tickling - interest since childhood or not till adulthood?

[siamese dream]

I've found tickling exciting, fascinating, pleasurable etc. since I was a really little kid, probably four or five is the first memories I have of feeling excitement from tickling... but I only realized that my feelings were sexual when I got a little older, and at about 14 or 15 I started recognizing it as a sexual fetish. Well...it's given me sexual excitement since that very young age, but I didn't understand what "sexual" feelings were until i was older.

Until the internet I had never heard of anyone with a tickling fetish and wasn't sure if anyone else had it... fortunately I found out as soon as I tried doing a search on it 🙂
That was when I was like 14, I think. And then I realized that it was a fetish...

Is it this way for most 'knismolagniacs'? 😉 @ Flatfoot
have most of you felt like this since you were kids, or was it introduced to you as an adult?

 

[venray]

Definitely had the feelings as a kid..around 6 are my first memories,, then around the age of 13 ...well thats when I realized it would always be a part of my life!

Ven

*returning poke from a previous post*

 

[tkrexx]

Since I can REMEMBER.

And that's a long time.

Rxx

 

[tklr5150]

Siamese, the way you describe it is pretty much exactly how it happened for me too -- right up to the age I discovered it on the internet. As a kid I was a huge tickler and loved getting tickled, and the only thing that's changed since then is my broader understanding of why.

 

[Krokus]

Well

All My Life. Never Gonna Stop!! 😀 😎

 

[Deleted member 2452]

i love seeing the new people ask the same questions

it shows we're all the same! i believe we've all asked these very same questions, and wondered about ourselves in the same way.
to answer the question; my earliest rememberance is of being 4 y.o., and being excited by tickling on t.v.. i always wanted to tickle the neighbor hood girls, and did. the feeling that tickling gave me, is still just as fresh, and exciting today.
steve

 

[Raul]

Hey areenactor,

Not only the neighborhood girls, but how about terrorizing those babysitters?😀 Tickling an "older woman" was a major coup back then. 😉

Raul

 

[tcrewme]

Early for me too...

My earliest memeory is tickling my aunt's feet under the table at the age of 3! But it was just fun then.
And yeah around puberty it turned sexual... BUT I can still just tickle for fun!

 

[U.N.Owen]

I was fascinated/obsessed with tickling as a kid. When I hit puberty around age 12, I realized I wanted to tickle pretty girls. And there it's remained...

Even as a kid, I particularly noticed any occurences of tickling on TV or in movies. I still remember any and all times tickling came up on Sesame Street, in perfect detail. Obviously, I was paying close attention.

As to why? Who knows? I just liked it. I still do.

 

[Deleted member 2452]

only babysitter tickling experience

i had was when a lady who worked with my mother watched me one day.
they were both secretaries for alderman tom kean in chicago. how that lady was off, and my mom worked i never figured out, lol.
she wore a tight blouse, knee length tight skirt, nylons, and high heels as was the style in the early 60's. i remember it was lunch time and i'd just finished eating, she was still nibbling her soup, and sandwich. i went under the kitchen table and there were her long legs crossed, and one shoe dangling. even then i was like 6, i knew this lady had gorgous legs! anyway, i slipped off her shoe, and held her ankle, and tickled her sole to beat the band. she laughed like mad! but did do anything to get away. i remember thinking how great it was that she wasn't getting mad. i kept it up for several minutes. but alas, when i tried to switch feet, thats when she stood up and said enough for now. she said we could do more next time. BUT THERE NEVER WAS A NEXT TIME! what a rip off! lol
steve

 

[QBWeaver]

It's been a part of me since I was a child and that was VERY long ago. I'm older than dirt! LOL

 

[dvnc]

Heck, it's one of my earliest memories. I always dug tickling. Some of my few infant memories are of tickling a babysitter's feet (not surprising since I was 2, and down that end to begin wit').

There ARE some of us that start later. There's those folks that get clued to the fun 'cause one of us finds them and shows them. I've converted a few myself, and some will comment, now, about how tickling seems to have crept into their personal relations now. Most blame me, but I figure I'm just cluin' 'em to the fun!

dvnc

 

[Eternal Tomboy]

I would have to say that tickling has been a huge fascination for me since early elementary school (probably around 7 or so.) I can remember instigating all of the older males in my life (uncles, brother, etc..) to tickle me.
And like many of you, any cartoons, or TV shows that had tickling scenes in them were recorded into my memory with great detail. I think that those scenes provided a very early start to some of the fantasies that I had as a kid.
I'm still the same way now...whenever I see a movie with a tickling scene in it, I remember it forever (lol)!

I wonder what starts it all...do you guys think it's genetic or what?

Maggie

 

[UnclStevel]

Good thread!

I remember at the age of 8-10 my friends and I used to set up a little town in our basement and play. Whenever someone did something "bad" we would tickle torture them. At the time I never thought about why I did it. I would try and get my cousins to tickle me while playing "operation" too. To me, it was just a fascination, and fun.

Once I became older, I remember sitting down at our Amstrad 386 with a 2400 baud modem (hehehe) and doing a search on tickling. That's when I found Solefully Yours. The pictures of the videos drove me wild, and I became addicted. Sneaking downstairs while everyone else was asleep, I'd download pictures to disk and hide them in my room.

When I was 13, I discovered what a newsgroup was, and frequented that infamous "AMT place" a lot 🙂

Steve

 

[soleshine]

I'm with tkler5150. Your experience mirrors mine exactly, siamese dream. It's very interesting to learn that a GIRL had the same feelings and experiences around tickling as I did 🙂.

I was fantasizing about tickling girls long before kindergarten, but didn't realize it was a sexual fascination until health class in sixth grade! Somehow, my parents missed that talk with me. I think my interest in tickling materialized and became reinforced over time because I was trying to make sense of and act on my young sex drive without any information about what sex was.

