Popeye, Shmopeye

[OmahaTickler]

OK, now that I have your attention...

This Popeye blasphemy is shorthand for: let's not go so far back in your developmental years: Sure, many of us saw the tickling in Popeye and other cartoons and had other childhood experiences that may have sparked the fetish, but the early-childhood thing has been done to death, so my query is: What was the defining moment in your life when you understood that tickling would be a passion in your life permanently?

When Neo took the red pill, he understood everything was about to change.

What is YOUR red-pill moment?

I've done mine before, but I'll recap briefly for newbies: I was 15, it was late night one Saturday. It was a time before informercials, and there was a show on about those weird Japanese game shows with goofy stunts. One challenge involved hog feed poured on a bikini-clad Japanese woman, then pigs were released on her. They lick-tickled her silly. Soon after, I went to bed, with this rattling in my brain, and I proceeded to make sweet love to my mattress.

Luckily, the animal part didn't stick to my psyche, but the spread-eagle bikini-clad tickling part did, especially the look of pleasure on her face as her body absorbed the sensations. For that brief moment, I wanted to be a pig, and I suspect that if my mattress could talk, it would've called me one after that watershed night. It also may explain my later fondness for lick-tickling ticklees.

Your turn, brothers and sisters...

 

[U.N.Owen]

I'd been fascinated by tickling all through childhood. The Raggedy Ann movie had a HUGE impact on me... I thought about it a LOT. And I thought about it more as I got older. But I guess I can fix a moment when I think about it.

When I was about 12, I saw an ad for some lawn care service that came in the mail... something about "barefoot" grass. It had a picture of a cute teenage girl barefoot in the pose. When I looked at the picture, I felt a huge desire to DO something to her, but I couldn't quite understand what.

Then it suddenly came to me. "I know!" I said. "I want to TICKLE her!" I think I even said it out loud, though nobody heard me. (The people who might have know about my kink now anyway.) All the tickle ideas from childhood just suddenly clicked, and I started wanting to tickle all the girls I liked. From then on, that was it: I was hooked.

 

[LD_Tickler]

Stumbled across the Magic Touch productions website by total accident looking for unrelated porn. When teh internetz stand as formative experiences, you know you're a child of the computer age.

 

[moose]

it took me til I was 16 to figue out that tickling was going to be a big part for me. I was dating my first girlfriend and this was about two weeks into are relationship. she was starting to spend weekends at my house. and I remember her telling me she was cold so I told her she could curl up next to me. She said that she could sleep on the bed and I could just sleep at the foot of the bed instead. I remember her putting her feet right by my face and I was starting at her soles for about a minute. I couldn't help my self so I gave it a quick stroke and she jumped up. I quickly grabbed her foot and was tickling it up and down while she screamed and laugh and that's when I realized it.

 

[starburstz91]

When I was like thirteen, and I got extremely turned on when my first boyfriend teased and tickled me. I also found myself wanting to write and fantasy about ticklish encounters between a male and female. Some crazy crap.

 

[rhiannon]

I didn't have a red-pill moment. I can't remember not being into it!

 

[Tiger.Lily]

I didn't have a red-pill moment. I can't remember not being into it!

Hmm. This. I can't think of a single "red pill" moment that really clicked with me. It's just always...been. Of course, there are many encounters with tickling that I remember vividly, but none that really pop out and say "this was when I knew." I've just always been getting off to it. xP

 

[Artoo]

There wasn't a defining moment, for me.

I've known that there was something...different...about tickling, since I was about 3 or 4 years old.
I didn't realise it was sexual until I hit adolescence, but it's been there for as long as I can really remember.

 

[Aimee]

I've never really thought of my red-pill moment. Like a lot of other people have responded ... I just always knew.

When it sparked my interest permanently, though? That's tough. I was always in denial that I had this fetish. Always. I got that pukey-feeling and I felt really weird for liking tickling. That's why I joined the TMF when I was like 14 and immediately left right after signing up and didn't return until now.

So. I'm gonna go with when I had my first tickling session. After that I could never turn my back to tickling ever again.

 

[Tinkerhead414]

For me, it started as a foot fetish. I started lurking around foot sites when I was 13 or so, and it just evolved into the tickling thing. I still love feet, but tickling has been a bigger interest since then. After all, seeing a pair of beautiful feet, what do you want to do, just sit there and say: "Oh, well that's nice. I'm satisfied to just sit here?" NO!

But then again, that's just me. 🙂

 

[SamuelKhan]

My red pill moment finally came with this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGiuOYuy6yo

PurrBast's ancestor Yyvone Craig!

 

[rhiannon]

I as actually turned on by tickling before I knew what an orgasm is....or before I knew that it was an orgasm that I had! 🙂

But I didn't realize I was not the only one feeling this way before I got internet. That was in 99.

 

[-Hari-]

I always loved tickling, it became something that I knew would be part of me forever when I hit puberty and i realized it had become a sexual craving, so I gues that was my red pill moment

 

[OmahaTickler]

Great spectrum of responses. I also recall the "barefoot lawn" ad. I now have a Pavlov's dog reaction every time I see a woman barefoot on a lawn.

(I'll just say it and save you all the trouble: "Down, boy.")

 

[Skipadeedoodah]

I don't really have a moment when I realized I was into it, cause I just always was, and I always assumed that it was going to stick. I never anticipated growing out of it or anything. But I guess to contribute something here, I do know that there was a moment, or an event I guess I should say, when I realized that it was going to be something I could (somewhat) comfortably express, and something that would actually be a part of my adult life outside of my own head, and that is when I was dragged to my 1st gathering and, despite the intense desire to do so, didn't turn and run.

 

[sasaxrah]

So. I'm gonna go with when I had my first tickling session. After that I could never turn my back to tickling ever again.

Same here. Before then, I wondered if I would actually enjoy it, or if tickling would be something I only liked in my head.

 

[Mephistopheles]

When I typed "tickling" in some search engine (I believe it was Yahoo) and stumbled across A.N.A., after which I discovered the TMF back in the days when it was still hosted on ezboard.

I believe I was about 12 at that time.