Origin of Tickle Fetish Revealed

[Dasein]

I recently learned of something in my early development that probably had a formative effect on my emerging tickle fetish. I'd be interested to hear of any similar discoveries out there that happened years after that fact.

I know for a fact that my older sister got me somewhat hooked with early tickling games. And then there was seeing that hot MILF get held down and tickle-tortured by some neighbourhood boys when I was about 7 (story for another time!). However, I always suspected that something came BEFORE these events. And nothing really explained why, specifically, I developed such intense 'lee fantasies.

I was at a family function recently with my parents, sisters and extended family. My mother recounted a story about how my older sister and I pinned my younger sister down and tickled her until she wet herself. We did this about 2 or 3 times on the same day. My mother had to change her underwear each time.

I've heard this story a hundred times. And yet, I still didn't feel that this was a formative event. What my mother ADDED to the story this time, for the first time in 30 years, is that, as punishment, she held down and tickle tortured both my older sister and I, one by one, for minutes on end. I have absolutely NO memory of this, although my older sister concurred. Not only does it explain my intense 'lee fantasies, but also my interest of being the recipient of 'angry female' tickling!

 

[TangerineTicklee]

I actually think that is a wee bit creepy. Not that she tickled you - only if you didn't like it - but that you couldn't remember it happening.

Maybe that happens; maybe what really happens is that, during extremely intense tickling, the memory is, like, SHOVED out of our conscious and pushed into our subconscious, and it hangs out there in the crevices of our mind, telling our synapses what's sexy and what's not, all based on what we go through in life. You might be right...

Dun, dun, dun, DUNNN.

 

[Dasein]

Lots to consider from a psychological perspective (e.g., psycho-sexual development, recovered memory). The irony is that I'm a psychologist! I won't bore people with my self-analysis on this one. It's just interesting.

 

[TangerineTicklee]

Is tickling really a part of psycho-sexual development? I'm just asking. I know diddly squat about psychology, so ... I just ask.

 

[Dasein]

Oh, not necessarily! Especially not for most people. I was just musing about how this singular event could have been formative in my own sexual development. Freud may have had some wacky ideas, but one thing he got right is the importance of the opposite-sex parent in sexual development - whether good or bad, healthy or unhealthy. Of course, studies of that are no longer Freudian.

 

[Gentler]

Quite interesting and makes a lot of sense. Cool share.

 

[TangerineTicklee]

Oh, not necessarily! Especially not for most people. I was just musing about how this singular event could have been formative in my own sexual development. Freud may have had some wacky ideas, but one thing he got right is the importance of the opposite-sex parent in sexual development - whether good or bad, healthy or unhealthy. Of course, studies of that are no longer Freudian.

Well, if it is formative on your own development, is it only through the idea that it might have been pushed into your subconscious, therefore making you addicted to it?

 

[Dasein]

There's probably a number of complex things going on. There are also other, more bland reasons for 'forgetting', other than coping with stress and/or trauma. Whether 'addiction' is present is a whole other matter!

 

[TangerineTicklee]

😱 I know very little about psychology. It's embarrassingly obvious.

Addiction - I meant fetish-wise. Maybe that wasn't such good wording.

 

[tiok33]

I have a very clear memory of how my tickling fetish began.
It was wen i was around 3,and my sister was 1,and our mother put us under the kitchen table whilst she and her friend sat and chatted.Her friend had nylons on,and kept slipping her feet from her shoes,and i ended up trying to tickle her feet,but she wasnt ticklish!
That created the monster i am now!😉

 

[eric33]

Wow ,..sounds like you found your origins ,..your tickling fetish is revealed,....my experience isn't even close,..nobody tickled anybody in my family and extended family was just that ,..really extended ,..however perhaps growing up in a haunted house until my sister and i were 8 yrs old may have something to do with it,..i think i,m possessed by the ghost of a tickler.

 

[Mitchell]

My tickle fetish developed in a completely different manner then any of those who posted here so far. As those who know me are aware, I have been into female feet since my age of reason. In my teens, I began reading stories about tickle fetish in leg magazines, and a publication called Penthouse Forum Letters. As I've posted before, there were two nineteen year old girl couneslors in camp when I was in my early teens. I helped tickle one with bunkmates, and saw the other one get tickled on her feet by a friend. While those experiences caused me to become involved in the awareness of the excitement of girls being ticklish, it wasn't until I began communicating with my late pen pal Don Fraser, in 1997, that I realized tickling was the "sexual fetish" that it is for me. He used to tell me experiences of tickling his past gfs. Also, we both had female snail mail pen pals, and used to ask them tickling questions. Anytime either he or I got an answer to a pen pal's ticklishness, I got more and more excited.

I don't know if my tickle fetish started in a different manner than most people's, but this is just how it started. I dont recall being excited by tickling when I was very young. Tickling wasn't in the forefront of my mind as a kid. One other reason could be that I'm an only child, so I had no sisters to tickle, or who tickled me

Mitch

 

[Knox The Hatter]

Oh, not necessarily! Especially not for most people. I was just musing about how this singular event could have been formative in my own sexual development. Freud may have had some wacky ideas, but one thing he got right is the importance of the opposite-sex parent in sexual development - whether good or bad, healthy or unhealthy. Of course, studies of that are no longer Freudian.

I think that this makes MUCH sense...

 

[Speedbump]

Who knows how it starts. All I know is that I've always had the urge to tickle girls since I developed consciousness. I tickled my cousin whenever I could, other girls on occasion, and got a bit of a mini-boner watching a cartoon or two that had a tickling scene before I was 10.

When it comes to that opposite sex parent thing, I'd rather not know if that had anything to do with it or not. My mom did once tell me how, when I was a baby, she loved my feet and would play with them a lot... (I have a bit of a foot fetish, as well as tickling).

Ya never know. I don't think I'm gonna think about that anymore. lol

 

[Cosmic]

I've had an interest in tickling ever since I can remember. Even when I was little, like 5 or 6, my friends would tie my ankles together and tickle my feet and I'd do the same to them. I don't know why, but I always wanted to tickle someone or be tickled. I'd even over-react when I was poked in the side by a friend, just hoping they'd get the idea that everyone should gang up and tickle me.

Haha...I even just remembered I had a thing for animated girls, from like Disney movies when I was younger and when I was on a trip to Disneyland with my family...I must've been about 7...and I said something to my mom about helping Jaffar capture Jasmine and lock her in the dungeon so that I could tickle her. I could only imagine what my mom must have thought of that comment. lol.

 

[tickler118]

Woah! You may have just answered one of the most important questions in the universe! Maybe some event like this happened to all of us when we were so young that we can't even remember it and somehow it just stuck with us through our developments into adults!

Thanks for posting, that is one of the most interesting things I've read here.

 

[Dasein]

In my case, it MAY have been that simple, although I'm sure there are a number of precipitating factors for everyone - some you never notice. We're very simple in complex ways. Genes, environment, etc.

 

[RosieCreek]

I know I've posted about this before, but I can pinpoint my tickling origins exactly. One time my older brother picked me up and carried me to his room, holding me down for a bout of tickle torture (and it really was pure torture for me) but there was a tiny pause and just as he was getting ready to start tickling me again, that was that stroking kind of touch that makes you realize how desperately it's going to tickle in the next second, and that is the moment my tickling fetish was born. To this day, decades later, it's the most exciting thing in the world.. realizing how much it is going to tickle and being totally helpless to stop it.