Do you view tickling as a form of torture?
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good point - yeah a funny torture
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From personal experience I believe that we lose the heightened awareness that affects tickling. Overall, the older I get, the less ticklish I am because I learn to ignore my senses. Hope that helps...
311601
Can you explain a little more? What kind of "hurt" are you talking about? Is it self-inflicted? Is it dangerous? \nI am somewhat of a masochist and what other people consider pain, I consider pleasure...but I always make sure that my partners are aware of what I can and cannot handle. If you think it's more than this, please talk to someone who you think can help, preferrably offline. If you do want to elaborate, people here can be of more help.=)
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Once the love is gone there is nothing to stay for. If you do it for the kids then they see you unhappy NOT GOOD. You need to learn to be on your own cause him forcing you to kiss him can turn into forcing you to have sex and that is rape, even by a husband. Tickling isn't abusive it's affection and laughter unless one is complaining about not wanting to be touched in certain areas. As for you honey you have to leave for your own sanity. If your not happy and love doesn't exsist anymore your only making yourself miserable by staying. I know cause I'd like to leave my situation as well but my finances are 0 and I have no job. So I know where your coming from on that end, it's not easy as it sounds. I'll pray for you and you pray for yourself lets let GOD handle the fools. GOD BLESS
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Ugh..yes, and everytime someone decides to be a jerk to me, and tickles me there, I thrash about, laughing and shrieking my lungs out. \n\nLiterally, just...don't go there...gimme a kiss instead?
836573
ya! i luv tickling my bf! he acts sooo tough but if i tickle him in just the right spot hes reduced a squirming giggling mess. and his laugh is sooo cute! but then he goes and tickles me back and i am sooo ticklish that i like die! lol but yes i do luv to tickle him!
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No.\nI think that must be really degrading to both the smacker and smackee.
651310
being ticklish is all in the head  i use to be very very ticklish  now I'm not at all if you want to make yourself laugh  look in the mirror and just start laughing and in seconds you well be truly laughing. and you''ll have a better out look on life. and it improves your moods.
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I laughed when I saw this question... I am almost 30 years old and still cannot keep my composure when I am being tickled.  \n\nIt does not matter where, neck..thighs...underside of the arm...belly...feet...etc.  It drives me crazy.  As soon as people learn about it they use it for their benefit.  I on the other hand, wish I could make it stop.  \n\nBottom line is, you could get me to tell you whatever you wanted to hear by tickling me... or at least.. a well thought out lie......!\n\nLOL\nmandy
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I am one of those ticklish guys. It doesn't happen all the time....but man, when it does...i can't stop it. I would say use more pressure, none of the feather light touching...use more like a sports massage pressure....
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Author:      Lou Harnisch\n"This falls under the study to social contact (grooming) for species that have, particularly mammals that have highly social groupings.  Being ticklish would certainly draw more attention to that individual from other members of the group.  Creates positive interactions that strength bonds.  It would be interesting if one could find a structural (receptor) or physiological (brain wave pattern) that would be strongly correlated with the "ticklish state" and see if these kinds of things are found only in highly social mammalian species."\nAlso\n"Because tickling involves the sensitivity of our skin, we do start out with natural differences in ticklishness, much as we have differences in our hearing or eyesight.\n\nBut tickling is different because it's social; it's not like sight or smell, says Robert R. Provine, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Maryland who studies the tickling response and is the author of the forthcoming book ``Quest for Laughter.''\n\n``The tickling story is far more interesting than anyone has anticipated,'' says Provine. ``If you think the social component is not important, try tickling a stranger.''\n\nAlthough tickling, like reflexes, involves neurological mechanisms, it is far more than an involuntary response. You can give yourself a knee-jerk reflex, but you can't tickle yourself, says Provine. Tickling is a form of communication used between friends, family and lovers, and one that Provine thinks may play a key role in the evolution of our social and sexual behavior.\n\nChimps tickle each other during play. Children are playfully tickled by their parents and other children of both sexes. Above the age of puberty, though, tickling usually is a form of flirtation, he says.\n\nSo why are some people more sensitive than others? Provine theorizes that the differences lie largely in who is doing the tickling. You may be highly sensitive to being held down and tickled by an older brother, for instance, because it's somewhat aversive. But a lover's tickling may not annoy you at all.\n\nAcquiring sensitivity to ticklish stimuli might have been highly useful in our evolutionary past, says Provine. It would have warned us if a poisonous scorpion was crawling along our neck. And the parts of our bodies that are highly vulnerable to injury, like our feet, chest and armpits, are among the most ticklish."
