The Democratizing of Tickling

[Maneo]

I recently ran into another tickle fan in the same age bracket as me. I'm 73, and as interested, addicted to, passionate about, enjoy the world of tickling. One thing my contemporary and I were discussing in chat were the 'old' days of finding tickle content. Those were pre-Internet days. One print source we shared was Penthouse Variations. Turns out my TMF friend submitted a story to Variations - Tic Tac Toe (I think I got the name right). I recalled his story.

This got me to thinking about how things have drastically changed regarding discussing and accessing content about tickling in all its various forms. I am of the generation where many of us with the tickle DNA felt so alone. I read posts in TMF of people now feeling alone. I understand that feeling. But know that the ability to find fellow travelers in the lanes of tickling is so much easier today. True, still the question of fakes online, but that improves all the time. And access to tickle content is much more prevalent from YouTube to hard core PornHub.

I have the good fortune to be married to a woman who indulges my tickling preferences. I still come to TMF for the sense of community. In places around the world, there are people sitting at their devices reading this who share a passion for the physical act of tickling. And it's a preference, a subset of all human behavior that some among us share.

By democratizing tickling I mean that sharing content and communicating about tickling around the world has opened up. I used to drive around late at night in my rental car when on business trips to check out the adult stores in whatever city I was in, searching out tickling stuff. Now, I sit at a computer or smart device anywhere and can sift through TMF, chat, share stories, or write things like this. The community is much broader. I hope some younger Tickle fans read this and take heart. You can have a wonderful, tickled life ahead of you.

I hope the increased availability of tickling content, albeit to a limited audience, may slowly raise tickling to an acceptable practice among consenting adults. I think many 'vanillas' already say, 'what's the big deal?' I think media - social media as well as traditional media - have opened up acceptability in many realms previously treated as taboo or somehow wrong.

I think AI as it becomes generally available, combined with VR, will further expand our community and offer new experiences. Kudos to Jeff for maintaining this service for many years. I believe the best is yet to come.
'

 

[natscott6282]

tickling and ticklishness has become verryyy popular imho in my generation and i reckon even more in the next generation
dont forget K-pop and Japanese manga culture where it has always been incredibly popular
plus young ppl in general are more open imho

 

[Lee Ishler]

I'm an older person too, and yes I agree the whole thing is much easier now. In the old days, you may have found publications like Fetish Times where they'd occasionally have something about tickling, but that was really about it. So yes, I thought I was alone in my interest, until I discovered the TMF, and Tickle Theater, around 2004. As for tickling content on the net, there's definitely an overabundance of it, though I'm less interested in that, and more interested in trying to meet someone in real life, which is still not easy, but at least I know they're out there.

 

[CarlosSolis]

I've always wondered what people in like medieval times did. I can't imagine it would be very easy to link up and I reckon there was no media to consume. And of course, the feeling alone part would be even worse.

 

[Q_0]

I recently ran into another tickle fan in the same age bracket as me. I'm 73, and as interested, addicted to, passionate about, enjoy the world of tickling. One thing my contemporary and I were discussing in chat were the 'old' days of finding tickle content. Those were pre-Internet days. One print source we shared was Penthouse Variations. Turns out my TMF friend submitted a story to Variations - Tic Tac Toe (I think I got the name right). I recalled his story.

This got me to thinking about how things have drastically changed regarding discussing and accessing content about tickling in all its various forms. I am of the generation where many of us with the tickle DNA felt so alone. I read posts in TMF of people now feeling alone. I understand that feeling. But know that the ability to find fellow travelers in the lanes of tickling is so much easier today. True, still the question of fakes online, but that improves all the time. And access to tickle content is much more prevalent from YouTube to hard core PornHub.

I have the good fortune to be married to a woman who indulges my tickling preferences. I still come to TMF for the sense of community. In places around the world, there are people sitting at their devices reading this who share a passion for the physical act of tickling. And it's a preference, a subset of all human behavior that some among us share.

By democratizing tickling I mean that sharing content and communicating about tickling around the world has opened up. I used to drive around late at night in my rental car when on business trips to check out the adult stores in whatever city I was in, searching out tickling stuff. Now, I sit at a computer or smart device anywhere and can sift through TMF, chat, share stories, or write things like this. The community is much broader. I hope some younger Tickle fans read this and take heart. You can have a wonderful, tickled life ahead of you.

