bondage tickle scene' every week or two...But the intricate parts of our brains and tickle fixation may mean some want to feel the tickling sensations with the advanced endorphin and other biochemical relief that it provides...a giving up of their control or need for decisions...
Whatever the mental case may be...
But the one primary reason? The tickling fixation is not a 'mainstream' fixation. I and others that are in the ' tickling fixation ' camp describe tickling as a fixation (instead of fetish or kink) because some of us believe that the pure joy of tickling does NOT have to involve sex / sexual content in any way. For some ppl that may be true, but not all, and certainly it is not an automatic integration! Can tickling be incorporated into foreplay and sexual behaviors? Yes, and not denying that at all...even for me personally...but I've done tickling with girls that was not sexual in intent or nature or in any way. Tickling can be an incredible enjoyable interaction that is actually 'asexual' , just a fun interaction btw Ler and Lee that is all about the fun power exchange and responses without any sexual intent at all! That is a fact that is lost on most public boards. Tickling gets wrapped up into the BDSM scene and in some ppl's minds (especially the general public) is just an extension of that genre... Oh you like tickling, or tickling with bondage? Then you must be into tickling WITH sex!
The two do not have to be related! We can compartmentalize and separate the three situations. But societal culture does not alway show or know those facts! And on most boards, 'pure' tickling gets absorbed into the tickling with sex scenarios, to the detriment to us 'purists' !
So I can imagine that setting up a spa or clinic for tickle therapy, touch therapy etc would be an interesting endeavor in most locales bec they would assume it was simply an extension of a 'escort service with added attractions' or overt prostitution....bec you could say what it was all about, but many would simply hang on the idea that massage or touch therapy is ripe for abuse and under the table sex acts (or on the table) if I may be so humorous.
But it could be accomplished with the proper management and attitudes of the Ler's involved. But then you'd need to have an idea of countering the fetishist who pays for touch therapy but wants more, especially once in the establishment. How to handle without a third party observer/security person..... I dont know.
I just know that I've encountered many ppl online over various boards TMF, Tumblr, DeviantArt, etc who have expressed a lot of angst about their desire for simple, stress relieving tickling sessions, sometimes quite frequently ( ie weekly). I would gladly be their platonic tickle play partners, but time and distance has always been an issue for personal attention to those willing and wanting Lee's needs. Also, it seems that so many actually do want more regular tickling sessions for stress relief and mental health stability. Then I found out about this one therapy place in Florida and I started wondering why tickling and tickle touch therapy couldn't be more mainstream.
