How/When did you know?

[TicklingDuo]

We all know that there are underage people trying to access this and other adult sites. Sometimes they succeed. Sometimes they don't. If they're coming here, they obviously have a like for tickling.

So, I got to thinking about my own realization that tickling was more than just fun. It was when I was in high school and I really got excited and fantasized about tickling...mainly from a lee perspective. While few of those fantasies were overtly "sexual" in nature, there was no denying that I felt more than a desire for fun.

So, here's my question. How and when did you discover that your love of tickling was more than simple play? What ways did you explore that? If there'd been sites around that were age appropriate and still allowed you to explore your sexuality, would you have gone?

I know this has been asked before. But, we have so many new members, I thought I'd ask again. Thanks to all who respond.

Ann

 

[jpmtickle]

Yikes!!

I guess it was around middle school age when I started putting two and two together that tickling=sexual excitement. I'm glad though that the internet was not around at that point. I'm not sure how I would handled having access to so much sensory input and not knowing what to do with it responsibly. I know that such exposure would have had an impact on how I approached relationships from the very beginning.

Too much information!!😛

Thanks, Ann,

JP

 

[drew70]

At a very early age

For me it was early childhood. I can't define any one moment or incident. It was long before I even understood anything about sex. But as early as kindergarten I knew that being tickled by females gave me feelings of happiness and a sense that all was right with the world, whereas being tickled by males left me with a definite sense of wrongness and outright revulsion. In short, I had a gender-specific preference with regards to tickling before I had any notion of what sex was or where babies came from.

 

[kandykisses]

For me it was around my 11 or maybe 12, a babysitter held me down and tickled me. At first I didn't like it, but then🙂 I felt what it was doing to me, making my feet all tingling and making me want more.
So, every chance I got, I would tease to get tickled! Worked every time!😀

 

[Cyclic]

Hi all,
While I've been interested in tickling for as long as I can remember--I still remember fantasies involving 1st grade teachers--it's been the fantasies that have progressed...
First, when you're a kid, you just think about tickling someone or getting tickled until you get whacked with that first image of (perhaps) innocent bondage or helplessness from a cartoon on television or in a movie...then, you're progressing into that realm; and as my tastes have grown and become varied, so has my "imagination" and experiences that have grown with them.

Way back when, it was simply fantasizing over teachers and babysitters...then it was fantasizing about girls I'd have crushes on during adolesence...then playing out my fantasies with actual girlfriends as I understood the sexual side of it, or even exploring my "'lee" side...then even developing more elaborate fantasies and experiences as I've gotten older and "raising the bar" if you will, from the (EXTREMELY) rare m/m thoughts to my latest unexplainable favorite, watching and letting girlfriends get tickled by others.

I've always liked tickling, it's the tickling itself that has grown and evolved with me.
Man, I rambled. Sorry😀

 

[toyou444]

I have *ALWAYS* enjoyed tickling. And to this day it can either be fun or erotic or both. (It is only erotic with my partner at the time.)

I remember being about 12 years old and seeing "Tickling" on the cover of a Variations magazine (I still remember the three stories! 😛) But given my penchant for remaining a virgin until I got married all it did was lead to a lot of frustration! I never put tickling and sex together until college and still stayed a virgin until I met my wife. I think that's why I can seperate the feeling of fun and erotica because I repressed the feeling for so long.

~ toyou

 

[rajee]

It was fun for me at first, during my adolescent years, when I got to tickle my aunt's feet and my female cousin's feet as well as female babysitter's feet. As soon as I reached 17 or 18 it became sexual when I experimented with adult pleasure and tickling scenes from animated cartoon series and other tickling material.

 

[Eternal Tomboy]

Hmmm....

I will join the "for as long as I can remember" club. Tickling fantasies go back into early elementary school for me. For the time, I now look back and see the the fantasy I played time and time again in my head was a rather intense one for my age. I used to fantasize that I was kidnapped by some guy and tickle tortured in the back of his van. I don't even think I have fantasies like that now as an adult! Lol 😉.
I never thought about sexual gratification (in the vanilla sense of the word) until MUCH later in life (probably around college). I was very happy through adolescene to just tickle and be tickled (you can imagine the frustration of my boyfriends..lol). There was only one boyfriend back then that found out about my love for tickling (only because I think he loved it too), and even when he blatantly asked "you love being tickled, don't you?" I could nothing more than blush. In high school I knew why I was instigating the tickling (I guess I recognized it as a turn on), but never had any interest in encorporating it with sex. Back then, sex held NO interest for me. In fact, to this day if someone told me it had to be either tickling or sex, I would pick tickling every time....well, almost every time!

