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I have read through many of the threads posted here, but not all of them. So, if this has already been addressed, I apologize. The question I want to put to the overall “tickling community” is: How old will we be when our interest in tickling finally fades away? Yeah, I know. Some of you will say “When they pry my cold, dead fingers away from her soles” or “Just before I have breathed my last breath.” But let’s try being realistic about this.
I’m now 58 and still going strong...well, maybe semi-strong. If there are some TMF members out there who are older, perhaps you can shed some additional light on our ultimate limitations. I realize this thought may hold little interest to those of you in your 20’s and 30’s, so maybe I could ask you youngsters an alternate question: What would you most like to see happen within the tickling realm in the next 20 years? By that time, you will be in your 40’s or 50’s, so think in terms of what you’d like to see or do before you’re too old to enjoy it.
I’m not suggesting that you will one day wake up and no longer have any interest in tickling. It doesn’t seem to work that way, at least it hasn’t in my case. The thing I notice most is a gradual decline in the intensity factor. Twenty years ago, I would have sold my sister to the Gypsies for a copy of most any of today’s tickling
videos. Now, when I see a new video advertised, it’s like “OK, there’s another one I may want to see someday... ho-hum.” I guess there’s a saturation factor here also, which probably affects everyone at all ages. I mean, with so many videos coming out of the woodwork, it’s difficult to keep up, even for those who enjoy unlimited financial resources.
Back in the late 1950’s, when I read my first tickling story (a pulp fiction detective story, entitled “Tickled to Death”) the opportunities were so few and far between that any item, any scrap of material related to tickling was treasured beyond belief. By the late 60’s things got a little better, as public tolerance of sexual expression began to expand. There were occasional references to tickling, usually in a sexual context, in the pornographic novels of the day. (A prime example is chapter 7 of Peter Jensen’s classic, “The Blackmailed Wife”, published by Liverpool Library Press.) I realize this brings me into the question of whether tickling is a sexual experience (an issue which this Forum has already addressed), but I think sexual tickling is a major part of the heritage of the tickling movement. To me, there’s never been any doubt. If it gives me a woody, it’s sexual, and tickling has always given me a woody - at times when nothing else could. Thirty years ago, just seeing the word “tickle” in print could give me a woody. I became so adept at picking out the c-k-l pattern that I could literally flip through a porno novel and find passages that described tickling.
Then in the 70’s there were several “correspondence groups” which made some valiant but generally unsuccessful attempts to accomplish what this Forum actually does - bringing ticklers and those with interests in tickling together. I really can’t say enough in praise of you guys who keep this site going. Thanks to you and the vehicle of the Internet, we have what some of us old guys dreamed about 30 years ago - the ability to communicate quickly and completely.
I’m no prophet, so I’ll make no predictions. But I will mention one thing that would not surprise me: It won’t surprise me to see cyber-tickling carried to whatever extremes technology will allow. Instead of just playing verbal ping-pong, as some of you now do in the chat room, you may (in the future) be able to enclose yourself in some sort of interactive tickle pod, in which you might see (and actually feel) your favorite fantasy unfolding before your eyes, as you tickle or submit to being tickled electronically. By that time, I may be so old that someone will have to help me into the pod, but if I can still move one finger, I believe I will want to try it ... at
least once.
So, what say you, fellow members? I’d like to read your opinions.
I’m now 58 and still going strong...well, maybe semi-strong. If there are some TMF members out there who are older, perhaps you can shed some additional light on our ultimate limitations. I realize this thought may hold little interest to those of you in your 20’s and 30’s, so maybe I could ask you youngsters an alternate question: What would you most like to see happen within the tickling realm in the next 20 years? By that time, you will be in your 40’s or 50’s, so think in terms of what you’d like to see or do before you’re too old to enjoy it.
I’m not suggesting that you will one day wake up and no longer have any interest in tickling. It doesn’t seem to work that way, at least it hasn’t in my case. The thing I notice most is a gradual decline in the intensity factor. Twenty years ago, I would have sold my sister to the Gypsies for a copy of most any of today’s tickling
videos. Now, when I see a new video advertised, it’s like “OK, there’s another one I may want to see someday... ho-hum.” I guess there’s a saturation factor here also, which probably affects everyone at all ages. I mean, with so many videos coming out of the woodwork, it’s difficult to keep up, even for those who enjoy unlimited financial resources.
Back in the late 1950’s, when I read my first tickling story (a pulp fiction detective story, entitled “Tickled to Death”) the opportunities were so few and far between that any item, any scrap of material related to tickling was treasured beyond belief. By the late 60’s things got a little better, as public tolerance of sexual expression began to expand. There were occasional references to tickling, usually in a sexual context, in the pornographic novels of the day. (A prime example is chapter 7 of Peter Jensen’s classic, “The Blackmailed Wife”, published by Liverpool Library Press.) I realize this brings me into the question of whether tickling is a sexual experience (an issue which this Forum has already addressed), but I think sexual tickling is a major part of the heritage of the tickling movement. To me, there’s never been any doubt. If it gives me a woody, it’s sexual, and tickling has always given me a woody - at times when nothing else could. Thirty years ago, just seeing the word “tickle” in print could give me a woody. I became so adept at picking out the c-k-l pattern that I could literally flip through a porno novel and find passages that described tickling.
Then in the 70’s there were several “correspondence groups” which made some valiant but generally unsuccessful attempts to accomplish what this Forum actually does - bringing ticklers and those with interests in tickling together. I really can’t say enough in praise of you guys who keep this site going. Thanks to you and the vehicle of the Internet, we have what some of us old guys dreamed about 30 years ago - the ability to communicate quickly and completely.
I’m no prophet, so I’ll make no predictions. But I will mention one thing that would not surprise me: It won’t surprise me to see cyber-tickling carried to whatever extremes technology will allow. Instead of just playing verbal ping-pong, as some of you now do in the chat room, you may (in the future) be able to enclose yourself in some sort of interactive tickle pod, in which you might see (and actually feel) your favorite fantasy unfolding before your eyes, as you tickle or submit to being tickled electronically. By that time, I may be so old that someone will have to help me into the pod, but if I can still move one finger, I believe I will want to try it ... at
least once.
So, what say you, fellow members? I’d like to read your opinions.