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  tickling - Definitions from Dictionary.com
To tease or excite pleasurably; titillate: suspense that tickles the reader's curiosity.
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Such a nature Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow Which he treads on at noon.
dictionary.reference.com /browse/tickling   (266 words)

  
  Physiology of laughter and tickling   (Site not responding. Last check: )
because tickling cannot be produced after section of the spinothalamic tract (which does not interfere with touch sensation); also, tickling cannot be provoked when the circulation of an extremity is arrested, which first eliminates the sensation of touch, and with it the tickling sensation.
Indeed, this suggests that physical tickling and more cerebral and cognitive forms of humor may have the same basic representation in the human nervous system, and that biological implementations of the two may at least be evolutionarily related.
While tickling of the type, ``research scientist applies feather to plantar surface of foot'', may be thought to be purely physiological, there are kinds of tickling which clearly involve other mechanisms.
www.tomveatch.com /else/humor/paper/node33.html   (651 words)

  
  Tickling
Tickling is the act of touching a part of the body lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements.
The sensation of surprise elicited by tickling protects against crawling animals and insects, such as spiders, mosquitos, scorpions or beetles, which may be why it evolved in many animals, including rats.
This suggests that when a person tries to tickle him- or herself, the cerebellum sends to the somatosensory cortex[?] precise information on the position of the tickling target and therefore what sensation to expect.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ti/Tickle.html   (488 words)

  
 Tickling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The second type of tickle is the laughter inducing, "heavy" tickle, produced by repeatedly applying pressure to "ticklish" areas, and is known as gargalesis.
As with parents and siblings, tickling serves as a bonding mechanism between friends, and is classified by psychologists as part of in the fifth and highest grade of social play which involves special intimacy or “cognitive interaction”.
Harris goes on to suggest that the tickle response is reflex, similar to the startle reflex, that is contingent on the element of surprise.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tickling   (2349 words)

  
 Why It's Impossible to Tickle Yourself | Tickling | Laughter | Human Body   (Site not responding. Last check: )
I was like ok. Well he started tickling me and I was begging him to stop and he took off my sandals and started tickling my feet and then what was worse was he lifted my shirt exposing my stomach and started tracing his fingers across my stomach and along my ribs.
I saw his feet and couldn't resist torturing him so I began to tickle his feet and Michael was tickling his sides and to make it worse (for him) he couldnt move.
The worst time I was tickled was when I was at school and this guy came up to my and tickled my sides and then all of the guys saw my reaction and they thought it would be fun to tickle me and they did.
www.kidzworld.com /article/2969-why-we-cant-tickle-ourselves-feedback   (1430 words)

  
 Tickling boots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tickling boots are devices mentioned in some science fiction literature as punishment-torture devices employed by certain technologically advanced races.
Tickling boots are designed to be placed on a victim's feet and magnetically sealed so the wearer is unable to remove them.
At the whim of another person, the tickling boots may be "activated" which causes the wearer of the tickling boots to experience the sensation of being tickled on the soles of the feet.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tickling_boots   (163 words)

  
 linguaphiles: Tickling
There are two types of tickling, or: the verb "tickle" in English refers to two very different kinds of touch.
for instance, when a feather lightly tickles your thigh (for instance), it produces the same squirmish laugh-causing sensation as does someone tickling you with their fingers digging under your ribs.
You've forgotten the most widely used, which is the metaphorical as in "the comment/thought tickled him" or "she tickled his fancy".
community.livejournal.com /linguaphiles/2505526.html   (703 words)

  
 Telegraph | Digital Life | Revealed at last - why you can't tickle yourself
Studies of this teasing tactile sensation were conducted at the Institute of Neurology, the world's leading research department in the use of body scanners to study activity within the most complex object in the universe, the human brain.
To perform this feat, the brain distinguishes the sensations, sounds and feelings caused by our own actions, which are usually unimportant and can be ignored, leaving it receptive to sensations caused for other reasons, such as a child's cry for help, the smell of ripe fruit, or the pant of a grinning crocodile.
But when you attempt to tickle yourself, something in the brain, given the humourless label of a "corollary discharge", can anticipate the effects of our actions and dull the sensation.
www.telegraph.co.uk /connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/1998/10/29/ecftick29.xml   (479 words)

  
 Erotic Tickling   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Tickling is one of the least familiar forms of sex play.
Among tickling enthusiasts there is even considerable disagreement as to the relationship between tickling and sex.
For them, tickling a young niece or preteen neighbor is not offensive because they make no more connection with tickling and sex than they do a game of hide-and-seek.
www.aloha.com /~darkwatr/tkl00.htm   (254 words)

