We need to make sure we all mean the same thing by terms like "sadistic" and "light-hearted". Some posts are showing that it's not easy to define them and two people can use the same word to mean almost opposite things.
I would go for sadistic tickling in the sense that I really do associate tickling with power play. But that doesn't mean I like to tickle hard and painfully. The weird thing about tickling is that it can cause distress in a way that is painless and even arousing at the same time. And then what do I mean by distress? I don't want a Lee to be traumatised, and I don't want her to be paralysed with fear. But yes, I do want her to experience a kind of fear, equally balanced by arousal or the peculiar kind of pleasure that tickling can cause, so that she wants it at the same time as not wanting it...It's exactly that crazy ambiguity that is so fascinating about tickling.
In the poll at the start of this thread I clicked "sadistic", and will stick by that.
I am wondering if a poll could also ask how the choice between the two categories breaks down by male/female...
I would go for sadistic tickling in the sense that I really do associate tickling with power play. But that doesn't mean I like to tickle hard and painfully. The weird thing about tickling is that it can cause distress in a way that is painless and even arousing at the same time. And then what do I mean by distress? I don't want a Lee to be traumatised, and I don't want her to be paralysed with fear. But yes, I do want her to experience a kind of fear, equally balanced by arousal or the peculiar kind of pleasure that tickling can cause, so that she wants it at the same time as not wanting it...It's exactly that crazy ambiguity that is so fascinating about tickling.
In the poll at the start of this thread I clicked "sadistic", and will stick by that.
I am wondering if a poll could also ask how the choice between the two categories breaks down by male/female...