Tickling conveys incredibly confusing messages around consent, pleasure, discomfort, autonomy and agency to young children. Kids may ask to be tickled, but when they say to stop, or say no more, the tickling often continues. Sometimes tickling is used as a threat, although intended jokingly, it may be enacted as a form of punishment. This article explores how within the act of tickling, there is actually great potential to explain consent through action.
– Brett Goldberg
Read the article via The Good Men Project.
