Once in awhile a documentary comes along with such a bizarre, out-of-left-field premise that it proves the old adage that reality is, indeed, stranger than fiction, and Tickled, a new one in theaters now that comes our way courtesy of the New Zealand directing tandem of David Farrier (a pop-culture correspondent for an Auckland television station) and Dylan Reeve (a techie-turned- research-guru-and-camera-operator), certainly fits that bill — but it also raises some reasonably thought-provoking questions in the minds of viewers, chief among them being “what, exactly, constitutes something as being pornographic?,” and “how far are some people willing to go in order to fuel their obsessions — and are those with greater financial means in a position to become completely swallowed up by them?”

I freely confess that I’d never heard of the so-called “sport” of — get this — “competitive endurance tickling” before seeing this flick the other…