# Are you ticklish? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 9, 2013, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494 "2013-03-09T18:37:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494/21 "2013-03-11T08:02:14Z")
For at least 20 years, I was immune to tickling. I found it mildly amusing at the time. In retrospect, it was the result of shutting down my body’s sensitiveness. When I started taking estrogen and then transitioned a few years ago, it brought about a radical transformation in my body’s sensuality, and my skin became exquisitely sensitive to touch. Since then, I’ve become ticklish again, not to speak of highly eroticized all over. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494/22 "2013-03-11T09:55:14Z")
Yes, but only family can tickle me. Mom, dad, and brother. No one else… well, perhaps sister. I really really dislike the touch that is not direct tickle, but so so soft that it feels like one. I hate that, and it makes me want to break the other person’s hand. For various reasons, that type of touch is worse than tickles. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494/23 "2013-03-11T13:23:01Z")
No. Someone who tries to tickle me and accepts it’s not going to work will end up pouting; people who tried to tickle me, refused to accept it wasn’t working and managed to hurt me ended up hurt and surprised. “Tickling” \<\> “poking bruises into someone’s side”! ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494/24 "2013-03-11T13:38:57Z")
Very very very ticklish. Anyone who continues to purposely tickle me when I ask them not to might as well be trying to rape me. I get that some people think it’s all in fun so I’m willing to let the first couple of attempts go as a misunderstanding. After that, you better keep your hands off. Of course, my wife tickles me sometimes as a natural part of touching. I’m not talking about that kind of tickling. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Conqueror\_Worm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@The\_Conqueror\_Worm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Conqueror_Worm)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494/25 "2013-03-12T04:33:58Z")
> [@gracer](#): > > All these admissions to ticklishness and no power to tickle! Here is where almost everyone, even the least ticklish, can be tickled: the roof of your mouth. You can even tickle yourself there, give it a try! Guess I’m not almost everyone.:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494/26 "2013-03-12T21:08:40Z")
I’m not ticklish, but the wife and kids are. It’s like being the only country in the world with nuclear weapons. Major deterrent to sneak attacks and other hijinks. When we do play fight, I can end it whenever I get the urge! ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4bbf92/32.png) [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494/27 "2013-03-12T21:24:05Z")
Yep. And [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11713996&postcount=2) will be your fate. Seriously. I’ve done it before; I’ll do it again. ---
**Author:** ![panaccione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@panaccione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panaccione)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494/28 "2013-03-12T21:54:49Z")
I’m very ticklish but only for the opposite gender. I play it up too when I can. I can turn it off when I want though ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494/29 "2013-03-12T22:20:42Z")
No, but I will still break your fingers if you try. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494.md?page=1)