What were your first thoughts?

[southerntklr]

What were your first thoughts when you found out that you weren't alone with your tickling fetish? How did it happen, and what has been the results since then?

 

[leafstk]

Well I was overjoyed to find this forum and realize that I indeed wasn't alone in this fascination 🙂 It's helped me to realize that there are many others out there like me who enjoy our favorite past time and has given me more confidence to accept myself for it... before I found this place I seriously questioned myself about it, as I'm sure many others here did too 🙁 Its helped me to bring tickling into more of my relationships and has been a great outlet for expression 😀 Thankyou TMF! 😀 😀

 

[TicklishSinner]

I thought it was pretty cool seeing how many others out there have the same fetish also it was awesome to make as many new friends as i did and how open these people were especially since i was 19 when i got here i thought no one would talk to me, but i was wrong

 

[chrisheaven]

Well I was overjoyed to find this forum and realize that I indeed wasn't alone in this fascination 🙂 It's helped me to realize that there are many others out there like me who enjoy our favorite past time and has given me more confidence to accept myself for it... before I found this place I seriously questioned myself about it, as I'm sure many others here did too 🙁 Its helped me to bring tickling into more of my relationships and has been a great outlet for expression 😀 Thankyou TMF! 😀 😀

I completely agree.
I could not put it any better ( or indeed as well)

 

[Knox The Hatter]

There was a guy who came aboard the ship a month or two before I got out. I think he liked guys. I do remember that at the very least, he was playing with a Pinochle deck of 43 cards with five low numbers that got in there. Anyway, he became the Mad Tickler. I remember he attacked this other newbie on board, a young kid in the Electronics division, and even asked me to help. I think that was an indication that I wasn't alone, although I would've liked the young Electronics Technician to be a girl. He said to me, "here, have a foot."
I think after I got out, I heard the guy wound up in an institutional setting, for what I don't know. I know it was a time when Mr. Reagan's Navy was taking in anyone to get the numbers up, and by this time, they weren't too picky anymore.

 

[Mitchell]

My tickling fetish came along gradually. I've had the foot fetish since the age of reason, and started asking babysitters I had to smell their feet from about the age of 5 (As unappetizing as that sounds)
The first time I can ever remember tickle torturing a girl was the summer I was 12. We had these two couneslors in camp, Christine and Adina, and we used to tickle torture their feet every chance we got.
After that, I gradually read articles about tickling in foot magazines, and tickled a couple of girls in college.
I didnt really realize it was a "fetish" until years later. In 1997, when I was 27, I was scanning through a Leg Show magazine, and saw an ad of a male into tickling. I wrote to him, and a great friendship began. His name was Don Fraser, and he was into tickling.
For the next five years, I had female pen pals, and so did he. Don and I would write to our female pen pals, ask them if they were ticklish, and report to each other word for word on their answers. Between 1996, and the present, (Although I dont do it as much now, I'll explain why in a minute) I've gotten about 60-70 answers from female letter pals around the country, not counting the girls I've talked to in the TMF.
Tragically, Don never lived to see me find TMF. He died on July 16,2002, less than two months before I joined. It is ironic, my pen pal who became a great friend who I used to discuss tickling with, never lived to see me find this great place to discuss tickling 24-7. I dedicate my TMF membership to his memory, and the letters I shared with him, and know I never would have gotten into tickling, or found TMF without him. For that, Iam grateful.

Mitch

 

[KoocheeKoo]

My first thoughts? Relief...a feeling of "thank God...I'm NOT alone...I'm not the only guy on earth who enjoys tickling a pretty girl now and then".

Thanks TMF...and to those who made it possible, and the many members who make it so great! 🙂

 

[Double T]

I remenber seaching feverishly through my father's collection of Penthouse magazines, thinking "I can't possibly be the only one who feels this way!" For the longest time, I didn't understand it, but couldn't find another mention, untill, boy oh boy, I found it! A letter from someone just like me! There was hope! There was at least two of us! Exploration led to other fetish publications, proving to me more and more that i wasn't alone. Finaly, going through ads in those magazines like links to websites, I found TFTA, in which the TMF was predominantly featured. I decided to buy a computer right then and there. It's a decision I've never regretted. Not only a bunch of folks with the same mindset, but damn nice ones, too!

 

[darvon96]

Still looking for conformation...

