What a great thread. As far as food for thought this thread is a real smorgasboard (sp?)!
Throughout my single life, I have always endeavored to get females to tickle me. I didn't become very successful at this until I reached adulthood. Basically, I would establish platonic friendships with the women I worked with. Some were married, some weren't. Once a friendship was established I would sooner or later let it become known that I was ticklish, and that I liked being tickled. I would not tell them it excited me sexually unless they came right out and asked.
Sometimes I would wrestle with guilt, feeling on the one hand that I was not being entirely honest with the women (particularly the married ones) in holding back the fact of how much it turned me on. It seemed unfair to them, letting them think that their actions had little more affect than a high five, when in reality it more like receiving fellatio. Why did I hold back? Quite simply, I felt that if they knew, the tickling would stop. If I told them, then they could no longer justify it as harmless horeseplay. So I kept quiet about it.
On the other hand, I would often think the guilty feelings were absurd and misdirected. It wasn't like I was touching their privates or even doing anything at all to them. They were the ones tickling me! Whatever feelings I had about them tickling me were my own business and nobody else's. There was no question of consensuality. I wasn't exactly pointing a gun at them.
As a married man, I still crave the tickling of females, not just from my wife either. But when a strange female tickles me, it doesn't make me want to make love to her. It does however enhance my performance in bed at home with the wife. Some feel that this is wrong, but my feeling is that tickling is not "zex," as Dr Ruth would say, and even though it's exciting, it doesn't fall into the same restrictions as zex would. I would never have zex with another woman, but as far as tickling goes, I'm entirely available!