Misconceptions you had about tickling

[Silverflame3]

I've just been wtching some old videos my wife and I made and I can only marvel (or cringe) at the misconecptions I had about tickling.
Of course, not all of these will ring true for everyone, as this is primarily drawn from my personal experience. Your mileage may vary.
Here's some stuff I believed about tickling but turned out to be misinformation at best, or pure porn-inspired fantasy at worst:

People laugh when tickled. For the most part, yes, laughter when tickled is a panic response. Not everyone reacts the same way, however, and not every ticklish person bursts out laughing.
People will struggle when tickled. Yes and no. Again, people will struggle as a panic response if you pin them down/immobilize them and they can't get away from the tickles. SOme people may not struggle at all and just enjoy the sensation.
When tickling feet, watch how the other foot reacts to see if a person is really ticklish or not. Not really true. I've seen folks enjoy having their feet tickled, even giggle and laugh, and the other foot remained perfectly still. Most likely the foot being tickled would jerk wildly away from your hands if you happen to strike a particularily sensitive spot.
People will wiggle their toes when their feet are tickled. This one is probably least true and happens only in porn. In fact, this one got me writing this post in the first place. People will laugh when tickled on their feet, they may even struggle if you hit their most sensitive spots, but people do not wiggle thier toes as a response to tickling. I looked at a video of me tickling my wife's feet and she's laughing, crying, begging for me to stop (all consensually, she likes the torture and denial-of-mercy play), and in this video I keep telling her to wiggle her toes as I tickle her for me to make it stop. It's pretty obvious it's artificial and doesn't have to do anything with the tickling, as she's obviously struggling to remember wiggling her toes for my sake.
People need to love tickling to love tickle torture. This is a tricky one, but let's say my wife doesn't like being tickled, she likes being tortured. She hates tickling and it's torture for her, and she likes THAT, not necessarily the tickling itself.
People become more ticklish when vulnerable or tied up. Not really true, people can become pretty desensitized and/or aroused when tied up or exposed.
Longer tickling means better. You need to hit the sweet spot and know when to quit, sessions that drag on for too long just become tedious. Your body becomes wooden, you get cold, and most likely tired/irritated.
Post orgasm torture increases ticklishness. Right at the moment of orgasm ticklishness does increase, but in my experience post orgasm your body just becomes wooden and wants for the stimulation to stop. The exception are very sensitive spots like genitals or nipples, but tickling there post orgasm usually becomes painful.

And thats it from me. Anyone else have thier own experiences or opinions to share?

 

[D-Tickler]

I strongly uphold your summarised points!
Though these points have been summarised primarily based on your experiences of tickling your wife, they well embody a potential truth that may be applicable to all the lees:
Different lees have individually ticklish reactions in the potentially various ways.

Also, I guess that reading of (a post of) complaints about some models' faking ticklishness triggered you to write this post, though I'm not sure if it's true for you.
Anyway, I really think that your summarised points may bring up a sort of dissolution for the obsession with complaining about models' faking ticklishness 😎

From my perspective, some ppl simply assume that all everyone's ticklish reaction should have some unitary patterns (e.g., one should wiggle his/her toes when one genuinely reacts ticklish for foot tickling).
Such an assumption is an important factor that causes those ppl's obsession with complaining about the (seemingly) faking ticklish reactions.
On the other hand, this assumption has turned out to be false by itself😛

 

[Silverflame3]

My wife and I have a very open communication regarding our sexual lives and we tried out many things we wanted to experience. There were some things I saw only in porn and wanted to try out, and after the sessions when I showed her the images and videos, we compared how it looked like vs how it felt. One interesting thing I remember she said a few times was "yeah, it looks great on photo, you get a really good angle on the feet for a good sole shot, but the position is bad for tickling as it's uncomfortable and you really don't feel much due to the strain on the legs".

What made me consider writing this post was a video where I had her tied up on the bed lying face down, with her bare feet sticking over the edge of the bed. I put a chair below her feet and a comfy pillow, and tied her feet down to the chair. In the video I scrub her soles with a brush while nagging her to wiggle her toes for me on the camera. She's clearly laughing as it tickles her a lot, but you see her wiggle the toes only for my sake, not in the natural rhythm how feet usually react to being tickled, so to speak. In my experience people don't move their toes unless you're tickling the toes themselves, and then they usually arch the whole foot back to get them out of the way. The most action happens in the ankle while trying to get a foot away from tickles, just as much action happens in the shoulder when tickling armpits and ribs.

