I'm Straight....

[Freethought]

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THANK YOU.

Sexuality can be vastly more complex and multifaceted then people give it credit for. For example, I remember reading a Savage Love column one time where a straight reader asked Dan Savage why he got so turned on by the thought of another man fucking his wife. Dan referenced a scientific hypothesis that while humans were evolving it'd be common for prehistoric males to run a train on a females since it was the best way to ensure pregnancy and, therefore, survival of the species. This left a trigger in the genetic code that explains why many straight men get turned on by seeing dudes fuck chicks. This also explains why straight guys still watch man-on-woman pornography.

Sexuality is also closely linked with the psychological needs for submission and dominance. Traditionally men are dominant in bed and women submissive, but like in so many things in human personality that isn't an absolute rule. I've witnessed this a lot as a bisexual ticklephile: I've pen pal-ed and rp-ed with many men on this website who want to have a tickle session with me but find anything "beyond" that repulsive. I've also corresponded with many and actually met a few men on Craigslist who want a "no strings attached" fuck - they are turned on by the thought of dominating a man or submitting to him via sex acts but absolutely by no means are they interested in kissing, cuddling, or a relationship. These are simply expressions of the D/s need in people divorced from their larger sexuality. It can happen.

My guess in your case? You have a sexually submissive side that you haven't really explored. Doesn't mean you want to date or marry or even make out with a man. My advice to you? Same as ticklebrowse26 - accept it and not care about labels. So you're turned on by men gang tickling another dude? It's 2012, who cares.

 

[tcklft]

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Which comments were mean or bigoted? Giving someone an opinion they asked for isn't mean, and calling someone homo- or bisexual isn't bigoted.

 

[rhiannon]

Why is it so freaking important to give a brandname to what you like anyways? Why is it so important to call oneself straight?

 

[maniactickler]

UPDATE: Thanks for all your opinions, but I now know what I am.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteroflexible

Well thats settled! one last shout out for brandis tootsies!

 

[GQguy]

THANK YOU.

Sexuality can be vastly more complex and multifaceted then people give it credit for. For example, I remember reading a Savage Love column one time where a straight reader asked Dan Savage why he got so turned on by the thought of another man fucking his wife. Dan referenced a scientific hypothesis that while humans were evolving it'd be common for prehistoric males to run a train on a females since it was the best way to ensure pregnancy and, therefore, survival of the species. This left a trigger in the genetic code that explains why many straight men get turned on by seeing dudes fuck chicks. This also explains why straight guys still watch man-on-woman pornography.

Sexuality is also closely linked with the psychological needs for submission and dominance. Traditionally men are dominant in bed and women submissive, but like in so many things in human personality that isn't an absolute rule. I've witnessed this a lot as a bisexual ticklephile: I've pen pal-ed and rp-ed with many men on this website who want to have a tickle session with me but find anything "beyond" that repulsive. I've also corresponded with many and actually met a few men on Craigslist who want a "no strings attached" fuck - they are turned on by the thought of dominating a man or submitting to him via sex acts but absolutely by no means are they interested in kissing, cuddling, or a relationship. These are simply expressions of the D/s need in people divorced from their larger sexuality. It can happen.

My guess in your case? You have a sexually submissive side that you haven't really explored. Doesn't mean you want to date or marry or even make out with a man. My advice to you? Same as ticklebrowse26 - accept it and not care about labels. So you're turned on by men gang tickling another dude? It's 2012, who cares.

Man! I love how intelligent some of our forum members can be. Great answer.

 

[Freethought]

An intelligent post and Brandie's feet. This is the best thread on the Forum right now😉

 

[voided9]

An intelligent post and Brandie's feet. This is the best thread on the Forum right now😉

Awww


I don't think being turned on by mmmm/m makes you gay or bi, either. I know some guys who enjoy watching the videos but have no interest or arousal in dating or kissing another man.

 

[berlinerbaer]

I don't think being turned on by mmmm/m makes you gay or bi, either.

"Being turned on" is a sexual feeling. Having sexual feelings as a result of participating or watching or fatasizing about activities between two or more speciemns of the same gender is generally referred to as homosexual (remember: homo = Greek for equal, sex = Greek for gender). If the same person also has sexual feeling when watching or participating in activities between people of different gender it's called bisexual.

Get over it guys, there is nothing dirty or "fruity" about being something else than heterosexual. I almost find it insulting when people are getting panic attacks from the "life-threatening" thought that they might be gay or bi. It's almost like a black guy going out of the way arguing that he is in reality white, trying to find evidence of white pigments in his skin, and all that because he thinks if he finally has to admit that he is black he will be classified (by others and by his own system of values) an inferior human being. Or ape-like, or fruity, or whatever someone might think about blacks.

 

[rhiannon]

Get over it guys, there is nothing dirty or "fruity" about being something else than heterosexual. I almost find it insulting when people are getting panic attacks from the "life-threatening" thought that they might be gay or bi.

Wiser words were never spoken!

 

[Wade]

I've only occasionally gotten tickled by other dudes -- in my experience, in this culture, women seem more likely playfully to tickle guys in social situations than other guys are.

But I did wind up in a couple of situations in college where other guys got the upper hand with me and proceeded to tickle me fairly relentlessly, and in some complicated way the very fact that there was nothing arousing to me about the experience was appealing. When women tickle me I have a love/hate response to the experience: I'm aroused by the attention but the sensation itself is intolerable. When these guys tickle-tortured me there was only the intolerability, and the fact that I was helpless to do anything about that... and that I was laughing just as hard and as helplessly as when women tickle me, and was helpless to do anything but that, and the fact that the tickling itself was an expression of some fairly naked aggression on the guys' part...

Well, at the time it was torture; I was desperate for it to stop. But recalling having been subjugated in that way stirs up complicated and not-entirely-hetero responses on my part.

 

[oh_tickler]

I'm a straight guy and I've met up about two dozen times with guys from online to tie and tickle them. I insist that they're not naked. One time I talked on the phone with a guy before going over to his place and he agreed that he was ok with not getting naked. When I got there, he didn't want his wrists tied up, and after tickling him for awhile , he went ahead and pulled down his shorts. I did NOT like that, but I was already there tickling, so I didn't just walk out and leave. Since then I've made up my mind that I WILL walk out if a guy gets naked like that again!

So yes, there is a such think as tickling that is not foreplay. Although I know for alot of people m/m or f/f tickling is foreplay just like some opposite gender tickling.

I think we should just deal with this:

There are 6 Billion (with a 'B') of us on this planet and, guess what, there may be more than one or two types of tickling sessions. 😉

 

[Dakine]

Many people get off on fear, torture, downgrading, humiliation, slavery, being overpowered, along with other titles that most people would consider as negative. And it wouldnt matter what gender your attractive too. Its an oppression that some people love, sometimes with a gender they are not attracted too.

 

[stockytickler]

I think my bf exhibits some fairly aggressive dominance play/body language when he is tickling me, and because we're both into it there's definitely a sexual component to it, absolutely. But if a straight guy is tickling another guy it can just be dominance play/roughhousing.

That said, tickling is predominantly experienced as sexual play for a lot of the visitors to this site, and sexual arousal is experienced with tickle play/fantasy generally. So maybe it's difficult to separate the act from intent, or interpretation.

Ler, lee and, indeed, audience all bring their own interpretation of the tickling to their experience of it, which may not be exactly the same for all of them.