• If you would like to get your account Verified, read this thread
  • The TMF is sponsored by Clips4sale - By supporting them, you're supporting us.
  • >>> If you cannot get into your account email me at [email protected] <<<
    Don't forget to include your username

Tickling in literature

I remember a Sesame St. book when I was very young. It starred Grover, but I can't remember the name of it.

He is walking through a hall of rooms, and one of the rooms is "Things that can tickle you room." He walks in, saying how he likes watching people get tickled.

As soon as he walks in, he starts getting tickled. First by feathers all over. Then, by a dog licking his foot. Then, by a pair of robotic hands. Finally, the hands, feathers, and dog all get him at the same time, until he manages to run from the room.
 
outspacer1 said:
Is there any way to get the name of that psychology text? I've looked into this a little and have never found any specific mention of tickling paraphilia in psych books - I'd be fascinated to have a look at it. Have you come across any others that mention it?
Click to expand...
I may still have it somewhere around the house -- if I can find it, I'll post the information 🙂
 
I have a great one.

It's a psychology book called: Laughter - A Scientific Investigation by Robert R. Provine. It has a chapter called "Ticklish Relationships" which is 30 straight pages on nothing but tickling.
 
I used to have a book at home written by someone who survived the death camps in WW2. He witnessed a sceen where 4 German soldiers tickle tortured an inmate, and then moved on to stronger stuff before killing him.
 
I read the book called “Elvis and Me” written by Prisella Presley. In it she tells of at least two or three times when she was alone with Elvis and he tickled her. I believe it was on her sides and/or tummy.
 
This may not really count as "literature"

Does anybody remember a series of books called something like "Sweet Valley High"? When I was a kid my younger sister had a bunch of them (they were written for young girls) and curiosity got the best of me and I snuck in a "borrowed" one of the books. It was set in California, and the main characters were two blonde haired, blue eyed twin girls in high school. There was a scene where one of the twins and their (brother? cousin? friend?) was trying to get the other twin to do something so she said to the guy "I know how to get her to do it, TICKLE HER until she promises!!!!" They then pounced on the one twin and procedded to pinn her down and give her a pretty ruthless tickling until she promised. She complained in the end as to how unfair it was to tickle her and the other twin just smiled. It was such a rush reading that - it was the first time I had ever seen anything written about tickling. Even at that young age it definetly had an effect on me in ways I wouldn't fully understand for a few years yet.
 
You have jumpstarted my brain now. I remember a few years ago going through a box of teen paperbacks (we bought books at auctions and sometimes got stuck with this kind of drek). Boredom lead me to read one and right at the beginning there was a short scen where two girls "tickled eachother to exhaustion"., May have been the same series as it was a pair of twin girls.
 
I really don't remember what the book is called or the author, the title's on the tip of my tongue... x.x Anyway, the main character is young when it happens, it's that one story about some Ben kid who befriends a badger? I wish I remembered what it was called, but he ran off for some reason and was somewhat in this hole, and the hole was where the badger lived. The badger was behind him, and started licking his feet, the boy started giggling... I thought it was cute. ^^;
 
My 2 cents...

MistressValerie, you might just have my "holy grail"...years ago I saw an abstract from what I think was the American Journal of Psychotherapy (circa 1948), and in there was a case study of a man who had what they considered to be a pathological interest in tickling women (ha!) If you have that article I'd also be very much interested in reading it.

There is also another article that I've never been able to locate (again, I only saw the abstract). The article was "Sex and Tickling", published in the Journal of Human Sexuality circa 1969.

As far as literature, I can add a few of my own:

1. Jean Auel's Mammoth Hunters and Plains of Passage both refer to tickling the main character's feet as foreplay (m/f)

2. Marquis De Sade's "Justine" has a scene where monks keep young girls enslaved, and in one passage, they refer to the "kneading of their sides while they struggle wildly" or something along those lines. Hell, he was into everything else, why not a little tickle?

3. I'm surprised nobody's referred to "My Name is Rand" yet...all M/M.

4. My memory is a LITTLE dim on this, but I seem to remember in the story "The Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Anderson that a little girl tickled a reindeer with her knife

5. The nursery rhyme "I know an old lady" had the line "I know an old lady who swallowed a spider that wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her"

6. Heinlein's "To Sail Beyond the Sunset" had an extremely brief reference to tickling on a character's wedding night. Also minor references in Time Enough for Love.

Peace,
Stacy
 
Hi, Stacy,

I have not yet been able to locate the book, but it was from the mid-1960's as I recall. The case history explained how an obsessive male ticklephile repeatedly insisted that his wife pounce on and tickle unsuspecting house guests, and how he kept a "Tickle Book" with detailed records of these encounters. After alienating several friends, he was finally persuaded to enter therapy.
 