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When you are tickled, there is a sense of being threatened. When you do it to yourself, there is no threat.
96633
you know exactly where to stop before the pinch really hurts ... the other person doesn't.  It's similar to why you can't tickle yourself ... you are expecting it.
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Im not really sure...I can tickle my own feet..i dont laugh but it feels kinda funny like i want to laugh.
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Imagine someone pushing bug rusty screws into your eyeballs, and then yanking them out, HARD!\n\nThis was not a easy thought .. I deserve 10 points for even having to consider such torture.
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There is nothing wrong with being lesbian or having a tickle fetish.\n\nI also don't think your activities are a problem as long as you are not tickling them to the point where they do not think it is fun.
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Most of us have a ticklish spot somewhere on our bodies, and it is usually pretty easy to find. For some it's just above the knee, for others it's the back of the neck, and some of us go into fits of laughter if someone grabs our sides. Laughing when another person tickles you is a natural reaction. Scientists have discovered that the feeling experienced when we are tickled causes us to panic and is a natural defense to little creepy crawlers like spiders and bugs. Slight tickles from insects can send a chill through your body letting you know something is crawling on you.\n\nThat same ticklish feeling sends us into a state of panic and elicits a response of uncontrollable laughter if a person tickles us. It's the moment that you least expect to be tickled and are that causes you to feel extremely uneasy and panicked, which leads to the most intense ticklish feeling. Even if you do know that you are about to be tickled, the fear and unease of someone touching and possibly hurting you causes you to laugh. Some people are so ticklish that they begin laughing even before they are touched.\n\nSo, if someone else's touch can tickle us, why can't we tickle ourselves? Much of the explanation for this question is still unknown, but research has shown that the brain is trained to know what to feel when a person moves or performs any function. We aren't aware of a lot of the sensations generated by our movements. For example, you probably don't pay much attention to your vocal cords when you speak. For the same reason, we can't tickle ourselves. If we grab our sides in an attempt to tickle ourselves, our brain anticipates this contact from the hands and prepares itself for it. By taking away the feeling of unease and panic, the body no longer responds the same as it would if someone else were to tickle us.\n\nBrain scientists at the University College London have pinpointed the cerebellum as the part of the brain that prevents us from self-tickling. The cerebellum is the region located at the base of the brain that monitors our movements. It can distinguish expected sensations from unexpected sensations. An expected sensation would be the amount of pressure your fingers apply to your keyboard while typing. An unexpected sensation would be someone sneaking up behind you and tapping you on the shoulder. While the brain discards the sensation of typing, it pays a lot of attention to someone tapping on your shoulder. The difference in reactions from expected to unexpected is a built-in response that probably developed in early human history to detect predators.\n\nAlthough we are not able to tickle ourselves unassisted, there is a way to trick the brain by using a robot tickler. That's right. With all of the know-how of science and technology, a robot has been designed to allow people to tickle themselves. The same British scientists mentioned above have designed a machine that enables you to tickle yourself by remote control. To use the machine, a person lies on their back with their eyes shut. The robot is located near the person with a piece of soft foam attached to a plastic rod that is controlled by a remote control joystick. When the person activates the rod, the robot will react after a short delay. Even with delays as short as a fifth of a second from the time the person activates the rod until the robot tickled the person's hand, subjects have described the sensation as the same as another person tickling them. So, in a sense, you could tickle yourself with a robotic assistant.