In my case my initial fetish was for stocking feet, and I can still recall the moment when I first felt attracted to them. It was a UK soap opera called Crossroads, I was about four or five (late 70s/early 80s) and one of the characters had her tan stocking soles facing the camera. I was immediately fascinated by them, but didn’t understand why I suddenly felt a bit ‘tingly’. This sensation would continue each time I saw female stocking feet - usually a grown woman, which was also part of the appeal - until one day I just worked out that I enjoyed looking at female stocking feet. The tickling fetish is just an off-shoot of this, but a prominent one nonetheless.
When I was about seven I saw Catherine Bach's tan stocking feet get tickled by David Copperfield during a magic trick. The feet were fake, of course, but seeing her trapped and tickled and her squirming, giggling reactions planted the seeds of my tickling fetish.
The second one is the Holy Grail of UK tickling clips, as it happened in 1985 and has remained more or less unseen until recently. Puppeteer Rod Hull had a puppet called Emu, who would often attack people by clamping his 'beak' over their mouth. In this instance, however, he attacked BBC Breakfast host Selena Scott, yanked her shoes off and proceeded to tickle her black stocking soles. At ten years old, this was one of the most exciting things I'd ever seen - her laughter, her frantic squealing, the squirming...I’d never seen anything like it. Thankfully, it still stands the test of time today!
The following year, aged eleven, I had my first tickling experience when I tickled my aunt's greyish white stocking feet. She wasn’t ticklish but liked the tickling sensation as it relaxed her. This was enough for me and I was happy to do so. She was happy for me to tickle her feet for her, and I've been a fan ever since!
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