Hi guys. I've been accessing 8chan even since we were in the old website, and I've always seen a bunch of yall concerned with what people are gonna think of your fetish. And not gonna lie, that was me at some point too. It really was. I used to be concerned I'd never find love or be sexually fulfilled because I have a different fetish.
But that was a while ago. I'm in my mid to late 20s, and I've lived quite a while ever since (even though I've still got quite a few decades ahead of me), and as someone who has a life, friends, and has had their fair share of girlfriends, even while still spending a good amount of time at their computer, I'd like to share my thoughts.
Get out of your computers a little guys. And I don't mean in the "dopamine detox" kind of way they push into your head on youtube, I mean like, really just chill with using it. Stop trusting the internet so much. Everything here and anywhere else on the internet should be taken with a grain of salt. There's so much happiness and experiences to normal life that are so completely different from the negativity that is spread on the internet. People act completely different.
Like I've said, I've had my fair share of girlfriends and they were all definitely ok with the concept of tickling as a kink, and even bondage. The bondage part is a little freaky, yeah, but it's normalized, and you'll have a hard time finding someone who's a bitch about it, especially if that person loves you for who you are.
People I've told always considered it totally normal actually. I've got some weird looks yeah, but hey, it's unusual, so that's okay. In the end they don't even really care and still see me the way they did before.
No one - and I say NO ONE - thinks it's "childish and cringe", except the very sad gooners themselves, or maybe the ignorant girls you see on those redpill videos. But you guys can't begin to comprehend how much of a minority that is compared to all people in the real world.
Of course I don't go sharing it with everybody I meet, but the people who I do care about or girlfriends I've gotten never really cared. Just don't be a creep. No one is gonna judge you for this shit in the real world as long as you're just a normal dude, and if someone does, they are literally fundamentally in the wrong, so just remove them from your life.
And no, I'm not super handsome and buff, before anyone tries to claim it. In my life experience (which again is not very long but still fair), looking good is useless if you have a shit personality. While looking not great is completely okay if you have a great personality.
Also the stuff OP said in this thread "I can understand [insert insanely unusual and gross fetish], but tickling?"
No one ever fucking said this unless they have said gross fetish themselves.
So, stop worrying so much and just live your lives. You don't have to stop using 8chan or pretend not to like tickling. Just be chill about it. Live normally. Go out. Have fun. Meet people. It's really not as scary as you think.
You're just a normal guy who likes some unusual porn and and also watches it on the internet, like a billion other people. And that's okay.