There are many forms of touch in the human vocabulary, like caresses, squeezes, slaps, and pinches. Yet there’s only one type of touch known to routinely elicit laughter: tickling. From the time we’re ...

Q: TICKLING!!! Just saying it makes me remember my single days! I was introduced to tickling 20 years ago by a woman I met at a club. She came back to my home, asked to be tied up and then requested ...

Aging is such a complex process in the body and brain it seems impossible that a technique involving daily ear stimulation — known as “tickle therapy” — might be able to fight it. But a team at the ...

Your cat is lying next to you on the couch pawing and playing when you decide to reach over and give her belly a little tickle. Wait, are cats ticklish? "Cats can be ticklish but, since they don't ...

CINCINNATI – A man is charged with assault following a tickling session that turned violent last week. Daniel Smith, 26, was arrested after police said he punched a woman in the face and broke her jaw ...

You know when you’ve found just the right spot on your pup. But is your dog actually feeling a tickling sensation or another type of doggy bliss? The phenomenon of tickling is pretty wild when you ...

Don’t try this at home, but tickling a gorilla, orangutan, bonobo or chimp can inspire bursts of grunting sounds. Yes, that’s laughter, says Marina Davila Ross of the University of Portsmouth in ...

At Cosquillarte spa in Madrid, customers strip off, head to the treatment room and get ready to relax. That’s when the staff take out the feathers — and tickle.

A daily chronicle of creativity in film, TV, music, arts, and entertainment, produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from November 2014 – March 2020. Host John Horn leads the ...