Is he willing to tickle men, or does he only want to tickle women? As a woman with a tickling fetish (into being tickled), I’ll be honest that it can definitely have sexual arousal and romantic chemistry tied to it. To keep it strictly transactional, there are women (not me) who can be hired as a Read more… ticklee. I don’t know anyone who has hired one of them personally, but I do believe that they are not prostitutes, meaning it will be strictly tickling and not progress further than that.
Blacksheep made some very good points about your desires mattering also. And in terms of whether you should give up, only you know how your needs are being met or not. How you are feeling is totally valid. I would feel similarly if the person I was with wanted to explore a fetish with other people because I wasn’t into it enough.

I think eyemblacksheep is right, no specific label. You can also think of it as orgasm control with verbal taunting?

Hmm, if it scares them, they are not the right person for me. I'd rather know that early on than invest myself in a relationship only to find out later that our ideas of intimacy are not compatible. Once I start to care about someone, I can make all sorts of excuses why it's "okay" that they're Read more… not into bondage, D/s play, or my kinky fetishes...but in doing so, I am taking a pro-active role in depriving myself of what I really want. Once mutual attraction has been established, dropping flirty, kinky innuendos is going to draw the right girl/guy/person to you, rather than repel them. Is what we're really afraid of less about about scaring them, and more about being judged and rejected?
I can't speak for all female kinksters (nor do I know if you are interested in women, men, either/both), but personally, I find it very attractive when a man can express his interests with confidence and is eager to learn about mine. That played a huge role in drawing me to my current Dominant partner. It's certainly not easy to risk being vulnerable and open about our non-vanilla cravings, but I have found the pay off to be worth it.

Even though the D/s aspects in the story don’t line up with my own, it doesn’t need to for me to appreciate the beauty, vulnerability and skill of your writing.

I'm late to comment on this conversation, but speaking as a sub-ish woman, I greatly appreciate Rumble's post. I have been harassed (including posting rude comments on my public wall), I tell them to stop and they continue. If I block them, they just subject the next sub they come across to the Read more… same disrespectful treatment.
I think many wanna-be Doms confuse being a bully with being dominant. Yes, there are subs who get off on being humiliated and degraded, but if I don't expressly say that on my profile, don't assume I am one of them. In the truest sense, submission is not something a person is bullied into. Consensual submission is given by free will. When you are condescending, you largely decrease your chances of a woman (or at least me) respecting you enough to choose you as a Dominant in her life, even for cyber or NSA.
To have male Doms like Rumble speak his views on how to treat people, inexperienced subs can see/learn that Domination does not equal disrespect, insults, harassment and abuse. And hopefully, inexperienced Doms can see/learn that, too. Treating people well doesn't detract from your Dominance, it adds to it, in my opinion. Anyone can act like a jerk. The Doms that I've truly connected with knew how to treat me with value while still coming across a confident, desirable Dom. I don't speak for all subs, as of course, everyone is different with different preferences, but I have never heard one say, "He's not for me because I want to find someone who will treat me worse."

I understand what you’re saying, that you kind of get tricked or snared into cuckolding, not enter it willing. You could lose at gambling/cards when you think your hand is a sure winner. You could go into watch a training video for a new job, and get covertly hypnotized into being a cuckold. Get Read more… caught doing something, and then get blackmailed. Made to get a degrading tattoo on the back of your neck that everyone can see except you. Need a loan desperately, and have to work it off. Lots of possibilities.