One "why tickling is my favorite kink in the world" minifesto coming right up

In a lot of ways I don't think it's very much different from sex. It's both deeply sensual and deeply intimate, it relies on touch and stimulation, there's a lot of SQUIRMING around and uncontrollable noises made, at least one party member is flushed and panting by the time it's over. I love when fingers are used the most because that's when it's at peak intimacy--you're feeling the person all over you (or the other way around) giving the gentlest of touches that manage to nudge all these reactions out of your body and mouth and you just -feel- them in all over you even when it's really only five or ten digits on your body. I love that the image of fingers wiggling threateningly alone can trigger a sort of fight or flight response from the body or even make the person giggle before it's even begun.

I love when it's used in fluffy contexts but I also love the rarer instances when it's explored in darker contexts. A lot of people hate being tickled, some people actively fear it and it's easy to see why--it gets into non-consensual touching territory fast, it can get downright unpleasant when oxygen is being forcibly depleted from your lungs, and people in general -really- do not take "no" for an answer when finding out someone is ticklish. And because it doesn't do any lasting physical harm, it can be easy for an abusive party member to exploit--hell, it's even been used as torture in real life because of the no "harmful" side effects. And just as feeling that you love person all over you can be wonderful and pleasurable and it can be a -nightmare- when that same feeling is being brought by someone you don't want to be intimate with, or someone who's ignoring your boundaries.

tl;dr I love tickling it's my bulletproof 10/10 will cum every time kink and I think there's a lot of amazing psychological layers to unpack from it though that the end of the day it's all about the SQUIRMING