  
 Witness says Jackson molested him during 1990 tickling game
The 24-year-old man was called to the stand as prosecutors in the current molestation case against Jackson began trying to show the jury that the singer has a pattern of abusing young boys.
He was tickling and I was laughing and the -- it was, he was -- he was tickling me in the...," the witness said before asking the judge for a break.
In another incident, he said, Jackson began tickling him as they were cuddling on top of a sleeping bag while watching cartoons.
www.dailybreeze.com /hottopics/articles/1435692.html?showAll=y&c=y   (695 words)

  
 Tickling fetishism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Erotic tickling may involve the physical restraint of a submissive by a dominant.
Although some consider it a BDSM activity, tickling is not fully recognised by the community and is relatively unknown in the mainstream.
People whose sexuality is based almost solely on tickling can be said to have a tickling fixation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tickling_fetishism   (311 words)

  
 The Last Laugh Catalog-Tickling
Her feet get tickled, but this position is better suited to upper body tickling, of which she gets a heavy dose.
Later she gets tickled some more while kneeling in the stocks, her feet very vulnerable to whatever comes to Kate's mind, which is pretty much limited to various tickling techniques, including the use of her tongue and teeth.
She gets tickled for about a third of the video, first on her upper body while strapped to my massage table, then on her feet while tied to her chair, which she actually manages to break at the end.
www.thelastlaughinc.com /catalog_tickling.html   (3491 words)

  
 TICKLING FEAR: Treatment and Hope
To add insult to an already distressing condition, most tickling fear therapies take months or years and sometimes even require the patient to be exposed repeatedly to their fear.
tickling fear will likely cost you tens, even hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of your lifetime, let alone the cost to your health and quality of life.
2: tickling fear: a strong fear of, dislike of, or aversion to being tickled by feathers.
www.changethatsrightnow.com /problem_detail.asp?SDID=3909:1810   (1409 words)

  
 Tickling Review on STUFF MAGAZINE DOT COM
Tickling, the act of lightly touching a person to illicit uncontrolled laughter is the worst thing person can do to another person.
After a session of tickling one of three things can happen: You will be tickled again, you will be so out of breath that your brain will legally be dead for 3 seconds, or a small amount of urine will escape your body.
So-called non-ticklish people have tickle regions usually located on the roof of the mouth or on the surface of their eye.
www.stuffmagazine.com /hype/review.aspx?id=10583   (423 words)

  
 First accuser testifies against Michael Jackson, describes sexual tickling - Courttv.com - Trials
However, the judge has allowed prosecutors to enter evidence that may establish what they believe is the singer's criminal pattern — such as cuddling, playing and tickling — that leads to the alleged sexual offenses.
He said Jackson did not make contact with his skin that first time, but tickled his genitals through the orange shorts the boy was wearing, which his mother had made for him because they were poor.
When asked to describe the amount of time the tickling went on, he said they were watching Woody Woodpecker, and it was about one and a half cartoons long.
www.courttv.com /trials/jackson/040405_ctv.html   (1014 words)

  
 Tickling, Pain or Pleasure
To me tickling a child to this extend is in the same boat as child abuse.
Maybe a light tickle under a babies chin is sweet and bonding but I feel that is as far as it should go.
I must admit that Dan's remote tickle felt all right, though, because I know that he is too far away to actually touch me. If he were here in person, even the raising of his hand would probably cause me agony.
www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/natural_health/105311/1-latest   (2386 words)

  
 What causes tickling?
Darwin was the first to point out that a tickling victim squirms and strains to withdraw the tickled part, to get away from attacks on vulnerable areas such as the soles of the feet, armpits, belly and flank.
Tickling perception happens in the cerebral cortex, a higher-function part of the brain.
The cerebellum, a primitive part of the brain, dampens the tickle sensation when you tickle yourself by telling the cortex to ignore the sensation, says Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, cognitive neuroscientist at London's Institute of Neurology, who has concluded a study of the matter and reported her findings in the November 1998 issue of Nature Neuroscience.
www.wonderquest.com /Tickling.htm   (687 words)

