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What is torture? (besides the most overused word on the TMF)

method11236

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How do you define torture?

Every new tickle clip seems to advertise that someone is being tortured. So and so volunteers to climb into a bondage device and have their sensitive spots poked and feathered while they laugh for a bit. Usually, they come back for a return trip in another video? Can something truly be called torture if we willingly subject ourselves to it?

Torture, according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, is "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions."

That definitely doesn't sounds like what we see on the TMF. I am curious to hear how people define torture, and if, like me, any believe that this term is used too lightly given the grave circumstances behind many men and women who really are tortured because of their beliefs, race or religion.

Furthermore, would you really like to see someone tortured? For 99% of the models that we see tickled in videos, tickling is unpleasant, unwanted and sometimes excrutiating. But every now and then, if the stars are alligned, we actually see someone tortured. Unconsensual, horrible torture, where the victim hates life for the time being. Its not cute, or fun: its miserable suffering. I will argue that the majority of people here search to witness this experience.

meth
 
Based on the very idea that it is, as you pointed out, the most overused word on the TMF, torture in this context can be defined as any event that causes a 'lee to say:

1. No no no!
2. Stop!
3. Please stop!
4. Not there!
5. (Insert All Kinds of Profanity Here)
6. (Insert All Kinds of Safewords here)
7. Ahhhhhhhhhh!
8. I'll give you the information! (In all-popular interrogation scenarios)
9. (Insert Strange Uncommon Sound here)
10. All of the above mixed with thrashing against bonds.

Of course, as you also pointed out, there are certain videos which actually, push the limit. Nevertheless, "torture" here is often interpreted in a less-than-literal, but not exactly figurative, way.
 
Torture is anything that causes someone physical or mental distress.

Oops...no wait....that's hazing:manicd:
 
For me torture is having something done so bad all possibility of resisting (by that I mean stopping uncontrollable thrashing, and having the power to speak) is removed.

It tends to mean tears and silent laughter, and a limp body that has gone beyond the ability to thrash when I am the lee.

Begging does not mean it's torture. Begging signifies that there is some control over the body left.

Torture is something I almost never see on any tickling videos, but then saying that most of what I see on tickling videos is overacting.
 
I would call something torture if it crosses the line from love/hate to just hate. Usually some part of a lee is having fun, some little tingle in the back of their mind is enjoying the ride, even when it's a tickling model and not someone with a specific preference for being tickled.

So when that goes away, when every part of them wants out, every fibre of their being wishes you'd stop and you don't, I'd say it has officially become torture.
 
I would call something torture if it crosses the line from love/hate to just hate. Usually some part of a lee is having fun, some little tingle in the back of their mind is enjoying the ride, even when it's a tickling model and not someone with a specific preference for being tickled.

So when that goes away, when every part of them wants out, every fibre of their being wishes you'd stop and you don't, I'd say it has officially become torture.

i have to agree with jeffi think you have to cross the live between love and hate though i believe you can have a very strong love to start to hate when you start to cross that line. later kyle
 
Its not cute, or fun: its miserable suffering. I will argue that the majority of people here search to witness this experience.


It's human nature to be curious. And we all love to be horrified. Look at 2girls1cup and all the publicity that got.
 
And we all love to be horrified.

go on...




I will offer another definition of torture: forcing someone to make an irrational decision. One they otherwise would not make.

This to me, is the essence of my tickle fetish. Tickle torture aimed at forcing women and men to do things they otherwise would not. That is, using a physical weakness to negate your free will. This is my tickle fetish.
 
go on...




I will offer another definition of torture: forcing someone to make an irrational decision. One they otherwise would not make.

This to me, is the essence of my tickle fetish. Tickle torture aimed at forcing women and men to do things they otherwise would not. That is, using a physical weakness to negate your free will. This is my tickle fetish.

Not sure how you want me to continue..

We, as human beings enjoy being scared. We enjoy watching torment. Look at the Roman periods, when they would do the infamous Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down in the Colosseums.

That has been worked down to videos (2girls1cup, maze pranks with the lady popping out in the middle of the puzzle and scaring the crap out of you, etc.), and now into fetish videos.

We marvel at the uncommon, the thing's that we don't see in day to day life. It's as if a curtain is drawn aside for a moment and we get to watch something unravel that is taboo.

Power and control are merely add-ons in many aspects, especially when it comes to torture videos.
 
torture depends on the torture.
tickle torture is when the lee is non voluntery and has no say in when it stops.
my view anyway.
 
As wishfoot suggests, "torture" as it relates to tickling and being tickled is highly subjective. Transcending the basic argument that "what's torturous for me may not be torture at all for you" is that (at least experientially speaking), even within my own penchant for defining what is and is not tortorous seems to vacillate between a certain way I am touched to a certain way I want to be touched but am not. That as backdrop, I think my need to tickle torture or to be tickle tortured correlates directly to my sensory needs and whether I have been tickled enough lately or not. What I mean is that when I have been deprived of tickling versus experiencing a veritable smorgasmord (hey, it's happened!) I tend to crave the torture aspect more or less to correspond with getting my sensory needs met. Make sense? I hope so , I haven't slept a wink since Tuesday and am stupid tired at the moment.:idunno::rotate::cat:
 
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