As far as the internet goes, I'm torn as to whether or not I would have wanted it back in HS. On the one hand it would have dissolved the "I'm all alone" feeling that I had toward tickling, but on the other hand I think that I would have dropped out of HS and spent my life on the computer! LOL....well, maybe not. I'm glad that I found all this stuff when I did because I'm mature enough now, and comfortable enough with myself to begin to understand all the facets of tickling. I think back then it would have become all consuming if I'd been allowed access to all of this.

Maggie

 

[Havsoker]

I made the discovery when I was about 6. My parents were out and the neighbor's daughter was babysitting. As she read on the couch, I pushed myself under the coffee table on my back and grabbed her ankle. This really starled her.

I remember laughing, pleased with my success. She quickly regained her composure and started digging her toes into my ribs while I struggled to get away.

When the "punishment" was over, I remember realizing how much I really liked the sensation. Over time, this fascination became so strong, that I began to believe that something was wrong with me. It is probably why I kept is such a secret for so long.

In any case, this remains a vivid memory!! 🙂


Hav

 

[Battousai]

I suppose I didn't really realize until I first got on the Internet, and randomly searched for "tickling" on Yahoo. I guess it made me realize that there were other people who felt the same, and that I actually did think of it as more than just play.

 

[MistressValerie]

I am also in the "as long as I can remember" camp. I assume that I probably saw something about it on television, since the telly served as our babysitter about 8 hours per day when I was growing up. I did not associate my desire to tickle boys with sexual felings until I was an adolescent, and even after coming of age, I have always been ambivalent about the tickling/sex dichotomy. I especially agree with Drew's observations on the subject.

I discovered that I like to be tickled by females later in life, after my first experience being tickled by a cute, playful bisexual female workout partner after a wild "wrestling" match at the age of about 22.

My lee side is expressed ONLY with women, and only if they are of small build (like myself). I enjoy tickling both men and women, but I ONLY tickle fully consenting partners who agree not to tickle back unless I request it.

Happy tickling,

 

[Deleted member 2452]

age 4

i can clearly remember being 4 years old, and getting "affected" by watching tickling on a cartoon. i have thought of little else since!
i also know it was right for it to be m/f, or f/m. any other form, just creeped me out. i could also tell it was hard wired into my sexual side very early.
steve

 

[TicklingDuo]

I've always been into it my entire life, but my earliest memory has to be watching the scene in "Once Upon a Horse", where the woman gets her feet trapped in the wall and the dog runs up and licks them.
I think I was sweating profusely after that.🙂


Drew😉

 

[fettik2]

Me too, I've alway been into it. I was very very young when i first saw the scene from The Princess Who Never Laughed but I could still remember it as I saw it yesterday. Finally, a couple of months ago I could download this scene, I thought I 'd never see it again!

Other tickling scenes, like the one from Tom&Jerry I remebered as well and I also began to feel that comics with tickling in it interested me more than the rest of the comics!
As a teenager I tried to ignore this "strange" feeling about tickling, I didn't know what was wrong with me... But I still enjoyed tickling and felt great when I could tickle another beautiful girl.

Now since about 2 years I know that there are such a lot of people who have that same feeling and that was a big realease! My first contact with the tickling community was by an emission of the program American Sex, whith a commentary about FM Concepts. Shortly after that I discovered the internet by clicking the word "tickling" in Yahoo. A brand new world opened for me!! Now I still think this tickling fetish is kinda strange but I know there is nothing wrong with me.. or the rest of us! 🙂

Now I'm going out with a pretty girl tonight and maybe I can check too if she's ticklish.. life can be beautiful


Greetings!

 

[INDUCER]

For me, it was about age five..when I remember sitting in front of the TV, watching "The Electric Company", and this quick scene with two male wrestlers came up. At first all you saw was one guy on the floor, pounding his fists on the mat and grunting the word "no", while the other one was at the other end seemingly putting a painful lock on his opponents' ankle. Suddenly the camera shifts to a closeup to reveal that in fact the wrestler is tickling the other guys' bare sole with this huge white feather. Upon seeing this I felt a warm feeling in the pit of my stomach, and I felt flushed and weak. This is the feeling that I would get from henceforth whenever I thought of or indulged in tickling. Now, I am not into m/m, but back then the fact that there was tickling going on in that one scene is what affected me. Not too long after...I was play-wrestling with my female cousin of the same age....and I grabbed her foot and tickled till the cows came home. The same feeling overcame me, and only intensified when I felt her thrashing to get away from my grip, and heard her hysterical giggling. I realized this was something I would always enjoy. It was only good clean kid-fun fun for me then.
I didn't start tying it in to the erotic aspect of it until I was in seventh grade...when I would fantasize about tickling the feet of my hot, hot, HOT home-room teacher. I would remember back when I would see cartoons where dogs or cats would lick a person's feet and get a ticklish reaction....so I decided to incorporate this into one of my teacher daydreams....sliding under her chair and licking her bare soles...illiciting surprised squeals. It was the first time I ever became "hormonal" at the thought of tickling....and would be the root beginnings of my foot fetish (WHOLE other story).

