facedown/faceup

[siamese dream]

Do you think tickling is more torturous for the ticklee if they're lying face-up or face-down? A lot of my fantasies, and the actual tickling experiences I've had with bondage were me on my back with my hands above my head, or the other person in this position. but me and this person would also have tickle fights, and if I could get him on his stomach, he would lock his arms at his sides and I could wiggle my hands between his arms and tickle his ribs and sides...his arms would remain pinned to his sides and he'd just go crazy laughing, and I've found it's a really intense position to be tickled in as the ticklee as well 🙂

I miss my ex-bf 🙁 He's the only one I ever shared enjoyable tickling experiences with... he was Sooooo ticklish too, probably even more than me, and he'd never thought of tickling as a sexual thing till I introduced it to him 😉

 

[milagros317]

For me, it is much more torturous to be face-up. The most obvious reason is that my belly and navel are more ticklish than my back.

But the most important reason is that when I am tied face-up, Mistress Zara can straddle my waist, and look directly into my eyes, while tickling my armpits, and telling me that she is going to tickle me for a long, long time. The eye contact definitely adds to the torture/ecstasy for me.

 

[Deleted member 2452]

face up

for me, and my wife the answer is face up.
it's also my position of choice.
steve

 

[QBWeaver]

It really depends on the ticklee. Some are very ticklish on their fronts and others on their backs. Some like the element of surprise when they can't see what's coming and some enjoy the thrill when they DO see what's about to happen.

 

[hiram]

Position

Mostly, I only have a tickler's perspective on this. My wife always struggles to escape her ticklings regardless of position, but at the start, if she senses I'm putting her face down, she's a crazy woman. So I guess she finds it more torturous to be face down. The best part is, the closer I get to having her in position, the harder she laughs, even before I start tickling.

The whole thing is a process, and most of my life I derived intense pleasure out of the look on her face during prolonged ticklings. It has to be a quality almost beyond description to be the wife of a tickler that has a tickle fetish. Tickling her makes me feel like I'm twenty two years old again, and ready for action. The longer I tickle, the more desperate her reaction. The more desperate her reaction, the more ready for action I get, which just intensifies that delicious ache, which makes me find ways to turn the tickling up another notch. It's the tickling equivalent of a mirror image of a mirror which is another kind of hypnosis.

One way I have REALLY enjoyed turning it up a notch lately is to prime her by holding her arms over her head on the bed and tickling her breasts for a time. Then I fight with her to get her rolled over, and straddle her lower back, facing her feet. Usually, I start by reaching behind me and tickling her ribs. I don't think they yet have words to describe how sexy a woman is when she is kicking her feet up and down trying to put her arches through the mattress. If I glance in a mirror on the wall, I can see she is leaning on her elbows with her shoulders up and her head down and the sounds of tickled woman fill the house.

When she is kicking this way, the way the backs of her upper thighs behave just takes MY breath away. I think this is another time when she has to be nearly insane because it's so fun for me. Before we finish, I usually lean forward and hold her ankles down and get her inner thighs and the backs of her knees. I usually finish by tickling her rear, usually by the handful. This gets her feet going again.

Women are such perfectly constructed creatures, and ticklish ones are even more so. I think mine finds this face-down plan to be an invention of the devil which, of course, makes it intense fun for me, and DEEP down inside. I still like that look on her face, but there is something to be said for that other look as well.

Hiram

 

[Eternal Tomboy]

Face down is definitely more torturous for me. I don't know if it's the way the tickler's hands naturally curve around my ribs, or the fact that the back of my legs are hyper-ticklish that makes it so. Probably a combination of the two I guess. I also feel a lot more helpless in this position because regardless of whether or not I'm restrained, I can't do much to defend myself in this position. The ticklee on her belly is much like a turtle on it's back!

Maggie

 

[hiram]

More Torturous

This is an interesting thread. I'm always curious, not so much what what position is the most torturous for the ticklee (that varies so much from one to the next), but more for whether the ticklee prefers tickling as torturous as it can be.

My wife really isn't a "tickle person" in the sense that we have come to understand the term on these tickle forums. She doesn't come close to understanding the rush I get from having the tickle bug awakened. As such it's a rarity that she takes responsibility for prolonged tickling.

There have been a couple of occasions in the last few years that she has "put the cuffs on me" and taken out a lifetime worth of tickling revenge. One of those times she really made me pay. She told me I begged for mercy, although I don't remember that. I do recall that she didn't give me any of the breaks that I so often give her. I also remember a feeling of true helpless desperation. I don't remember the tickling, but I do remember REALLY NEEDING her to stop while she got caught up in it and had no intention of stopping.

It's one of those fantastic tickling contradictions. As much as I know I hated it, I wish she would do it all the time, only try to find ways to make it even worse.

I don't know if this makes the slightest bit of sense, but whichever way I found it the most devastating (face up or face down)is the way I would most want her to do it. It might be even better if I knew she knew what she was doing to me, and tried to make it even more torturous for that reason.

Hiram

 

[Ayla ny]

my first impulse is to say face up. the eyes, the expression on the face... are, ummm, good. 🙂 but as I consider this, I can understand the attraction to face down... but only if I already knew exactly how the tickler’s eyes were gleaming and what that grin looked like and could turn my head enough to see it once in a while lol. if I were the one doing the tickling... well, face up only for me, thank you very much.

hiram, I need to say this one more time. thank you so much for your posts!!! you, and a few others, who love the ones you love to tickle are just a Godsend.

