Hello to everyone here--it is a great looking site. I am a student at San Diego State University here in California. My professor has assigned me as my final paper of the semester the topic: The physiological cause and effect of tickling. I was wondering if anyone here could refer me to any info you might know of that could help me with this (web sites, books, anything!). I have tried multiple journals of medicine, but have had no luck so far, so hopefully someone here might have some insight. I thank everyone here in advance and appreciate all your help. And again, keep up the great work on your site!
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Can someone help me, I have a question...
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There's not a wealth of information available -- most of the sites you'll come across say varying degrees of the same thing. Some studies have been done, most notably by a professor named Christine Harris. Search for her name on any major engine and you should find a few articles.
Beyond that, no one is really sure what contributes to ticklishness, why it is a part of human physiology (favored theories are that it was developed as either a social/play reflex, or as part of a defense mechanism), or why tickling illicits laughter.
Some people on this board may be able to link you to specific articles we've uncovered over the years, sorry that I don't have them myself.
Otherwise, the best thing we may be able to offer here is a psychological perspective on the nature of tickling. We're all well-discussed in that. Good luck to you from a fellow student.
Beyond that, no one is really sure what contributes to ticklishness, why it is a part of human physiology (favored theories are that it was developed as either a social/play reflex, or as part of a defense mechanism), or why tickling illicits laughter.
Some people on this board may be able to link you to specific articles we've uncovered over the years, sorry that I don't have them myself.
Otherwise, the best thing we may be able to offer here is a psychological perspective on the nature of tickling. We're all well-discussed in that. Good luck to you from a fellow student.
I've found a few articles, mostly ones about why you can't tickle yourself (which many on this site probably curse about!!😀). But beyond that, its been tough. But I definately appreciate anything you can give me--I will also look in the archives as much as I can, but time might limit me to going back too far. I don't want to come off as lazy, more as a student trying to get an "expert analysis" from some of you here and possibly a pointer in the right direction. Again, thanks again!!
Links and winks...
Might be your screenname that's holding you back...it's the literal translation of "Taliban", and hence rubs many of us the wrong way. Not me of course, I'm an open minded SOB who only wishes to rehabilitate my misguided friends across the sea...come out of the caves...nothing to worry about...ignore that Special Ops team over there, merely window dressing.
Anyway, lotsa info available once you submerge yourself into our culture. QB and EQ alone could write a few papers on the subject. May whatever god(s) you worship help ya if Strelnikov wanders in and takes an interest in your project...you'll need a LOT of paper in the printer. Good luck... Q
Might be your screenname that's holding you back...it's the literal translation of "Taliban", and hence rubs many of us the wrong way. Not me of course, I'm an open minded SOB who only wishes to rehabilitate my misguided friends across the sea...come out of the caves...nothing to worry about...ignore that Special Ops team over there, merely window dressing.
Anyway, lotsa info available once you submerge yourself into our culture. QB and EQ alone could write a few papers on the subject. May whatever god(s) you worship help ya if Strelnikov wanders in and takes an interest in your project...you'll need a LOT of paper in the printer. Good luck... Q
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Holy shit! I had no idea--I just picked that because I am a student and a man, no other reasons. I hope everyone here can forgive me for my ignorance. I meant no disrespect at all, is there anyway to change my screen name to something more suitable?? No wonder no one was responding...
Hello, Student Man.
It is very unlikely that you will receive any valid information on scientific cause and effect of tickling here, amongst people who see tickling as erotic and are thus most inclined to treat it to a none-too-small amount of mystification. Moreover, if the fact that you have gathered your material on a fetish message board ever pops up on your paper, it will be null and void for all purposes scientific. If you were researching psychology and deviant sexual behavior, I'd be glad to help out personally (while not all of us here are sexual deviants, I certainly see myself as one), but for medical and physiological information this is really the wrong place to look. You should, maybe, insist on the topic of your study being reasigned. Tickling hasn't been researched much, and you'll be hard-pressed to uncover anything you can use. All empiric data would have to be raised by you yourself, and that is very costly and time consuming. Not to mention that you'll have the problem of finding test subjects on your hands. Thanks for visiting, though! That's a strange but original approach to the problem of writing a paper... I'll remember that when I finish college and visit alt.sex.fetish.objectorientedprogramminglanguages for all my research... "Ohh... OHHH... tell me about that loop again... pascal... c++... JAAAVAAAAAAAAA!!!"
(Sorry, it got away with me 😉 )
As for changing your screen-name - contact Myriads and politely ask him to change it for you.
Take care, and good luck!
