Why Tickling?

[Texas_Tickle]

Up until now, only a handful of people know I'm into tickling... as far as I'm concerned it's on a need-to-know basis. It's not that I'm ashamed, embarrased, or in "a closet". It's just I feel that I don't need to go around broadcasting it. My best friend found out (by accident) on day when he was at my place going thru my DVD/VHS stash and found a VHS from Cal-Star and asked me what it was... so I decided to let the cat out of the bag, and he made some jokes like "You're only 28, and you're already a dirty 'ol man". But I didn't care, as I was living my life as I want to live it. And if I'm not hurting anybody, or if what I am doing is not illegal, then why should anybody have a problem with it?

Well, yesterday he let it slip to his fiance about my love for tickling and she was far less judgemental than he was, and said "So, why did you choose tickling". I thought for a few seconds and said "I didn't choose it. It chose me", which is how I honestly feel. She kept asking "But why tickling", and I didn't know "why". It was always a part of me, I just never questioned it.

But the more I got to thinking about "why", this is what I came up with:

Well, tickling produces laughter, which has been medically proven to reduce stress and promote an overall healhier person, and satfisies a very basic human need... the need for touch and human contact.

I don't know if that's a good enough answer for "why", but it works for me

 

[luvgirlsfeet]

Because it's sooooooooooooooooo much freaking fun to watch your lee squirm

 

[Texas_Tickle]

Because it's sooooooooooooooooo much freaking fun to watch your lee squirm

Possibly the greatest reason of all!

 

[Ticklerguy4u]

why tickling?? i would ask why not tickling???

Every person in love does it. Every person in lust does it. Every person in friendships does it. Every person that is flirting does it.

We ticklephiles just say "why save it for when you are in love, lust, flirting or friendship when there is twenty-four hours in a day to enjoy it."

Nobody questions why a person likes to play sports everyday or why a person loves to read books everyday.

 

[Vae]

I have no freakin' idea. It's just something that gets me more turned on than most things. Apparently I've been this way probably my whole life. Before I was sexually developed, tickling made me feel very, very awkward and it was scary. When I got older, the feeling was the same but it was becoming sexual. I came out of the closet, as it were, for the first time when I was 19.

It changes all the time for me, what I like and don't like. Somedays I can't stand be tickled, other days that's all I want.

I'm okay with it now. Sometimes I wish I didn't have it. Sometimes I think it's an awesome fetish to have. *shrugs* But I have it and that's fine.

 

[LItickleree]

Because it's sooooooooooooooooo much freaking fun to watch your lee squirm

definitly. But yea, i dont feel i chose it, it just kinda happened. Do i sometimes wish i didnt feel the way i did about it yes, do i sometimes wish that it wasnt sexual to me sometimes, yes. But ive learned to deal with it and embrace it, but still havent come outta the closet about it lol.

 

[Texas_Tickle]

I'm okay with it now. Sometimes I wish I didn't have it. Sometimes I think it's an awesome fetish to have. *shrugs* But I have it and that's fine.

Yes, sometimes it's a blessing and sometimes, it's a curse. But I would have it no other way.

 

[NavelTickler75]

Yes, sometimes it's a blessing and sometimes, it's a curse. But I would have it no other way.

I totally agree with what you flatfoot, and Vae all said

 

[milagros317]

I never chose tickling (nor an interest in women's feet), they just have always been a part of me as far back as I can remember, which is to age four.

 

[lespieds]

Well when I was younger, someone had touched my wrist while doing something else, and it felt really weird. Not weird like the way Joan Rivers looks after another face lift, but something I never felt before, I hated it really.
But sometime after that, My big sister had taken to to some amusement park called Cedar Point, and the lady fastening the band around my wrist had long nails and was fumbling around trying to get it to fasten. There was that feeling again... 😀 I about died! It felt very sexy! I later masturbated thinking about it.
That is how I discovered it. My wrists are more sensitive than any other part of my body. Not even my pecker is that much...

Yes I am a lee. And that is when I knew tickling chose me.

 

[Sammi-chan]

I never think about why anymore. I used to ask myself that from time to time, but I don't anymore. It's not something I need to know. For whatever reason, tickling is a part of me. I have a desire to be touched, to be pushed into helpless laughter, and I enjoy that. I didn't chose this. It's just been with me my entire life. And anything that's been there that long becomes a part of you. So I can either embrace this part of me, or try to ignore it and let it wither and leave something emptier behind. I think it adds something to me, though. Makes me more interesting. More fun. I'm even a proud of it, to tell you the truth. But where it came from doesn't concern me. It's just a matter of living it and having fun.

 

[Texas_Tickle]

My current theory is that as I was younger and going through sexual development, I was fascinated by the concept of unbearable/pleasurable sensations(before ever experiencing an orgasm), mixed with restraint.

That could be it for me as well. Even when I was still a child, there was always something about the thought of tickling would "do something" to me. Then as I hit puberty, and became sexually-aware, I would have a recurring dream, where I was naked and tied spread-eagle to a bed, and a smoking hot girl would tickle the crap out of me....and those were some of the most vivid and intense dreams I ever recall having. And all of this, before I was even aware of bondage

But for the better part of my life, I kept tickling to myself...after all I was the only person in the entire world with this fetish, right? And it wasen't until 10 yrs ago or so, when by chance I stumbled (by accident) onto a tickling web page, and I thought "If there is one, there has to be more", and little did I know, there was an entire community.... and entire world that shared my passion.

 

[David.s]

Who knows? I was never really tickled, or able to tickle, all that much as a kid, and nothing specific I can remember ever happened back then that "set it off" or anything. I vaguely associated it with sexual stuff - or what I thought of as sexual - when I was a very young child, and what I have now has just developed out of that I guess. Either way, I've never found it helpful to scour through the dim and distant past searching for some obscure early experience that may or may not have somehow triggered these things off. It's very difficult to tell and, in any case, who cares? It's what we think and feel about tickling today that's important, not why we do it. Like Sammi-chan, I see it as a kinda cool thing about me, something to be cherished and almost proud of - certainly not an embarrassment or affliction anyway, even if it can be frustrating at times - so its origin just isn't important to me.

That said, I'm an annoyingly affectionate and touchy feely type of person - I have a huge desire to touch and be touched, to just cuddle and hold someone, crap like that - so I can definitely say my love of tickling has something to do with that. Although my tastes in tickling aren't necessarily super vanilla - I can definitely be evil at times anyway 😉 - so maybe not.

Interestingly, having always thought of myself as being pretty much exclusively a ler, I've recently begun to act like much more of a switch and to desire being tickled waaaay more. I mean I'm still totally a ler at heart, and tickling is what I love to do, but it is odd how quickly these extra quirks can develop. Any explanations for random changes in tickling preferences?

 

[Luv2Tickle69]

It's all about the laughter (elicited from the 'lee OR what the 'ler gets out of YOU)....the human contact....the delight in watching a 'lee react....and if you're especially geared to tickling certain areas of the body, the RUSH you get in being able to do it TO those areas, along with what's aforementioned to go with it...it's intimate...flirtatious....sensual....exciting....and just plain damn fun....and for me, the experience varies from 'lee to 'lee and 'ler to 'ler.

 

[TickledToDeath]

Why Tickling?
Why Not?

It's just sooooooooooooooo much fun!(either side)