Sorry, I couldn't keep quiet on this one any longer....
The outpouring of support for this kid is heartening, but the snipes and jabs at his friend (If I'm reading right, she's not even close to being a girlfriend) are petulant and unnecessary.
To our young friend, badreligion; So, it's her fault for not being all giggly, cooing and supportive when you decided to start talking about what you liked? Give the girl a break, you told her about something that turned you on, and she thought it was weird. Where is the law that says she has to be extra-special-careful and not hurt your feelings? Maybe she had a bad experience with tickling in her past, and it freaked her out, and she was being as polite as she could be; did you ever stop to think about that? No, of course not, because you were too busy whimpering over your own hurt feelings. Suck it up. If you want to talk about what arouses you to someone who isn't a significant other, they have NO obligation to not hurt your feelings about it. Or does she not have a right to be freaked out, because it's what YOU like? You're young, and I'm sure your feelings were hurt, but this whole, "Yeah, you're right...it's her problem" attitude will not serve you well.
A few comments talked about other people "not looking from another person's eyes" or the like about it......How about the same courtesy, from this end? I'm really tired of people slamming so-called "normal" people for not being more "open-minded" and "understanding" about our interest. Why should they have to be? Isn't it everyone's right to like they like, and not like what they don't? Don't be so damn thin-skinned.
It's a fetish. Most people don't need it to become aroused. That's what makes it a fetish, dig? Just as we're not all that freaky for liking it, "normal" people aren't all that weird or repressed for not liking it. Just be glad when you find someone who likes it. Deal with it.
: Opening my arms, eagerly awaiting the flood of whine..... :