How old were you when you discovered your tickle fetish?

[jmsdarke]

I was working for a Department of Defense war games facility (really) in 1987 and was stuck working late doing some systems engineering. I thought I had drawn the short straw until I walked past the secretary (the only other person stuck there with me) on the phone to the head office. She was on the traffic side of her desk and was dangling her creamy white soles from her shoe.

I could tell from her responses on the phone that she was speaking to someone quite high up the command chain. So, I quickly grew myself a pair of titanium balls and crouched down and stroked her bare soles a couple times as she jerked then in shock as much as from her violent response to the tickling.

Wow!

You could order my casket and sell all my earthly belongings. I thought I had accomplished my primamry task and was done on this Earth.

Well, I thought I may have to die once she gets off the phone. So I busied myself in the intricacies of the control room systems that I had been working on. She came and found me, and looked at me with a blushed look that said that she now knew something private about me. She said "You have a tickle fetish". I told her "I like women, so I can't imagine how that could be possible". I guess Forest Gump was right when he said "Stupid is as Stupid does" because I had no clue what the word "Fetish' was. You see, we hadn't covered that yet in Sunday school.

So, I made it my mission to go to the library and research this Phenomenon, this fetish thing. I learned about a super freak named Freud. I even traveled to libraries in Miami and Atlanta to gain a better sense of this thing. I learned a most amazing this. I WAS NOT THE ONLY ONE!

I Couldn't believe it. There were more aliens living on Earth besides me. It was comforting. I had actually determined in my totally sex un-educated mind that I was so sexually askew, that I couldn't or at least shouldn't have kids. Ok, even though I was a computer engineer, I was a bit uber dumb. This logic went right along with getting pregnant from kissing.

I was 20 when I finally discovered what fetishes were. They still weren't discussed main stream, but I was starting to feel really good about myself and proud to have a hyper sense about my focused sexuality.

Like anything I ever do in life, I had to explore my two fetishes (foot fetish & tickle fetish) to the nth degree. I even maintained communication with Elmer Batters before his death. He was said to be the father of modern day foot fetishism photography that explicitly focused on the adoration of the shapely female foot.

So tell me, how old were you and what was it like for you to learn what foot and/or tickle fetishes were, and that you had one. I'm really curious about this stuff.

James Darke

 

[SpiffyTickler]

I think I'd always known that I enjoyed tickling a lot more than everyone else around me, but I didn't realize it was a fetish until I was around 13. It's the typical story that almost everyone else has; I was on the internet and decided to do a search for tickling. Lo and behold, all these fetish sites show up, I realize that I’m not alone, and I realize what my tickling obsession actually is.

 

[taptoematt]

I think I noticed it around 7 or 8 , I just thought it was fun and something everyone did. I used to tie up the neighborhood girls to a tree ( they let me of course ) and tickle the dickens out of their feet. Nobody said it was a fetish until my later years, until then while growing up, I just thought I was flippin weird.

 

[Bugman]

When i was about 5 we moved to a new house.The family on one side had two daughters,the other family three.They were always barefoot in the summer of course,and they would almost insist that i tickle their feet.That's when it started for me althought i had no idea what a fetish was for many years.

Neither the internet nor home computers existed at the time.When i got older and could get Penthouse there would be mentions of tickling from time to time and i began to think there were at least a few other *weirdos* out there somewhere.It was not until i moved to Houston in 1980 that i found out there were magazines and even videos about tickling.

One day about 4 years ago i was at the library and did a google serach on tickling,and i had an epiphany!! I was not alone in the world! I had to lurk for a few years until i could get a secure computer and it changed my life.I finally understood that there is nothing wrong with my little kink and i'm not such a weirdo afterall. 😀

 

[Strider]

I've had a fascination with tickling for literally as long as I can remember. Eventually, I understood that it was a fetish, but it was in my head way before that.

