Aeveirra
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Greetings all those reading this post, as many of my friends on here know... Aside from the fact I love being sadisticly tickle tortured, <3
I also am rather obsessed with the neuroanatomical features of the brain.
So, regarding both tickling, and its' relationship to the brain,
So, after reading a few articles on the matter I have compiled a list of some of the most incredibly fascinating facts about the science of tickling!
If you want to read those articles, I posted links to them a the bottom.
I hope people get to learn some new things about the sexiest fetish in existence! Lol 😉
1) Knismologania: The medical term for tickle fetishism.
(This one was not from the articles, but I figured I would add it because even here, not too many people have heard of this before.) now you can call yourself a "knismo" , and sound fancy about it. Lol
2) In general, it is easier to measure social /humorous laughter on an fMRI, than ticklish laughter.
3) Tickling is a very primitive adaptation in humans, so primal that it is suggested that tickling is what helped early man to become self-aware, and develop self consciousness.
(Cool stuff! Right?!? Lol)
4) Wether or not laughter is involved, the brains' processing when being tickled has a separate sensory system. And it has a laughter system different in many ways from humor.
5) The areas in the brain that become active when one is being tickled and laughing are:
* the UNM nerve: Nerve fibers that process pain
* Rolandic Reticulum: (also active in all types of laughter)
* Rolandic Opercunicm: part of the above term, controls facial expressions
* hypothalamus : regulates hunger, sexual behaviors, and body temperature.
* Multiple areas associated with anticipation of pain
6) Ticklish laughter does NOT activate the nucleus Acumbus, which is an area involved in sexual pleasure. However, it does activate the hypothalamus, which includes governing basic sexual urges.
7) brain scans indicate that both joyful mocking, and voluntary laughter activate areas involved with social interaction.
But, The laugher from Tickling does NOT activate those regions.
8) Charles Darwnin first proposed tickling aided the evolution of self wariness in humans.
(Wow! Over a century and a half later, and this guy is still getting things right! Lol)
9) The laughter types At their core are processed differently;
Social laughter is processed as language.
Laughter from tickling is processed as pain.
10) ticklish laughter is considered to a "building block" of humorous laughter. Almost like a less sophisticated "ancestor".
11) People who have a Tickling fetishism often "disproportionally like it" to the degree, where tickling is the preferred activity to sex.
(This is on wikipedia, and I believe it is probably 90% true, having met many people like this I can personally confirm that this is a more "obsessive" kink than people think.)
12) There was a machine created for the sake of "scientific research"
attempts to study the effects if stopping laughter. It holds a subjects Head in place, and tickles their foot. When they laugh, the facial restrains tighten to stop the subject from laughing.
( I really have no idea how using such a machine like this can result in anything scientific. Lol but it is quite unique, and definitely worth checking out the link to a video of thing "testing" in action.)
13) Ticklish laughter stimulates area of "higher order thinking", which could be used to Improve intelligence. That, or is at least supporting evidence for how tickling aided cognitive evolution.
14) The acoustics between laughing socially, and laughing from being tickled, have different sound patterns, which non-verbally communicate different messages. The acoustics pattern for ticklish Laughter, is most similar to cries of distress and pain.
15) The only gender difference in tickling, is that only the a small cluster of gray matter in women's' brains are activated, while this same region is not activated in men. This is beloved to have something to do with emotion and feelings of safety.
CONCLUSION.
I was rather surprised To learn jus how different laughing by jokes, vs laughing by tickling were. I mean... REALLY different.. For one thing... Being tickled is not painful, but our brains can not make that distinction until we tickle ourselves, and nothing happens!
I also, did not know that the brain is wired to activate areas and nerves for pain.Everything about the tickle sensation and reaction seems to be painful, or unpleasant, tickling does not activate the pleasure-rewards system,but for whatever reason this activity is strongly fetishized.Instead of being connected to joy, or happiness, their findings showed how tickling is categorized as being "pain" , but is not at the same time. .... It seems that tickling results in a response more similar to the feeling of being in danger. Weird....
So the explanation I came up with as to why there is a sexual association with tickling, is that the fetish portion comes from the primitive sexual instinctive behaviors controlled by the hypothalamus which becomes activated when tickled. This means that this is still a fetish that is related to sexual behavior, but it is not a part of the"pleasure rewards" system, and has roots in the animalistic-like instincts. It is more unique most kinks, because it is one that utilizes an entirely different brain system making this being something instinctively driven by a primal sexual drive that was fundamental to early man becoming a sapient species.
I personally think that makes tickling fetishism a hell of a lot cooler than all the others.
Just another reason to love being a knismo! 😉 lol.
Or be forced to love it, because your sexual animal instincts take over and you just can't help it sometimes, jk, lol.
However you wanna rationalize it. 😉
The results they found were interesting BUT!!! The subjects they chose did NOT sexualize tickling in any way. I can not be sure, I do not know them, and that is not what they were being tested for. But it got me thinking...
