why doesn't the body adapt to tickling after a while?

[SadCuzNotTcklsh]

I always read posts that say "I've been tickled for 2+ hours and it was amazing". My question is how does the body keep responding the same way after that much time? Isn't there desensitizing? Doesn't the body (or mind) get the idea and stop the reactions?

 

[Tamia78]

Not if the Ler attacks different spots. Kinda like "surprising" your nerve endings. Frankly, I'm happy that my body doesn't desensitize for the most part.......that would suck!

--T

 

[prestidigits]

A young lady of my acquaintance goes progressively numb if I stay in the same spot for about a minute. So I have to move around. It's a good thing--makes me creative. I find varying speed and strength of the tickling keeps her cackling! And, OH! she is the best cackler!

 

[milagros317]

Yes, the touch must remain unexpected so the 'ler should keep moving around. That's why a blindfold helps, too. 😀

 

[totally_evil]

The body does desensitise. I also wonder why it doesn't desensitise all over, but I suppose it could make sense. It doesn't expect sensations to jump to a wholy unrelated part of the body.

 

[prestidigits]

Yes, the touch must remain unexpected so the 'ler should keep moving around. That's why a blindfold helps, too. 😀

And the origin of my signature. I was tickling a sweet young thing, tied spreadeagle and blindfolded. I had my fingers touching her ribs, not moving, and I said, "All right Name, I'm going to start tickling on the count of ten. Ready?"

I never moved my fingers and she was screaming by four.

 

[Tissueboy]

Just to back up the above responses I don't think it does desensitise if you keep them guessing.

 

[maniactickler]

Wouldnt this be the same as saying, if i kept sticking a pin in the same part of a persons body, they would get used to it?

 

[Onlyfornow]

Yeah, if I'm tickled on any spot for too long, it'll desensitize. I always make sure that my 'lers know this.

 

[rhiannon]

Wouldnt this be the same as saying, if i kept sticking a pin in the same part of a persons body, they would get used to it?

If you put it in the same hole, probably! 🙂

But it is true, the skin does go numb from pain after a while.

 

[ElFewja]

Alternatively, and this just occurred to me, it could be because tickling - not really as we know it - is more of a defense mechanism against bugs and such. If that is true, then it would make sense that that feeling wouldn't really be lost so easily, since it would be bad if it etc.

But, from my experiences with my ex-lee, that isn't really the case anyway. She lost her ticklishness after an hour or so, though I did find ways to get her laughing again, but yeah etc.

Etc

 

[No_Style]

If I dont get tickled in random spots, I tend to get used to it sometimes...like if i'm tickled on my feet, after awhile I may get used to it....doesnt happen all the time, but a few times it has

 

[Gadilici]

Some of us do habituate to it eventually. Eventually one by one, the spots wear out. No idea what the recovery time is, but eventually it happens to me. Kinda like a time limit. after x amount of time (not continuous, but total time), I just stops being ticklish in a given spot.

Thankfully, as a ler, I don't seem to run into it a great deal. Sometimes, but less than half the time.

Christopher

 

[TklDuo-Ann]

why doesn't the body adapt to tickling after a while?

Because it's more fun if we keep feeling it! 😀