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the first time i heard a serious study...
...about this topic was back in the early '70's.
it was on the "match game" t.v. show. the question was who's more ticklish men, or women? the contestent and the star he picked said men, and were wrong! the host gave the name of the study, and where it was done, and said the study show women far and away more ticklish, as a group. that's the key, as a group!
the tmf is a poor place to judge this kind of thing. all of us here love tickling, and being tickled. that's why were here. we are not the main stream. i think too many of you guys are answering this thread based on your own selves. i too am ticklish, and in some spots hyper ticklish, and have met only a couple ladies who couldn't out last me in a tickle fight, when they found my hyper spots. now here's the big but; i choose to be ticklish. i have cultivated my ticklishness, i have willed myself to be ticklish. and the flip side (big deep secret here) i can be totally un-ticklish when ever i choose. but llife is boring as hell w/o tickling/ticklishness, so i keep the sensations alive.
one of the problems with the study that was mentioned by someone, recently is that it didn't take into account a big factor. women are more ticklish, say like 9 out of 10 individuals, men les so, like 6 out of 10 (it could have been less) to direct tickling stimulus. but more of the women could turn it off, than the men, so they concluded that men were more ticklish. actually it's a circut breaker built into the women's central nervous system (in the medula if memory serves) that shuts out anoying sensory intake, such as tickling, and pain from birthing a baby. so the study got it wrong. they mixed quantity, and quality.
another problem with studys; many times they are done with the out come already in place, and the figures are juggled to fit the answer.
sorry to disappoint you good folks, and for being so pendantic.
steve
...about this topic was back in the early '70's.
it was on the "match game" t.v. show. the question was who's more ticklish men, or women? the contestent and the star he picked said men, and were wrong! the host gave the name of the study, and where it was done, and said the study show women far and away more ticklish, as a group. that's the key, as a group!
the tmf is a poor place to judge this kind of thing. all of us here love tickling, and being tickled. that's why were here. we are not the main stream. i think too many of you guys are answering this thread based on your own selves. i too am ticklish, and in some spots hyper ticklish, and have met only a couple ladies who couldn't out last me in a tickle fight, when they found my hyper spots. now here's the big but; i choose to be ticklish. i have cultivated my ticklishness, i have willed myself to be ticklish. and the flip side (big deep secret here) i can be totally un-ticklish when ever i choose. but llife is boring as hell w/o tickling/ticklishness, so i keep the sensations alive.
one of the problems with the study that was mentioned by someone, recently is that it didn't take into account a big factor. women are more ticklish, say like 9 out of 10 individuals, men les so, like 6 out of 10 (it could have been less) to direct tickling stimulus. but more of the women could turn it off, than the men, so they concluded that men were more ticklish. actually it's a circut breaker built into the women's central nervous system (in the medula if memory serves) that shuts out anoying sensory intake, such as tickling, and pain from birthing a baby. so the study got it wrong. they mixed quantity, and quality.
another problem with studys; many times they are done with the out come already in place, and the figures are juggled to fit the answer.
sorry to disappoint you good folks, and for being so pendantic.
steve
