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Tickling vs. Age
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milagros317
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Welcome to TMF and congratulations on your first post!🙂
To get to your question, with regard to attitude: While many people do tend to regard tickling as juvenile, and cease such activity, you won't find those unfortunate people here.😀
With regard to ability to be tickled, even the elderly can be quite ticklish indeed (as some grandparents find out when their grandchildren tickle them back).
To get to your question, with regard to attitude: While many people do tend to regard tickling as juvenile, and cease such activity, you won't find those unfortunate people here.😀
With regard to ability to be tickled, even the elderly can be quite ticklish indeed (as some grandparents find out when their grandchildren tickle them back).
sole seeker
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With regard to ticklishness and aging:
I am 50, and my wife is a few years older than me. I am much less ticklish than I was in my teens. I don't know how ticklish my wife was in her youth, but even now she is deathly ticklish on her feet.
Lucky me!!!
I am 50, and my wife is a few years older than me. I am much less ticklish than I was in my teens. I don't know how ticklish my wife was in her youth, but even now she is deathly ticklish on her feet.
Lucky me!!!TklDuo-Ann
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Jain dobra! (Do you spell it the same in slovakia?) Welcome to the TMF, sktickler! Glad to have you with us.
I think the answer to your question varies from person to person as far as ticklishness is concerned. Some folks get more or less ticklish with time while others remain about the same. The attitude about tickling seems to be the thing to change most. A lot of adults (even if they enjoy tickling or being tickled) tend to see it as childish and simply won't give in to it. I personally prefer to see it as child-like rather than childish.
Of course, then, you get into those for whom it's a sexual thing. They obviously don't see that as childish. But, many DO find it difficult to accept that it isn't "normal"...whatever "normal" is. For me, it can be both, though it's mainly playful for me. My gut feeling is that we can just say "The heck with "normal". and just jump in and enjoy it.
Ann
I think the answer to your question varies from person to person as far as ticklishness is concerned. Some folks get more or less ticklish with time while others remain about the same. The attitude about tickling seems to be the thing to change most. A lot of adults (even if they enjoy tickling or being tickled) tend to see it as childish and simply won't give in to it. I personally prefer to see it as child-like rather than childish.
Of course, then, you get into those for whom it's a sexual thing. They obviously don't see that as childish. But, many DO find it difficult to accept that it isn't "normal"...whatever "normal" is. For me, it can be both, though it's mainly playful for me. My gut feeling is that we can just say "The heck with "normal". and just jump in and enjoy it.
Ann
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tickling vs. age
I'm almost 50 and much less ticklish than I was when I was younger, which kinda stinks. My wife's not too ticklish either, so I don't get to tickle much either.
To me, it doesn't matter how old you are, if you love tickling, you're going to love it for life.
🙂
I'm almost 50 and much less ticklish than I was when I was younger, which kinda stinks. My wife's not too ticklish either, so I don't get to tickle much either.
To me, it doesn't matter how old you are, if you love tickling, you're going to love it for life.
🙂
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Perhaps losing your senses is part of getting old. The most obvious ones are losing your sense of hearing and seeing, but it seems sense of touch gets affected too. I'm not terribly sure if smell and taste get noticably affected by age too...
I have heard a number of people say they were more ticklish as children. I wonder if part of that is that children get more thoroughly tickled than adults. How manty adults get held down and thoroughly tickled the way kids do in our culture? If they were, they might find they had remained much more ticklish than they realized.
As for myself, I have remained extremely ticklish into middle age. I have actually been tickled much mpore as an adult than as a boy. I don't know that I have gotten more ticklish but I have certainly discovered that I can be tickled more intensely than I knew as a child. Also, I have discovered that I am ticklish nearly all over whereas I thought I was ticklish in only classic tickle spots like soles and ribs when I was a boy.
As for myself, I have remained extremely ticklish into middle age. I have actually been tickled much mpore as an adult than as a boy. I don't know that I have gotten more ticklish but I have certainly discovered that I can be tickled more intensely than I knew as a child. Also, I have discovered that I am ticklish nearly all over whereas I thought I was ticklish in only classic tickle spots like soles and ribs when I was a boy.
