Who's the better overall tickler: men or women?

[renny]

I've wondered about this looking at the various ticklers in the videos I've watched, and I wanted you guys' opinions based on your experiences - which I have yet to experience, unfortunately :{

 

[Deleted member 2452]

my opinion

i think womn are better at tickling men, and men are better at tickling women. a certain chemistry is there that's lacking in same sex tickling.
i have only been tickled a couple times in my life by men, and it wasn't pleasent. i have been tickle countless times by countless women, and that has been both effective, and fun.
steve

 

[Mimi]

I think it really depends on the lee, and what kind of ticking techniques drive them insane. I think typically, women are better at light touch tickling, and men are better at deeper, more forceful tickling.

Of course, there are exceptions to every rule....lol

Mimi 🙂

 

[sushi854]

Like ticklishness, I really don't think tickling ability is a gender-specific trait. We all have 10 fingers, it's just a matter of what you do with them.

 

[BellaRisa]

Depends on the players

>>i think womn are better at tickling men, and men are better at tickling women. a certain chemistry is there that's lacking in same sex tickling.

I dunno about that one, Steve. IME it depends on the players-I've seen and been a part many same-sex sessions (say that three times fast) that had *major* chemistry and were just amazing. From what I can tell, the biggest factor is how much the 'Ler can 'get' to the 'Lee, mentally-the same touch can produce either a yawn or screams from the 'Lee depending on his or her rapport with the 'Ler.

It also depends on shape and strength of hands and fingers; I once thought this was gender specific, but at this point I've known 'Lers of both sexes who were incredible with their nails, and/or who were devastating with that nasty knee-squeeze <shudder> 🙂

Bella

 

[giggledude]

There's so much variation in the possible motivations and tastes of both parties and how they mix that, even if we were able to quantify what comprised "better", it would still seem more a case for individual case-by-case determination. However, I'd have little difficulty in accepting that most people have an individual answer that one gender or the other makes better ticklers of themselves.

 

[SuperTickler]

I think it really depends on how motivated the tickler is. Women like RT's Priscilla James and FM's Heather Stewart seem to really LOVE tickling other women, and it shows in their efforts. They seem intent on truly torturing their hapless victims!

On the other hand, men are typically WAY more aggressive and merciless, especially to an attractive woman. I think part of it is a "revenge" motivation, to "punish" the woman for all the indignities beautiful women casually dish out to men. Please don't flame me on this; it happens to be reality that very attractive women are often heartlessly cruel to men, and I believe that, for some men, tickling is a way to achieve a measure of payback. 😎

 

[HeBeGeeBee]

There's a very simple, two word answer to this question...my wife.

 

[renny]

Yeah, I kind of had this idea that since lots of guys have bigger, thicker hands, their attempts at tickling either wouldn't work or end up hurting the 'lee, while women have a more skillful touch, made more devastating by their nails. Your responses make sense, though; it depends on the individual.

 

[ticklemonster5]

i would have to say that men are the more ruthless ticklers...i've noticed from videos that if a woman is tickling a woman, the lee will be laughing pretty hard, but when the man comes, the lee almost always screams when the man starts tickling...that tells me either a) the guy just got lucky and found a good spot or b) the man just has that "touch" to send women into screaming frenzys

 

[giggledude]

I've thought about this a lot, and some interesting things came to me.

In a sort of reverse of that PBS series with Alan Alda that had a segment on ticklishness which showed that a machine tickling someone didn't tickle as much as a person doing the tickling, I wondered whether it would be possible to construct machines to be tickled by men and women (perhaps with a prize for the team deemed better to provide motivation) with simulated human reactions and some means of quantification to decide the "better" question.

Of course, this could only measure physical "devastation" (I'll use that term for convenience, defining better as superiour devastation), while really it seems that the psychological factor is at least as important (for my own case, I'd say more so). Would there be any way to negate that factor using only people? It doesn't seem practical to try to have victims situated so that they couldn't tell whether men or women were tickling them; it strikes me as almost impossible to block the victim's assumption when the tickles are felt, in much the way that one sees a person and thinks He or She even if that turns out to be wrong. Even if one were able to use a group of people who were all completely bisexual in the 50-50 manner of attraction, it seems unlikely there are enough people who would react identically to tickling and/or being tickled by either men or women.

Pondering the psychological aspect, what strikes me is how being tickled in a particular situation would induce some people to shut down and yet induce others just like them to be even more vulnerable, either willingly or otherwise. Taking the question of possible attraction into account, there are sixteen ler/lee combinations, with men/women who would/wouldn't be attracted to people of the partner's gender (sorry I couldn't find a way to make bisexuality and asexuality fully realized in my 1-on-1s here, but give me credit for not saying straight/gay). We have four cases of possible Mutual Attraction, four Ler Likes Lee, four Lee Likes Ler, and four without any attraction either way. These are further crossed by the four all-male, four all-female and eight mixed-gender cases. I'm out of time now, but I'll ponder more about which sorts of situations are most common, etc. and why, and hope others will have things to say.

Sorry if I've bored everyone to tears!

 

[renny]

Man, that's probably more attention paid to this thread than it really deserves!

 

[tickler_n_black]

i think men or women ticklers are even. both have pros and cons.

i think the real "question behind the question" here is what turns the average guy on more? dont you agree?

 

[renny]

You're probably right, TIB. It seems like a lot of guys like f/f tickling; I personally prefer m/f most of the time.

 

[giggledude]

Well, what started me wondering was the respondent who said that the best tickler was his wife, which led to the thought that it was interesting how some (presuming straight here) men prefer tickling FM within a relationship or possible one while others like it removed entirely and prefer MM, which led me to wonder what difference the tickler's orientation made and why, and the end result of my day's ruminations are that my whole big diagram seems better suited to another thread, so I'll start a new one.

 

[ktickler]

I do not know... I find this question in the same category as "people from what Nationality are the best ticklers?".

I think that the best tickler is the person who gets his victims to crack easily and to laugh for a long time. I have seen excellent ticklers who have been males and females. I do not thinkg that sex has anything to do with this...

Bye,

Knight Tickler