When did you discover you were not alone?

[Terra_Ascension]

Very simple question - just as the title says!

I, for one, always thought I was the only one in the whole world who liked tickling - how many of you were like this too?

And if you were like this, when and how did you find out that you were definitely not the only ticklephile in the world?

For me, it was doing a search on the net. I was 16 years old. Imagine my surprise and delight (and relief 🙂 ) when I found out I was by far and away, NOT the only one!
Not only that - I found out that there are MANY others!

This was how and when I found that I was not alone.

How and when did it happen to you?

Looking foward to everyone's story!

TA

 

[ScotsTickler]

I was 18 when i first found out. I was at university, living at the dorms and i didn't have a computer so i had to use the public ones. One day after finishing what i needed to do i decided to kill time browsing. At some point it occured to me to google 'tickling' (i had never had internet at home, which is why i'd never done this till 18). I came across some sites with stories😀 (tklovers and josie were the main ones). This was the first time i'd ever come across fiction just for tickling, i loved it! I had to avoid looking at pics and vids since it was a public computer room and i didn't want to be caught with those on the screen, but the stories kept me there for hours.

Usually i never used the computers that much, but after that i was there several times a week

 

[toyou444]

I had an inkling that I wasn't THAT abnormal when I found a variation magazine around the age of 13/14 that featured tickling on the cover with a story and several letters. (I'm ashamed to say I shoplifted that magazine.)

Later, in senior high and college I was amazed to see other people, even women who would tickle other people as much I did. Now I never asked them specifically if they were "into" it or not, but looking back with the wisdom of a couple more decades behind me and I'm sure at least a few were. Although I doubt they ever searched the internet like I did back in 1996, or have a couple thousand plus posts like I do.

Of course the web had brought it all home for me, like so many others. And with the creation and mainaining of the TMF I feel as normal as guys who are boob men or leg men.

I have two close friends who both know I love to tickle and be tickled. One has admited to me that she too has always been that way and that, like me, with her husband it can be quite intimate and yet with others it can be just fun without all the sexual overtones.

My wife is so much more accepting than she was even a few years ago and that is as much as I can ask. She is not hardwired the same way I am and I don't expect her to "get it" anymore than I would anyone else.

I get to do my fair share of real life tickling and associate with some of the fine denziens of this board via the internet...how much better could it get?

~ toyou

 

[MasterTT]

An exception

Oddly, I have been into tickling and BDSM (Dominance) since long before I knew what BDSM was. I honestly believe I was born with it. But, perhaps it's my ego... I NEVER felt alone about it. I never felt weird. I just always assumed that it was just part of liking girls. The only thing I ever felt a little weird about was the fact that I realized how much I loved women LONG before my other friends exited the cooties stage, but I was also way more advanced even as a pre-school kid than anyone else so I thought it was the same kinnda thing... but beyond that I never felt odd for anything to do with my sexuality. Even now I don't, I tend to think alot of people would like it if they tried it... I think repression of desire is odd. I guess it's one more thing I should thank my great parents for, but they always taught me to think for myself, so it all came as kind of normal to me.

 

[Scinsor]

I guess I always knew I wasn't alone. It never seemed all that odd to me, being into tickling. It just seemed natural (which it is, of course).

 

[tickle_fan03]

I thought I was very much alone and rather strange to like tickling.I think I realised when I was about 10 or 11 something like that when I realised I seemed to want it more than others did.Because I thought it was so strange I tried to block it out of my mind for a few years,well until I got the internet anyway a couple of years later.It was then I discovered Yaqi's World-I thought it was fantastic.As I got a bit older then I got a bit braver and decided to venture out and actually join tickle forums,the first forum I joined was called Tickle Lovers,now know as Tickling Community.I thought that it was an amazing forum because EVERYONE was so welcoming and friendly there.And it was then I realised I really wasn't alone.Having tickle forums has definately brought me out of my shell (well online anyway.lol.).I'm now part of 4 tickle forums and I've met some brilliant people on all of them.The only downside being that the majority of people I've become close to live in the USA whilst I'm here in the UK.So that's my next step one day,to step away from the computer and venture out over the pond!! 🙂

