What I can just say, that the story of the Chinese is not completely implausible to me.
For the longest time even historians believed that the Iron Maiden had spikes on the inside and was designed as an execution device. It is still not true.
What I can just say, that the story of the Chinese is not completely implausible to me.
For the longest time even historians believed that the Iron Maiden had spikes on the inside and was designed as an execution device. It is still not true.
Now that would be a ticklish situation!
Not all interrogations were documented.. and if things happened behind closed doors and not documented then it never became history or public knowledge.. I would argue there isn't enough historic proof to prove that Tickle torture happened or didn't happen during such processes.
Seriously, you weren't there and have no earthly idea whether it was or wasn't.
Seriously.
Yeah, there's always hope, right?
Seriously....it was never commonly used. There was just no reason to do so.
Imagine you're stretched out naked to the point that if you were to even move a muscle your arms and legs will pop out of your sockets or you'll do some serious muscle tearing.
Now let's say your tormentor decides to tease you by touching you and you smile/or let out a giggle.
I WISH we lived in a world where that is what happened to victims of torture, but life isn't a Disney movie. It just seems that in real life, people would be much more cruel.
I mean if sexually harassing people and forcing them to listen to metal (what was done in Guantanamo among many other things) is considered torture, why the hell not tickling?
Yea tickling was used N the middle ages N some states to torture people
My biggest fantasy is to be tickle tortured for information, with a feather stroking my soles. I wouldn't make it easy, I'd definitely fight to laugh and make the ler earn it. Plus I've always wanted to be legitimately begging for mercy, till I give up the information. No spot untickled.
Just because tickling was never written down in the history books doesn't mean it didn't happen
Don't be ridiculous. First, those who justify the existence of Bigfoot are going by evidence of it's existence. Sightings, footprints, badly taken photos, etc. Granted it's not conclusive but it is evidence nonetheless.This "you can't say for sure it didn't happen" stuff is the same nonsense people use to justify the existence of Bigfoot.
It wasn't part of torture. Maybe it happened sometimes when the torturer had a merciful day! (Even then I doubt it because he would probably have been frowned upon because he wasn't the only person in the torture chamber.) But how does this contribute anything to the main topic if tickling was ever regularly used as punishment/for information? It wasn't. We know a lot about punishment and torture back in the day. We know what happened on a regular basis and as part of the legal process.
It's like if somebody asks "Was Henry IV a tickle fetishist?". We can be pretty sure he wasn't. Does that mean he never ever in his life tickled anybody? Of course not. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. But how is that important?
When people insist that tickling was never used as torture throughout history in such a way that it is stated as a fact and not an opinion or a belief, then it is absolutely reasonable to expect some kind of evidence to justify such arrogant assurance. So far, all we've heard in the way of evidence is something along the lines of "well I personally can find no record of it, and I personally don't deem it effective. Ergo, it couldn't have happened. Ever."
I know Henry the 8th was opposed to putting female prisoners on the wrack (how sexist is that?), so maybe tickling was used on women as a form of punishment.
I agree, who know what happened back then, and how torture was carried out.
Well...WE know! Because there are books from back then that clearly state how torture was carried out! There were rules! There were time limits and the amounts of time how often torture could be performed. All written down! There are even logs of torture! It wasn't like you sent the torturer in alone with the victim and told him to do whatever the heck was necessary, he was accompanied by someone who wrote down exactly what was done and what the victim said.