Would ya ??????

[ticklingisgr8]

If a perfect stranger was sleeping with their barefeet hanging out and I could GUARANTEE the person you tickle would not get mad and also GUARANTEE you would not get in ANY trouble,

would you tickle their feet ?

would you smell their feet ?

 

[moose]

IF you can also GUARANTEE they won't know its me than yeah I would tickle there feet!

 

[sasaxrah]

No. Unwanted touch isn't cool.

 

[Myriads]

No. One doesn't touch strangers.

Myriads

 

[DimpleToes]

no.. that is violation

 

[♡AimLEE♡]

Absolutely not.
Even if they WEREN'T a stranger I wouldn't!

 

[cabalist]

Nope. That would be a big no-no. Might even be considered legally assault. In fact it probably would. Right up there next to rape IMO.

 

[Snail Shell]

Nope.

Snail Shell

 

[marcusb]

No. Creepy.

 

[luvgirlsfeet]

no i wouldnt

 

[Korastus]

Agreeing with everybody else here. Unwanted touch is not cool, and with a stranger thats just creepy.

 

[Excess]

Assuming I cared about feet, no. Because it might be a man, or a kid, or a reverse ostrich-man. Y'know, with the top part being ostrich and the bottom being human, which would then peck me. Which may or may not hurt.

 

[maniactickler]

No. id take a pass, then kick myself later for not doing it.

 

[lisa22]

i'm surprised at all the negative responses this is getting. in the original post ticklingisgr8 specifically qualified his hypothetic situation with the fact that the person wouldn't get mad, and that you would know the person would not get mad (and presumably not be traumatized in any other way) ahead of time… while i agree a person should respect other peoples' boundaries, particularly strangers', if i knew ahead of time the person wouldn't be mad, i very well might give their feet a little tickle, if attracted.

 

[cabalist]

i'm surprised at all the negative responses this is getting. in the original post ticklingisgr8 specifically qualified his hypothetic situation with the fact that the person wouldn't get mad, and that you would know the person would not get mad (and presumably not be traumatized in any other way) ahead of time… while i agree a person should respect other peoples' boundaries, particularly strangers', if i knew ahead of time the person wouldn't be mad, i very well might give their feet a little tickle, if attracted.

He also defined this hypothetical person as a "perfect stranger" (notwithstanding the fact that "nobody's perfect"), which by his own definition precludes the possibility of his having any way of "knowing" that they wouldn't get mad, etc. Of course, maybe he wants it both ways, but in real life that isn't possible.

Edit: I'll concede that there could be "borderline" situations, but if the person truly is a complete (not "perfect") stranger, then I don't think that would be one of them. Touching a literally complete stranger in any way with no "warning" of any kind, without a clear justification (such as to push a person out of the path of a speeding car, as a hypothetical example?) is clearly an "assault" IMO.

 

[Skipadeedoodah]

It's obviously a completely unrealistic situation, which begs for these types of responses. Tweak it a little bit by saying that maybe the sleeping lee is a friend of YOURS, and therefore you knew (s)he wouldn't get mad, and YOU are a friend of the potential ler. So it wouldn't have QUITE the level of creepiness as being a total stranger, and you could actually know that the lee wouldn't get upset.

I kinda think most people will still say no, because they themselves don't know the person, but you might get an additional positive response here or there.

 

[cabalist]

It's obviously a completely unrealistic situation, which begs for these types of responses.

Yep. That was more or less my point in differentiating a "borderline" situation from that defined by the OP. If the person was, e.g., a "friend of a friend", and that person knew who one was, even if never having quite "formally" met, then that might be a borderline situation. But in that case, the person isn't a complete (or "perfect") stranger. In fact, the hypothetical situation as posed by the OP is essentially self-contradictory, as if the person was truly a complete stranger then there would be no way of knowing with certainty that they wouldn't be offended, unless one is deluded into believing they have psychic powers.

 

[Capnmad]

Nope. Unethical and unattractive.

Look -- I get into tickling because the people I like are nice folks who like being tickled and even tickle-tortured. I don't know your hypothetical person from a hole in the ground, if they're nice, or if they like it. There is no context in which tickling a total unknown would be even remotely tempting to me.

 

[milagros317]

No, I wouldn't, not a stranger.

 

[solematetickler]

Quite a mixed reaction on this one!! As for me, although I would be very tempted (would have to be a female), I probably wouldn't do it either. The scenario of there not being any negative recourse makes it even more tempting! In real world, that could be considered battery. Probably kick myself later for not having gone for it!!

 

[cabalist]

Probably kick myself later for not having gone for it!!

Harder than you'd kick yourself if you did "go for it" and faced legal charges or other negative consequences for it? 😉 (Given that, as has been said, realistically there would be no way of "knowing" otherwise, given the unrealistic premise of this "hypothetical.")

 

[EyeDraw78]

That's crossing the line, even if it were someone I knew. Since I derive such a pleasure from the activity, in my view it would be like committing sexual assault.

Only if it's consensual, otherwise it's hands off.

 

[cabalist]

That's crossing the line, even if it were someone I knew. Since I derive such a pleasure from the activity, in my view it would be like committing sexual assault.

Only if it's consensual, otherwise it's hands off.

Although I generally derive little if any sexual pleasure from tickling in and of itself (and probably wouldn't derive any with a complete stranger for that reason alone), IMO an assault is an assault irrespective of any "sexual component" and therefore just as bad regardless. Which isn't to disagree with your opinion as such but just to nit-pick a little. 😉 That is, that an assault is just as bad whether or not it's sexually motivated.

 

[EyeDraw78]

Although I generally derive little if any sexual pleasure from tickling in and of itself (and probably wouldn't derive any with a complete stranger for that reason alone), IMO an assault is an assault irrespective of any "sexual component" and therefore just as bad regardless. Which isn't to disagree with your opinion as such but just to nit-pick a little. 😉 That is, that an assault is just as bad whether or not it's sexually motivated.

I know what you mean. Going after an incapacitated person is just plain wrong either way, but I was also speaking broadly to any situation where a similar opportunity for tickling comes up

For instance, one summer while hanging out with a group of buddies we were all horsing around in a hotel room. One of the girlfriends was there, she was shoeless, and while messing around one of her socks got pulled halfway down her foot. My friend moved in, removed the sock completely and tickled her briefly. I was tempted to join in, but I just stayed back--I didn't feel it was right because of my fetish. With my friend it was a simple case of playfulness. With me it would've been something a bit more, and without her consent that would just be wrong to me.

 

[cabalist]

I know what you mean. Going after an incapacitated person is just plain wrong either way, but I was also speaking broadly to any situation where a similar opportunity for tickling comes up

For instance, one summer while hanging out with a group of buddies we were all horsing around in a hotel room. One of the girlfriends was there, she was shoeless, and while messing around one of her socks got pulled halfway down her foot. My friend moved in, removed the sock completely and tickled her briefly. I was tempted to join in, but I just stayed back--I didn't feel it was right because of my fetish. With my friend it was a simple case of playfulness. With me it would've been something a bit more, and without her consent that would just be wrong to me.

Okay. While I still insist that in an "objective" sense the act is "what it is" regardless of the motive or "feeling" involved for the "doer", I won't argue how you felt/feel about it, since obviously no one would know that better than yourself.

Otherwise, without going into detail here, I'll confess to having done "worse" things than that being discussed here when I was a kid, but fortunately outgrew such compulsions by the time I was old enough to possibly get into more serious trouble for them.