 

[milagros317]

I didn't know the word "fetish," but I certainly knew that I had extreme interests in girls' bare feet and in tickling from the age of four. 😀

 

[StevePerry4Ever]

April O'Neal

When i was 3 or 4 years old i saw the famous April O'Neal tickle scene and felt weird. Weird, but good. I knew that that is what i wanted to do the rest of my life. I knew that when i grew up, i wanted to be... a tickler!!!

I also developed a foot fetish at that age, i think it's because that's where she was tickled. Or i might have already had a foot fetish and because she was barefoot, and tickled on her feet, the foot fetish lead to the tickle fetish? I don't know. And i'm rambling...

 

[EvenSteven]

Watching TV

i was probably 7 or 8 when i saw women tickling the three stooges. It drove me crazy to watch that scene. Right then and there i knew that this had a special, strange effect on me and i wanted desperately to receive a thorough tickling at the hands of a girl.

 

[Coda]

I've often enjoyed using my imagination to pretend that I could do anything I wanted, by which method I would create imaginary pets or creatures, fly, manipulate objects, throw balls of light around, and all that sort of thing. I'd been just as fascinated with the idea of being able to "make" somebody do something. (That phenomenon occasionally manifests itself in TV shows, movies, and fiction, and those were moments I found fascinating enough to read again and again.)

The states of humans being sexual beings, and ticklish beings, are two conduits through which that idea is realizable. My first fantasy involved two people-- one male and one female-- being comfortably restrained in separate rooms, tickled all over, and then deposited in a completely blank, doorless room with each other, where they would be caused to gradually explore each other's bodies by an invisible force.

I have a much harder time tracking my interest in feet, but I do remember that feet became central to my tickling fantasies soon enough, and before I knew it, were profoundly exciting just to see.

I think I'm part of the first generation to have the Internet available to me at the time I became curious to investigate this, and I feel very lucky about that.

I have to say that I don't believe that it's correct to say that "I finally discovered that I had a tickling fetish," simply because the whole concept of a "fetish" is simply a categorization that people chose to create. Because of our different lives, some of us are interested in some sexual experiences while others are interested in others. I don't believe that it's any more abnormal that some of us are passionate about tickling and some of us aren't, than it is that some of us are passionate about becoming architects while others choose to become performers, doctors, or accountants.

 

[ImNotDave]

I remember being in the first year of school (so i was like 5 or so) and realising that tickling girls made me feel weird and happy, and i didnt understand why.
Tickling now is quite a sexual thing for me, so i was too young to understand it at first

 

[tickleboynyc]

olive oyl getting tickled by cats licking her feet! i must have been pretty darn young, but i had no idea what a fetish was. only after i moved to NYC and discovered tickling magazines on 42nd street- in its golden smut days, pre-giuliani, DON'T VOTE FOR HIM!!!!- anyway, that's when i realized i was not the only one. then i discovered the internet and that was that.

 

[doctorharris]

I was about 8, I think. I was over at a friend's house. I still remember this very well. We were watching Popeye. You remember the one where Olive gets tickled by Bluto? (That scene is mentioned in the tickling community often. It's amazing how many people's tickling fetish was also born from that scene). Olive is suspended upside down from a girder on a construction site. Bluto rips off the bottom of her shoes and tickles her. She can't do anything but sit there and take it b/c if she moves, she falls. Something about the evil way he laughed while doing it to her (she was in hysterics). I remember feeling turned on by this and not knowing why. Anyone know where I can find that clip?

Then, years later, like most of you guys, when the internet became popular (mid - late 90's) I did a search. Same result. I wasn't alone.

 

[Soda Bobinski]

My early experiences w/tickling are similar to that of tickleboynyc & doctorharris. I'm not sure if those wonderful 'toons featuring Olive Oyl were necessarily responsible for me having a tickle-fetish , but I believe they helped me realize that tickling did ... something ... to me.

I wasn't in school , yet , when I first saw those 'toons ... so I guess I was about three or four years old when I realized I 'liked' tickling. When I later got to nursery school , kindergarten , & grade school ... I would fantasize about tickling the feet of my teachers & classmates ... further strengthening my interest. It wasn't long before I thought about tickling every damn day!!!

