When is tickling better?

[JaneyD]

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[tickled7]

Tickling can be fun with plenty of short rest breaks.

The short rest breaks are also necessary since the anticipation of being tickled can be worse than the actual tickling.

 

[Jagermeistered]

For myself, being a ticklee(actually, I'm a switch - enjoy both), is totally submissive, and this party is in total subconscious control. They are attracted to their saidist(tickler), and environment.

 

[rhiannon]

Variety is the key. Staying in only one place kills sensitivity at that spot after a while, so the ler should alternate between tickle spots. Also, to keep the moment of surprise, blindfolds really help.

 

[milagros317]

Also, to keep the moment of surprise, blindfolds really help.

Yes, for me blindfolds help a lot.

 

[Jagermeistered]

Variety is the key. Staying in only one place kills sensitivity at that spot after a while, so the ler should alternate between tickle spots. Also, to keep the moment of surprise, blindfolds really help.

This to!

 

[stockytickler]

Bondage heightens the experience quite a bit as well.

 

[-Hari-]

The biggest factor for me is comfort, and not just physical comfort but mentally comfortable too, my ticklishness dramatically reduces when im not 100% comfortable with the one doing the tickling.

I only learnt quite how much this effected me recently, I was single a pretty long time before I met my current girlfriend, I has sessioned here and there in the mean time and found I was disappointed in my own reactions, struggled to feel much really, it got to the stage I was getting worried that my ticklish days were over and ide grown out of it or something.

But now I have someone im 100% physically and mentally comfortable with im ridiculously ticklish again, more so than I can ever remember being.

So to enhance my tickle experience I make sure its with the right someone.

 

[Comfort Eagle]

The correct answer is "When nibbling is involved".

 

[Comfort Eagle]

Ever had your stomach nommed on, Janey?

Freakin' mindblowing.

 

[3xPIN]

First let me congratulations on finding your new found Ticklephelia or whatever it is called.

As a 'lee, I believe it helps to get 'warmed up'. If I am expecting a tickle, it doesn't tickle as much, but still does. When my body is explored and a hot spot is hit, I start giggling harder; when I start laughing and squirming after being constantly tickled, I go berserk. It is kind of like getting your engine warmed up. This works for me, perhaps not for you.

Also, don't forget blindfolds and bondage to help with the surprise factor. Also, lotion and certain clothing can intensify the sensitivity. Stocking can often do the same.

 

[3xPIN]

Thank you? Ticklephelia eh? haha

Whats up with this relation of tickling and being helpless? many people here in the Tickling Community would seem to link one another.

All though helplessness is helpful, it is more so you can't fight back. Defending yourself can actually make you more ticklish if that is the right move for you. I am just telling you what works for me. Also being immobile does give your 'ler an advantage you can both benefit from.

Also, for me, tickling (and bondage) are about trust more than anything else. You expose your vulnerability to another so that you may both get enjoyment out of it.

Oh, also for me, Verbal taunting helps! "Coochie-coos!" "What, does that tickle? does it? Hmm?" and "Aww, cute little ticklish baby/girlie/kitty!"(That was a weird one at the end) and, of course, the good old fashioned, "Tickle tickle tickle!" Can make you feel more vulnerable and exposed. Those aspects do tend to go hand in hand with tickling. These are my thoughts and opinions, they are what work for me. They have mad me more sensitive over the years.

And starting with a light tickling on the fore arms and working your way down to the armpits is a killer!

 

[Dialon]

I agree, it can be at it's best when unexpected. For how to "maximize it", I guess it just depends. A lot of people would say bondage, but I don't really think it maximizes it. If a certain area is your focus, just close or cover your eyes whist being tickled, it adds that element of "unexpected" even though you are wanting and expecting it.

Then again, some people are more responsive if they can actually see because it adds anticipation. Just depends on your personality I suppose, does it tickle more via anticipation or uncertainty? The world may never know!

 

[rhiannon]

You agree with me then, that tickling is at is best when not expected?

It depends on how ticklish you are. At some spots it really doesn't make a difference to me, and the anticipation to see what the ler is going to do can also have a pretty big effect.

