didou said:
hello. i just wonder if tickling (chatouiller-chatouiles ine french) is a speciality of anglo-saxons countries and people. I wondet that cause it's vary hard tooo talk about that in France. The girls look at you like you are mad ou pervers. There's jut few sites in France and i dont' know any footclub where you can play with your foot fetichim and tickle women's feet, like it seems to be in the uSA or in England. You seem to ne more free too talk or live tghant pleasure than us. As someone have an opioon about that? can ladies of this site talk about that?
It could be an anglo speciality, but I doubt it.
Overall, western European countries and especially France are MUCH more open to sexual discussion than the United States is. Any sort of fetish is very difficult to talk about in most places here. However there are two sides to America, very much as there are two sides to Japan: on the one hand we have a very strong note of puritan morality in our culture, but on the other hand we have a strong tendency to rebel against that. As long as the rebel aspects don't become too visible, they are mostly left alone. So that is why you see so much fetish material and so much discussion of fetish on the internet from the US.
Don't be misled by the openness you find here. Most people on this forum have learned that places like this are really the only places that they can freely discuss such matters. It is considered very bad manners to talk about such things in a public setting here, and it is very rare for any sort of fetish to be displayed in a positive way in our media.
The "dungeons" ("les donjons") and similar places that you read about here, where people can go to tickle other people, vary a great deal in their type and quality. Many such "clubs" are similar
in some ways to a house of prostitution ("bordel" en francais). The important difference is that while a person can pay for bondage, tickling, and SM in such places, usually one cannot pay for actual sex there. I believe there are probably similar places in large cities in France. In fact here are a couple of examples:
Maitresse Alexandra
Maitresse Cindy
Those two women appear to be dominant only, not submissive. But chances are good that they know submissive women who provide such services. Maitresse Cindy appears to be associated with a dungeon of some sort.
Other "dungeons" in the US do not have a staff of women who can be paid for such things, but they do have furniture and equipment that couples can come to use themselves if they wish. Here are some links to similar resources in France:
Le Donjon in Paris
Agenda des soirées sm et fétichistes 2005 That is for 2005 only, but many of the organizations listed are still in operation.
Nuit Elastique, a fetish party in Paris
Finally,
here is a very large list of fetish groups and individuals in France.
None of these people or groups are specifically connected to tickling, as far as my poor French can tell. However all of them are fetish-related, and with some investigation among these people you should be able to find French tickle-philes.
As in the US, it is there if you just know where to look.