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is the recent media attention bad for "us"?

No, it isn't. A grown man went and played grab ass with other grown men. Be it tickling, titty twisters or literal grab ass, people would have made fun of it because it's a strange and inappropriate thing for a grown man to be doing. It isn't the end times for people with tickle fetishes because for all intensive purposes Massa doesn't have a "tickle fetish", he was just way too touchy with guys in his staff.

Nobody's going to care in a month, and nobody's certainly going to judge you based on some douchebag politician. Take off the tinfoil hates and peel the ducttape off the windows, you're overreacting.
 
No, it isn't. A grown man went and played grab ass with other grown men. Be it tickling, titty twisters or literal grab ass, people would have made fun of it because it's a strange and inappropriate thing for a grown man to be doing. It isn't the end times for people with tickle fetishes because for all intensive purposes Massa doesn't have a "tickle fetish", he was just way too touchy with guys in his staff.

Nobody's going to care in a month, and nobody's certainly going to judge you based on some douchebag politician. Take off the tinfoil hates and peel the ducttape off the windows, you're overreacting.

We don't know that. The next interview this guy gives should be interesting...
 
We don't know that. The next interview this guy gives should be interesting...

Well in the Beck interview he basically said "It's tradition from the Navy, not a sexual thing".

Is everyone expecting him to up and claim "I've had this deep dark fetish for years, here, let me show you this neat little websites I've lurked on for years called TMF..."?
 
No, it isn't. A grown man went and played grab ass with other grown men. Be it tickling, titty twisters or literal grab ass, people would have made fun of it because it's a strange and inappropriate thing for a grown man to be doing. It isn't the end times for people with tickle fetishes because for all intensive purposes Massa doesn't have a "tickle fetish", he was just way too touchy with guys in his staff.

Nobody's going to care in a month, and nobody's certainly going to judge you based on some douchebag politician. Take off the tinfoil hates and peel the ducttape off the windows, you're overreacting.

Regardless of what his intention is, the very existence of tickle fetishes getting out to the media is what will effect the way other people will treat us - those with the fetish. A lot of people watch television and are therefore effected by what they watch. That aspect is completely obvious. I'm not saying everyone watches TV, but there is a large enough amount of those who do watch TV, and are affected by what they see, so much to the extent that they would treat someone differently, if the media influenced them to do so. I know a lot of people like that. Trust me - it's a reality, not a conspiracy.

...Are you a psychic? Do you literally know what will happen in a month or more? I'm not making the claim that I do, or that anyone else does for that matter, but the fact of the matter is that we do not know what the media will make of the idea of tickle fetishes later on down the road. So far, they have shined a negative light on it, so that leads me to wonder - and probably believe - that it gives them leeway into making us look worse in the future.

Oh, and you misspelled hats. There's no "e".
 
Regardless of what his intention is, the very existence of tickle fetishes getting out to the media is what will effect the way other people will treat us

The thing is, this isn't a tickle fetish getting out to the media! Who is treating him as a tickling fetishist? I bet you that vanilla people still have no clue a tickle fetish even exists, just as it has been before!
 
The thing is, this isn't a tickle fetish getting out to the media! Who is treating him as a tickling fetishist? I bet you that vanilla people still have no clue a tickle fetish even exists, just as it has been before!

The very idea that tickling was involved can lead to the media covering the "tickle fetish" and making it look bad. As bad as they want it to, for all I know.

But regardless, you cannot deny the power the media has over the people. That's one thing that is obvious.
 
Personally I don't believe this will be tickle fetish related....it's more interesting that a guy did it to guys....and I doubt the media will claim that he tickled them because it turned him on, they will most likely claim he used tickling as an excuse to touch them!
 
Personally I don't believe this will be tickle fetish related....it's more interesting that a guy did it to guys....and I doubt the media will claim that he tickled them because it turned him on, they will most likely claim he used tickling as an excuse to touch them!

that's indeed the bit that makes the difference. It's just that the word tickle rings alarmbells over here but in Vanillaland nothing happens; it's just inappropriate behaviour.
 
I'm with ticklegothgirls on this one, I don't think this is that big of an issue. The only way I really think the MSM is going to bother reporting on the existence of the TMF to their entire viewing audience (if that's our concern here) would be if tickle fetishism somehow became the major focus of a scandal rather than a detail to it - say, if some public official was caught financing trips to tickle gatherings using tax payer money. At the moment, tickling is merely a detail in the story that has been mentioned coz it's creepy for this guy to be going around randomly tickling his staff.

Coz ya gotta admit, that's damn creepy.

And honestly, if tickle fetishism ever is "outed" to the public eye, regardless of who causes it to be outed, whether they be an upstanding individual or some creepazoid, the chances are high that it's gonna be seen in a negative light at first because it's unheard of to most people and any new or foreign concept - let alone one with sexuality involved - is treated with suspicion by someone unfamiliar with it. That's just human nature. But overtime it will lose its edge and it will just be another concept floating around the popular psyche that many are aware of but simply don't give a damn about.
 