Much later, the internet helped me to see how I could integrate the two in my life and these days I am a very happy member of the tickling community!

 

[Raul]

It is amazing how timeless are the experiences shared on this thread. Trying to understand our special "interest," while at the same time wrestling with the self-discovery, doubt and angst of puberty. One really cannot tell how old a "poster" is by the their listed experiences, as they are so common among all ages.

One difference strikes me, though, and it is one that clearly shows MY age. That is how the younger among you talk about discovering the internet, and how it served as an oasis of self-awakening for you to explore your inner desires, as well as serving as a vehicle to find others of like-mindedness.

Count your blessings! How lucky you are! Try wrestling with this unique "bent" as a teenager and young adult, in 1976-1983!

Internet?! Modem?! Solefully Yours?! Downloading?! Newsgroups?!...

BACK IN MY DAY, we weren't able to find tickling stimuli in the comfort of our own homes! We had to roam the streets, risking life and limb to satisfy our rabid craving. And even then, were lucky to find some dusty copy of Penthouse Letters in the back of the adult bookstore, containing some lame "ticklish housewife" letter!

But, I digress. I am going back to bed now. I am late for my sponge bath, and I have to put my teeth in the glass by my bed. And maybe, when my home health care nurse falls to sleep, I'm going to sneak downstairs to my computer, and surf the web.

Life is good.

Raul😉

 

[kenny]

ok i have to coment on this tickling has drovbe me nuts ever since i have been a little kid i had babysityters who would hold me down and tickle me unmercifully and it must have turned me on so now when i see it done hear about it beinfg done or have it done to me it drives me nuts especially when they use those tickle teasing words any ladies ouyt there this devious let me know

 

[Eternal Tomboy]

Raul....

rofl.....I guess I have to count myself among the old and feeble of our community (compared to these young scamps that is). I didn't discover the internet (or rather, get access to it) until about two years ago....and let me tell you that at this point puberty is a VERY distant memory for me.
So, you youngins better count your blessings that you got to find out so early on that you aren't alone in this little passion of ours. I think that if I had that knowledge back when I was 16, my dating years would have been easier. I probably would have found the guts to tell all the guys that I dated how much I loved tickling because I wouldn't have felt like such a weirdo.

Nahhh....who am I kidding? It's been over ten years since that point and I STILL feel like a weirdo (lol)! But at least now I've got company 😉

Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to go change my depends undergarments....

Maggie

 

[U.N.Owen]

If you were 16 around 10 years ago, you're younger than me -- so watch the old age jokes!😉

I was into tickling always, and "erotically" since puberty, but I didn't know there were others until 1994, when I first discovered the web in its primitive stages. I didn't have full time access to a graphical browser for years after that, though.

 

[Eternal Tomboy]

U.N. Owen

If you were 16 around 10 years ago, you're younger than me -- so watch the old age jokes!😉

lol...okay, maybe I'm not ready for depends yet. But I'm not 26 anymore either...although, in my head I haven't gotten past that point yet. I'm going to be coming up on 29 in about TWO WEEKS...I swear that will be the LAST birthday I celebrate. After this one it's going to be 29 forever! 😀

It's funny though (getting back to the tickling topic) that I didn't really start to tie tickling and sex together until my 20's. I knew I got turned on by it when I was young, but didn't realize how good it served as foreplay until about 22 or so. Late bloomer I guess. Now that I know though, it is almost a neccessary element in sex for me. I either have to fantasize about it, or actually be tickled in order to enjoy sex.

Maggie

 

[milagros317]

Definitely from early childhood. Among my earliest memories is from age 4, when I would be taken to visit with the little girl next door (then age 5). I was so happy in the summertime, that she was barefoot, and I could tickle her feet, which always caused her to want to get me back, which I loved.

 

[tickler29]

I guess I'm pretty much like everyone else. As a kid, I used to get my older sister to tickle me. I loved it. I also loved tickling other kids my age. It was just fun for me back then, but of course took on that new dimension as I got older. And like a lot of us, it took the internet late in my life to realize I wasn't the only one. 😛

 

[Raul]

Rock on Maggie, you're not getting older, you're getting better!🙂 I know, because I am too, and I need to know that there are at least two of us.

Raul

 

[vellicator]

Ah, Good thread

I guess this is a question that is asked many times among those
who are into tickling. As for me ever since I was a kid I was facinated with the concept, idea or the act of tickling. I must have started when I was about 4 or 5 and being held down in the back yard and tickled by a couple of neighbors ( both a brother and sister) who lived behind me. And especially the sister ( I think she was in her teens) would constantly want to see how ticklish I was in the ribs.
This no doubt set the stage and here I am today !!!!!



Marc

 

[jsg]

Count your blessings! How lucky you are! Try wrestling with this unique "bent" as a teenager and young adult, in 1976-1983!

Internet?! Modem?! Solefully Yours?! Downloading?! Newsgroups?!...

BACK IN MY DAY, we weren't able to find tickling stimuli in the comfort of our own homes! We had to roam the streets, risking life and limb to satisfy our rabid craving. And even then, were lucky to find some dusty copy of Penthouse Letters in the back of the adult bookstore, containing some lame "ticklish housewife" letter!

Raul,

It sounds like you've lived my life!!! I remember as a child getting that "weird" feeling in my stomach whenever I saw someone really getting tickled good. It wasn't until I went to college and happened to read a tickling story in a porno mag that I finally realized that there was a tickling underworld. The Internet has been like the icing on the cake for the last few years!!!

Lucklily I've been able to actually act out my fantasies over the last 18 years, converting a g/f and my first & second wife into ticklees. Still, the 'net is a good place to interact with others who've had the same life experiences.

Thanx TMF

JSG