From my experiences with girls I've tickled and heard about, it is clear that girls with calloused soles are not as sensitive as ones with soft soles. There are exceptions. I may have posted on here that I tickled my aunt's feet a couple of times in my teens, and she had pretty calloused soles, and very ticklish feet nontheless. My ex girlfriend has fairly soft soles, but was not ticklish anyway. While I do believe that soft soles and pedicures can make a woman's feet more ticklish, it is not always this way. I once saw a friend who tickled his girlfriend's feet, and the girl has fairly calloused soles, and she was going nuts, while another time I saw someone with moderately calloused feet get tickled before and after a pedicure, and she laughed, but it wasnt hysterical laughter of a person who is very ticklish. I think ticklishness has to do with several things. Family history (Although not always. I know one family where the 60 year old mother is very ticklish and her 38 year old daughter isnt) General skin sensitivity, and also, how the skin reacts to being tickled. That is, is someone used to being tickled, or has their skin put up a defense against being tickled. I've had a few pen pals tell me they used to be very ticklish when they were younger, but they built up a tickling tolerance, and arent as ticklish now. Iam one that believes ticklishness is a very individual thing, and there is not one specific reason why one person is more ticklish than another, there can be many factors to such.
Mitch