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get this: was extremely ticklish as a child, lost it in adolescence, gained it back in my late twenties, and I am more ticklish now than ever, at 41, so... 😀
I think ticklishness with age varies from person to person. In my aunt's case, I tickled her feet when I was younger, and she was in her 40's, and she was very ticklish. Not too long ago, I saw my cousin, who is her son, tickle her, shes now going to be 62, and she is still really ticklish. Even much older people can be ticklish. I saw my grandfather tickle my grandmother's feet when she was in her 70's when they were both alive, like 15 years ago, and she went nuts. I do think that while some people's ticklishness can diminish with age, that is not always so, I really think it depends on the individual person.
Mitch
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I have had an intense tickle fetish since long before I even knew what that meant, probably starting about age ten. My wife has known about this little quirk in my character, again, I'd guess, since before I knew what it was all about. I've been tickling her at every opportunity for about three decades (since she was only my girl friend).
I have no way of knowing how this works for tickle people that don't have the "fetish." Those of us that do share a "feeling" about it that likely could never be explained to others. I knew by my mid-thirties that this activity can only be fully enjoyed AND appreciated by adults. That is, it's a phenomenon that is wasted on kids, at least it was on me. Now I believe it helps me stay young in spirit, and, if Memorial Day is any evidence, there is still enough of the tease in the wife to provoke my desires despite the fact that she gets the results worse every year and every time. I have learned through experience how to tickle her for maximum effect.
As to effect, different people will react differently to it, but my ticklee certainly hasn't lost any ticklishness over the years. She is extremely ticklish from head to toes and her worst spots are her upper ribs and armpits, as well as her upper inner thighs. I usually save these spots for last. Her reaction rarely disappoints me, and, maybe because I know her body better than she knows her own, I usually get a reaction up to silent laughter most of the time these days.
I'd say I'm one of the luckiest tickle people anywhere, in that I have never lost even the tiniest desire to tickle, and I have a wife that has always put up with me. I hope and suspect I'll be tickling her half to death for another three decades.
I have had an intense tickle fetish since long before I even knew what that meant, probably starting about age ten. My wife has known about this little quirk in my character, again, I'd guess, since before I knew what it was all about. I've been tickling her at every opportunity for about three decades (since she was only my girl friend).
I have no way of knowing how this works for tickle people that don't have the "fetish." Those of us that do share a "feeling" about it that likely could never be explained to others. I knew by my mid-thirties that this activity can only be fully enjoyed AND appreciated by adults. That is, it's a phenomenon that is wasted on kids, at least it was on me. Now I believe it helps me stay young in spirit, and, if Memorial Day is any evidence, there is still enough of the tease in the wife to provoke my desires despite the fact that she gets the results worse every year and every time. I have learned through experience how to tickle her for maximum effect.
As to effect, different people will react differently to it, but my ticklee certainly hasn't lost any ticklishness over the years. She is extremely ticklish from head to toes and her worst spots are her upper ribs and armpits, as well as her upper inner thighs. I usually save these spots for last. Her reaction rarely disappoints me, and, maybe because I know her body better than she knows her own, I usually get a reaction up to silent laughter most of the time these days.
I'd say I'm one of the luckiest tickle people anywhere, in that I have never lost even the tiniest desire to tickle, and I have a wife that has always put up with me. I hope and suspect I'll be tickling her half to death for another three decades.
I'm 50, almost 51 and I seem to be getting more ticklish.. Darn it anyway!
I think it's a personal thing. Maybe it's whether the person is willing to let down their barriers or just relax and enjoy it. (although there's nothing relaxing about it for me! LOL)
I think it's a personal thing. Maybe it's whether the person is willing to let down their barriers or just relax and enjoy it. (although there's nothing relaxing about it for me! LOL)
sktickler said:
I think it depends on the individual. As for attitude, I was one who spent a good part of my life keeping my fascination with tickling a secret because I thought I was weird and alone. Some years ago, I discovered that I am not alone. The jury is out on weird LOL!!
As for the ability to be tickled, I am not sure if my ticklishness has changed at all with age, but I do know that at 52 the preservation of state secrets demands that I do not consider espionage as a career path! LOL!! 🙂
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