Does renaissance faire tickling punishment still exist?

[AsrielXWZ]

I have seen a lot of pictures and videos (both new and old) that showed people gets trapped in a stock and tickled in renaissance faire (especially girls it’s like I’ve never seen a guy inside that stock)… the question is I can’t find any details about where did it take place and most of them was posted by an account called reflexogoly_researching. I really wanted to experience that, does anybody know is it still existing? Or is there any similar activity around the world, especially in United States or New York?

 

[CoatOfArms]

I have seen a lot of pictures and videos (both new and old) that showed people gets trapped in a stock and tickled in renaissance faire (especially girls it’s like I’ve never seen a guy inside that stock)… the question is I can’t find any details about where did it take place and most of them was posted by an account called reflexogoly_researching. I really wanted to experience that, does anybody know is it still existing?

Can say I'm 100 % sure, but I don't think it happens any more. Those videos made by Stimulating Feet (or Reflexology Reserching, they regularly change their name, because their accounts get banned) were all filmed in 2022, and let's say that there were a lot of controversies surrounding them. And they didn't want to share any details in regards to where they filmed it. But they haven't made anything new since that, so I guess they are not recording it any more.

Sorry to disappoint you 🙁

 

[U.N.Owen]

The main groups that did renfaire tickling were one in northern Italy and one in France. The group in Italy was best known for the Canelli festival, where they were an official part of the faire and very popular with the tourists over 25 years. But the Canelli festival is no longer held (it appears to have shut down for cost reasons before the pandemic). The group performed at other events in northern Italy (even hired to appear in shopping malls!) through 2019, but their website went offline during the pandemic and they don't seem to have come back since.

I don't know about the group in France. They may or may not still be active.

The Stimulating Feet group was much more dodgy, since they seem to have pretended to do what the Italian and French groups did but were actually making fetish videos to sell, and lying to the women about what they were doing. (One guy in the Italian group was selling their videos early on, but he got thrown out 20 years ago. They were legitimately hired as an entertainment at events.)

There is also a barefooting festival in the Czech Republic which includes tickling stocks as one of its activities (people volunteer to try the experience). That still seems to be going.

 

[AsrielXWZ]

Can say I'm 100 % sure, but I don't think it happens any more. Those videos made by Stimulating Feet (or Reflexology Reserching, they regularly change their name, because their accounts get banned) were all filmed in 2022, and let's say that there were a lot of controversies surrounding them. And they didn't want to share any details in regards to where they filmed it. But they haven't made anything new since that, so I guess they are not recording it any more.

Sorry to disappoint you

Can say I'm 100 % sure, but I don't think it happens any more. Those videos made by Stimulating Feet (or Reflexology Reserching, they regularly change their name, because their accounts get banned) were all filmed in 2022, and let's say that there were a lot of controversies surrounding them. And they didn't want to share any details in regards to where they filmed it. But they haven't made anything new since that, so I guess they are not recording it any more.

Sorry to disappoint you 🙁

Thank you! Didn’t expect I’m getting an answer that fast!

 

[AsrielXWZ]

The main groups that did renfaire tickling were one in northern Italy and one in France. The group in Italy was best known for the Canelli festival, where they were an official part of the faire and very popular with the tourists over 25 years. But the Canelli festival is no longer held (it appears to have shut down for cost reasons before the pandemic). The group performed at other events in northern Italy (even hired to appear in shopping malls!) through 2019, but their website went offline during the pandemic and they don't seem to have come back since.

I don't know about the group in France. They may or may not still be active.

The Stimulating Feet group was much more dodgy, since they seem to have pretended to do what the Italian and French groups did but were actually making fetish videos to sell, and lying to the women about what they were doing. (One guy in the Italian group was selling their videos early on, but he got thrown out 20 years ago. They were legitimately hired as an entertainment at events.)

There is also a barefooting festival in the Czech Republic which includes tickling stocks as one of its activities (people volunteer to try the experience). That still seems to be going.

Going to Czech would be a challenge haha, I spent hours looking for where was that renfaire and saw one of your responses to it, thank you for such detailed explanation!

 

[CoatOfArms]

Thank you! Didn’t expect I’m getting an answer that fast!

No worries, and I really understand your desire, as it is my fantasy to be locked in such stocks and get tickled, and I would also love to hear that this is happening somewhere.

As for your question about United States, Stimulating Feet filmed their videos in Texas, but as I said, they stopped. As for other places, I guess that some tickling might occur at some renfaires, but it is most likely not the main point of being locked in the stocks, rather a small part of some "torture shows". I imagine nowadays people are generally more careful in regards to touching strangers.

I know that in my county (Poland) there are some medieval festivals with stocks and even racks, and the executioner preformed some "torture" on volunteers, but I've never seen anyone being tickled, even for a very short time. I think some tickling might have been done during festivals in Germany, but I can't verify it...

 

[@AlwaysLookCool729]

No worries, and I really understand your desire, as it is my fantasy to be locked in such stocks and get tickled, and I would also love to hear that this is happening somewhere.

