Social Aspect

[TempstofLaughtr]

Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin Royal Society was an English people natural history who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolution over time from common descent, through the process he called natural selection....
theorized on the link between tickling and social relations, arguing that tickling provokes laughter through the anticipation of pleasure. If a stranger tickles a child without any preliminaries, catching the child by surprise, the likely result will be not laughter but withdrawal and displeasure. Darwin also noticed that for tickling to be effective, you must not know the precise point of stimulation in advance, and reasoned that this is why you cannot effectively tickle yourself.

While many people assume that other people enjoy tickling, a recent survey of 84 college students indicated that only 32% of respondents enjoy being tickled (32% and 36% of respondents, respectively, either gave neutral responses, or stated that they do not enjoy being tickled.). In the same study the authors found that those people who indicated that they do not enjoy being tickled actually smiled more often during tickling than those who do enjoy being tickled, which confirms that the usual association between smiling and pleasure is broken in the context of unpleasant tickling.


WHAT ARE YOU THOUGHTS?!

 

[PhillyBondage]

well first off, i think there are many who love it but pretend to hate it. I liek tickling to be "torture" so i do pretend i hate tickling and resist against it as much as i can. I would imagin several of the neutral or dont like would like. I think the study is invalid unless you get in intimate situations with all these peoples and find out for sure. Also it might matter for some who is doing the tickling.