Given the recent controversy in which EmSeeSquared found himself after posting a story involving the preteen Penny from Inspector Gadget, I wanted to get opinions before I post a story I have. The story is one that I wrote a while ago, after seeing the movie Jumanji, and realizing how urgently Judy, Kirsten Dunst's character in that film, needed to be tickled. I thought it would have been so much better if the vines which, in the film, shoot her full of poison darts, had tickled her instead. So I wrote up a version of the final scene where it happens that way.
Kirsten Dunst was 13 in Jumanji. I personally have no problem with girls that age, or even younger, being the subject of tickle-stories. Tickling is, after all, not in any way inherently immoral or indecent, and in real life kids are more likely to be tickled than anyone else. Kids, for that matter, I think enjoy being tickled more than anyone else, since they are so uninhibited about it.
Indeed, kids' TV is the place where serious tickle-torture is more often shown than anywhere else, since it represents a way that 'danger' can be made 'fun' for children. Witness: the two kids tickled in TMNT, the tickle-scene in the Raggedy Ann film, Dorothy's tickle-torture in the animated Wizard of Oz series, Wendy's tickle-torture in the Peter Pan animated series, among many other examples. In fact, the story EmSeeSquared posted, if a bit less intense, could easily have been part of a real Inspector Gadget episode without raising any eyebrows: if in a real episode, Penny had been captured by the enemy and tickled to try to make her talk, no one would have thought twice about it. My only regret is that they never did that in the show!
So, let me know: post, or not post? If people want to read it, I'd be happy to post it. If people don't want it here, I'll keep it to myself.
Kirsten Dunst was 13 in Jumanji. I personally have no problem with girls that age, or even younger, being the subject of tickle-stories. Tickling is, after all, not in any way inherently immoral or indecent, and in real life kids are more likely to be tickled than anyone else. Kids, for that matter, I think enjoy being tickled more than anyone else, since they are so uninhibited about it.
Indeed, kids' TV is the place where serious tickle-torture is more often shown than anywhere else, since it represents a way that 'danger' can be made 'fun' for children. Witness: the two kids tickled in TMNT, the tickle-scene in the Raggedy Ann film, Dorothy's tickle-torture in the animated Wizard of Oz series, Wendy's tickle-torture in the Peter Pan animated series, among many other examples. In fact, the story EmSeeSquared posted, if a bit less intense, could easily have been part of a real Inspector Gadget episode without raising any eyebrows: if in a real episode, Penny had been captured by the enemy and tickled to try to make her talk, no one would have thought twice about it. My only regret is that they never did that in the show!
So, let me know: post, or not post? If people want to read it, I'd be happy to post it. If people don't want it here, I'll keep it to myself.