Biological reactions to being tickled...

[Eternal Tomboy]

I didn't realize my biological reactions to being tickled until just recently (I'd say within the last year). Tickling has always turned me on, but I never really paid attention to the specifics before (what body parts were effected). When I'm tickled (especially if I'm not expecting it) my heart rate quickens dramatically (even if the tickling is very brief. I'm not talking about those marathon tickles that last for minutes on end, and speeds your hear rate up like you have been doing the stair master for hours). I also get a HUGE adrenaline rush, butterflies in my stomach, and can feel myself get wet...is that too much info? 😱 lol.) This happens almost every time I'm tickled, it is unavoidable for me (save the few instances that I have been tickled by either family members or someone I didn't like. I think my knee-jerk hormonal reaction somehow processes them differently...thank God! lol). Trying to control my response in most cases would be like trying not to blink when someone blew air in my eyes. I knew I reacted that way when someone I was attracted to tickled me, but I realized recently such doesn't always have to be the case. A co-worker that I consider nothing more than a guy I work with (no attraction, no friendship etc..) tickled me once. I totally didn't expect it (we never had that kind of playful relationship on the job, although I do have that with several others that I work with). After he gave me a very brief rib tickling (for no real reason either) I noticed that all the biological responses occurred. I thought that was kind of weird because there is definitely no attraction there. It was like my brain processed the tickling before it processed who it came from! Not that I don't like the guy, I do, but not in that way. Also oddly enough (and I found this one out recently too), the reaction seems stronger if it is someone that I've never been tickled by before. Maybe it's the surprise element, I really can't figure that one out.

So, I was wondering what were some of the biological responses you people have to being tickled? (I exclude the 'ler response only because it is a conscious choice to tickle, but not always to be tickled.) Can you control them? Does it matter who does the tickling? (outside of family etc..because I think we all know that kind of tickling is different...at least I hope such is the case.) Are there times when the reaction seems more intense than others?

Maggie

 

[tactillianlover]

Hi daisycrazybaby!

A while back, I read a thread that suggested the nerves take in tickling sensations the same way they take pain sensations. Pain alerts the body to danger. Smells like adrenalin. God love a rollercoaster!

I believe that the simplest contact can trigger primal switches
within a person. On many occasions I enjoyed hugs and kisses, danced close or meerly intoxicated myself on the scent of a woman only to find myself in withdrawals once away from that woman.

A while back, my favorite tickle monsterette sneaked up behind me and tickled me for five or six seconds. I was surrounded by my brothers, her boyfriend, eight friends and strangers. I was terribly, wonderfully exited, aroused, embarrassed and then some!!! I actually barked out "Quit, fool!" Girl, I must have been red!!!

When we were teens, she would sit in the back seat of a car, me in front of her, and she would tickle torture me again and again!!!

SIGH

Other memories are of the few times I was tag team tickled by two girls at once! It always took place on a bed. No, once on a couch.
I was about eighteen and my friends, red headed sisters, decided to tickle me in order to keep me from leaving the bed. That feeling of weakness when tickled.I LOVE THAT! Then they would stop and my strenth would return. Then as I would try to get up they tickled me down again! That great feeling must have been a bio-chemical cocktail
shaken, not stirred!

 

[daddy]

Very good post! I think most of us can relate to what you feel in one way or another. I remember times I almost lost my breath as the "tickler" because of the rush I had...go figure!

daddy

 

[TickleCrazy]

Daisy, you described my response to tickling just about exactly. That's why being tickled anywhere except in private and by anyone except my husband would be totally inappropriate and embarrassing. And why I now know the vast difference between sexual infatuation and real love. When I finally let myself explore my darkest secret--how tickling unlocks my wildest sexuality--I was in a constant state of arousal. It was classic--restlessness, tummy flutters, lack of apetite, one-track thoughts. And I was only surfing the internet! Hey, I might even have married a tickler if I was lucky enough to have met one, and it might have been for the wrong reason. As it turned out I got luckier, although I had to wait half my life to find out that the guy I married and really love can be a great tickler.

 

[Eternal Tomboy]

Thanks for the replies guys!

Ticklecrazy - It sounds like you and I are taking a very similar journey, except that you are over the rough part and I have just barely begun to take my first steps. I, like you, didn't marry a tickler. At this point I feel like I'm spinning my wheels, which is I guess why I still seek those casual tickles from others. I would love to get to the point where I didn't need to. But being instinctively drawn to that adrenaline rush, it is SO HARD not to want it!
It sounds to me like you might have a couple of the answers I'm searching for...can I email you?

Maggie

 

[TickleCrazy]

Maggie, I PM-ed you and I hope it worked.

 

[Eternal Tomboy]

Ticklecrazy -

I appreciate you sending me the PM so quickly, I got it. I'll try to get an email out to you over the next day or two.
Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to bend your ear awhile. 🙂

Maggie