why are people so addicted tickling?

Answer 1

For starters, I would like to say that Hotfries64 and Giggledude both gave excellent answers.

There are a number of reasons that people become "addicted" to tickling.

The first thing I like to distinguish between is whether the tickling is consensual or non-consensual. If it is non-consensual, generally the tickler likes to tickle others (or one victim) because it is a form of a power-trip and he/she enjoys having the power to make the other person(people) laugh without being able to stop it. Sometime the tickler is just addicted to the laugher.

In my book, non-consensual tickling is 99% of the time blatantly disrespectful to the ticklee. In a few cases, the ticklee does enjoy non-consensual tickling but the vast majority of the time, the tickler can cause emotional harm to the tickler if they tickle too much or too long.

Many children - especially girls - were tickle-tortured too much as children and they are unable to enjoy the wonderful benefits of consensual tickling now.

With consensual tickling, the tickler and the ticklee usually trust and respect each other and want to keep the tickling fun for both parties.

For the tickler, he/she can feel pleasure from making the tickle laugh because they know that the ticklee is enjoying it, too. The ticklee can still have a feeling of power (The tickler cannot stop them from tickling where ever they want to, when ever they want to, any way that they want to, with their fingers or with "toys") while still respecting the limits, concerns, desires, feelings and boundaries of their tickle partner.

For the ticklee (and frequently the tickler), they benefit in a few ways. First, when you laugh at a joke, a comedy movie, or even a playful tickling attack (or encounter), the laughter causes your brain to flood your body with endorphins. Endorphins reduce stress, promote healing and, in some cases, improves sleeping for a limited time.

For me, tickling is as much a form of affection as a back scratch, a massage or a hug. If my tickle partner is not having fun with it, I can't enjoy the encounter, either.

As other's have stated, I really feel refreshed, invigorated and happy when I have been given a long, playful tickling - even when I am tossing and turning in my restraints attempting to escape the wonderful tickling.

I hope that this answers your question.

All the best to you!

Answer 2

Tickle Addiction

Answer 3

Well, I'm the victim about 90% of the time,
and I don't exactly seek it out; I mean to
get tickled, but it gives a great endorphin
rush from the wild laughter and the
struggling around, so if I don't get tickled
for a couple weeks I sort of miss it. But
if I get tickled by, say 3 people at once,
for an hour or so, then it's so intense I
couldn't take it often. I have to rest up
for a week or so. My buddies who love
tickling me say my insane laughter and
hysterical wiggling and begging have like
a hypnotic effect on them, so they want to
do it more and more. In one two week period
back in 1999 two friends stayed with me
and they were tickle maniacs. They had a
3rd friend who would come over and gang up
on me, and I was tickled close to death
every night. By the end of 2 weeks my nerves
were shattered, and I would jump at the slightest
touch. It took about a month to get over it, but
the tickle sensation never got less; it actually
tickled worse every time they did it.

Answer 4

As another who is predominantly on the receiving end, I can definitely report that being tickled has had a highly addictive effect upon me. Going without being tickled for too long results in significant and easily recognized negative mood swings and other little physical tells, to the point that many of my friends can recognize a difference in me when I've been getting my proper allocation of tickling on a regular basis and when I've not. Physically, it's probably my main form of contact with others, and there are all sorts of effects from touch deprivation. Also, it's quite invigorating, a much better workout I've found than more usual forms of exercise. And for some odd reason, it helps me sleep better as well. Mentally it's fascinating to observe within myself the involuntary struggle betwenn resistance and surrender, whichever if either I may happen to think I want to prevail unopposed when the tickling starts. The forced loss of volition is incomparable and still endlessly fascinating. I'm not sure whether it's common among people of particularly strong willpower to relish such a forced surrender, but it would not surprise me. I readily admit that I do seek out every possible opportunity to be tickled, in as many different formats as I can. As a real sign of what would pass for addiction, I can on a good day recapture the genuine sensations of a good tickling in a way best illustrated in a story I read once in which a spellcaster used enchanted feathers to tickle effigies he'd made of various members of a class at school, who all felt themselves being mysteriously tickled and were driven into hysterics.

On the other side, it's always a different experience for me tickling someone, and one learns so much about people, but it might be more comprehensive to draw from the experiences of my ticklers. While it is not often that I have the good fortune to be tickled by someone whose affinity for the exercise complements my own, I have occasionally encountered genuine tickle fiends. Some ticklers do prefer going primarily for the physical reactions they can force (one such was tickling me once when I broke the chain with which I was restrained and later said he'd found the experience, once any fear of injury was past, gave him a tremendous sensation of power), especially with a couple of particular friends who relish making my laughter devolve into a rather peculiar squeak which many people find most entertaining. Probably more of my ticklers though go in for the psychological conflict (I definitely go in for role-playing games); more friends than one have told me what a great pleasure it is to reduce me from a reasonably articulate human being to a jabbering fool. With many friends I'll occasionally attempt to maintain an intelligent conversation while being tickled, to see how long I can last.

That seems like enough inforamtion at present. But now all this talking about being tickled has started to make me antsy for it... I hope I can get lucky this evening

Answer 5

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I'm terrible for tickling people, I find it very hard to resist the temptation. I know it annoys some folk but I love it. The best bit is I'm not tickly so they can't get their own back, hehehe.

Answer 7

Well, I'm assuming that you mean why are people so addicted TO ticking, so... well, I tickle people a lot, and it's because I love to hear people laugh! And I love being ticked by people, because I just LOVE to laugh!

Answer 8

what? i guess if i kinda understood, it's cause it relieves stress? maybe....