Life is muy, muy BUENO, senoras y senores.

(whoa....that was a nice, long, "WAR AND PEACE" length post...a thousand pardons.) 😀

 

[marcusb]

Somewhere around 1st grade (whatever age that is). My regular group of friends (2 male, 3 female) and I would always play games (hide-n-seek, tag, y'know... that kinda stuff) and and somehow or another one of the girls was always getting tickled. She egged it on. I saw her more often than the rest (she lived next door, came over after school until her parents got home) and we'd often get into huge long tickle fights (initiated by her) that often ended up with her getting an extended tickling. Usually, after catching her breath she'd egg on for more. She never tired of it, nor did I... and so began my fascination.

Hmmm. Wonder where she is now.

Also, I remember often tickling the girl who watched me while parents were out. A game we played all the time was "see if I could make her laugh". I won a lot. We'd stay up late watching movies, commericals were a good time for "tickle practice".

The rush from tickling them had me hooked.

 

[sushi854]

I guess I can trace my fascination with tickling back to a babysitter that would play the "tickle game" with my sister and I. This game consisted primarily of her tickling us senseless while we tried to escape. I remember the helpless desperation I felt when she tickled me, and I remember vividly the devastating effect it had on my sister. The control that the babysitter was able to exert by using only her fingers undoubtedly left a significant impression on my seven or eight year old mind.

 

[crydun]

New to the game,

Although I remember reading scenes from novels and bookmarking the page with that particular scene. I also remember watching tickling scenes in movies and watching them over and over. However, it wasn't until I was in college and doing medical research on tickling and stress-relief that I ran across a page about tickling fetishes. I read it and was like "Oh my word, that is me they are describing!!!!😱 Since then, tickling has become more and more a part of my life to the point, I think I will have to marry a ticklephile to be happy. I am starting to enter the insatiable stage Mimi talked about in one of her posts. shotglass and latin, get here sooon!!!!!!!!😀 😛

 

[ticklebear2]

I first got into it tickling in November of 2002. A friend at college got me into the tickle forum, but I had been starting to wonder what it would be like to be tickled. I have never used it as a sexual tool, but intend to remain a virgin for wife. Maybe if I ever get married and my wife is into tickling than we will use as a sexual tool, but not until then.


Hopelessly funny
Ticklebear2

 

[crydun]

ticklebear2,

I'm glad I got you two in here!! Also, I agree with you as far as the virginity until marriage factor. Although, I plan to use tickling in a fun way until then. It's great stress relief and an even greater weapon!!!

😀 😛

 

[stacyshippen]

I think from birth!

Isn't it interesting how so many of us had similar reactions to tickling from when we were very young children? I had the butterflies, sweating reactions at a VERY young age...had to have been before school started because I remember having tickling fantasies even in elementary school. Even seeing the word "tickle" would give me butterflies! 🙂

For those of us who had this feeling as very young kids...I wonder if it's a genetic thing or there's an unconscious memory that triggered it? Either way, it sure makes for a merrier life 🙂

Peace,
Stacy

 

[gotimmyg]

I knew long long ago...

before disco existed
before high school even!

my evengreen tickle desires have been intertwined with other fetish, kind of a chicken and egg thing.

 

[iticklegirlsft]

I'll have to go with the long as I can remember group. Every crush I've ever had on a girl during my school grade years involved some type of tickling fantasy. This became only more intense with the onset of adolenscence.

 

[kenny]

how/when did you know

i have allways been tickled all my life it started when i was very young with my babysitters holing me down and tickling till i almost peed,ladies why are you so unmeciful when you babysit id love to know, anyway then i relized i got turned on by it when i saw it or heard it being done, plus all of my girlfreinds have allways tickled me unmercifully, cause i think im the most ticklish guy on the planet, i am in really good shape but when a ladie starts tickling me i have a hard time fighting back and the women seem to love it, i just cant get enough of this fetish, i would love to see more f/f or f/m vids with truly ticklish people and good ticklers, and more tickle teasing

 

[SmashTV]

Personally..

...I've always attributed mine to a life long love of stocking feet. I remember seeing the David Copperfiled/Daisey Duke clip at about 8 years old, and loved seeing her getting her feet tickled. However, this was probably more down to the feet!! Regarding the tickling itself, I'd say that it wasn't until recently (say four, five years ago) that I discovered the whole side of power, domination and helplessness that can be involved.

Cheers, everybody,
SmashTV