 

[3xPIN]

From what I've generalized from the ads on the left side panel of the forum, bondage seems to be big in the tickling community. As far as anticipation or taunting, that is psychological right? So maybe the release of endorphins to our brain is the high "ticklephiles" (?) what to achieve?

Hahaha talk about junkies 😛

The ads not withstanding, you hit my nail on the head!
Coochie-coo!

😈

 

[JaneyD]

The ads not withstanding, you hit my nail on the head!
Coochie-coo!

😈

Ok you lost me somewhere, What? Hahaha I apologize 😛

 

[3xPIN]

Oh man, it seem that I still have a long way to go in completely understanding this "art" so to say.

I hope my lack of experience doesn't pull down the thread or the community!

HA HA! There is no end to this road so there is no telling how far you will go! But you have come quite a ways in a very short time!

And don't worry! We all even each other out!

 

[3xPIN]

Ok you lost me somewhere, What? Hahaha I apologize 😛

To clarify, you said, "Talk about junkies!"

You hit that nail on the head was my response!

 

[rhiannon]

Oh man, it seem that I still have a long way to go in completely understanding this "art" so to say.

I hope my lack of experience doesn't pull down the thread or the community!

You know, we could tell you about our experiences for years, and it still won't say anything about you. Everyone is different in this! 🙂

 

[Dialon]

Indeed it does! Tis a very subjective matter, just find a way that'd work for you I assume. And koalas are koalas, as pepsi is pepsi!

 

[JaneyD]

I feel like such a newbie!

...Uh duhhh JaneyD. You are one? You dork.

Well thank you for sharing your thoughts! 🙂 Maybe I'll try to get in on what tickling is like here at TMF. At least try it once right? hahaha

 

[3xPIN]

You need to be nicer to her JaneyD evil twin!

It is the same here as it ever was! Welcome! Come in and enjoy the party!

 

[-Hari-]

Do you agree with my response to Jager? that its sort of a sensual thing? Is it?

Tickling is sexual to me when its sexual. which sounds silly but here's some examples of what I experience:

1. Im at club, wer all sat round the table being silly, as you do, and my mate and his gf end up tickling me to the floor. Im not even slightly aroused, im not having secret sexual fantasies about it, its just hilarious and as I enjoy tickling its a fun un situation.

2. My girlfriend and I are in bed, we're wearing very little and snuggling etc, she starts tickling, instant turn on and all I can think about is tie me up please 😀

So yes, its sexual sometimes but thats not to say im incapable of being ticklish around people im not being sexual with, just as long as im comfortable with them.

 

[tickled7]

Some quotes on tickling:

Tickling, there is nothing like controlling another person’s emotions by a soft touch and making them laugh uncontrollably.

In the first moments of tickling, our laughter reduces our anxiety but after prolonged tickling our laughter produces more anxiety.

Reading people's comments, you get a feel for the motivation behind this fixation -- a sort of sadistic, gleeful, juvenile impulse on the part of the tickler, a feeling of utter abandonment through laughter, tension and lack of oxygen on the part of the ticklee.

The person who tickles you and makes you mirthful with its associated laughter, not only meddles with your emotions but also plays with your bodily processes. When you joke and kid around, you make others' hearts beat faster, increase their circulation, change their breathing pattern, change the hormone and immune elements in their bloodstreams, and make certain muscles active and others relaxed, so they feel physically weakened.

Being tickled is both horrible and wonderful, like being punished and given a present at the same time.

Tickling breaks through the touch barrier.
At first tickling can be exciting and playful, but continued tickling isn’t exciting or playful at all.
Tickling involves submission, often the victim submits willingly at first and may even encourage the tickling. But after the first caresses the victim is not a willing victim at all. He or she is helpless with uncontrollable laughter. Frantic struggles ensue to escape the tickling. The humiliation of not being able to stop laughing is intense.

We’ve all been tickled beyond our comfort zone, so we know that agonizing helplessness, laughter verging on hysteria, the frantic desperation for it to stop yet caught up by the intense sensation.
But the wicked thing about it is, once you have had the experience, (and it's like nothing else), you can start to crave it again and again.
🙂

 

[stockytickler]

That you can. It's deliciously craveworthy. 🙂