I hope the increased availability of tickling content, albeit to a limited audience, may slowly raise tickling to an acceptable practice among consenting adults. I think many 'vanillas' already say, 'what's the big deal?' I think media - social media as well as traditional media - have opened up acceptability in many realms previously treated as taboo or somehow wrong.

I think AI as it becomes generally available, combined with VR, will further expand our community and offer new experiences. Kudos to Jeff for maintaining this service for many years. I believe the best is yet to come.
'

That really does put things in perspective. Yes it's far easier to find tickle content and people into tickling more than ever, that said I still have difficulty finding tickle content since my tastes are so specific

Only into belly tickling, no tickle tools, not into spider tickles but the squeezy tickles, with either a pale guy or old lady as the ler and a hot tan girl as the lee. Also prefer mainstreams which are also a lot rarer than the fetish clips since the girls tend to be more ticklish, girls that are willing to be in bondage and tickled aren't usually as ticklish plus mainstreams have a cuter more wholesome, non-sexual vibe.

If I was around in your time I would have found basically Nothing to fit that, at least these days, while it's very rare to find something that meets all that I can at least sometimes find things that meet one or two of those things.

 

[duderino84]

I recently ran into another tickle fan in the same age bracket as me. I'm 73, and as interested, addicted to, passionate about, enjoy the world of tickling. One thing my contemporary and I were discussing in chat were the 'old' days of finding tickle content. Those were pre-Internet days. One print source we shared was Penthouse Variations. Turns out my TMF friend submitted a story to Variations - Tic Tac Toe (I think I got the name right). I recalled his story.

This got me to thinking about how things have drastically changed regarding discussing and accessing content about tickling in all its various forms. I am of the generation where many of us with the tickle DNA felt so alone. I read posts in TMF of people now feeling alone. I understand that feeling. But know that the ability to find fellow travelers in the lanes of tickling is so much easier today. True, still the question of fakes online, but that improves all the time. And access to tickle content is much more prevalent from YouTube to hard core PornHub.

I have the good fortune to be married to a woman who indulges my tickling preferences. I still come to TMF for the sense of community. In places around the world, there are people sitting at their devices reading this who share a passion for the physical act of tickling. And it's a preference, a subset of all human behavior that some among us share.

By democratizing tickling I mean that sharing content and communicating about tickling around the world has opened up. I used to drive around late at night in my rental car when on business trips to check out the adult stores in whatever city I was in, searching out tickling stuff. Now, I sit at a computer or smart device anywhere and can sift through TMF, chat, share stories, or write things like this. The community is much broader. I hope some younger Tickle fans read this and take heart. You can have a wonderful, tickled life ahead of you.

I hope the increased availability of tickling content, albeit to a limited audience, may slowly raise tickling to an acceptable practice among consenting adults. I think many 'vanillas' already say, 'what's the big deal?' I think media - social media as well as traditional media - have opened up acceptability in many realms previously treated as taboo or somehow wrong.

I think AI as it becomes generally available, combined with VR, will further expand our community and offer new experiences. Kudos to Jeff for maintaining this service for many years. I believe the best is yet to come.
'

I think it can go any way these days. The problem these days is not awareness, but in some cases, saturation, that makes it difficult to meet people. It still takes a balanced social environment that also encourages tickling to create more than just porn.

 

[Tickleslave83]

I think that the Internet has democratized every source of information, of course this can have a bad side as well as you can spread misinformation, but if you're a person with an obscure taste to a fetish it's easier to find now than ever before because you can connect with people from all around the world. You may never meet somebody in your general vicinity who shares these interests but when you can look that up anonymously on the Internet you can connect with people in a way that wouldn't be possible before the Internet. So I imagine that prior to the Internet most people who have obscure interests like this probably didn't have all that much of an outlet for it and unless they came across someone in their general vicinity who shared it probably would never realized there were others. I can honestly say if I grew up in a pre-Internet era I would have extreme sexual ignorance, I would have never realized that other people share any of my interests, so I can understand how people in the past especially during like the Middle Ages as somebody mentioned people probably never talked about this. Now that people can talk about it with like-minded people anonymously on the Internet it has opened up a whole can of worms really, for better or worse, now people can find anybody who shares the same interest anywhere in the world in a way that wouldn't have been possible prior to the Internet.

