The Causes of This Fetish

[Mashcot]

Hey guys. I’ve been checking out this particular forum on the site for a while now, and I haven’t noticed any topics that try to explore why we like tickling. While I can’t speak for everyone else, I think I’ve got a good idea of why it appeals tp me. Psychologically, I mean.

Tickling is the fetish that is probably the most socially practiced out there in a non-sexual context. I’d go so far as to say that it is the physical representative of social contact. Now, I am far from the most social guy. Therefore, I think tickling is the prime avenue of defining that social contact. I want to connect with others, hence I want to tickle them.

Bondage comes into the picture because of the fear that people will not want to be a part of that connection, so I have to do something to keep them from getting away. That seems like a really restrictive sentiment, but that’s sort of the point of bondage anyway, so. . . .

I don’t think about this consciously. I just think that these are my inherent factors that drive my impulses. I hope that makes sense.

Who else can shed light on their own motivations?

 

[InspectorJapp]

Who else can shed light on their own motivations?

Simple. At some point in my life my brain made a connection between tickling and sexual arousal.
I don't believe in psychoanalyzing fetishes.

 

[LD_Tickler]

Oh ho, Jr Tickler, you have not been looking very hard at all.

This topic has been discussed umpteen billion times. Just do a search back through through this section, and you'll find all the discussing you can stomach.

If you want to save some time, there seem to be two main camps: many people buy into this "hardwired" idea, that we were somehow born with a dormant tickling fetish. Others, myself included, believe it's a purely psychological development thing, occurring through particular associations/experiences in childhood and adolescence.

 

[mass1926]

I got my ex into tickling because I'd always tickle her before we had sex. Eventually the two came together and she started initating ticklign with me are foreplay.

 

[Marquis De Sade]

http://www.ticklingforum.com/showthread.php?t=131744&highlight=fetish

 

[Ticklish9's]

As with all things, it's pretty gray rather than black or white. Personally, I can't remember a time when it wasn't feet and tickling for me. Literally from day one, my earliest memories include this instinct. So I fall into the hardwired camp I suppose. But I am sure an appreciation for tickling can develop, as well, through experience and so forth, so it's not solely that.

 

[rhiannon]

Motivation? What motivation? Tickling makes me horny, has always made me horny. Why - no idea!

 

[TangerineTicklee]

5

1) I always had an obsession with tickling.
2) That obsession use to be a phobia.
3) My obsession (both phobia and then the fetish) is due to my sensory processing disorder (hypersensitivity).
4) Puberty!
5) Thennn after puberty hit, my hormones told my brain that "Tickling is sexy and that I should love it!", therefore my nerves and body responded accordingly.

It is (I think) as simple as that.

(People with autism spectrum disorders tend to have sexually deviant desires once they have reached puberty and become involved in the sexual world.)

 

[mr.ticklish]

hmm..well i was tickled profusely as a child...and i agree with with TangerineTickle, at the time, it was as much obsession as phobia..kinda embarassing...I always enjoyed it immensely..with 2 separate other people, I developed a tickling relationship as sexual..idk i just love it

 

[BionicFingers]

I think that when I was tickled myself as a kid, something about it "stuck" with me more than it does with most people who think nothing of it. Then I would see pretty women either outside or on tv and think "I wonder if that would make her laugh?"

 

[TangerineTicklee]

Ultimately

hmm..well i was tickled profusely as a child...and i agree with with TangerineTickle, at the time, it was as much obsession as phobia..kinda embarassing...I always enjoyed it immensely..with 2 separate other people, I developed a tickling relationship as sexual..idk i just love it

That's the weird thing about me, too; when I was a kid, older people tried to tickle me practically to death. I never understood why they were so obsessed with tickling me, and so often! I had to push some people away because of it.

I ultimately became obsessed with tickling - the transmutation stage where the phobia became a fetish - after I pushed away those people who liked to tickle me so often and then missed them after pushing them away so far. Some of them literally just disappeared and I never saw them again. I was traumatized by them leaving me, so I carried on in life with the only thing I had left from them - a broken heart and the memories of them tickling the hell out of me.

Ta da. Here I am. Present day.

With a tickle fetish.

 

[Mashcot]

Oh ho, Jr Tickler, you have not been looking very hard at all.

This topic has been discussed umpteen billion times. Just do a search back through through this section, and you'll find all the discussing you can stomach.

Oh wow. Guess attention has been paid to this. Sorry for the repetition.

 

[LD_Tickler]

Oh wow. Guess attention has been paid to this. Sorry for the repetition.

Heh. Repitition is what we do. 😛

 

[SantaFeSwitch]

I'm wondering about this too, not that I don't enjoy it--I don't want to get rid of it I just want to understand it--and have been doing some polls down in the 'polls' section to flesh out a theory...so far the results of the polls are promising. Check them out and comment if you have any ideas:


What kind of tickling fetish do you have?

What are your sexual & tickling preferences?

What's the earliest age you remember being intrigued by tickling?

Masculine & feminine energy and tickling preferences?