Are you ticklish?

Tickle Feet
I HATE being tickled. I’ve always been quite ticklish and being tickled is akin to torture for me. I would prefer that you stuck needles in my eyes rather than tickle me. I suppose that sounds rather weird but I just hate being tickled. I dated a guy once that thought tickling was a great way for us to get close and I thought he should tickle the door on his way through it.

Over the years I’ve talked with people about it and it seems that about 50% of us either like being tickled or to tickle and the other 50% could cheerfully live without ever being tickled. One friend of mine loves it. She says it’s a real turn-on to be tickled, especially if she’s naked or nearly naked. (This was more information than I needed at the time.) Her husband doesn’t like to be tickled but he loves to tickle her because it gives him real control over how sexy she feels. Now if that happened to me too, I guess I’d like to be tickled, but being tickled does not turn me on.

A few weeks ago I was talking with a woman in our chatrooms and she was telling me how she loves to be tied up and tickled until she has to surrender to do anything just so the tickling stops. I really had to think for a long time about that one. I asked her why she loves it if it’s so bad she has to surrended to do anything to make it stop. Well, that’s the entire reason. Turns out that she was raised in a very strict environment where anything (and probably everything) sexual was sinful and even thinking about it caused a lot of guilt. Then one day she was tickled into submission and had to agree to engage in sexual activities that she would not normally do for the tickling to stop. She had such a good time that it became a routine for her.

I think I’d have gone to a shrink instead. No, I know I would have, I couldn’t have endured the tickling. If that was how I’d have to have sex we’d have to have an arrangement up front. If you won’t tickle me at all, I’ll wiggle into the room like a snake on the floor and then hang from the chandelier naked and that’s just for starters.

11 Comments so far

  1. Auria on December 2nd, 2007

    I never faked an orgasm but I have faked tickle laughter just so I wouldn’t make the guy feel bad. Big mistake. He thought I was a tickler fan and would do tickle me all the time. How annoying. I mean, even if I liked it, I wouldn’t want to be tickled all the time. But when a guy finds something you like (or thinks you like) he’ll do it over and over again and take the fun out of it…whatever “it” is.

  2. Sergey on December 3rd, 2007

    Interesting ideas. I will try it in future :)

  3. Shelia on December 3rd, 2007

    I’m the same way, very ticklish and I absolutely hate being tickled. It’s forced laughter and I hate being forced to do anything. My husband used to be the same guy as in your post, loved to tickle me because he knew I couldn’t stand it and he could control me. I got so mad one evening that I waited until he went to sleep and cut 10 of his ties in half and told that every time he tickled me from here on out it was going to cost him a tie. Mission accomplished.

    ***From FeelingFlirty - I nearly spit my coffee out when I read this. You are my kind of woman. I’m in awe. I felt the same way about my sister. When she was first married her husband would come home late without phoning. She just dumped his dinner in the garbage.

  4. Shelia on December 3rd, 2007

    I hope that I’m not repeating myself, but if I haven’t told you before I’ll tell you now, I LOVE this site, very nice!

  5. lankapo on December 3rd, 2007

    hehe very nice topic. i never try this actually with my wife. Just dont scratch her back, heeh if not I will be in big trouble. hehe

    Man will try to please his girl just to TURN her ON, so if he made a mistake tell him ..dont fake it
    be true to each other

  6. gale on December 4th, 2007

    dmitri martin the comedian had a funny comment on tickling: “if a person asks ‘are you ticklish?’ it doesn’t matter. if you say yes or no, they’re going to tickle you. the way out of this situation is to say: i have diarrhea” LOL . super-interesting post. i have this notion that most people are annoyed by tickling. i am, unless if it’s playfully with someone i like :)

  7. FerdC on December 4th, 2007

    Gail doesn’t like tickling. She is more likely to get in the mood if she’s relaxed. So when I’m giving her a back rub (or front ;D ) I wouldn’t dream of tickling her. She gets more relaxed, and then…
    every 2 weeks!

  8. waliz on December 4th, 2007

    i am ticklish and i hate to be tickled too..i can go mad and kick the fella who tries to tickle nonstop even after i pleaded wth him…sound brutal isnt it…

    i like yr post..

  9. houroc on December 6th, 2007

    this is an interesting topic because I hate being tickled but all throughout my life I tortured my sister as well as girlfriends by mercilessly tickling them. I guess it’s bad karma but now my current girlfriend tickles me like that. I haven’t decided if I like it yet or not though. :-D

  10. jessie on December 6th, 2007

    hahahahahahahaha! is that enough to indicate how ticklish i am? well, my nerve endings are quite sensitive and i love it… i just love the sensation especially during intimate moments :-)

  11. Frank on December 7th, 2007

    YES!!!! I am ticklish!

    As a kid I was not. But it all started that one night, close to xmas, when my uncle decided to tickle my very hard. And somehow it worked… so he kept on going, and going until I peed in my pants.

    Since that very night I am ticklish. Of course he felt bad and never did it again! :D

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