MTP Jeff

[TMF Jeff]

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* how I got started in the community

I first learned that there even was such a thing as a tickling fetish from an ad in the back of a Playboy when I was around nineteen years old, a tiny little square ad, on a page with about 20 tiny little square ads, that listed the various fetishes a company was selling videos for. One of them was tickling, and the word just jumped out at me when I glanced at the page. I ordered their catalog and they had two videos with tickling in them, which I was too intimidated to have delivered to even my PO box.

But from that, I eventually made my way to Chinatown in downtown Boston, where all the adult stores were, and they stocked some tickling videos right on the shelves, which I think at the time I took more for granted than I should have. A lot of people talk about being amazed that there were others like them, but I don't think I ever really felt that way.

A few years later, the Internet started to form (It had existed for decades, but I'm talking about when it became something people knew about,) and at the time I was a computer programming major (which lasted one semester, and for good reason: I sucked at it,) so I was a pretty early adaptor of that technology. I joined a bulletin board service (those were sort of like the TMF is now, except you dialed directly into it with your 14k modem) and discovered alt.multimedia.fetish.feet, which was the closest you could come to a tickling group at the time. About once a week or so, someone would post a tickling story there, and that was when I first started to get personally involved, instead of just buying porn.

I wrote a couple of stories (really horrible, awful stories) and engaged in a couple of discussions, and generally just puttered along. And then one day my roommate came home and said "We learned about something called the World Wide Web in class today. You've got to see it." So he showed me one of the 10 or so websites that existed at the time: I think it was the Smithsonian. All it was was maybe ten pages of text, with a few embedded hyperlinks, and frankly it was boring and you couldn't see at the time what it was going to become. But within a year, people were making their own personal web pages, and the guys who would later found Yahoo were starting to create an index of interesting ones.

Once the ball got rolling, it wasn't long before tickling websites started to pop up. They were very basic, because at the time it would take as long as five minutes for a simple image to load on your screen. But in that world, a single tickling image was totally worth a five minute wait.

* how I started my video business

After a while of things going on like this, people started being able to post small (VERY small, 10 seconds or so) video clips, and some tickling video companies started posting samples of their stuff, especially Solefully Yours. They were probably the earliest tickling producer to start using these tools: Pam had a website up very early on, and soon after that she was posting video clip samples to AMT (in those days nobody had enough bandwidth available to host clips on their site.) It was amazing to be able to get those little clips, even though I could much more easily have gone to the store and bought full-length videos. There was just something magical about having instant access to something new, and sharing it with hundreds of other people, and being able to talk about it. Bottom line: I wanted in.

I wanted to be having the same fun that companies like Solefully Yours and TJ Productions (another early tickling presence online) were having, and I wanted to be able to contribute to the content online too. With a lot more optimism than I really deserved, I figured it wouldn't cost that much to make a video, and with a little luck I could make back what it cost to make, and over time probably pay off the equipment. In the meantime, I could tickle some girls, and make some clips to share around.

So I bought a cheap video camera, and some equipment for editing and scanning it, and I started putting ads in college newspapers, and with that Magic Touch Productions was born.

And this is where I got insanely lucky. The first girl to ever answer my ad was a nineteen year old Harvard student named Mary, who was beautiful, smart, fun, and over-the-top ticklish. I couldn't ask for a better first model to work with, and it's definitely because of her that things went forward from there.

I remember being so sure, without even thinking about it, that I would never make any money doing that, that I was much more focused on making great sample clips for my friends than I was in marketing a video and selling it. I ended up buying a RealMedia license (they were a very different company back then) and I was able to make files that were the same size as a 10 second clip, but they would be as long as three minutes. The combination of those long sample clips and Mary being so amazing, made the video a hit. I don't remember exactly what it made in terms of money, but it was enough to immediately make me start looking to do it again.

Jim from MTJ Publishing has a theory that it was my next video that cemented my reputation, though, and he's probably right because my next ad got me a response from not one girl, but three. Three college roommates called me and said they were interested in doing a tickling video. All three were cute, ticklish, and obviously real friends, with real chemistry. Despite the really shitty camera work on my part, the video was another big hit, because the girls were exactly what they appeared to be... three young girls who were schoolmates, as opposed to three obvious porn actresses pretending badly to be that, which is what you would have gotten buying a video in the store.

So I was off and running and, one video at a time, it gradually took over my life. Within a year or so I had quit my job as a waiter and was making videos full-time. About a year later, people started asking if I could take their credit card number over the phone or by email, and in my innocence I thought "sure, why not." This was so early in the days of the Internet that there was virtually no commerce being transacted online, because nobody had bandwidth, almost nobody was online, and nobody in their right mind would trust the security of the Internet.