It would be fascinating, and gennually important to science if they repeated these experiments with people who...'really like' tickling. Which means how the majority of people on this site 'really likes it' . 😉
Haha, I really am serious about this has a potential for new discoveries.
I mean how would you find enough subjects to give valuable data? I would totally volunteer for something like this! I would never complain, and be willing to be 'tested' all day <3
Just think how different those results could be?
What implications would this have ? And could it tell us more about the fundamental levels of sexuality? Who knows.?.... It has yet to be done.
Everyone I talk to about how they got into this fetish tells me the same things;
1 they have always known since a VERY young age.
2 They could clearly remember a 3-5 second clip from a cartoon, they watched over ten years ago, where characters were tickled.
3 And for 'lers, ticking can often feel like an impulsive need for them, and they rarely do not miss the chance to tickle others when possible.
So, if any one or all three of those apply to you, maybe the science behind it can help you to better understand yourself. It did for me, my love of being ticked is not too different than powerful urges to crave it... At least now I partly know why. And Gosh.... It has... Such a STRONG affect on me.... I just...love it <3 ...
That is all. 🙂
I would love to get some feedback on what your thoughts are about this. Wether it be the science, my primal urge hypothesis, or
Even better, what you think would happen if they tested people who do get sexual pleasure from being tickled, as opposed to their subjects who presumably were not fond of, or were neutral to it.
------------- SOURCES REFERENCED --------------
( i recommend reading all of them, this stuff is so interesting. )
1) *** identification of Brain regions for ticklish, and other types of laughter.
http://news.yahoo.com/brain-area-ticklish-laughter-found-195513122.html
2) *** Electrochemical activity, when laughter is voluntary, humors, and when being tickled.
( This is a cool one! You need to understand anatomy to fully appreciate what this means though. Regardless, it is still worth seeing.)
http://www.lohdownonscience.org/sci...brains-interpret-different-kinds-of-laughter/
3) *** How we process social vs tickling laughter
http://www.lohdownonscience.org/podcast/laughable-research/
4) *** Different acoustics and nonverbal communication
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/260345.php
5) *** About ticklish laughter, and how it differs from social humor.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/13/ticklish-laughter-brain_n_3266795.html
6) *** Tickle testing machine that stops laughing
http://henriknieratschker.de/tickling machine.html
7) **** Wikipedia ; page for "tickling fetishism"
8) **** Awesome detailed diagram for you to better understand anatomy
http://hiddentalents.org/brain/113-map-print.html
*** I also referenced my prior knowledge in the conclusion. I know many people In this community, and I have three years experience in the felid of research-based neuroscience.
I also am rather obsessed with the neuroanatomical features of the brain.
So, regarding both tickling, and its' relationship to the brain,
So, after reading a few articles on the matter I have compiled a list of some of the most incredibly fascinating facts about the science of tickling!
If you want to read those articles, I posted links to them a the bottom.
I hope people get to learn some new things about the sexiest fetish in existence! Lol 😉
1) Knismologania: The medical term for tickle fetishism.
(This one was not from the articles, but I figured I would add it because even here, not too many people have heard of this before.) now you can call yourself a "knismo" , and sound fancy about it. Lol
2) In general, it is easier to measure social /humorous laughter on an fMRI, than ticklish laughter.
3) Tickling is a very primitive adaptation in humans, so primal that it is suggested that tickling is what helped early man to become self-aware, and develop self consciousness.
(Cool stuff! Right?!? Lol)
4) Wether or not laughter is involved, the brains' processing when being tickled has a separate sensory system. And it has a laughter system different in many ways from humor.
5) The areas in the brain that become active when one is being tickled and laughing are:
* the UNM nerve: Nerve fibers that process pain
* Rolandic Reticulum: (also active in all types of laughter)
* Rolandic Opercunicm: part of the above term, controls facial expressions
* hypothalamus : regulates hunger, sexual behaviors, and body temperature.
* Multiple areas associated with anticipation of pain
6) Ticklish laughter does NOT activate the nucleus Acumbus, which is an area involved in sexual pleasure. However, it does activate the hypothalamus, which includes governing basic sexual urges.
7) brain scans indicate that both joyful mocking, and voluntary laughter activate areas involved with social interaction.
But, The laugher from Tickling does NOT activate those regions.
8) Charles Darwnin first proposed tickling aided the evolution of self wariness in humans.
(Wow! Over a century and a half later, and this guy is still getting things right! Lol)
9) The laughter types At their core are processed differently;
Social laughter is processed as language.
Laughter from tickling is processed as pain.
10) ticklish laughter is considered to a "building block" of humorous laughter. Almost like a less sophisticated "ancestor".
11) People who have a Tickling fetishism often "disproportionally like it" to the degree, where tickling is the preferred activity to sex.
(This is on wikipedia, and I believe it is probably 90% true, having met many people like this I can personally confirm that this is a more "obsessive" kink than people think.)
12) There was a machine created for the sake of "scientific research"
attempts to study the effects if stopping laughter. It holds a subjects Head in place, and tickles their foot. When they laugh, the facial restrains tighten to stop the subject from laughing.
