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Hi all - I've read posts in which people say that ticklishness has increased with age (probably less common) or that their ticklishness has decreased with age (probably more common). Has anyone heard of, or experienced a change in ticklishness and then a reversal back to the original state...

Hi all - does anyone have any experience with how ticklishness varies among siblings? For example, are all siblings about equally ticklish, or is the youngest child usually much more (or maybe even much less) ticklish because he/she is always getting tickled by the older siblings? I'm an only...

I work in a natural resources department at a public university in northern NE, and everybody conducting field work is required to attend a First Aid / CPR training course. Most attendees were male forestry undergraduate students (who generally are pretty obnoxious), but there were a few...

Welcome! I was a long-time lurker until very recently, too.

Thanks for the "happy birthday" message a couple of months back - I didn't realize you sent it until today!

Has anybody ever been in this situation ? (I'll assume a male 'ler and a female 'lee, but whatever floats your boat): Say you're a guy who has been wondering for some time as to whether a female friend / coworker / etc. is ticklish. You wait for an opportune moment to give a quick tickle. Does...

I've had a few close calls, and one that I'm still not quite sure about. I was bringing my computer in to the IT guy in my department so he could install the newest version of windows (which in itself was a big mistake, but that's an entirely different problem). Anyway, I made backups of all my...

Robert E. Lee Speaking of Robert E. Lee... I used to be a Civil War buff and read all sorts of topical books, and in one particular book (I can't remember the name and I don't see it in the milkcrates that serve as my bookshelves, but it was something like "Strange and fascinating facts about...

Thanks for the info. I've seen her on the local news, and will probably see more of her before she becomes nationally famous.

Hi all - I've read posts that expound on the various predictors (or lack thereof) of ticklishness - race, ethnicity, hair color, personality, etc., so I'm not trying to re-hash that debate. Being a science geek, I'd feel comfortable designing a study to test these hypotheses, but I doubt I would...

my experience Interesting replies, all. I'll elaborate on my experience: when my then future-wife and I started to become more than friends, I tried tickling her to no avail - and I tried everywhere. She said that she was only mildly ticklish in one spot (tops of feet), but could generally...

Hi all - Long-time lurker, first-time poster. I'll jump right into it with a question for the audience: have you encountered someone whose ticklishness is highly variable? E.g, most of the time they aren't ticklish at all, or only mildly and in a few spots, but every now and then they're...