Of course, my sample size is small and your mileage may vary, but this is a pattern I've seen with about five different girls, so I draw my conclusions from these encounters.

 

[LerLee]

Misconceptions….

When I was rather inexperienced I had no idea how ticklish underarms, hipbones, and inner thighs could be. I was much too focused on feet, sides, and tummy — places on a woman’s body than can certainly be ticklish but on average are not as ticklish as the aforementioned areas.

Before I had been to the playoffs, I had no clue how ticklish clits and vajayjays are.

 

[Miss_Gigglish]

I've just been wtching some old videos my wife and I made and I can only marvel (or cringe) at the misconecptions I had about tickling.
Of course, not all of these will ring true for everyone, as this is primarily drawn from my personal experience. Your mileage may vary.
Here's some stuff I believed about tickling but turned out to be misinformation at best, or pure porn-inspired fantasy at worst:

People laugh when tickled. For the most part, yes, laughter when tickled is a panic response. Not everyone reacts the same way, however, and not every ticklish person bursts out laughing.
People will struggle when tickled. Yes and no. Again, people will struggle as a panic response if you pin them down/immobilize them and they can't get away from the tickles. SOme people may not struggle at all and just enjoy the sensation.
When tickling feet, watch how the other foot reacts to see if a person is really ticklish or not. Not really true. I've seen folks enjoy having their feet tickled, even giggle and laugh, and the other foot remained perfectly still. Most likely the foot being tickled would jerk wildly away from your hands if you happen to strike a particularily sensitive spot.
People will wiggle their toes when their feet are tickled. This one is probably least true and happens only in porn. In fact, this one got me writing this post in the first place. People will laugh when tickled on their feet, they may even struggle if you hit their most sensitive spots, but people do not wiggle thier toes as a response to tickling. I looked at a video of me tickling my wife's feet and she's laughing, crying, begging for me to stop (all consensually, she likes the torture and denial-of-mercy play), and in this video I keep telling her to wiggle her toes as I tickle her for me to make it stop. It's pretty obvious it's artificial and doesn't have to do anything with the tickling, as she's obviously struggling to remember wiggling her toes for my sake.
People need to love tickling to love tickle torture. This is a tricky one, but let's say my wife doesn't like being tickled, she likes being tortured. She hates tickling and it's torture for her, and she likes THAT, not necessarily the tickling itself.
People become more ticklish when vulnerable or tied up. Not really true, people can become pretty desensitized and/or aroused when tied up or exposed.
Longer tickling means better. You need to hit the sweet spot and know when to quit, sessions that drag on for too long just become tedious. Your body becomes wooden, you get cold, and most likely tired/irritated.
Post orgasm torture increases ticklishness. Right at the moment of orgasm ticklishness does increase, but in my experience post orgasm your body just becomes wooden and wants for the stimulation to stop. The exception are very sensitive spots like genitals or nipples, but tickling there post orgasm usually becomes painful.

And thats it from me. Anyone else have thier own experiences or opinions to share?

OMG OMG OMG so many things here are SO TRUE and I was wondering why people (mostly here) were assuming so many things that I as a ticklee never felt were right.

I mean I will laugh when tickled obviously, but I at times even scream, shriek, shout before laughing. And I do thrash around to get away but at times, my body just freezes (especially if the tickling is happening on a spot like my belly or neck) and it is crazy because that means the person doing the tickling can freely tickle and continue driving me mad.

I don't know about toe wiggling either - if you tickle my foot, I will simply tend to pull it back instantly. And yes, there seems to be a huge unnecessary hype about tying down, tickling for hours, and also the assumption that ticklishness increases after orgasm (you are SO RIGHT about the exceptions also - I agree that I don't want my nipples getting touched after orgasm. Maybe the only spot that becomes more ticklish after orgasm for brief moments is my clit).

Another thing that seems very weird to me is people wanting to tickle during sex - WHY? I might end up shaking or thrashing around which might actually hurt somewhere very painful to you (and again, the tickling will ensure that the sex doesn't feel at all).


I am glad you have written this through your actual real experience of tickling - a lot of people here seem to believe in really impossible things lol

 

[Miss_Gigglish]

Misconceptions….

When I was rather inexperienced I had no idea how ticklish underarms, hipbones, and inner thighs could be. I was much too focused on feet, sides, and tummy — places on a woman’s body than can certainly be ticklish but on average are not as ticklish as the aforementioned areas.

Before I had been to the playoffs, I had no clue how ticklish clits and vajayjays are.