As for your question about United States, Stimulating Feet filmed their videos in Texas, but as I said, they stopped. As for other places, I guess that some tickling might occur at some renfaires, but it is most likely not the main point of being locked in the stocks, rather a small part of some "torture shows". I imagine nowadays people are generally more careful in regards to touching strangers.

I know that in my county (Poland) there are some medieval festivals with stocks and even racks, and the executioner preformed some "torture" on volunteers, but I've never seen anyone being tickled, even for a very short time. I think some tickling might have been done during festivals in Germany, but I can't verify it...

You don't think those events stopped due to concerns about tickling do you? I know COVID-19 caused alot of problems for events in general. However, I wonder if those Fairs were worried about backlash considering how sensitive our world is today.

 

[CoatOfArms]

You don't think those events stopped due to concerns about tickling do you? I know COVID-19 caused alot of problems for events in general. However, I wonder if those Fairs were worried about backlash considering how sensitive our world is today.

I don't know. I personally I don't believe tickling itself was ever a problem, even in this torture in stocks scenario. First of all, it wasn't too long to truly exhaust someone, was quite dynamic and - especially in case of those more recent festivals - it's not like people were dragged there by force. And form what I've seen, most people rather enjoyed it, saw it as a harmless and fun entertainment and very often volunteered to do it. Even in case of Stimulating Feet - putting all controversies aside - many visitors decided to try it, even if they knew they were going to be tickled. And in case of Canelli, it didn't stop because they were banned, but rather the city stopped organizing this festival at all, so they stopped coming. I think the backlash was more about the footage appearing on fetish and porn sites.

Having said that, I have a feeling that many organisers are now more careful in regards to what they allow to happen during those festivals. It is true that nowadays people are less "tolerant and open" to many things, and can be more easily offended. And this change of attitude has of course some positive aspects (people are more careful to avoid potentially dangerous situations), as well as some negative (some people have no trust at all and see everything as problematic). And renfaire tickling might be it - after all it is about physical contact, and I imagine many people might not be comfortable with it. On the other hand, if no one was forced to do it, and only volunteers were locked in the stocks and tickled, then I'm not sure who would have problem with this. But since you can't predict how people would react, and that a video can be all over in the internet in the matters of seconds, the vendors might be simply afraid to do it.

So I think people would be willing to participate in it, the problem is that people who are vendors on those festivals might be afraid to recreate this activity. But this is just my opinion, I'm not saying I'm correct in my judgment

 

[natscott6282]

I saw it a longggg time ago but the tickling was only one scratch

 

[U.N.Owen]

I don't know. I personally I don't believe tickling itself was ever a problem, even in this torture in stocks scenario. First of all, it wasn't too long to truly exhaust someone, was quite dynamic and - especially in case of those more recent festivals - it's not like people were dragged there by force. And form what I've seen, most people rather enjoyed it, saw it as a harmless and fun entertainment and very often volunteered to do it. Even in case of Stimulating Feet - putting all controversies aside - many visitors decided to try it, even if they knew they were going to be tickled. And in case of Canelli, it didn't stop because they were banned, but rather the city stopped organizing this festival at all, so they stopped coming. I think the backlash was more about the footage appearing on fetish and porn sites.

Having said that, I have a feeling that many organisers are now more careful in regards to what they allow to happen during those festivals. It is true that nowadays people are less "tolerant and open" to many things, and can be more easily offended. And this change of attitude has of course some positive aspects (people are more careful to avoid potentially dangerous situations), as well as some negative (some people have no trust at all and see everything as problematic). And renfaire tickling might be it - after all it is about physical contact, and I imagine many people might not be comfortable with it. On the other hand, if no one was forced to do it, and only volunteers were locked in the stocks and tickled, then I'm not sure who would have problem with this. But since you can't predict how people would react, and that a video can be all over in the internet in the matters of seconds, the vendors might be simply afraid to do it.

So I think people would be willing to participate in it, the problem is that people who are vendors on those festivals might be afraid to recreate this activity. But this is just my opinion, I'm not saying I'm correct in my judgment

Yeah, the Italian troupe was popular with tourists and passers-by in all the places they were hired. It does seem to have been the pandemic that shut them down... and I'm sure the loss of Canelli - where they were the official "guards" and "punishers" - was a blow, too.

As for ways to revive the idea in today's world, I think the best way would be to make it a public challenge with volunteers to raise money for charity - the longer you last, the more money you raise.

 

[@AlwaysLookCool729]

I don't know. I personally I don't believe tickling itself was ever a problem, even in this torture in stocks scenario. First of all, it wasn't too long to truly exhaust someone, was quite dynamic and - especially in case of those more recent festivals - it's not like people were dragged there by force. And form what I've seen, most people rather enjoyed it, saw it as a harmless and fun entertainment and very often volunteered to do it. Even in case of Stimulating Feet - putting all controversies aside - many visitors decided to try it, even if they knew they were going to be tickled. And in case of Canelli, it didn't stop because they were banned, but rather the city stopped organizing this festival at all, so they stopped coming. I think the backlash was more about the footage appearing on fetish and porn sites.