 

[tcrewme]

A mirror!!!

Ayla ny,
Use a mirror in front of the ticklee's face when laying down.
That way, you can tickle all those fun POCKETS and armpits and such AND see the ticklees "expressions" and Oh my isn't that half the fun 😀

 

[Ticklemaster650]

For me, it is face-down. Not that one is more tortureous than the other, but with face-down, there is a higher level of anxiety because you cannot see the tickler and does not know where they will attack.

 

[Ayla ny]

great idea, tcrewme! and yes, it IS half the fun 🙂

 

[hiram]

Expressions

Ayla, thank you for your encouragement. I will confess to being a little biased in that when a tickler marries someone that may not be entirely with the program, but adds tickling to the long list of foibles she tolerates in her husband, such women are gifts beyond what anyone has a right to expect.

For Ayla and tcrewme and everyone else that talks of "half the fun," I think it just shows to go you what a complex issue tickling really is. This is something I have felt for many years. It became more a certainty when I discovered there are women that truly love getting tickled. The something I always felt is that tickling is but another natural device that helps people be attracted to each other.

It's all such a process. I don't usually think of it from the ticklee viewpoint, but it makes perfect sense. The feeling I get from tickling starts DEEP down inside and rolls out in concentric waves that get better with each passing moment. The fun is so intense that I can only imagine the look on my face, but there has to be a major smile connected with it.

My wife is a naturally shy person. She has overcome it so many ways, but she still doesn't like making a "spectacle" of herself. This, of course, makes her fantastically teasable, and tickling is the perfect vehicle for teasing. I haven't told her all the things I look for in tickling her. I sometimes think that any such area she can control would take some of the fun out. I have told her about her face, though, and that seems like a reflex position. One of the things I just love, and have told her about is how wide her mouth opens. Here we have a shy woman who would NEVER do this in real life, but the longer I tickle, the easier it is to look right down into her soul through her mouth. And her lips keep frozen in the smile position. And somehow we can see all the upper teeth. It makes me desperate to find even more ticklish spots and get at them with ever greater enthusiasm.

It's all part of the look on her face. When I have her face down on the bed I do try to point her toward one of our wall mirrors. When she arches her back, she will try to shoot me a look through the mirror, so I can see it all. If I'm straddling her facing her head, I can also get the full measure of her legs working using a mirror on a side wall. Yet our default position has her on her back, though, so our exchange of looks is straight on. The look on the face is as important as the begging, laughing and screaming. It's all a process.

Hiram

 

[tcrewme]

Hiram great point about the expressions...

I couldn't agree more Hiram:

One thing I would add to the expressions is how the expressions will change through a longer ticking session...like yours seem to be 😉
From the quick finger up the sole that produces that giggle, mouth smirk, and then when your fingers roll over her ribs and the giggles pour out of her mouth as she succums to the tickling feelings and her mouth takes on that wide open toothbeared grin and her bug out of her head.
And then as you search out her known hot spots she will get on that head shaking, no no no eyes and full blown laugh that is just music to my ears, and if you really start to get her good that silent laughter that sets in if you presist in a hot spot. And finally the after effects of the 5-10 minute recovery giggles that if you tease her enough you can send her into a whole new round of giggle and full blown laughter without even touching her...
Ok, now I have gotten myself all worked up... 😀

 

[hiram]

Faceup/Down

tcrewme writes:...And then as you search out her known hot spots she will get on that head shaking, no no no eyes and full blown laugh that is just music to my ears, and if you really start to get her good that silent laughter that sets in if you presist in a hot spot. And finally the after effects of the 5-10 minute recovery giggles that if you tease her enough you can send her into a whole new round of giggle and full blown laughter without even touching her...
Ok, now I have gotten myself all worked up...

What a delicious description! How many times do I read something like this getting half way worked into a frenzy? You just have to know that poor woman upstairs has such a rendezvous with tickling destiny that she has no clue of at this moment, and within the next 52 hours. I thought I heard my kids (home from school for the summer) were heading in separate directions on the 4th. I think the bride and I may go see some fireworks ourselves, then come home for some fun (tickle and otherwise) that will likely qualify as some high and colorful indoor fireworks.

There ought to be a bumber sticker that says: Giggling Women Make Better...(add your own conclusion). They surely are irresistible.

Hiram

 

[Ticklish9's]

Face up...

Face up, to me, entails a great deal more vulnarability to prying, wriggling fingers. Being a 'lee, this is exactly what I'm looking for, so I'd prefer to be face up when being tickled. However, I can see the attraction others might have to face down. They both have their advantages...interesting topic.

 

[Oddjob0226]

Well, both have their advantages (like you, I give and recieve! I'm trying to help get a North Texas gathering together for like minded people....) Face up it's easier to see the tickler and her expressioons. It's fun ( is it really?) to beg and beg for mercy as you see her facial reactions..... plus, once I was tickled to the point where I had to commit an.... "act" for the woman tickling me for it to stop, so face up made it easier. While that isn't what attracts me to tickling, that certainly added a new spice! It's also easier to tickle my "good spots".

But I have recently found to my horror that being face down I am extremely ticklish as well, possibly even worse. My problem is, I have trouble breathing in this position. But if the ropework is fairly light, I can be tremendously sensative.