Would the tickling community have existed if it were not for the internet

[tickleteasing]

Assume the internet was never created do you think there would have been a community of people who were in to tickling and if the internet had never existed where would you be right now with your fetish

 

[Comfort Eagle]

Tickle porn magazines existed pre-internet, so technically it did. A "community" in the more direct sense where a lot of people are talking about it routinely? Probably not.

 

[AJ2007]

We’d be meeting in the back of the bar probably 😂

 

[luvgirlsfeet]

It probably wouldn’t be as well known as it is today

 

[WickedTouch]

Assume the internet was never created do you think there would have been a community of people who were in to tickling and if the internet had never existed where would you be right now with your fetish

Assume the internet was never created do you think there would have been a community of people who were in to tickling and if the internet had never existed where would you be right now with your fetish

When I think of “the tickling community,” I think of all of the collective of individuals who are into the kink/fixation. The internet has certainly catalyzed its growth, but there was a community before the internet. And while it is larger and more connected than it ever has been thanks to technology, it is not one cohesive group. For that kind of “community,” there are many small communities, each with their own specific interests, values, goals, and all other manner of nuances that make them unique from the others. The TMF is an example of one of those communities, but you also have many other ones on other online platforms, as well as in-person ones.

I think the collective tickling community has existed for a very long time, much in the same way that the LGBT community, the disabled community, or other collective communities have—those people had broadly existed in the world pre-internet, but much like some of the individuals in those communities, they may not have always had a community group that they were aware of or were able to access.

So, people into tickling (“the community”) have existed pre-internet, but the internet facilitated connections and communications better than anything before it. People forming groups to connect with each other (or “communities”) have also existed pre-internet, but were much more difficult to create and coordinate.

Where would i be with my fetish? That’s a hard question to answer. Most of this is only a wild guess, but I assume I’d be much more suppressed in my awareness of it. I was very aware I had a strong interest in it before I ever got access to the internet, but it was the internet that let me know I was not alone and slowly broadened my thinking about it all. I almost certainly would have found some way to do more self-discovery, but I’m not especially social, and I was very shy about these things early on. I don’t know if I ever would have fully come out of that in a way where I’d feel comfortable exploring the kink universe as it existed pre-internet, and consequently never had engagement with the broader tickling community. I definitely would not have met my now wife, and that alone would have made my life profoundly different.

 

[TaciturnGaloot]

For better or worse the only thing the internet changed in all topics was having instant access to others with similar interest. There were people into tickling (and everything else) in 1933, 1749, and 1072. A demonstrable negative of the Internet is that it has given exponential rise to people saying wildly inappropriate things from the anonymous safety of their sequestered hiding place. In 1989 a jerk casting dispersions towards someone who held a different, but no more right or wrong, opinion had to do so face to face and was much more likely to get punched for being a dick.

Simpler times.....

 

[Silverflame3]

Of all the girls I've tickled I've met exactly zero in a tickling community. Other than having a few chats and exchanging some homemade pics, the existence of a "tickling community" had exactly zero impact on my life.

Porn, on the other hand, is a completely different matter. My first real experience with fetish content actually came from the back of an old gamer magazine. In the early 2000 some of these magazines had a list of internet sites listed at the back, like a phonebook catalogue. One image stood out to me right away, a small picture of a bare woman's foot. Next to it were the magical words that transformed my life forever: footfetish.com

 

[Ghostwriter727]

I would have still had most of the tickling interactions that I have had even without the internet, but "selling" my kinks to them was certainly made easier with internet sites like TMF and others.
Without them I would've probably seemed like a touchy creep, or some goofy handsy guy.😂

There have always been kinks, fetishes, and stranger fascinations than tickling throughout the ages, but internet has definitely brought our laugh club together better than ever.

Its hard to picture where I would be without the internet, but would still be checking out feet, legs, hips, and all the other ticklish regions of the ladies lovely silhouettes.😜

None the less; I'm glad that TMF and other sites exist because you are all great people, and its an honor to explore the adventures of touch, play, laughter, and possibilities with all of you.

Cheers for the internet!🍻

 

[duderino84]

I think in a way it would've forced me to be "happier" with what I "got".

Then again I think society is fucked in the head across the board. Everyone seems so indifferent to everything that tickling, no tickling, what does it matter, it's just whatever.

Nobody can hold a consistent conversation, I'm pretty sure tickling is the least of that worry.

 

[yinzer]

My intro into the kink world happened shortly after I turned 18 and I started making my way into the 'adult' sections of video stores, and I also started making trips to explore the adult book stores in the area. I think my first tickle content was a Calstar VHS I found at one of those stores if I remember correctly. I didn't even get to use the internet at all till I was 19, and this was at the community college I was attending at the time. I started exploring the internet tickling sites as a university student in my early 20's, which ended up leading me to sites like Realtickling, nylontickleparty(?), and Femfeet(?), and bought my first computer in 2000, which later led to the discovery of TMF. With the timing of the internet in my life, it's really tough to imagine an alternate trajectory without it, but the internet made finding and accessing content so much easier, that's for sure! As so many others have mentioned, the tickling community definitely existed, but it was much more fragmented and inaccessible before the internet.

 

[toebound]

There would have still been tickling communities just like there have been BDSM communities pre-internet, but the internet makes it easier to build connections. People still would have been into it enough to make communities, just maybe not to the extent the internet makes possible.