Underarms and hipbones are death spots lol

 

[LerLee]

They most certainly are! I think I discovered underarms relatively early but took a year or two to discover hipbones, inner thighs, and other non traditional ticklish spots.

 

[Miss_Gigglish]

They most certainly are! I think I discovered underarms relatively early but took a year or two to discover hipbones, inner thighs, and other non traditional ticklish spots.

If you are going to tickle a woman, try her tailbone and thank me later (talking from experience) 😛

 

[LerLee]

If you are going to tickle a woman, try her tailbone and thank me later (talking from experience) 😛

Thank you Miss Gigglish! Will try tomorrow morning. 😃

 

[Miss_Gigglish]

Thank you Miss Gigglish! Will try tomorrow morning. 😃

Hahaha but only with something light, not a finger

 

[Silverflame3]

Misconceptions….

When I was rather inexperienced I had no idea how ticklish underarms, hipbones, and inner thighs could be. I was much too focused on feet, sides, and tummy — places on a woman’s body than can certainly be ticklish but on average are not as ticklish as the aforementioned areas.

Before I had been to the playoffs, I had no clue how ticklish clits and vajayjays are.

Hahah, so true. When we started dating my wife wanted a lot of tongue action and her feet were ticklish. As I have a pretty big thing for feet, hers got pampered with so much attention she started getting aroused just by having them touched. After a while once her sensory spots shifted around I wanted to return to her lady parts, but they have become sensitive to touch she can no longer stand a lick without jumping through the ceiling.

 

[Silverflame3]

OMG OMG OMG so many things here are SO TRUE and I was wondering why people (mostly here) were assuming so many things that I as a ticklee never felt were right.

I mean I will laugh when tickled obviously, but I at times even scream, shriek, shout before laughing. And I do thrash around to get away but at times, my body just freezes (especially if the tickling is happening on a spot like my belly or neck) and it is crazy because that means the person doing the tickling can freely tickle and continue driving me mad.

I don't know about toe wiggling either - if you tickle my foot, I will simply tend to pull it back instantly. And yes, there seems to be a huge unnecessary hype about tying down, tickling for hours, and also the assumption that ticklishness increases after orgasm (you are SO RIGHT about the exceptions also - I agree that I don't want my nipples getting touched after orgasm. Maybe the only spot that becomes more ticklish after orgasm for brief moments is my clit).

Another thing that seems very weird to me is people wanting to tickle during sex - WHY? I might end up shaking or thrashing around which might actually hurt somewhere very painful to you (and again, the tickling will ensure that the sex doesn't feel at all).


I am glad you have written this through your actual real experience of tickling - a lot of people here seem to believe in really impossible things lol

Hey, thanks for chiming in! From my experience tickling sex is something that needs a lot of consideration and careful positioning, I totally get what you're saying. Just like during movement when you need stability and mobility to shift weight, so you need one partner in a stable position and one in a dynamic position, and the one in the dynamic position can get tickled if you want to (it's usually the one on top that provides the dynamism, the bottom provides stability for their partner to move around).

 

[Miss_Gigglish]

Hahah, so true. When we started dating my wife wanted a lot of tongue action and her feet were ticklish. As I have a pretty big thing for feet, hers got pampered with so much attention she started getting aroused just by having them touched. After a while once her sensory spots shifted around I wanted to return to her lady parts, but they have become sensitive to touch she can no longer stand a lick without jumping through the ceiling.

This is so hot lol

 

[Miss_Gigglish]

Hey, thanks for chiming in! From my experience tickling sex is something that needs a lot of consideration and careful positioning, I totally get what you're saying. Just like during movement when you need stability and mobility to shift weight, so you need one partner in a stable position and one in a dynamic position, and the one in the dynamic position can get tickled if you want to (it's usually the one on top that provides the dynamism, the bottom provides stability for their partner to move around).

Still..... I prefer the tickling to happen before the sex

 

[Silverflame3]

Underarms and hipbones are death spots lol

And what about necks? My wife has such a ticklish neck merely breathing down her skin has her hissing like a cornered opossum 🤣

This is so hot lol

I have a big thing for feet so once we got that dynamic into action I guess I had years of pent up desire to burn out. However, once things settled down, I wanted to be the gentleman and return a bit to more traditional stuff, and I go down on her when she yelps and slams her legs shut, nearly breaking my neck in the process. I think that's the last time I tried oral, and she didn't mind. Nowadays we're a lot more into foot action and she once said sucking her pinky toe feels like sucking on her clit.

