I’m in a Sex Positjve Discord group and I had asked a local Renfaire participant if they have ever seen this at the many Faires they have attended. I was very respectful. Didn’t get creepy. Just simply asked as it’s well posted on the internet. Some look staged…some look innocent. I was just curious. Well…this person lost their mind…and I mean they went full on bonkers on me, saying that there’s no such thing…I’m disgusting…people who do this are pedofiles since children are around…blah blah blah. Instead of calmly stating how wrong she was…I just decided to walk away and not engage. I’m too old to argue. I later found out she is a 22yo newbie to the sex positive community, so maybe that was it. Who knows?! But my question still remains…do demonstrations like this actually happen?
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Does Renfaire Tickling still exist?
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SoleMates
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The existence of renfaire tickling is wayyyy overblown. It was a thing at like two or three faires in Europe, tops, mostly because of a few creeps from this community passing it off as "historically accurate". I don't know if they still do them, but I'd wager given how hyper-aware people are of fetish mining nowadays (and how... obsessive people from this community can be) that it's going away, if it hasn't already. I'm not even remotely surprised at her reaction, TBH.
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That one studio does it with apparently "normal" participants. The legality of them doing that and selling the videos as porn aside, I think them and a rare European festival here and there every now and then. I don't think it was ever a particularly widespread thing.
You’re saying all Renfaire ticking was done at 2-3 European Faires??? 🤔
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iirc most of those "classics" were done at one single event.
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All the Renfaire scenes I know of came from 2 European troupes, one in northern Italy, one in southern France.
The Italian troupe was around from the late '90s until 2019, as far as I can tell. They were mainly associated with the Siege of Canelli festival, where they were the town's official mock punishment for faire-goers. Most of the videos that circulate came from there, though a few of the later ones came from another festival. But the Canelli festival seems to have stopped happening, apparently for financial reasons, sometime around 2016. The troupe kept performing at other venues - they were even booked to set up in shopping malls - but the pandemic seems to have been the end of that. Their last appearance I've seen was at another festival in 2019. Their website went offline during the pandemic and never came back.
I've seen some hints that the French troupe was back after the pandemic, but I'm not sure about that. I always preferred the playful tone of the Italian group anyway - they pretty much always got the participants playing along and got the crowd into it.
So yeah, it wasn't any kind of widespread thing - it was just two groups that were popular in their local regions and got a lot of bookings.
There is a barefooting festival in the Czech Republic that has Renfaire-style tickling in stocks as one of the activities they encourage people to try. That still seems to be going.
The Italian troupe was around from the late '90s until 2019, as far as I can tell. They were mainly associated with the Siege of Canelli festival, where they were the town's official mock punishment for faire-goers. Most of the videos that circulate came from there, though a few of the later ones came from another festival. But the Canelli festival seems to have stopped happening, apparently for financial reasons, sometime around 2016. The troupe kept performing at other venues - they were even booked to set up in shopping malls - but the pandemic seems to have been the end of that. Their last appearance I've seen was at another festival in 2019. Their website went offline during the pandemic and never came back.
I've seen some hints that the French troupe was back after the pandemic, but I'm not sure about that. I always preferred the playful tone of the Italian group anyway - they pretty much always got the participants playing along and got the crowd into it.
So yeah, it wasn't any kind of widespread thing - it was just two groups that were popular in their local regions and got a lot of bookings.
There is a barefooting festival in the Czech Republic that has Renfaire-style tickling in stocks as one of the activities they encourage people to try. That still seems to be going.
