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Tickling fetishism is a sexual fetish in which participants derive sexual stimulation from tickling, or being tickled by, another person. Erotic tickling may involve the physical restraint of a submissive by a dominant. Although technically a BDSM activity, tickling is not fully recognised by the community and is relatively unknown in the mainstream.
In dominance and submission scenarios, sexual partners may agree upon a safeword to signal that the tickling should stop.
Different individuals may find tickling of virtually any region of the body to be pleasurable, and this fetish can also involve excitement just from watching others being tickled.
Most adults are known to enjoy tickling, either participating or
watching. It can play a part in
courting rituals, especially
among younger people, and can therefore be considered part of
foreplay for many partners in the term's
broadest sense.
However, people who claim to have a tickling fetish are likely to enjoy
this acivity to the exclusion of other pre-sex activities. For some,
the
focus is entirely on the tickling, with full intercourse less important
or not included at all.
People whose sexuality is based almost solely on tickling can be said
to
have a tickling fixation. This fixation may also exist outside of
sexual
contexts.
The amount of people who possess this fetish in its fullest sense is
unknown, but since the advent of the internet
there has been a growing online community with the popular
tickling media forum having over
75,000 members as of July 2008.Bibliography
Non-fiction
Moran, Michael. "Erotic Tickling". Greenery Press, 2003. ISBN 1890159468
Erotic fiction
(This entry in the BDSM Dictionary incorporates text from the Tickling fetishism article in Wipipedia.)
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