Still..... I prefer the tickling to happen before the sex

The irony for us is even though I'm primarily the tickler in "sessions", I'm the one getting tickled during sex. My wife likes missionary with a twist, where she wants me to lean forward and put all the weight on my arms planted beside and around her head, which leaves my pits and ribs fully exposed for her spidery fingers to wiggle into. It's very light and gentle tickling, but it's also maddening since the position makes me stuck and unable to move my upper body unless we fully disengage and end the sex. A different kind of tickling was for me grabbing her soles during reverse cowgirl. Now THAT's a rodeo!

 

[Miss_Gigglish]

And what about necks? My wife has such a ticklish neck merely breathing down her skin has her hissing like a cornered opossum 🤣

I have a big thing for feet so once we got that dynamic into action I guess I had years of pent up desire to burn out. However, once things settled down, I wanted to be the gentleman and return a bit to more traditional stuff, and I go down on her when she yelps and slams her legs shut, nearly breaking my neck in the process. I think that's the last time I tried oral, and she didn't mind. Nowadays we're a lot more into foot action and she once said sucking her pinky toe feels like sucking on her clit.

The irony for us is even though I'm primarily the tickler in "sessions", I'm the one getting tickled during sex. My wife likes missionary with a twist, where she wants me to lean forward and put all the weight on my arms planted beside and around her head, which leaves my pits and ribs fully exposed for her spidery fingers to wiggle into. It's very light and gentle tickling, but it's also maddening since the position makes me stuck and unable to move my upper body unless we fully disengage and end the sex. A different kind of tickling was for me grabbing her soles during reverse cowgirl. Now THAT's a rodeo!

My neck is ticklish too similar to hers. I know what you mean - breathing down feels quite tickly there for sure (even on my belly and ears).

 

[Silverflame3]

My neck is ticklish too similar to hers. I know what you mean - breathing down feels quite tickly there for sure (even on my belly and ears).

i find it funny how so many people focus on feet only (and I say that as a big foot freak!). I also find it funny when people ask what's their favorite part of the foot, and I'm like the whole damn nervous system. Tickling (and most other forms of erotic play) work on stimulating the nerves, not pits or ribs or feet. In my opinion, you really need to get inside a person's head, deep beneath the skin to really tickle them. Otherwise you're just raking over skin.

 

[Miss_Gigglish]

i find it funny how so many people focus on feet only (and I say that as a big foot freak!). I also find it funny when people ask what's their favorite part of the foot, and I'm like the whole damn nervous system. Tickling (and most other forms of erotic play) work on stimulating the nerves, not pits or ribs or feet. In my opinion, you really need to get inside a person's head, deep beneath the skin to really tickle them. Otherwise you're just raking over skin.

Exactly!!!

 

[JohnTK]

From my point of you, two comments:

People become more ticklish when vulnerable or tied up: I believe this to be true both as a general rule and from personal experience. My fiance's feet for example are much more ticklish when she feels that they are trapped or pinned and there is no escape. It feels very different from tickling her casually when her reaction depends on the mood and she can sometimes control it. I use to take her leg just wrap the end of the bedsheet around her ankle and create the feeling of her foot being exposed and immobile and then tickling her sole sends her to crazy laughter. Also being tied up usually means putting the body in a more stretched position with arms up, armpits more exposed and ribs open which for sure enhances ticklishness but I have to admit I never tried to tickle someone tied up on a curled protected position.

Post orgasm torture increases ticklishness: from my personal experince in the times that I have tried switch, I felt much more ticklish after orgasm, especially around the private areas but alover the body as well.

 

[Silverflame3]

From my point of you, two comments:

People become more ticklish when vulnerable or tied up: I believe this to be true both as a general rule and from personal experience. My fiance's feet for example are much more ticklish when she feels that they are trapped or pinned and there is no escape. It feels very different from tickling her casually when her reaction depends on the mood and she can sometimes control it. I use to take her leg just wrap the end of the bedsheet around her ankle and create the feeling of her foot being exposed and immobile and then tickling her sole sends her to crazy laughter. Also being tied up usually means putting the body in a more stretched position with arms up, armpits more exposed and ribs open which for sure enhances ticklishness but I have to admit I never tried to tickle someone tied up on a curled protected position.

Post orgasm torture increases ticklishness: from my personal experince in the times that I have tried switch, I felt much more ticklish after orgasm, especially around the private areas but alover the body as well.

