Professional Touch Therapy

[aberdeen]

I saw this article this morning and it seems to verify all the points I've been making about valid touch therapy....

https://www.allure.com/story/inside-the-world-of-professional-back-scratching

These people offering these forms of touch therapy have good information about how they use touch therapy ie back scratching, head scratching as a form of ASMR type therapy.

Interesting how some of the clients they interviewed are the ones who associate the sensations as "tickling"....on there head and their backs...

As a historical perspective, I was quite ahead of my time when I was asked to apply sunscreen to a couple neighbor girls who I was very good friends at the time....all of us 18 plus.

I chose to apply the sunscreen lotion with a nice light touch, and they remarked how it felt 'tickly' ....but did not ask for me to stop. So made sure to make my touch more grazing and soon they requested that "tickly thing" I was doing to their backs...So of course I obliged. That began a very nice friendship that involved a lot of regular 'tickling play' .... and eventually to consensual tickling sessions (some involving bondage so they could allow / enjoy me to 'test their ticklish limits 😊)....
We were all good friends, and I was very trustworthy, so I was very honored and privileged to initiate a wide variety of tickling experiences through the use of touch therapy!

 

[aberdeen]

I was interrupted earlier so will finish my thoughts on my post...
I am not mentioning my experience as an example of how to 'sneak someone into the tickling community without them realizing it'....but back in my youth, ticking in my area (and amongst friends even) was pretty 'hush hush' ....there would be no way to simply ask them to be tickle play partners directly...(we are many many years ago 😂)!
I was fortunate that I had a couple of female friends who were so trusting of me...(I built that trust as friends..so when the opportunity arose to make them into tickle friends..it was a very easy transition to make )....but I also would have never 'taken advantage' of their vulnerability and helplessness (when we arrived at tickling under bondage scenarios) .... They knew my boundaries were to stay in their SFW zones...even if they were sometimes totally nude...
But along the lines of trust....we didnt have any idea of safe-words back then...but I kept cognizant of their levels of ticklishness and ticklish distress....I did push them pretty far, making them 'insane' from the overstimulation ....but always briefly enough...letting them come back down a little...keeping them 'smoldering' at a high level only to push them back up a few times before finally easing off....I know they were enjoying the adrenaline rush and endorphin bath that occurs (from their actions and descriptions of how they felt--I didnt know these neurochemical details until much later ...

The article I referenced above and the way I realized and solved my tickling fixation I mention to show there is a place for advanced touch therapy in our society/culture today...whether its therapeutic massage therapy, the back scratching, the head scratching / hair handling...Or as I believe .... tickle play therapy (consensual nonsexual themed tickling)! I believe (and as others have told me) we are in a touch-starved society....people yearn for contact of all kinds...whether simple hand holding or hugs...or sitting in contact side to side (eg watching movies at home)...or sometimes even more extensive (but not automatically sexual ) touch !