This is a good of a spot as any for my first post.
I too am a long time lurker, mostly in the stories section, but this post caught my eye and I decided since it was brought back to the front, what the heck, maybe it's time.
I have always been self-concious about my tickle fetish. Back in my 20's, I had a boyfriend who who tried to "tickle information out of me" about some such nonsense long since forgotten and was creeped out by the fact that even though I was laughing and squirming, I wasn't trying to get away or stop him.
He made a comment about me "being weird" and much to my disappointment, not only stopped, but broke up with me soon after.
Since then, I have done my best to hide the fact that I am ticklish.
Finding this site was liberating in a sense that I know I am not alone out there in my "weirdishness" but in reading posts since finding it, I see that mostly everyone here has had a similar experience in feeling the need to hide their love of tickling and being tickled.
I think confessing my tickle fetish out loud, especially to a crowd of people who know me, would be one of my worst nightmares. I have very conservative friends whom I am certain don't even make love with the lights on, I can just imagine what them finding out about my peculiar tastes would do for my social life.
Perhaps I ought to frequent more bars?