The Tickled Documentary

[soulsearch89]

Has anyone seen this "Tickled" documentary? It was released on Netflix and I think it's on Tubi as well. I only seen a small part of it. The documentary (seems*) points to serious human rights violations. *Mind you I did not see all of it, just a small part of it.

I wonder if there is endurance tickling competions for women?

What are yalls thoughts on this?

 

[Wolf]

I'm not sure "human rights violations" could be a term attributed to the perp's numerous crimes, but here's some context. https://jrk2016.wordpress.com/2016/07/12/commentary-on-tickled/

 

[SoleMates]

I wonder if there is endurance tickling competions for women?

It makes me irrationally irritated that out of all of the things that one could say about this documentary, "where da women at" is always the go-to response.

 

[SugarSoaker]

With enough money, you can make anything happen.

 

[Jezebel Lee]

It makes me irrationally irritated that out of all of the things that one could say about this documentary, "where da women at" is always the go-to response.

Right? I’ve always felt the exact same way but couldn’t put it into words. The “EWWW M/M! WHY COULDNT FEEEEMALES BE TICKLED INSTEAD?!” crowd entirely miss the point of the documentary.

 

[soulsearch89]

Right? I’ve always felt the exact same way but couldn’t put it into words. The “EWWW M/M! WHY COULDNT FEEEEMALES BE TICKLED INSTEAD?!” crowd entirely miss the point of the documentary.

Did not mean for it that way. It's just wierd that this was focused on just males. What I find wierd (or maybe I am overthinking and over analyzing it) that there is no mentioning women partaking in this or so it seems.

It's just a weird feeling and curiosity is all.

Like I said earlier, I only saw parts of it, NOT all of it.

So what is the point of the whole documentary?

 

[Jezebel Lee]

Did not mean for it that way. It's just wierd that this was focused on just males. What I find wierd (or maybe I am overthinking and over analyzing it) that there is no mentioning women partaking in this or so it seems.

It's just a weird feeling and curiosity is all.

Like I said earlier, I only saw parts of it, NOT all of it.

So what is the point of the whole documentary?

The short answer is because D’Amato (the “mastermind” behind those particular videos) was gay. If he was heterosexual, it would have featured women only. If he was bi, it would’ve featured men and women, etc. The actual tickling part is a very minimal focus of the documentary. It’s more about the blackmail, doxxing, legal threats, catfishing, and other psycho behaviour coming from D’Amato. He essentially tricked men into thinking it was a “competition” when it’s actually just his version of porn, which is not something that should be encouraged.

 

[duderino84]

Fucked up people surface all the time. Just this guy had the funds and manipulative skills to be a nuisance that was representative of this community by pop culture.

 

[soulsearch89]

The short answer is because D’Amato (the “mastermind” behind those particular videos) was gay. If he was heterosexual, it would have featured women only. If he was bi, it would’ve featured men and women, etc. The actual tickling part is a very minimal focus of the documentary. It’s more about the blackmail, doxxing, legal threats, catfishing, and other psycho behaviour coming from D’Amato. He essentially tricked men into thinking it was a “competition” when it’s actually just his version of porn, which is not something that should be encouraged.

I see. This is the kind of behavior that makes everyone look like a villain or suspicious characters in certian communities like tmf. I would say this kind of thing happens way to much and is sad because people are way less likely to be confident in reaching out to groups in this tmf community because of all of the manipulate deception.

 

[soulsearch89]

Fucked up people surface all the time. Just this guy had the funds and manipulative skills to be a nuisance that was representative of this community by pop culture.

It's sad how things like this mess it up for everyone else that wants to have positive experience.

 

[Toesheldback]

I feel like the topic of this film comes up so often, with no sign of stopping, that it needs its own forum here.

 

[SoleMates]

It's just wierd that this was focused on just males.

Yes, it's completely weird that a documentary about a gay man who likes men making videos about men tickling other men would "set the scene" by focusing on the man-tickling videos he was making, since they spurred the entire legal nonsense that the documentary was about.

This is what I'm talking about. THE DOCUMENTARY IS NOT ABOUT THE TICKLING COMMUNITY AT LARGE, IT'S ABOUT DAVID D'AMATO.

FFS.

OK, I'm going to go lie down now.

 

[duderino84]

It's sad how things like this mess it up for everyone else that wants to have positive experience.

Imagine my reactions when I try to share the "thing that I'm into" with other people, and news stories about dudes who just found the way to step over the boundary (or into women's apartment windows over their feet) keep coming up and you have to go "no, no, this is within reason, that's just psychosis."

 

[duderino84]

THE DOCUMENTARY IS NOT ABOUT THE TICKLING COMMUNITY AT LARGE, IT'S ABOUT DAVID D'AMATO.

FFS.

OK, I'm going to go lie down now.

It's guilt by association. I think a lot of people pick out tickling as a characteristic interest they'd find in strange people.

It sticks with that film, because in all irony, for everything we try not to make the community about, D'Amato fit the image perfectly.

 

[ObsessedTickles]

It's guilt by association. I think a lot of people pick out tickling as a characteristic interest they'd find in strange people.

It sticks with that film, because in all irony, for everything we try not to make the community about, D'Amato fit the image perfectly.

It's not just that. There are tons of people who not only don't like tickling but literally hate it or fear it. We all know people (or are people lol) who when younger was that kid the babysitter never wanted to take care of, because they tickled them all the time. Or had that uncle or cousin or relative that seemingly would tickle them all the time - not the quick rib pokes but the one that would sit on them and tickle them til they were insane.

So naturally when something's public like this those people tend to relate that story - the omg I had this blind date one time or omg I had this uncle.....

 

[duderino84]

It's not just that. There are tons of people who not only don't like tickling but literally hate it or fear it. We all know people (or are people lol) who when younger was that kid the babysitter never wanted to take care of, because they tickled them all the time. Or had that uncle or cousin or relative that seemingly would tickle them all the time - not the quick rib pokes but the one that would sit on them and tickle them til they were insane.

So naturally when something's public like this those people tend to relate that story - the omg I had this blind date one time or omg I had this uncle.....

I mean, that's bad enough, and yea, I had my share of family that did that. I just think it paints people who would be otherwise considered normal in a bad light when the natural conclusion reaches "oh.... so you were getting off on my suffering".

I think that's what people fixate on with this documentary. Then turn eyes to the TMF and I see advertisements for "tickle torture" and "exotic women" and in a way, it's true. It's not that the guys were paid or that they got lambasted for speaking out.

It's them discovering the reason why any of it happened.