OBleedingMe
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I learned something in my Human Bio class that directly relates to the differences between male and female sensitivity, and I thought I'd share my knowledge for the the benefit of the TMF.
Back in caveman days, a male would typically hunt for live prey and females would gather fruit/nuts when not raising the young. Males would also perform most of the heavy physical labor. When the winter months arrived and gathering became quite literally fruitless, the job of providing food would fall solely on the males, who would go out into the cold and hunt for live prey. Due to the extreme exposure to the cold, evolution thickened up our skin layers to help us survive longer in the cold and protect us from the inevitable cuts/infection that one receives from heavy physical labor. As a result, male nerve endings are not as close to the surface of the skin as a female's. Hence, we are not as sensitive.
Basically, this means that what would be considered a very painful grip on a female's arm would be merely a firm one on a male's.
How does this relate to tickling? Well, as many females have complained on this forum, males tend to "dig in" and cause more pain than tickling. We do this because us men assume that your body has the same sensitivity level as our own. Unfortunately, what is a tickle-maddening sensation to males usually translates into pain for females. On the flip side, when a female tickles a male, they sometimes cannot feel it becuase the female is (you guessed it) squeezing too lightly, since they too assume your body is sensitive as there's is.
Personal exprience certainly corroborates this for me, as I've had inexprienced females tickling me as well as other acts in which I have had to request a drastic increase in pressure, to which I recieved a response along the lines of: "Are you sure? I don't want to hurt you!". She responsed in this manner because she knows if someone applied this sort of pressure to a part of her body it would be painful.
Bottom line: Males need to be somewhat gentler when tickling a female and females need to be somewhat more aggressive when tickling a male.
I'm sure some of you have figured this out for yourselves, but I thought I'd let those know who are still "green" to tickling. 🙂
Back in caveman days, a male would typically hunt for live prey and females would gather fruit/nuts when not raising the young. Males would also perform most of the heavy physical labor. When the winter months arrived and gathering became quite literally fruitless, the job of providing food would fall solely on the males, who would go out into the cold and hunt for live prey. Due to the extreme exposure to the cold, evolution thickened up our skin layers to help us survive longer in the cold and protect us from the inevitable cuts/infection that one receives from heavy physical labor. As a result, male nerve endings are not as close to the surface of the skin as a female's. Hence, we are not as sensitive.
Basically, this means that what would be considered a very painful grip on a female's arm would be merely a firm one on a male's.
How does this relate to tickling? Well, as many females have complained on this forum, males tend to "dig in" and cause more pain than tickling. We do this because us men assume that your body has the same sensitivity level as our own. Unfortunately, what is a tickle-maddening sensation to males usually translates into pain for females. On the flip side, when a female tickles a male, they sometimes cannot feel it becuase the female is (you guessed it) squeezing too lightly, since they too assume your body is sensitive as there's is.
Personal exprience certainly corroborates this for me, as I've had inexprienced females tickling me as well as other acts in which I have had to request a drastic increase in pressure, to which I recieved a response along the lines of: "Are you sure? I don't want to hurt you!". She responsed in this manner because she knows if someone applied this sort of pressure to a part of her body it would be painful.
Bottom line: Males need to be somewhat gentler when tickling a female and females need to be somewhat more aggressive when tickling a male.
I'm sure some of you have figured this out for yourselves, but I thought I'd let those know who are still "green" to tickling. 🙂
is a tickler must experiment on his or her ticklee! You never know what's gonna get the most ticklish reaction - soft or firm, baby oil or not, and so on.
