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Encyclopedia > Tickling boots

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. Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Technology ( Gr. ... In physics, magnetism is a phenomenon by which materials exert an attractive or repulsive force on other materials. ... , one of the Mr. ...


The British science fiction show The Tomorrow People featured tickling boots in the episode A Man for Emily. Tickling boots also appeared in several short story-plays on a Nickelodeon program known as Kids Writes. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the G8, the European Union, and NATO. Usually known simply as the United Kingdom, the UK, or (inaccurately) as Great Britain or Britain, the UK has four constituent... The Tomorrow People was a childrens science fiction television series, devised by Roger Price and produced by Thames Television for Britains ITV network between 1973 and 1979. ... Nickelodeon (Nick for short) is an American cable TV network for children. ... Kids Writes was an early program of the childrens network Nickelodeon, running from approximately 1981 to 1983. ...


While some modern day "tickling machines" do exist (such as the stocks), to date an actual pair of tickling boots has yet to be invented. See stock (disambiguation) for other meanings of the word stock Public Stocks The stocks are a device used for public humiliation, punishment, and torture. ...


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Tickling is the act of touching a part of the body lightly so as to cause involuntary laughter or twitching movements.
Tickling as a fetish is perhaps one of the most common human behaviors known, in that studies indicate nearly 85 percent of adults in some way or another enjoy tickling others, being tickled themselves, or watching others be tickled.
Tickle fetishes involving "erotic tickling" (frequent breaks, safewords, sensual movements), using fingers to tickle areas such as the ribs or feet, using the tongue to lick the face, soles of the feet and toes or items such as feathers and brushes to produce tickling sensations as part of erotic foreplay.
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