I've been tickled to that point many times.
I was embarrassed the first couple of times it happened but after a while it was just "Oh well. If it happens it happens".
My ticklers past and present seemed to find it exciting although they never said so but I always knew.
Paranoia
You're not being paranoid. Both Photobucket and Imagevue have been known to plant spyware, or do funky little things to your computer, that's why, if I can't enlarge a pic posted here by simply clicking on it, I don't touch it.
Who cares? The tickling that takes place on the Stern show is so lame it really doesn't warrant this much discussion. There's much better stuff out there.
Would have been even better if the tickler was really tickling and the ticklee was actually ticklish, or at least awake, showing some signs of life. LOL