It is very unlikely that you will receive any valid information on scientific cause and effect of tickling here, amongst people who see tickling as erotic and are thus most inclined to treat it to a none-too-small amount of mystification. Moreover, if the fact that you have gathered your material on a fetish message board ever pops up on your paper, it will be null and void for all purposes scientific. If you were researching psychology and deviant sexual behavior, I'd be glad to help out personally (while not all of us here are sexual deviants, I certainly see myself as one), but for medical and physiological information this is really the wrong place to look. You should, maybe, insist on the topic of your study being reasigned. Tickling hasn't been researched much, and you'll be hard-pressed to uncover anything you can use. All empiric data would have to be raised by you yourself, and that is very costly and time consuming. Not to mention that you'll have the problem of finding test subjects on your hands. Thanks for visiting, though! That's a strange but original approach to the problem of writing a paper... I'll remember that when I finish college and visit alt.sex.fetish.objectorientedprogramminglanguages for all my research... "Ohh... OHHH... tell me about that loop again... pascal... c++... JAAAVAAAAAAAAA!!!"
(Sorry, it got away with me 😉 )
As for changing your screen-name - contact Myriads and politely ask him to change it for you.
Take care, and good luck!
Thanks for all the responses--I will now leave you guys alone. FYI, though, my paper is for a sex class I am taking here at SDSU, so my approach would warrant asking on a site like this one. It is for a undergrad class as well, so it's not like my findings would be published in the NE Journal of Med...
However, you do bring up good points, and maybe I will ask for my topic to be broadened to encompass other things. Thanks again for all you time and effort...see you later.
However, you do bring up good points, and maybe I will ask for my topic to be broadened to encompass other things. Thanks again for all you time and effort...see you later.
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Science and Tickling
Student Man, I guess you're looking for good scientific material. Several years ago, I had some interesting correspondence with Dr. Peter Cahusac, at that time Professor for Neurophysiology and Psychology at the University of Stirling, Scotland. He sent me the following articles on your (our!) topic:
- "Reaction to Cutaneous (Tickle) and Sexual Pleasure by Normal and Dermapathic Subjects" by Prof. Vezio Ruggieri, Rome (Italy), published in "Perceptual and Motor Skills", 1985, 61, 903-910
- "Body Perception in Relation to Muscular Tone at Rest and Tactile Sensitivity to Tickle" by Prof Vezio Ruggieri, published in "Perceptual and Motor Skills", 1983, 56, 799-806
- "Effects of Attention and Expectation on Tickle Sensation" by Takashi Hoshikawa, Kyushu University, Fukuoka (Japan), published in "Perceptual and Motor Skills", 1991, 72, 27-33
- "Kusuguttai-kan ni tuite" (About the Nature of the Sensation of Tickle, 1929), published in "The Japanese Journal of Psychology", 4, 97-107
- "Studies on Itching: Contributions Towards an Understanding of the Physiology of Masochism" by Joseph G. Kepecs, MD, and Milton Robin, MD, published in "Psychosomatic Medicine", 1955, 17, 87-95
Maybe you're able to find these in your university library. Sorry it took so long to reply, I had to dig really deep down in my drawers… 🙂
Student Man, I guess you're looking for good scientific material. Several years ago, I had some interesting correspondence with Dr. Peter Cahusac, at that time Professor for Neurophysiology and Psychology at the University of Stirling, Scotland. He sent me the following articles on your (our!) topic:
- "Reaction to Cutaneous (Tickle) and Sexual Pleasure by Normal and Dermapathic Subjects" by Prof. Vezio Ruggieri, Rome (Italy), published in "Perceptual and Motor Skills", 1985, 61, 903-910
- "Body Perception in Relation to Muscular Tone at Rest and Tactile Sensitivity to Tickle" by Prof Vezio Ruggieri, published in "Perceptual and Motor Skills", 1983, 56, 799-806
- "Effects of Attention and Expectation on Tickle Sensation" by Takashi Hoshikawa, Kyushu University, Fukuoka (Japan), published in "Perceptual and Motor Skills", 1991, 72, 27-33
- "Kusuguttai-kan ni tuite" (About the Nature of the Sensation of Tickle, 1929), published in "The Japanese Journal of Psychology", 4, 97-107
- "Studies on Itching: Contributions Towards an Understanding of the Physiology of Masochism" by Joseph G. Kepecs, MD, and Milton Robin, MD, published in "Psychosomatic Medicine", 1955, 17, 87-95
Maybe you're able to find these in your university library. Sorry it took so long to reply, I had to dig really deep down in my drawers… 🙂
There was also a big study done supposedly at the University in San Diego about 5 years back that detailed lots of different aspects about tickling. You might want to check in your own backyard! Go on Google and search there because I remember it caused a huge uproar.
Check around 1997
Check around 1997
Hello student man,
You could also try these:
http://homepages.go.com/~toyou444/Tklstudy.jpg
msn search...tickling,as well as the other search engines.Just click in tickling as a search topic.
dogpile...google...yahoo...msn
You could also try these:
http://homepages.go.com/~toyou444/Tklstudy.jpg
msn search...tickling,as well as the other search engines.Just click in tickling as a search topic.
dogpile...google...yahoo...msn
Just want to add how much I wish my assignments were like this. I'd have to do a lot of research, maybe some demonstrations, and of course get all of it on video . . . for, uh, documentation purposes. Yeah, that's the ticket. 
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Yah...plenty of us here dig deep down in our drawers. Watching Priscilla working a 'lee over with those long nails, and then being tickled in return, does it for me.
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