renny said:
Maybe this is sort of off-topic, but I read somewhere that smoking pot can make some people more ticklish. Now, I'm not advocating drug use here, I'm just wondering if that's really true.
I have found from personal experience that marijuana can affect a person's reaction to being tickled. I have also found the same thing to be true regarding alcohol. Of course, total drunkeness will only diminish such sensations, but as for weed, a lady friend of mine named Diane remarked once during a conversation that she was extremely ticklish, especially when she was stoned. Again, a marijuana-induced stupor is probably not conducive to enhanced ticklishness, but being a little "high" has a positive effect on my wife's reactions to being tickled. I'm not sure what the connection between weed and ticklishness is, but I think with alcohol, as it relaxes inhibitions, it affects a person's ability to control their reaction to the tickling.
Case in point: I had my wife (Tracy) tied up and was going through my usual routines to try to get her laughing. The only thing different about this night was that she had drunk a few beers and was a little "tipsy". One of the things I like to do to her is use my tongue to tickle the hollow of her armpit next to her breast. I was doing this just like I had many times before, when I noticed that she was thrashing more forcefully than usual. I continued to "tongue" her and suddenly she uttered one short "bark" of laughter, took a deep breath, and started laughing harder than I had EVER heard her laugh before, interspersed with cries of "Stop! Stop! I can't take it anymore!" Now, Tracy is only of average ticklishness, and I had tickled her just like that many times before and had never gotten such an incredible reaction. I figured it had to be the alcohol in her system, so a few days later, I tickled her "straight" and got the usual reaction. About a week later I tickled her in the "tipsy" condition and got the elevated response like before.
I realize, of course, that a couple of trial & error experiments doesn't exactly qualify as material for the Nobel Prize in Scientific Research, but I believe the results do indicate, not necessarily that alcohol increases ticklishness, but that it does somehow interfere with the ticklee's ability to "limit" their reaction to the tickling. I guess the main point is that these substances don't make a person any more ticklish than they already are; they only affect the person's involuntary reluctance to endure tickling.
I don't know. Maybe someone else has had similar experiences with a different spin on the whys and the wherefores about the whole thing. But I definitely would follow everyone else's advice about the Nitrous.
