Was tickling more enjoyable when you were younger?

[MaleTickleeDC]

First, I'm 33 years old, so "younger" is a relative term here. But it seems to me that I got a far greater high off the subject of tickling during my middle school, high school, and college days than I do now. I don't mean that the sensations are any different physically. I mean the psychological and emotional satisfaction that I garnered from tickling no longer seems as strong.

Has anyone else run into this issue? My theory is simply that the "mystery" has gone out of my tickling fetish, and so it's no longer as satisfying. I mean, for a high school kid with a tickling fetish, whose hormones are raging and who is just discovering the wonderful world of sexuality, the thought of engaging in tickling with a hot girl is pretty much the definition of paradise. That's because that was all new to me at that age: sex, tickling being sexual, girls and their newly developed, ahem, assets. And then of course there's college and the discovery of tickle porn, and of sites like this, where one can cyber tickle with other people. For someone with a tickling fetish, discovering those things for the first time is quite thrilling.

But as a 33 year old male, there is little mystery left in any of those things. Women are no longer mysterious vixens, though I suppose figuring out what a woman's thinking at any given time remains perplexing. And sexuality and tickling become no different than toast and coffee...just a normal part of life. Some of this is inevitable, but I wonder if a tickling fetishist is actually better off keeping some level of mystery or taboo attached to his or her fetish, in order to prevent the whole thing from becoming just another mundane aspect of life.

 

[TickleMyFancy]

Not for me. Tickling keeps getting more fun as I get older 🙂 sucks for you though 🙁

 

[Some1Getme]

Yes since the older I get, the less I am getting

 

[Comfort Eagle]

Nah. It was weird when I paid girls to tie me down when I was 6.

 

[luvgirlsfeet]

Tickling as always enjoyable for me since as far back as the mid 70's

 

[mxaxtxtx]

i know what you mean

Not that its necessarily less enjoyable, just a little less... Thrilling? It's like a scary roller coaster, the more you go on it, the less scary it gets. But you keep going on because its effing awesome.

 

[FLBowler]

It's gets better each year that goes by for me. Sorry to hear that isn't the case for you

 

[wishfoot88]

tickling seems to get weirder for me the older i get. when your a child, i think its better cause its all so innocent. when you move into teens it can be confusing, but still cute. young adult, still kinda cute, but most of the fetish exlporation would have been done in the early to mid teens, and though there are still alot of aspects to work out, alot of them would already have been found.
atm im an 18 yo virgin, in pretty much every meaning of the word really, the longest relationship ive had was 6 days, so ive not gotten my chance to experiment physically only really been able to explore ideas and whatnot.
so in that respect i suppose i have massive amounts to experience and explore.
on the other side, when it comes to internet content, i think im reaching the end to be honest.
my image collection ranges up to possibly 20,000 images (i know thats alot), and i cant find many old images that i have not seen before, meaning that i am left waiting for new stuff to be made. luckily for me it shows no sign of drying up anytime soon

 

[sporelord]

I agree with OP, there's something about the taboo, or the rarity of tickling when you're younger. Just like everything else, the more you do it the less unique every time gets.
And I totally agree with wishfoot, it's easy to become 'steeped' in it, thinking about it, fantasising about it, especially if you spend time on the forum. But the feeling can come back sometimes, that special giddy feeling you had when you were younger. I recently had a long absence from the forum. Not for any particular reason, it just happened that way. Didn't think about it for a while is all. Then one day, out of the blue, it just wandered into my head again and it was as if I was thinking about it for the first time again, it gave me chills. So maybe a bit of time not thinking about it is just what the doctor ordered if you're feeling that way.

 

[FLBowler]

tickling seems to get weirder for me the older i get. when your a child, i think its better cause its all so innocent. when you move into teens it can be confusing, but still cute. young adult, still kinda cute, but most of the fetish exlporation would have been done in the early to mid teens, and though there are still alot of aspects to work out, alot of them would already have been found.
atm im an 18 yo virgin, in pretty much every meaning of the word really, the longest relationship ive had was 6 days, so ive not gotten my chance to experiment physically only really been able to explore ideas and whatnot.
so in that respect i suppose i have massive amounts to experience and explore.
on the other side, when it comes to internet content, i think im reaching the end to be honest.
my image collection ranges up to possibly 20,000 images (i know thats alot), and i cant find many old images that i have not seen before, meaning that i am left waiting for new stuff to be made. luckily for me it shows no sign of drying up anytime soon

Awwwwwh Wishfoot, you gotta just keep trying to find someone, or even set up a session with a model group or someone here on the forums, it's alot of fun, but just got to make sure that the timing is right and not over try. It's all about fun and having that feeling.

 

[Nextrend2011]

I can see where your point comes, but when it comes to life, keeping that spark / mystery is all in your hands. If you choose to view something as a "solved mystery" that has no more paths, then unfortunately that's how it'll end up dying...purposely use creativity to make new paths and the spark will slowly rise back to full flame!

As for the overall question, tickling is actually way more enjoyable now than it was when I was a kid. As a kid, it was all about punishment and other kids just plain ol' being mean to me....however....now that I've embraced it as a "kink" of sorts, it's become fused with my sexuality and yeah....you can imagine the rest 😀

 

[MaleTickleeDC]

Interesting responses. To be sure, my high point for tickling being psychologically thrilling was probably college. That was the first time I actually found websites like these, in their very early form of course, complete with videos, photos, stories, and the realization that there were others out there "like me," who I could then chat with/cyber tickle with online.

But like sex, I think 90 percent of any fetish is mental. As a few responses pointed out, keeping things fresh lies in creativity, variety, etc.

 

[Coda]

Yes, definitely, MaleTickleeDC. I think all fetishes for me were almost contingent on the fact that you don't know why you have them. Whatever force is behind them existed in principle before you did, and you find yourself in a life in which you're not even aware of them, but are undeniably subject to them.

Growing up and learning about different people, social dynamics, the brain, biology, and just thinking through situational permutations helps us come to terms with some of those things and accept their natural-ness. Ultimately I'd rather learn more about reality -- understand why such intensity was ever present in us -- even if that leads to life-changing disillusionment. But using our imaginations, art and literature, we can still embody, enjoy and share the earlier feeling, and maybe even discover new ones that didn't occur to us earlier.