Having said that, I have a feeling that many organisers are now more careful in regards to what they allow to happen during those festivals. It is true that nowadays people are less "tolerant and open" to many things, and can be more easily offended. And this change of attitude has of course some positive aspects (people are more careful to avoid potentially dangerous situations), as well as some negative (some people have no trust at all and see everything as problematic). And renfaire tickling might be it - after all it is about physical contact, and I imagine many people might not be comfortable with it. On the other hand, if no one was forced to do it, and only volunteers were locked in the stocks and tickled, then I'm not sure who would have problem with this. But since you can't predict how people would react, and that a video can be all over in the internet in the matters of seconds, the vendors might be simply afraid to do it.

So I think people would be willing to participate in it, the problem is that people who are vendors on those festivals might be afraid to recreate this activity. But this is just my opinion, I'm not saying I'm correct in my judgment

Great point. I do agree with you on the fact that tickling is just harmless fun. And the old videos from Canelli had tons of ladies enjoying getting tickled by the volunteers.

The reason why I mentioned society being "offended" is because it seems like today there's a lack of tickling from these events. For example, in the early days of YouTube, there were countless videos of tickling at the Canelli. Heck, even during the 2010s, I saw a bunch of Burg Frankenstein tickle videos of the ladies. While some are still there, others have been removed due to "inappropriate behavior" or something like that.

What's hypocritical is that you still see some guys getting the treatment on Burg Frankenstein and less of the ladies. Which frustrates me because I think that is hypocrisy. I remember hearing someone on another website mentioning that apparently, women are more ticklish than men and the events do not want backlash from some PC groups. Granted, I do not believe that is true, but like I said before, it wouldn't shock me if that were to be the case. Same goes with Mainstream Tickling.

The way I see it, it is a fun activity for the locals to get involved in. And despite the COVID-19 pandemic, I think we have come to know that bringing the classic tickle stocks would increase in ticket sales. Bring back the tickle techniques to Burg Frankenstein as well as the Canelli events.

 

[@AlwaysLookCool729]

Yeah, the Italian troupe was popular with tourists and passers-by in all the places they were hired. It does seem to have been the pandemic that shut them down... and I'm sure the loss of Canelli - where they were the official "guards" and "punishers" - was a blow, too.

As for ways to revive the idea in today's world, I think the best way would be to make it a public challenge with volunteers to raise money for charity - the longer you last, the more money you raise.

That is a wonderful idea. Make it a fun competition for charity. The ladies getting tickled by the men and whoever last the longest wins a prize. Whether it be on the bellies or feet, it would attract an audience for a fun time.

 

[CoatOfArms]

The reason why I mentioned society being "offended" is because it seems like today there's a lack of tickling from these events. For example, in the early days of YouTube, there were countless videos of tickling at the Canelli. Heck, even during the 2010s, I saw a bunch of Burg Frankenstein tickle videos of the ladies. While some are still there, others have been removed due to "inappropriate behavior" or something like that.

Well, I talked about it in other thread, by I think we tend to forget how rare renfaire tickling was. There was only one group in Italy, one person in France, and even if it was happening on multiple festivals, it was done by the same people. So if those two groups stopped doing it (maybe they got sick, died during covid, got too old etc.), the whole activity ended. So there is no surprise there are fewer videos. Also, if they were published by some individual, and they received some creepy comments, it is only natural they would restrict access or delete videos or photos from their accounts.

What's hypocritical is that you still see some guys getting the treatment on Burg Frankenstein and less of the ladies. Which frustrates me because I think that is hypocrisy. I remember hearing someone on another website mentioning that apparently, women are more ticklish than men and the events do not want backlash from some PC groups. Granted, I do not believe that is true, but like I said before, it wouldn't shock me if that were to be the case. Same goes with Mainstream Tickling.

The way I see it, it is a fun activity for the locals to get involved in. And despite the COVID-19 pandemic, I think we have come to know that bringing the classic tickle stocks would increase in ticket sales. Bring back the tickle techniques to Burg Frankenstein as well as the Canelli events.

I wasn't following Burg Frankenstein, so I can't really tell, but I guess they might be slightly more careful when approaching women. Or perhaps they are tickling both men and women equally, just don't post videos with women? It might be the case they are afraid of some backlash, but still, if someone volunteers to do it, knowing well what is going to happen, I don't really see why would anyone be offended by this. Sure, if the participants were mislead or forced against their will, but if someone doesn't mind being locked in the stocks and tickled, then it's their choice. It's like getting angry that someone else goes to a haunted house and gets scared, even if they clearly wanted it.

As for renfaire tickling, I think it might come back at some point. After all, tickling is a perfect "torture" for medieval festival, much better then being splashed with a water, to give one example. Honestly, even if I wasn't into tickling, I think I would much rather prefer to be tickled rather than splashed with water, because tickling leaves no marks, and in the second scenario you are completely wet.