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Hosted by: Eran ThomsonThis week's word is: Tickles
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Do you like being tickled?
Turns out people are pretty evenly divided on the subject. One-third hate it, another third are meh, and a third are really into it.
But what's the point of humans being ticklish if two-thirds of people just don't like being touched that way?
One theory is that it's a way for us to learn self-defenses from a young age. some of the most ticklish places on the body also happen to be the most vulnerable areas during hand-to-hand combat. So ticklishness might confer an evolutionary advantage designed to help us protect our vital organs.
But no matter how good one might get at fighting off fists and feathers, there have been times throughout history when tickling was intentionally used as torture.
The Chinese reserved tickle torture as punishment for nobility since it left no marks and a victim could recover relatively easily and quickly. The Japanese would allegedly dip victim's feet in salt water and let goats lick them. And the Nazis used goose feathers to tickle their unfortunate prisoners.
Even my parents were tickle torturers. When I was a kid they used to hold me down and tickle me as punishment. They called it the "Hermie Fermie," and even though I was la
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