 

[David.s]

Not so many years back - I was maybe 14? - I discovered you could find tickling stories, short tickling clips, etc on the internet, and not long afterwards I found this place. I have to say I don't remember feeling particularly pleased by my discovery though - in a way I'd sortof assumed there'd be communities like this anyway and, to be honest, there were too many people who kept talking about sex and feet and not tickling, lol. Plus a million weirdos who seemed far to obsessed with their fetish to a point where they'd litter every conversation they had with some tickling thing and weren't interested in getting to know anyone properly. And the fact this place seems 99% American when I'm not wasn't all that encouraging either. 😛 Heh, that is incredibly annoying actually... it'd be fun to talk to more people who weren't thousands of miles away and shared the same timezone anyway!

Recently I've started checking these sort of places out again though and, low and behold, this place seems pretty cool now. 🙂 Or at least it's good enough to bother making this post! So it's really only recently that I've stopped feeling alone I guess.

 

[MrMidnyte]

i was 17. found out when i started surfin' the net

 

[isabeau]

when i joined this forum..

 

[Cave In]

I was 15, not long after I got the net, decided to type in tickling into google. Couldn't believe what i found. And the rest as they say is history

 

[yahrgoupie]

You know, as a straight guy who likes seeing other guys tickled, I never thought I would find anyone else who shared the same feelings about the subject. I blame a few things for getting me into tickling (The Three Stooges being chief among them), but, that is another story all together. I found out, about 10 years (more or less) ago, that there were others like me. My family had never really decided we needed a computer until I was about 16. My mom wanted to get one for the house, so we did (now I cannot live without mine 😛). I decided to see what the internet had to offer for my interest. As with everyone else that found people like them on the internet, I searched for "tickling". The first site I ever got really hooked on was Jack's Rack (it's sad that it's gone, but, there is an new site that is doing a great job of coming up with a similar feel!). I was blown away that there were people like me. Not all necessarily straight, mind you, but I don't care about that. As long as there was someone else like me I was happy. I delved into the stories (the non-sexual ones, anyway) with great relish. Then, for some reason, tickling just...I don't know...dropped of the radar for awhile. Until recently I didn't have much of a collection of any kind, but, now I am downloading clips or watching them on a regular basis on certain sites. Saving pics and the whole nine. It's good to know there are others! 🙂

 

[kengibson2001]

I've never really been in the closet so to speak as far as tickling. NOw admitting it's now a fetish of mine, that's another story. My girlfriend told me I had a tickling fetish yesterday, and she doesn't even know I am on this site. God help if she knew.

I always thought most enjoy being tickled or ticklikng other people.

I have not let a another man tickle me since I am 12 and would not even consider it today. SO I guess it has something to do with sex.

 

[spareme]

I had an inkling that I wasn't THAT abnormal when I found a variation magazine around the age of 13/14 that featured tickling on the cover with a story and several letters.

Unbelievable, I may have seen the same issue of Variations. My family was very open sexually. My Dad subscribed to Playboy and that was the only magazine we had on our coffee table. When we had to do collages for school they always had a lot of whiskey glasses and sports cars in them.
My Dad used to keep his favorite magazine "Variations" in his bathroom. once I had to use his throne and saw the title of a story that had to do with tickling, I was about twelve, and I knew something was different. I didn't know there was such a following until I started lurking here last year. Every day is a new experience.

 

[LoveSoles81]

When i was younger in high school and started searching Yahoo for tickling pictures. I learned there was others that had the same fetish.

 

[tklfiend]

I always suspected there must be other people who shared my "interest" but didn't know for sure until I read a letter in an old girlie magazine. After that I began to realize that some people I'd know all along (including a few relatives) must have been into tickling judging from their actions. In fact it was one of them who first made me realize I had a fetish --- he was holding me down and tickling me to death and when he finally let me go I realized (to my embarrassment) I was aroused, which is odd because I'm definitely a lee and not a ler, but it showed me I had more than a casual interest in tickling.