( I really have no idea how using such a machine like this can result in anything scientific. Lol but it is quite unique, and definitely worth checking out the link to a video of thing "testing" in action.)
13) Ticklish laughter stimulates area of "higher order thinking", which could be used to Improve intelligence. That, or is at least supporting evidence for how tickling aided cognitive evolution.
14) The acoustics between laughing socially, and laughing from being tickled, have different sound patterns, which non-verbally communicate different messages. The acoustics pattern for ticklish Laughter, is most similar to cries of distress and pain.
15) The only gender difference in tickling, is that only the a small cluster of gray matter in women's' brains are activated, while this same region is not activated in men. This is beloved to have something to do with emotion and feelings of safety.
CONCLUSION.
I was rather surprised To learn jus how different laughing by jokes, vs laughing by tickling were. I mean... REALLY different.. For one thing... Being tickled is not painful, but our brains can not make that distinction until we tickle ourselves, and nothing happens!
I also, did not know that the brain is wired to activate areas and nerves for pain.Everything about the tickle sensation and reaction seems to be painful, or unpleasant, tickling does not activate the pleasure-rewards system,but for whatever reason this activity is strongly fetishized.Instead of being connected to joy, or happiness, their findings showed how tickling is categorized as being "pain" , but is not at the same time. .... It seems that tickling results in a response more similar to the feeling of being in danger. Weird....
So the explanation I came up with as to why there is a sexual association with tickling, is that the fetish portion comes from the primitive sexual instinctive behaviors controlled by the hypothalamus which becomes activated when tickled. This means that this is still a fetish that is related to sexual behavior, but it is not a part of the"pleasure rewards" system, and has roots in the animalistic-like instincts. It is more unique most kinks, because it is one that utilizes an entirely different brain system making this being something instinctively driven by a primal sexual drive that was fundamental to early man becoming a sapient species.
I personally think that makes tickling fetishism a hell of a lot cooler than all the others.
Just another reason to love being a knismo! 😉 lol.
Or be forced to love it, because your sexual animal instincts take over and you just can't help it sometimes, jk, lol.
However you wanna rationalize it. 😉
The results they found were interesting BUT!!! The subjects they chose did NOT sexualize tickling in any way. I can not be sure, I do not know them, and that is not what they were being tested for. But it got me thinking...
It would be fascinating, and gennually important to science if they repeated these experiments with people who...'really like' tickling. Which means how the majority of people on this site 'really likes it' . 😉
Haha, I really am serious about this has a potential for new discoveries.
I mean how would you find enough subjects to give valuable data? I would totally volunteer for something like this! I would never complain, and be willing to be 'tested' all day <3
Just think how different those results could be?
What implications would this have ? And could it tell us more about the fundamental levels of sexuality? Who knows.?.... It has yet to be done.
Everyone I talk to about how they got into this fetish tells me the same things;
1 they have always known since a VERY young age.
2 They could clearly remember a 3-5 second clip from a cartoon, they watched over ten years ago, where characters were tickled.
3 And for 'lers, ticking can often feel like an impulsive need for them, and they rarely do not miss the chance to tickle others when possible.
So, if any one or all three of those apply to you, maybe the science behind it can help you to better understand yourself. It did for me, my love of being ticked is not too different than powerful urges to crave it... At least now I partly know why. And Gosh.... It has... Such a STRONG affect on me.... I just...love it <3 ...
That is all. 🙂
I would love to get some feedback on what your thoughts are about this. Wether it be the science, my primal urge hypothesis, or
Even better, what you think would happen if they tested people who do get sexual pleasure from being tickled, as opposed to their subjects who presumably were not fond of, or were neutral to it.
------------- SOURCES REFERENCED --------------
( i recommend reading all of them, this stuff is so interesting. )
1) *** identification of Brain regions for ticklish, and other types of laughter.
http://news.yahoo.com/brain-area-ticklish-laughter-found-195513122.html
2) *** Electrochemical activity, when laughter is voluntary, humors, and when being tickled.
( This is a cool one! You need to understand anatomy to fully appreciate what this means though. Regardless, it is still worth seeing.)
http://www.lohdownonscience.org/sci...brains-interpret-different-kinds-of-laughter/
3) *** How we process social vs tickling laughter
http://www.lohdownonscience.org/podcast/laughable-research/
4) *** Different acoustics and nonverbal communication
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/260345.php
5) *** About ticklish laughter, and how it differs from social humor.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/13/ticklish-laughter-brain_n_3266795.html
6) *** Tickle testing machine that stops laughing
http://henriknieratschker.de/tickling machine.html
7) **** Wikipedia ; page for "tickling fetishism"
8) **** Awesome detailed diagram for you to better understand anatomy
http://hiddentalents.org/brain/113-map-print.html
*** I also referenced my prior knowledge in the conclusion. I know many people In this community, and I have three years experience in the felid of research-based neuroscience.
