Inspired by this thread and original Cecil column.
Do you enjoy, or loathe, being tickled? Scale is from +5 to -5, with +5 equaling “love it!”, -5 is “hate it!”, 0 is neutral. At the bottom I put down the “NOTA” option, if you aren’t ticklish at all, so the main poll is for people who are ticklish to begin with.
Me, I kind of like it, just as long as it isn’t constant for longer than 10 seconds or so, so +3.
Well…define tickle. Are we talking about the smush your hand into my neck or tummy–that’s torture, FYI. Or are we talking about lightly stroking the skin–that’s better than sex.
that’s a tough answer. he seems to go pretty quickly from tickle to “The Hook”, which is two fingers hooked that hurt like hell. I am sure if the tickling stopped at tickling, I wouldn’t mind so much, but since it always ends up at the Hook, I really don’t like it.
If someone asks ‘Are you ticklish’, it dosen’t matter what you say, they are going to tickle you. If you don’t want to be tickled, you gotta say something like.’ I have diareha….now don’t touch me, or your gonna make it come out……and yes, I’m very ticklish .
I hate it. When someone tickles me, my automatic response is to scream and start flailing my limbs in a way that usually ends with the tickler getting hit in the face. Then they have the nerve to say something like “I tickle you and you hit me?!”. It’s not as if I do it on purpose, but they deserved it.
Part of the reason I hate my oldest brother is his habit, when we were kids, of tickling people smaller than him no matter how they begged him to stop. He did it to me and my youngest (favorite) sister both; bear in mind that he is ten years older than me. He tried it with my stepdahghter earlier this year, prompting me to physically remove him. Not doing so with a two-by-four was probably an error.
In and of itself, I only mildly dislike it. But it brings back memories of an uncle who used to tickle kids . . . with a finger that had been partially amputated in a concentration camp. Creepy.