Tickling Porn

[Terra_Ascension]

Very simple, yet interesting question:
Is tickling porn real porn?
And I don't mean nude because obviously that does count.
I'm talking clothed tickling - very revealing clothing such as tank tops.
No nudity or sex - just full out, fully clothed tickling videos - does this count as pornography?

What do you think?

TA

 

[TickledToDeath]

Very simple, yet interesting question:
Is tickling porn real porn?
And I don't mean nude because obviously that does count.
I'm talking clothed tickling - very revealing clothing such as tank tops.
No nudity or sex - just full out, fully clothed tickling videos - does this count as pornography?

What do you think?

TA

Porn? No.
Even with nudity....just tickling, all out intense no holds barred tickling is borderline but fully clothed, tickling....no, not porn.

 

[Iggy pop]

I would disagree. I think tickle videos are pornographic, that is to say that the main porpose of the videos is to provide sexual stimulation. Even clothed videos are still made to provide sexual stimulation. Let's face nobody is watching these video for "the art"

 

[Sunday_10pm]

Porn is just a word. If you whack off to tickling clips, its your porn

 

[TickledToDeath]

. Let's face nobody is watching these video for "the art"

REally? What if the tickler is finger painting designes on the lee?
Would that not be art? 😀

 

[Iggy pop]

REally? What if the tickler is finger painting designes on the lee?
Would that not be art? 😀

Maybe. Of course, I think most people would be viewing for the sexual stimulation.

 

[scorpionldr]

REally? What if the tickler is finger painting designes on the lee?
Would that not be art? 😀

well how hard is the lee laughing? we have to face facts, tickling videos have tickling, and if the tickler pulls out paint and a brush and chooses to paint the ticklee, then damnit, if it still has laughing from tickling, then it's still a tickling video

 

[penny lane]

IMO, it is pornography...albeit a mild form of porn.

I know there are several people out there that insist that it isn't a sexual thrill at all.

There was a guy I used to have a correspondence with a couple of years back who would send me drawings of men being tickled by mostly naked women...and sometimes the man was naked. But the guy was genuinely shocked at any suggestion that tickling might be about sex. Then I started receiving long e-mails, containing quotations from the bible interspersed with steamy passages about how much he wanted to tickle me.

 

[Redmage]

It sounds as though people are trying to draw some distinction between porn and art. Obviously not all porn is art, and not all art is porn, but there is some crossover.

It seems to me that "porn" is writing, drawing, video, or audio media that is intended by the producer to get people turned on, and that is bought by the consumer for that purpose. Most if not all commercial tickling material conforms to that definition.

 

[ShadowTklr]

Defining Pornography

Very simple, yet interesting question:
Is tickling porn real porn?
And I don't mean nude because obviously that does count.
I'm talking clothed tickling - very revealing clothing such as tank tops.
No nudity or sex - just full out, fully clothed tickling videos - does this count as pornography?

What do you think?

TA

If you're asking individual opinion, then the answer is whatever people think it is, and many people will have their own opinion. The fact is, the answers will all be right, because pornography is subjective, and has NO legal basis here in the United States.

If, however, you're asking everyone's opinion about the legal standard for pornography, then the answer is no longer subjective. The answer is no. Tickling fully clothed people does not meet the legal definition of pornography, even if it was created for the explicit purpose of display to inidividuals who find such activities to be sexually arousing.

In the United States, the legal definition of objectionable sexual material is "Obscenity," and that law is defined in Miller v. California in 1973, and remains in place to this day.

In order for material to be deemed obscene by law, it must meet 3 separate criteria:
a. whether "the average person, applying contemporary community standards" would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest
b. whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law
c. whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value

If the material in question does meet ALL 3 criteria as defined when applied to State and Federal legal standards, then the material is not deemed obscene; a.k.a. Pornographic.