Eh. It doesn't matter what your fetish is.....a drooling pervert is a drooling pervert.

People are not going to react/dismiss/shun people with fetishes that act normal and are not creepy about it, even if they are outed in any type of way.

However those that act ashamed, sneaky and try to hide it may be viewed as shady.

So...whatever happens...eh. I am not worried one bit, but I don't think we are looking at a situation where anyone is going to worry about our little corner of the internet because of a few celeb statements or a politician. If nothing else, it would give us MORE people coming to check it out, make a larger population..and who knows, maybe it will be "the new kabala" for the decade of 2010's. And people will join up and get involved in tickling because it looks like the "IN" thing to do.

Ehhhh, either way, I won't lose sleep over it.

Rob

Rob
 
Well in the Beck interview he basically said "It's tradition from the Navy, not a sexual thing".

That's such bullshit. My ass it's a tradition! It isn't any more of a Navy tradition than Beetle Bailey.

Massa's yet another crooked fucking asshole politician who thought he was above the law. Like we don't have enough of them.
 
More people will find this sight googling the music factory... the other TMF
 
The 'media' today is a joke and the public has gotten wise to the way they twist and manipulate context and content, just for the sake of headline news.

I put them in the same category as I do the Weekly World News.
 
In my honest perspective, I think the media is a twisted, demeaning tool. I hate it.

I'm very non-mainstream. I hate the idea of the media even *covering* us, in light of the fact that the media naturally likes to spread their manure all over everything anyway. With that being said, I prefer to have a ... manure-free life. Therefore, I keep the TV off, and my mind focused on other things.

Like tickling. 😎

:ty:
 
Even if it is bad, I don't think it will last too long. Just like every other scandal, it all passes with time. .

This is true and not to sound condescending, but the average person has the attention span of a gnat. This will be forgotten in a week.
 
Regardless of what his intention is, the very existence of tickle fetishes getting out to the media is what will effect the way other people will treat us - those with the fetish. A lot of people watch television and are therefore effected by what they watch. That aspect is completely obvious. I'm not saying everyone watches TV, but there is a large enough amount of those who do watch TV, and are affected by what they see, so much to the extent that they would treat someone differently, if the media influenced them to do so. I know a lot of people like that. Trust me - it's a reality, not a conspiracy.

...Are you a psychic? Do you literally know what will happen in a month or more? I'm not making the claim that I do, or that anyone else does for that matter, but the fact of the matter is that we do not know what the media will make of the idea of tickle fetishes later on down the road. So far, they have shined a negative light on it, so that leads me to wonder - and probably believe - that it gives them leeway into making us look worse in the future.

Oh right, like the massive shitstorm that happened after that guy was breaking into womens houses to tickle them? Or what about that fiasco that happened after the Sarah Kozer videos! Tickle fetish never recovered from either!

Oh wait, that's right, there was no horrible Tickle Fetish Holocaust, because nobody gave a shit after a week.

Shocking as it is, people for the most part know about people getting off on tickling and for the most part don't really care. You think there's really a group sitting around chatting amongst themselves right now saying "A tickle fetish, eh? Why, another poor misunderstood minority to oppress! TO DATELINE!". Like all sexual fetishes, people will say it's weird and then not care. Why you or anyone else is so afraid that someday someones going to look at you and think "Oh God, one of those tickle people..." and disrespect you because of it is beyond me.

So far, they have shined a negative light on it

Oh course they did, a grown man in a position of political power was getting feely with his underlings. Nobody cares that oh God, he was tickling people!, someone in the spotlight was handsy and is paying for it. There hasn't even been a single mention of "tickle fetish" and people are already eager to flip their shit, completely oblivious as to why people are actually giving Massa crap for it.

Oh, and you misspelled hats. There's no "e".
Oh Jesus, a typo.
 
I always thought a lot of people wanted tickling to be more public...I guess I was wrong! 🙂
 
I always thought a lot of people wanted tickling to be more public...I guess I was wrong! 🙂

I think its "us" wanting others to be to be more open-minded about things that people are in to (more accepting and less judgmental)
 
Sex usually doesn't get a bad name because of rape in the media!

Very good!, right on the spot!.That is what italians would call a "cartoccio".
I wish the acceptance of tickling as one more foreplay and nothing else, would be widespread.
 
Agreed. What's with all these "tickling has come into the public eye" threads?

Since when the hell has tickling been under anyone's radar?

Good question. I guess this is related to the school boss driver that tickled-pinched a girl, or did I miss something?
 
I'm not overly concerned. It's not like I have to shop at the tickle market or something and face the picket lines. *shrug*
 
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