Feet are a sensitive part of the body which can be very ticklish in some people. The tickle response is not completely understood, but is thought to be an involuntary response directed by the ...

Are you a fan of foot tickles or are your toes a no-go zone? Well, it seems women are more sensitive than men when it comes to having their feet teased, according to a new study. While women squirm ...

In fact, the world's first 'tickle spa' opened in Spain back in 2011, where customers can pay €45 ($60) to have their feet tickled with a feather for an hour.

The knismesis feather-touch type of tickle might be part of our system for determining when something is touching us. Some researchers think gargalesis, the heavy tickle, might help us learn to fight.

One thing we want to know during Feet Week is why our feet are so incredibly ticklish? What causes that unbearable pleasure/pain sensation?

This is the weird science of tickling, being tickled, why some people are ticklish, and why you can't tickle yourself. The post This Is Why Some People Are Ticklish—and Others Aren’t appeared ...

Controlling someone’s foot movements with magnetic brain stimulation, so that their hand tickled their foot against their will, seems to do the trick.

For instance, most people are extremely ticklish on the soles of their feet–but that’s not exactly the bit of our bodies most in need of protecting, Ishiyama points out.