I'm positive that the magazines, the video companies, the old dial-up BBS's, the story sites, the pay sites, the web clip sites, the live interactive sites, AMT, ABMET, TickleTheater, the TMF and especially ALL YOU PEOPLE, are simply figments of my imagination. I believe I've been in a coma since 1978. I just hope I don't wake anytime soon.

What's this? Is that a vanilla sky? ... TECHNICAL SUPPORT! TECHNICAL SUPPORT!...

Darv

 

[Ayla ny]

For me it was more along the lines of, “oh my God, that’s IT!!!”

I was overjoyed! it made SO much sense! then I got to deal with what finding ‘It’ meant to the life I’d been living.

now I’m here. I like here! 😀

 

[sugarmouse]

i was just sohappy to find this forum and discover i wasnt totally weird! although whenmy then -fiance found out i had been on here he made me feel a freak again..but now i have rid of him and im open about it and its thanks to the tmf!😉

 

[Deleted member 2452]

i saw a magazine

in it was articles about tickling. it was a main stream magazine shop, with a few x-rated items. like playboy, pent house etc..
when i saw the cover i know my eyes bugged out! i rember thinking "wow, there are so many others like me out there ,that there is a call for stories, and articles!" i figured i wasn't alone after all. a most welcome feeling too.

steve

 

[gila67]

My first thoughts were of amazement; it was a great surprise learning it wasn't just me who was into this. Where did I first learn it? I guess it was from the Penthouse magazines, but what amazed me even more was seeing a few videos in a local video store. It was like "wow, people have actually made videos on the subject?"

 

[EvlJester]

I was really happy to find out how many people liked the samething that i do... and i am even happier that i am with sinner who introdused me to the forum.

 

[Drago69]

I must be like the only one who never once thought I was alone. I never cared. Also, when it was confirmed I wasn't, I could've cares less. All I cared about were the pics and stuff.

Though, this was when I was like 13 (19 now). Unrelated to the TMF and stuff.

 

[natural tickler]

Well, I really wouldn't say in my case it was a 'fetish' per se, because growing up in the family we all loved tickling and tickling each other. It was when I saw this forum, that there was people who loved as much or if not more than I did, then it made me more comfortable, and not ashamed to tickle anywhere😛

 

[Mitchell]

An additional point to all this. This "first thought" occured to me after I got this computer.
In June, 2002, shortly after I got this computer, I received a TOS (Terms of Service) violation from AOL for asking tickle questions to another girl in an AOL chat, after she reported me for doing so. After that, I basically laid low for a couple of months about the tickling, and then came Don's death, which hit me hard for a while, where I didnt even care to talk about tickling.
Finally, in August, I was surfing the web, and just decided to type in keyword "Tickling", and there it was. I began going into the TMF in the old old room without security passwords, (Where a lot of adventures occurred with trolls, as many of us remember) After that, it just took off, and I became a regular member. It was amazing to me to find a group of online people with the same interests as myself, in a place where tickling is the subject (most times!) 24/7/ 365. A place where it was actually ACCEPTABLE to talk tickling, feet, bondage, and other fetishes. It was comforting to learn that I was not alone in my fetish, where there were other people similar to me, and where I would "fit in" and not be considered a "freak" or otherwise. (Except that I know Iam different from most of you due to my ladder questions) Hey, we all have our things!
My point in all this is that it was comforting to find an accepting group of people and a place where my fetish was not taboo. The TMF, over the last almost two years, has heightened my interest in tickling, made me understand it more from sharing experiences on here, and made me accept myself and tickling for both who Iam because of my tickling interest, what tickling is, and how it affects my life. This is the most important aspect of my TMF membership for me, in addition to the friendships I have made here over the past two years. It has helped in molding who Iam about my fetish, and how I feel about it. For all these reasons, Iam grateful for TMF and the great job that Myriads and the other mods do of keeping this place running every day. If it were not for them, I would not have this great place to come to where I have established online comradery, but I also wouldnt be able to explore and grow my tickling fetish as I have since Aug 2002.

Mitch

 

[steph]

Great question!
Well, hmmmm...I've always been pretty happy girl and didn't really feel alone (in college I dated a few guys who obviously were "one of us") Having graduated more than 15 years ago, I just felt a little like something was missing. I stumbled upon this place and it was light the proverbial light going off in the head, ya know? Like "Oh yeah...THIS IS IT!"

XOXO

 

[fitnesstickle]

First reaction would have been .... Waaaaaaaaaaahoooooooooooooooooo.
I'm not the only one.😀