I was also pretty young ( maybe around ten or eleven years , or so ) when I remember watching a Woody Allen movie & hearing Goldie Hawn mention that 'Grandpa' had a foot-fetish ... so I was at that point introduced to the idea of a 'fetish'. I also knew enough to keep to myself about how weird tickling & feet made me feel.

When I became of age to start going into 'adult-stores' , I discovered that there were actually movies dedicated to tickling. At that point , I realized I was not alone in my passion for tickling. Of course , not long after that , I found tickling on the internet ... smacking me in the face the realization that there are literally THOUSANDS of people out there that share this same passion!

So to answer your question , jmsdarke , I'll say that I 'discovered' my love for tickling at around three or four ....... but it was a long , mostly lonely , journey to finally discover I wasn't alone.

 

[911]

When i was 3 or 4 years old i saw the famous April O'Neal tickle scene and felt weird. Weird, but good. I knew that that is what i wanted to do the rest of my life. I knew that when i grew up, i wanted to be... a tickler!!!

I also developed a foot fetish at that age, i think it's because that's where she was tickled. Or i might have already had a foot fetish and because she was barefoot, and tickled on her feet, the foot fetish lead to the tickle fetish? I don't know. And i'm rambling...

I also saw that cartoon and developed a tickle fetish from it.

 

[Mostly Harmless]

I didn't know the word "fetish," but I certainly knew that I had extreme interests in girls' bare feet and in tickling from the age of four. 😀

JUST the same, w/o "feet" =)
although it rises exactly from tickling feet, - but since that very first time I was nevermore fascinated by them.

 

[drew70]

I knew I had an obsession with tickling somewhere around the age of 6. When I'd see women tickling men on TV, such as the Flintstones, Mr. Ed, or the Three Stooges, it filled me with a kind of nervous embarrassment. I had no idea other people had similar obsessions until I was 26 years old. I wandered into an adult bookstore on New York's infamous 42nd street while on a business trip. I spotted a little newspaper called Fetish Times. The headline read in screaming bold caps:

SPECIAL TICKLE TORTURE ISSUE​

I literally swooned and had to lean on the counter a moment to steady myself, so great was my shock.

 

[jmsdarke]

Looking at all these great stories of early beginnings, I guess the scope of my initial question was a bit too narrow, as it was limited to the discovery that you were a member of the special society of fetishists.

When I was 7, we had a maid. I guess it was fashionable to do so back then.

In the afternoons, the maid would take her nap. She insisted that I stay close by so that I didn't get into trouble.

One day, while innocently playing with my car on the bed, I accidentally stroked her bare sole. It came to life with a nervous twitch without waking her. I suddenly felt warm inside. I felt like I had discovered the true secret of the universe. So I did it again and was rewarded by another little twitching foot show.

I found myself preoccupied with anticipation for her afternoon naps. I began to take copious mental notes of her pre-nap rituals knowing that the payoff would be my special time with her feet. Hey, if I was obligated to be there, she'd just have to provide the entertainment.

And thus was born my foot & tickling fetishes together.

I guess that because her feet were always bare, that's why I favor bare soles for tickling rather than nylon covered feet.

I feel so dam blessed to have my fetishes.

JD

 

[hotchytick]

Did you get the secretary again?

What I want to know is if you tickled the secretary again after that?

 

[jmsdarke]

What I want to know is if you tickled the secretary again after that?

I had two more opportunities after that initial contact. By then, we both knew that we both knew.

It was different sneak tickling her knowing that she new of my proclivity for tickling ladies.

I also explorered the bare soles and ribs of two other ladies who worked there.

That was a very exhilerating period in my life.

JD

 

[Rhys]

Like many people, I was about 3 or 4 when I realised that tickling had this profound effect on me. I would try and tickle my cousins (particularly on their feet) whenever I could. I still do! haha.
Then, when I was about 6 or 7, I saw that April O'Neill TMNT episode. Boom. Then I definitely knew tickling did something for me. I began to think about the feet of classmates and all that jazz.
I was fairly clued onto the internet and got it before all my friends. I typed in "tickling" just randomly on Altavista one day in 2001, and it lead me here. And God bless it. I knew, thank God, I was not alone.
I've since become fairly open about my "fetish" (I really don't like that word) and have even found a few of my friends and acquaintances are fans too.