 

[indivision]

I guess it was back in 1996 when I first started using the Internet. I was playing around on Yahoo one day, and suddenly got the bright idea to type in the word "tickling." That was when I found Oblesklk's Tickle Central. From there, I eventually found several other tickling websites.

And that, my friends, is how I realized I was not alone.

Though, I have to admit, I was a little disappointed to find that most of the tickling stuff on the net at the time featured women tickling women. I was hoping to find some f/m stuff.

 

[4stringslinga]

Like a few others when i was about 12 i was using a computer that had internet! (Back then that was rare amongst the people i know, most of the people around me are technology illterate.) I searched "tickling" and came across that true tickling archives site. Been hooked ever since. 🙂

 

[He-Man]

I was probably not even 15, and while searching on the 'net, I wondered: could there be others into tickling?...Only one way to find out.

I typed in "tickling" in the search engine and a ton of sites came up (of course, I couldn't get into em at the time)

Then when I was 17, I found the Tickle Hotel site (first tickling site I ever went on), AOL's tickling chatrooms and newsgroups ..and then I found sites like Magic Touch Productions...although I was addicted to going to the Real Tickling site a little more. Mostly cause it had the sexy Priscilla James on the first page(even back then I REALLY wanted to be tickle-tortured by her). I think that's when I knew I was more of a lee than ler (I knew I'd enjoy tickling someone like her, but I'd really really really enjoy her torturing me, much much more)

 

[mike273273]

I discovered I was not alone in 1995 when I had the internet. I"d search for "tickling" on search engines and find pics, stories etc.. I then realized other people liked tickling or being tickled!

MIke

 

[Terra_Ascension]

Very interesting how most of us discovered we were not alone through the net.

Just an observation.

TA

 

[Knox The Hatter]

All you peeps are so young, you all had Internet access!

When I was 19, there was no such thing.

I was in Navy Boot Camp up in Great Lakes. In the middle of my 'Service Week'. While everyone else in my company was working in the chow hall, waking up at 3AM, and working straight up till 9PM, for a whole week, I had skate duty, working in a drill hall. One night, with nothing much to do, I skimmed through what we called in the Navy, "fuck books". Porno magazines, paperbacks, all fell under the category of "fuck books". How they allowed this material in the drill hall, I'll never know, nevertheless, they were there.

In one, I found a story that involved tickling. In the story, some sorry SOB meets some girl, who cruelly ties him up (the context of the story, gang LOL!), and tickles him, and after she's done, he discovers the meaning of life, if you know what I mean. After I finished the story, I was dumbfounded. My adrenoline raced. I couldn't believe that there were other people on the planet who liked this, too, although in my case, it would've involved a situation 180 degrees opposite, with the girl tied down on the table, but, nevertheless, it was a moment. Another guy doing his Service Week in the drill hall, in fact, came over and asked if I was okay, since I had this look on my face like I just saw the ghost of Elvis. "Uh, yeah. I'm fine..."

a few years later, some guy reported aboard my ship, who wasn't screwed too tightly anyway, but he was a genuine, five-star ticklephile. He tickled ANYBODY. I never discussed it with him, since I was open with no one in those days about this business, but, like, you know another one when you see one. I think for him, it was more a control thing than anything else. I don't think I'd have liked him touching me, and I'm glad that never happened. Hey, you know, if he were a TMF member nowadays, it wouldn't surprise me in the least.

It was great finding out I wasn't alone.

 

[Texas_Tickle]

Very simple question - just as the title says!

I, for one, always thought I was the only one in the whole world who liked tickling - how many of you were like this too?TA

Oh shit, welcome to my world. All my life I seriously thought something was mentally wrong "upstairs" because I would always get turned on by tickling (even at a very young age)

I spent the better part of my life, thinking I was the only person walking God's green earth who had a think for tickling, then just to see what would happened, I went to Lycos (this is before Google) and typed in "ticking" and found quite a few sites, and you would have no idea what a relief it was to know that I was not the only one, and I was very sane and rational.

I remember quie frequenly having a dream of being tied to by bed and an asian girl (I had a thing for asians) would start to tickle me.

Damn I have not been able to dream like that in years.