Is our love of tickling a type of culture?

[tickleteasing]

Let me explain what I was thinking, if you saw a man pinning a woman down in an airport and tickling her feet nonstop, a lot of people might think it might stand out. Now the question you would have to ask is does this behavior need to be described as destructive? Well the answer is no although people who do not understand it might see it as so or for that matter unusual.
Another argument for this is and I wish I had a dollar every time this happened. Someone stumbles on to the forum or realizes they are not "Alone" you all know the feeling. Its like you know a language and can talk, but you have nobody to talk to using it? Or being in Germany and your the only one who speaks English and someone comes up to you and says hello how are you.
See the past few days my grandmother has been spending a few days with our family. She is from Cuba and will often times watch Univision, its a channel that is purely Spanish. I watch her watch it and due to my learning disability I was never able to learn any Spanish. This was something that made my grandparents very sad. They were however able to speak English so they could talk to us.
I am not trying to be condesending but rather trying to offer an explanation. Do you feel like sometimes tickling can be a type of culture in a way. What do you all think?

 

[TKL_Rebel]

i understand where your coming from when people ssay they thought they were alone and stuff...

so i guess what your trying to say is that people should pin women down more and tickle them in public, which in turn would bring more ticklephilies to the surface 😀

 

[eric33]

no,.. we as lees/lers come from many cultures,..we form groups within a culture Tickle Media Forum for example...but we as ticklephiles are not a culture ,..we could pool our money and buy a remote island some where and form a society of ler/lees ...

 

[seanwoj]

No, it is unique, and should be respectd as such.

 

[LD_Tickler]

I'd say no. What we have is a common interest. Having a common interest might make people feel the same way towards others that it would would if they were of the same culture, but I think a culture itself is more.

 

[Exile]

Culture implies non-exclusivity, and I feel that what we have, although
shared amongst a large number of us, is somewhat exclusive.
Compared to the population as a whole we are a minority.
Tickling means something special to each of us here.

 

[rhiannon]

I'm totally with Exile on this one. I have to admit though that I don't even fully understand when you say "culture". 🙂

 

[tickleteasing]

I'm totally with Exile on this one. I have to admit though that I don't even fully understand when you say "culture". 🙂

I said culture because it was what I thought was the good word at the time, not that thats exactly what it is. What I meant is when you go online and you find out your not alone and you find out there is others like you it makes you feel like you belong and other people understand who you are. Sort of like the being in the foreign country and seeing someone from where you from analogy?

 

[ticklebunny 2]

I wouldn't say it would be a wide accepted popular culture trend among those that are vanilla that do not participate or don't enjoy tickling per se. But I would say that I can see and I can understand what you are trying to say. Yeah I would say besides it just being a common mutual interest among us fellow TMF members and those that love tickling-I say yeah it could be seen as a love of a culture, a personalized and indidivual, unique custom for us all that share the love of tickling. It is a bond that we mutually all share that helps us feel we are not alone and not so bizarre afterall and helps us make friends and feel we are understood, listened to, but most of all accepted for who and what we are-individuals that love to be tickled and love to tickle-we can be ourselves and not feel we have to suppress or hide what revs us tickle kink wise. I must say this is a great thread, thanks for creating it.

Yeah I think anytime mutual interests are shared among a group of people or even if it is just a few individuals share a common goal or interest-tends to be unity and there tends to be friendships many times for life developed and in this part-among the tickle community vs the outside world with those that don't share the tickle kink-like all of us speak this secret special foreign language that they do not and could not really possibly understand. So yeah in that way I can see where you might classify or view it to be a culture shared among all of us.

 

[GEORGIATKLER]

I'm so cultured my nickname is "Pearl"........................

Really, I have as much culture as an abandoned yogurt plant! **rimshot***I agree with ticklebunny 2 and congratulations on the successful cloning. We have a common interest, although with interestingly different levels, talents and perspectives. The idea of being able to have a worldwide forum for any interest, hobby, lifestyle(again I have none) etc is a good side of the internet.(Thanks, Mr. Gore) Al Gore, sounds like a late night B-horror/splatter movie host, doesn't it? The great group of people here on TMF make it easy, fun, enjoyable to be, well here.