Thought of a couple more: a couple of Enid Blyton books feature tickling. One (I think it's The Magical Faraway Tree or something) has a chapter called something like "The Land of Dame Tickle", although I'm not sure what happens in it. I remember a girl in my primary school reading a passage from another one in class (don't know what it was called, or whether I'm remembering this correctly) in which a fairy is putting a boarding house or something full of children to bed; they have their feet sticking out the ends of the beds and she walks around to each one and "tickle(s) their toes until they can't keep their eyes open", or something like that. Finally, I'm not sure whether this is an actual tickling reference or not, but saw a collection of romance stories on the internet called "love goddesses" or something which featured a story called "tickle me pink". I don't know what it is about, but from reading the blurb it looked as if it could have featured tickling - I'm not sure. Has anyone read it?
 
outspacer1 said:
Thought of a couple more: a couple of Enid Blyton books feature tickling. One (I think it's The Magical Faraway Tree or something) has a chapter called something like "The Land of Dame Tickle", although I'm not sure what happens in it. I remember a girl in my primary school reading a passage from another one in class (don't know what it was called, or whether I'm remembering this correctly) in which a fairy is putting a boarding house or something full of children to bed; they have their feet sticking out the ends of the beds and she walks around to each one and "tickle(s) their toes until they can't keep their eyes open", or something like that.
Click to expand...

An Enid Blyton book i had...twelve silver cups was the name, had a story with a bit of tickling in it 🙂 the story was called the cracker fairys (the book was a collection of stories) and these fairies (that had come out of the crackers) had to jump into the childrens bed to keep their mother from finding them. and the passage was something like "Elsie nearly laughed out loud because one of the fairys tickled her leg" i think elsie was her name anyway.
 
The psychological study mentioned in a number of posts is Emil A Gutheil, "A Rare Case of Sado-Masochism (Torture by Tickling)", American Journal of Psychotherapy 187-92 (1947). It's a five-page sketch of the psychsexual history of a ticklephile. For those of you with access to a university library, it's well worth looking up.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Great Catherine, a play by George Bernard Shaw, in which Catherine the Great binds and tickles an English diplomat - a major part of the plot. It was made into a movie with Jeanne Moreau and Peter O'Toole.
 
Also, there's a scene in Memoirs of a Survivor, a novel by Doris Lessing, where a man pins his young daughter between his legs and tickle-tortures her. In Lessing's own memoir, Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, she indicates that this happened to her frequently as a girl.
 
Tickle Therapy? What A Laugh! (crock)

Thanks For The (new To Me) References To Psychology Texts. As An Undergraduate Psych Major In A Prior Century, I Accumulated Many Articles From The Psychology Of Laughter That Dealt With Tickling(bf575 Was The Dewey Decimal # For Psych Of Laughter). If Y'all Are Interested I'll Try To Dig Them Out.( Ok,ok They're Right Under My Pillow!!)
 
Oddly, I once saw a reference to "tickle therapy" in an advertisement for a book about sensuous touch. Upon finding a copy at the public library, I was disappointed to see that there was exactly one sentence in the whole book about "tickle therapy," and it was facetious 🙁 (I no longer remember the name of the book, which is just as well.)
 
We Will All Graduate Phi Beta Tickle.....

Here's Some( Just A Few) Of The Articles/books I Found In Undergaduate On Tickling In The Area Of The Psychology Of Laughter: 1) The Biology Of Laughter-joost A M Merloo, Pages 189-208, 2)the Nature Of Laughter -gregory, Pages 41-51, 3)the Psychology Of Sex- Havelock Ellis Pages 43-45, 4) The Psychology Of Laughter & Comedy-jyt Greig, Pages 31-36 &40-43 & 53-54, 5) Tuke's Dictionary Of Psychologocal Medicine-louis Robinson, 6)on Laughter- Arthur Allin. I Found These Back In The Dark Ages At My University Library. I'm Sure Others At Tt Can Give Advice On How Best To Research The Psychology Of Laughter Today.
 
Hiya 😎

This has been so interesting! Here i thought i was doing well to come across a few refs to tickling in a handful of books (and i have fairly small hands!) But so many of you have seen so much. I feel really blessed to have such experts in the field to point me in some interesting and fun directions!

Thanks a bunch you guys! 😀 😀

Many blessings,
 
I think there was one at the end of Tom Clancy's Patriot Games book..very last pages...f/m and M/f. Jack Ryan(lead character) and his wife..back and forth.
 
There was several tickling scenes in the old Redwall series if I remember correctly. They were mainly /F but had some /M as well.
 
Thanks, Toneus! I'm a fan of George Bernard Shaw and have a couple of his plays, but I was unaware that he had written this until I read about it here 🙂
 
A Man with a Maid is a famous novel written in the Victorian times with lots of genital torture with long pointed feathers that are kept in a special ornate case.

Great Tales of Horror & the Supernatural contain a great story mentioned before on this thread called The Screaming Laugh. The author seemed to know an incredible amount about tickle torture (such as keeping several feathers ready as the ones being used get blunted,and the noises a victum makes as they are pushed well beyond their limit.)It was written in 1938.


My all-time favorite horror author H.P.Lovecraft, had faceless demons in his short novel Dream Quest of the Unknown Kadath that existed almost only for tickle torture.This was not written as a "tounge in cheek"comedy, as the author did not like being touched in real life,so tickling must have been the ultimate horror for him. The demons are known as Night Gaunts.Alot of authors use them in their stories(like they use Lovecraft's Necronomicon too) but they always omit them from using tickling.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
What's New

4/29/2025
Visit the Welcome forum and take a moement to say hello!
Door 44
Live Camgirls!
Live Camgirls
Streaming Videos
streaming tickling videos on demand at the TMF!
Tickling videos on demand!
Pic of the Week
Pic of the Week
Congratulations to
*** brad11701 ***
 The winner of our weekly Trivia, held every Sunday night at 11PM EST in our Chat Room
Back
Top