 

[SilverHealer84]

For me it was different cartoons when I was about 6 or 7, especially the Olive Oyl thing...omg, I would feel all excited, yet at the same time extremely nervous and embarrassed. If anybody else was in the room with me when those scenes would come on, I would quickly leave the room as though it was just a coincodence.

I've neverrrr tried to tickle ANYONE, however, with exception of my first two boyfriends when I was a teen...the first, Paul, LOVED tickling and being tickled...he fond it to be an "adorably flirty" act, and it was very sweet 🙂 My second bf had an actual fetish, especially for my stomach, which was fun 😀 I think we'd tickle each other every single time we were together! That's the only good thing I can say about him...LOL.

It takes so very much to get me comfortable and trusting with someone to allow them to so much as hug me, but I'm just waiting to get a little more comfortable with my new guy before releasing my extremely pent-up desires...*cracks knuckles*

 

[Mostly Harmless]

I've neverrrr tried to tickle ANYONE, however, with exception of my first two boyfriends when I was a teen...the first, Paul, LOVED tickling and being tickled...he fond it to be an "adorably flirty" act, and it was very sweet 🙂 My second bf had an actual fetish, especially for my stomach, which was fun 😀 I think we'd tickle each other every single time we were together! That's the only good thing I can say about him...LOL.

well, in one sense you were lucky) I mean, two bfs with disposition to tickling... while you're shy about it, there's a BIG problem to find even one who shares your interest.

 

[giggle-maker]

I was probably 6 or 7 and was being babysat by one of the neighborhood girls. Anyway, I was bugging her while she was on the phone and getting on her nerves when she yelled "that's it!" and hung the phone up. she pounced on me and pinned me down with my arms over my head. she was much bigger than me and could tickle me as long as she wanted. after what seemed like forever she finaly stopped. But lo and behold it totaly backfired and after that I would always bug her so she would tickle me more. Eventualy tho, she would tickle me when I asked her to. She liked to tickle and probably figured it was better than me bugging her when she was on the phone. She would also make me tickle her feet too. She didn't have to work too hard to "make me" as you might imagine. She wasn't a drop dead gorgeous supermodel but she was girl-next-door pretty. She always wore unlaced Keds that were loose and she was constantly dangling them or some other form of shoeplay with them. Pretty much she was responsable for my foot, tickling and shoe dangling fetishes. To this day I still have a heart stopping thing for unlaced Keds and my wife (thank god) indulges me.

 

[tklgal226]

figured it out somewhere between reading "Grover and Everything in the Whole Wide World Museum" and seeing the now-famous Gummi Bears episode that I knew SOMETHING was up, lol

 

[jmsdarke]

I remember that when I was about 7, I'd be sitting in the back seat in between the older female twins who we would drop home from church. I was patient and surgically focused to orchestrate my sitting position to be placed between those two girls.

Once everyone was in, and we were moving, and there was sufficient conversational cover, my insidiously malevolent hands would commence their dastardly deeds on the twins. I considered it my scientific duty to find that slight nuance of a difference in ticklish sensitivity between them.

I'd work their thighs and ribs and sneak my little 7 year old fingers into their shoes. These girls were enlisted into the conspiracy, because they never made enough noise to draw attention to our scientific studies of twin ticklishness.

It was a very funny feeling in my mind and body to be sitting between these two writhing feminine bodies responding to my touch alone.

Looking back, it was funny how we never spoke of this before, during or after the scientific experimental episodes. And coming to think of it, I never quite came to any conclusion other than that life was measured only by the spaces of time between my tickle experiments with the twins.

So, you see, I had no choice in the matter. The universe destined me to be a master tickler, now with almost 25 years of experience.

JD