 

[natscott6282]

I think that the Internet has democratized every source of information, of course this can have a bad side as well as you can spread misinformation, but if you're a person with an obscure taste to a fetish it's easier to find now than ever before because you can connect with people from all around the world. You may never meet somebody in your general vicinity who shares these interests but when you can look that up anonymously on the Internet you can connect with people in a way that wouldn't be possible before the Internet. So I imagine that prior to the Internet most people who have obscure interests like this probably didn't have all that much of an outlet for it and unless they came across someone in their general vicinity who shared it probably would never realized there were others. I can honestly say if I grew up in a pre-Internet era I would have extreme sexual ignorance, I would have never realized that other people share any of my interests, so I can understand how people in the past especially during like the Middle Ages as somebody mentioned people probably never talked about this. Now that people can talk about it with like-minded people anonymously on the Internet it has opened up a whole can of worms really, for better or worse, now people can find anybody who shares the same interest anywhere in the world in a way that wouldn't have been possible prior to the Internet.

I remember a time thinking everyone was into tickling like it was just a human thing we all loved to do and see

 

[Tickleslave83]

@natscott6282
"I remember a time thinking everyone was into tickling like it was just a human thing we all loved to do and see"

I kind of thought the opposite is most people I know hated the idea of being tickled and I always found it a pleasant sensation so I was always thinking that I was the odd man out in that situation. Although seeing as a lot of sexuality involves touching other people I figured that tickling would kind of go along with that.

 

[natscott6282]

@natscott6282
"I remember a time thinking everyone was into tickling like it was just a human thing we all loved to do and see"

I kind of thought the opposite is most people I know hated the idea of being tickled and I always found it a pleasant sensation so I was always thinking that I was the odd man out in that situation. Although seeing as a lot of sexuality involves touching other people I figured that tickling would kind of go along with that.

I meant seeing other ppl being tickled

 

[pitayatickler]

With all your experience, what would you be your best advice for fellow tickle lovers?

 

[Tickleslave83]

@natscott6282
"I meant seeing other ppl being tickled"

I guess I was coming at it from the perspective of a lee, although I think that even a person without the fetish when it comes to seeing people tickled would probably find it mildly amusing but probably not necessarily a turn on.

 

[natscott6282]

With all your experience, what would you be your best advice for fellow tickle lovers?

make sure the person is fully immobilized as in no movement possible at all so u can rlly focus and concentrate on getting their most ticklish spots tickled at their maximum possible levels.

also have the person stretched out so u have complete access to every area where their could be hyper ticklish hotspots

use coconut oil cause to tickle them in-depth u will need to maintain them at their maximum possible ticklishness for as long as possible and the oil makes it easier on you as the ticklers and easier on the skin, it also makes it easier to get the most ticklish stimuli into them

 

[robmic]

"Kudos to Jeff for maintaining this service for many years. I believe the best is yet to come."

This is something that cannot be emphasized enough! We owe Jeff the world for his efforts! Kudos for all the effort he puts in to keep this site available!!!!

 

[aberdeen]

tickling and ticklishness has become verryyy popular imho in my generation and i reckon even more in the next generation
dont forget K-pop and Japanese manga culture where it has always been incredibly popular
plus young ppl in general are more open imho

I know from other sites like Tumblr there are a multitude of younger ppl into tickling and ticklishness, especially women in their 20-30 age ranges (mostly Lees or Switches). I don't have a handle on whether young men ticklers or Lees are increasing , bec men seem to always be involved in the tickling fixation in general. I'm sure you're correct that younger ppl now are much more open about tickling than in my HS and college days (I'm 68)!

 

[natscott6282]

I know from other sites like Tumblr there are a multitude of younger ppl into tickling and ticklishness, especially women in their 20-30 age ranges (mostly Lees or Switches). I don't have a handle on whether young men ticklers or Lees are increasing , bec men seem to always be involved in the tickling fixation in general. I'm sure you're correct that younger ppl now are much more open about tickling than in my HS and college days (I'm 68)!

well for a start kpop boy bands are literally full of tickling and so is manga