Of course, everyone is different and your mileage may vary. This is written from my own, in some ways limited experience. I become more ticklish when restrained and it has to do with the difference in strength factor. I haven't been tickled by men in a serious manner before, but I have been tickled by women. When I tower thirty centimeters above a woman and can send her flying across the room with a simple kick, I won't allow myself to be tickled and suppress the feeling until I'm so tied up I can't accidentally kick her in the face and send her to the OR (I'm pretty ticklish all over, but need to let my guard down to be tickled). My wife, on the other hand, becomes aroused when tied up and wants to be tortured, so you can forget about tickling her. Sex yes and other stuff, but ticklishness drops rapidly. Just like your partner, but exactly the opposite. Even the impression of being pinned down is enough to make her enter a different mindset.

As for post orgasm, some parts become sensitive, but it usually becomes overwhelmingly painful. My privates can be tickled, but the rest of the body just becomes wooden and all sensitivity shuts down. I have yet to meet someone who reacts differently, but I do not deny their existence. It's just that I haven't met them yet and had personal experience with tickling them or seeing them tickled at that moment.

 

[D-Tickler]

OMG OMG OMG so many things here are SO TRUE and I was wondering why people (mostly here) were assuming so many things that I as a ticklee never felt were right.

I mean I will laugh when tickled obviously, but I at times even scream, shriek, shout before laughing. And I do thrash around to get away but at times, my body just freezes (especially if the tickling is happening on a spot like my belly or neck) and it is crazy because that means the person doing the tickling can freely tickle and continue driving me mad.

I don't know about toe wiggling either - if you tickle my foot, I will simply tend to pull it back instantly. And yes, there seems to be a huge unnecessary hype about tying down, tickling for hours, and also the assumption that ticklishness increases after orgasm (you are SO RIGHT about the exceptions also - I agree that I don't want my nipples getting touched after orgasm. Maybe the only spot that becomes more ticklish after orgasm for brief moments is my clit).

Another thing that seems very weird to me is people wanting to tickle during sex - WHY? I might end up shaking or thrashing around which might actually hurt somewhere very painful to you (and again, the tickling will ensure that the sex doesn't feel at all).


I am glad you have written this through your actual real experience of tickling - a lot of people here seem to believe in really impossible things lol

It's also very grateful of you to share your real experiences of tickling as a genuinely ticklish lee😊
Especially you mentioned that your body just reacts as freezing at a certain stage. Such a reaction would be likely to be judged as 'faking' by some watchers if it shows in a tickling video, I bet🙄

And I just want to restate: Different lees have individually ticklish reactions in the potentially various ways.
In a holistic sense, ticklish reactions don't simply fit unitary patterns.
Some lees just laugh, wiggle toes when they get ticklishness on their feet, and become more ticklish when they have sex or orgasm; whereas, the others genuinely react ticklish in different ways.

So, many lees who've been accused as 'faking their ticklishness' may just don't react as those accusers' assumed patterns rather than fake their reactions
For this, I want to encourage the watchers to feel free to diminish their (mostly unnecessary) suspiciousness about tickling models' 'faking'😉

 

[D-Tickler]

Of course, everyone is different and your mileage may vary. This is written from my own, in some ways limited experience. I become more ticklish when restrained and it has to do with the difference in strength factor. I haven't been tickled by men in a serious manner before, but I have been tickled by women. When I tower thirty centimeters above a woman and can send her flying across the room with a simple kick, I won't allow myself to be tickled and suppress the feeling until I'm so tied up I can't accidentally kick her in the face and send her to the OR (I'm pretty ticklish all over, but need to let my guard down to be tickled). My wife, on the other hand, becomes aroused when tied up and wants to be tortured, so you can forget about tickling her. Sex yes and other stuff, but ticklishness drops rapidly. Just like your partner, but exactly the opposite. Even the impression of being pinned down is enough to make her enter a different mindset.

As for post orgasm, some parts become sensitive, but it usually becomes overwhelmingly painful. My privates can be tickled, but the rest of the body just becomes wooden and all sensitivity shuts down. I have yet to meet someone who reacts differently, but I do not deny their existence. It's just that I haven't met them yet and had personal experience with tickling them or seeing them tickled at that moment.

It's so precious of your (further) clarification of the specific ticklish reactions of you & of your wife in the specific conditions.
Your clarification just shows how different ticklish reactions different lees can have even in the same/similar conditions.
For this, we really need to be cautious about any kind of generalisation of ticklish reactions, but open to other ppl's ticklish experiences that may significantly different from our own presumptions/expectations!