  
 Sensei's Library: Tickling shodan
Tickling shodan is a fuzzy rank which describes someone who is almost shodan, such that they have on a few occasions beaten bona-fide shodans - sometimes handily.
But the tickling shodan state is one where the individual is likely never to reach shodan, for various reasons, like a lack of intelligence, lack of desire to study, or an excessively strong desire to reach an idealized perceptual goal.
The idealized anticipation of reaching a static (yet illusory) goal is often the result of a character failing, and therefore not necessarily related to Go.
senseis.xmp.net /?TicklingShodan   (1060 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Tickling Tigers: Books: Anna Currey   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hannibal is a boastful little mouse, who tells his friends he can tickle a tiger with a bit of grass.
Anna Currey's Tickling Tigers tells the tale of Hannibal, a very small mouse with a very big ego.
Tickling Tigers is a delightful, lovely, and very entertaining picturebook story.
www.amazon.com /Tickling-Tigers-Anna-Currey/dp/0812065948   (666 words)

  
 PsyBlog: Are We Programmed to Laugh When Tickled?
Everyday life in the Leuba household, therefore, was devoid of tickling except for one special experimental period.
He found the best way to make his children laugh was to tickle them along the ribs and under the arms.
It also resulted in them "tickling" to the point of digging their little, pointy fingers into my sides with all their strength.
www.spring.org.uk /2007/11/are-we-programmed-to-laugh.php   (969 words)

  
 Search Results for "Tickling"
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 tickling pictures and videos on Webshots
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 Witness says Jackson molested him during 1990 tickling game   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In dramatic and emotional testimony, the son of a former housekeeper for Michael Jackson told jurors Monday that he was molested by the pop star during a tickling game in 1990.
He was tickling and I was laughing and the — it was, he was — he was tickling me in the...," the witness said before asking the judge for a break.
"We were watching cartoons and he just started tickling me which was — cool," he said of the first incident, which he described as beginning while they were seated in a chair.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2005/04/04/state/n134310D70.DTL   (707 words)

  
 Alibris: Tickling
A cranky duck dares children to tickle his soft stomach, his hairy armpit, his rubbery foot--and reacts uproariously each time in this touch-and-feel book.
Tickle is making a nuisance of himself by tickling everyone he meets, until a taste of Little Miss Magic's powers persuades him to curb his behavior.
A cute, brown-haired baby girl gets all the tickles she could ever want from family members in this 1-to-10 counting book for very young children.
www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Tickling   (1123 words)

  
 Tickling Videos - Tickling Video Clips
Tickling Eyes is shot here in a home video that capture the moment...
Tickling Trevor again, and Raie is a crazy who decided to start recording our cheesy and weird interactions.
Tickling Madeline on StairsUltimateSnowGirl1 min 46 sec - Mar 19, 2006Tickling Madeline on Stairs
www.searchforvideo.com /viral/popular/tickling   (510 words)

  
 Free foot tickling pictures. f/f m/f Women is bound and tickled
foot tickling, women with unpainted toenails, babysitter bondage, tickled babysitters.
Abbey was able to lose her inhibitions and finally give in to what Carly was doing to her!
She loved it, but was so ticklish that she couldn't stand still while her friend expertly did the very personal tickling!
foottickling.freetickling.com   (280 words)

  
 PBS - Scientific American Frontiers:Life's Little QuestionsII:Teaching Guide:Tickling in the Lab
Ask the subject to try to tickle himself or herself by gently brushing fingers over the exposed arch in a manner that would elicit a tickling response in others.
Now move your finger around the grid more randomly, without moving box to adjoining box, but always remain within the "allowable area of tickling." Ask your subject should compares and contrasts the intensity of the tickle and record this in their laboratory journal.
Afterwards, ask the subject to compare the ticklish stimulus of this subject-directed movement to the researchers random movement from box center to box center, on a scale of 1 to 10.
www.pbs.org /saf/1105/teaching/teaching.htm   (1173 words)

  
 Shopping.com - Shopping made simple
Frighten friends and tickle funnybones with these windup "chattering teeth," a classic kidpleasing favorite.
Touch or tickle his head, belly, hands or feet and he gets riled up.
Your feet will be tickled in these comfy knit socks from Polo.
www.shopping.com /xGS-Tickling_Feet   (586 words)

  
 tickle robot
Tickle is a small robot that walks on the human body to generate a pleasant, tickling sensation.It has two motors and rubber feet for a good grip on the skin.
When it encounters a slope that is too steep, it will steer until a safe level is found, and it will continue its way.
Tickle has been awarded with a first prize in 1999 at LIFE 2.0, an international competition on Art & Artificial Life.
www.xs4all.nl /~notnot/tickle/TICKLEcat.html   (84 words)

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