Test for foot ticklishness

[Volsung]

Aside from actual ticking, do you think there is a test for foot ticklishness?

I can barely stand to walk on the driveway barefoot. It hurts too much!

Do I pass?

What tests can you think of?

 

[PunkedM/Lee]

I giggled reading the post...I think I failed.

 

[TickVix]

I'm not sure if there is a test for ticklishness, but if it were I'd sign up lol. It would be really cool if something like that actually did exist.

 

[Comfort Eagle]

Ink pen on the sole.

 

[GEORGIATKLER]

Are you hiring for test takers and test givers?????

I have often wondered, and expressed in other threads, is there any potential for pain management by understanding how people can tune out/turn off being ticklish? Tickle, itch and pain do seem to travel a similar nerve path, with pain being given the "green light" over the other two due to its greater information importance. Of course tickling sensitivity does have major variables person to person and by location on a given person. We foot tickling lovers can tell may stories of 'lees more sensitive on the upper body, and we all know 'lees with just one "spot". The "scratch with a key or blunt probe" and "sticking with a pinlike object" procedures are used to test reflexes and or possible nerve damage in medical situations. I imagine if someone has supersensitive skin, they obviously may not like tickling or even a massage.

 

[KoocheeKoo]

Aside from actual ticking, do you think there is a test for foot ticklishness?

I can barely stand to walk on the driveway barefoot. It hurts too much!

Do I pass?

What tests can you think of?

The sensations of pain vs ticklishness are different. While the bottoms of my feet are very sensitive both to pain and tickling stimuli, that isn't the case with everyone. As for tests you can use to determine just how ticklish someone is on their soles, instruments such as pinwheels, long fingernails, brushes, forks, toothbrushes, and even Q-tips can be devices of total torture for a woman with very ticklish feet (I used to get a former girlfriend howling with laughter using a small stiff paint brush on her toes, the balls of her feet, arches, etc; she was also very sensitive to a Q-tip being dragged around her toes then down the foot from big toe towards the arch (she would go out of her mind when I did that).

 

[Volsung]

I tried using a hairbrush on my soles... I couldn't keep it up but for a few seconds...
I think I would simply DIE if I was tickled in the stocks!

 

[ticklehound]

I'm not so sure I understand the question... If you're wanting to test for ticklishness, it would follow that you must tickle!

Any light touching or scratching of the feet (with whatever's handy) will give the answer (ask any girl who struggles during regular pedicures).

Short of touching the feet, I guess you can go to body language cues... I've always thought that people who are self conscious of their feet were generally really ticklish... that's just me...

 

[Volsung]

I think this answered my question best:

The sensations of pain vs ticklishness are different. While the bottoms of my feet are very sensitive both to pain and tickling stimuli, that isn't the case with everyone. As for tests you can use to determine just how ticklish someone is on their soles, instruments such as pinwheels, long fingernails, brushes, forks, toothbrushes, and even Q-tips can be devices of total torture for a woman with very ticklish feet (I used to get a former girlfriend howling with laughter using a small stiff paint brush on her toes, the balls of her feet, arches, etc; she was also very sensitive to a Q-tip being dragged around her toes then down the foot from big toe towards the arch (she would go out of her mind when I did that).

 

[Dandy Jack]

If you are tickled by any method on your feet and you laugh....

then the conclusion is that you are ticklish...

also if you squirm or cannot sit still...

same Conlcusion...

You are ticklish...

If there is no response when you are tickled

Then perhaps you are not ticklish!

I say perhaps, because some people can hide

their reactions to being tickled.

Dandy Jack!

 

[DontAskJusTckle]

I can barely stand to walk on the driveway barefoot. It hurts too much!

That just means you have no callouses on your feet. It means they are more sensitive, but not necessarily ticklish. However if they are ticklish, having no callouses to protect them will result in you feeling it more intensely.

 

[robmic]

One thing that I've done that is a start to test a persons ticklishness is to take their hand, palm up and hold the fingers in a way to stretch the skin tight and stroke your finger across said palm. If they jump and pull their had away, they're probably ticklish! At this point, it's time to explore the rest of their body! 😉

 

[Volsung]

Excellent and thoughtful responses.

Thanks!