But knowing no better, I decided to do it, and I called a company that arranged for Internet credit card access and basically bullshitted my way into setting up a server. I was extremely vague about what I was doing, without ever lying, on the assumption (which turned out to be correct) that as long as there was money flowing, nobody was going to ask a lot of questions or look too closely.

So that's how Magic Touch Productions became one of the first business to take credit cards online, years before companies like Walmart got their heads out of their asses :cool:


* how the TMF came into my life

After a couple of years with MTP, and being a pretty active member of the community, I was contacted by a guy named Scott whose screen name was, and this will turn out to be very appropriate, psycho. He had built several very popular tickling websites, and he had an idea for a new one that he was starting, called the Tickling Media Forum. It would be based on ezboard.com's free bulletin board software, and his concept was that as many high-profile tickling community people as possible would be the moderators. This turned out to be a stroke of genius, because each of us brought our audience with us,and the TMF quickly became an extremely popular website, by the standards of the day, meaning there were about 500 members.

Ezboard had a good idea, but they didn't really have a business model to speak of, and they soon started bleeding money as they tried to sustain the bandwidth that all their free members were burning through. Their solution, which ultimately pretty much destroyed them, was to bombarded the users with pop-ups and noisy banners to pay their bills, then charge members a small monthly fee to experience the board without that stuff.

Scott and I and the other moderators wanted to get out from under that, and MTP was doing really well at the time, so I volunteered to take on the monthly costs of moving us to our own private server. Which turned out to be an incredibly good thing, because a little while later, Scott had a religious awakening, and started converting all of his websites into places designed to turn tickling fetishists into religious converts. Only the stuff that was in my name survived, but fortunately that meant the three most important things: our domain name, our server, and the vbulletin software. Scott departed, but the TMF lived on.

When that happened, Myriads contacted me and said that he had been running the forum administratively for scott, and asked me if I would like him to continue doing that for me, which I was grateful for and happy to accept. I honestly believe that there is nobody else in our entire community who could do what Myriads has done, day after day, and year after year.

* since then

Now, eight years later and counting, the TMF has almost 80,000 registered members. There was a day, early in the forums life, that we proudly announced having 800 members. Now we routinely have that many people browsing the forum at once. We're one of the most highly trafficked sites online, with almost eight million page impressions per month, and have been rated in the top ten adult-related websites.

We've become a real, living community, not just a website for checking out porn (not that there's anything wrong with that,) where people come together to meet for face-to-face gatherings, become lifelong friends, and even fall in love and get married (which has happened not just once but many times here.)

When times have been lean, it's cost me a lot more money than I had, and I've had to go without things to keep it up. I've been harassed and even sued, but it's all been worth it, and I'd do it all again and more to help keep the TMF going. It's by far the most important thing I've ever been a part of and I plan to continue for the rest of my life.

[dswafford]

You are da Man Jeff....you story is exactly like mine only I can't come out of the closet...My spouse does not share my tickling interest and we have been married 20 plus years. Looking back (before I really explored my tickling fetish) I would have made it a pre-requisite for marriage. Let's face it..a tickler could never be fulfilled unless ha or she can tickle. I am a very public figure in the South (not native born) and work for Rick Hendrick (the auto and racecar Gurn) and cannot risk public exposure....Your story looks almost like my tickling life with the exception of getting into the production part....
I still remember sitting at my computer in the 90's surfing on AOL and finding Solfully Yours...my favorite was the straight haired brunette with small flatter feet and a great laugh. Her boyfriend use to tickle her...I went from Solfully Yours to FM concepts, Tickling paradise (when Gabrielle use to run it in Cal. then I think it was your site and so on and so on....I use to write scripts for Chase Brocco on FM concepts in exchange for free video VHS tapes...it was cool..this was before clips..I bet I bought 50 Videos (about 25-50$ a pop!!!)
Well...gotta go..the wife is calling :) chow for noy Buddy....

[TMF Jeff]

Thanks for the feedback! Honestly I'm not sure I wouldn't trade the tickling business and accompanying adventures for 20 years of marriage. I think you probably got the better deal, but I suppose the grass always looks greener in the other guys yard :)

[Carsomyr]

lol at people being too scared of the staff to post here! :D

Hi Jeff, thanks for creating this fine community! If you ever come to Sweden, I'll buy you some meatballs and your very own pet moose!

That's a rather different way to discover your fetish btw, at least from what I've seen and heard so far (most people seem to claim they've been into tickling for as long as they can remember, including myself). How come you didn't discover it earlier? You just... "never thought of it that way", or something?

[TMF Jeff]

lol at people being too scared of the staff to post here! :D

Hi Jeff, thanks for creating this fine community! If you ever come to Sweden, I'll buy you some meatballs and your very own pet moose!

That's a rather different way to discover your fetish btw, at least from what I've seen and heard so far (most people seem to claim they've been into tickling for as long as they can remember, including myself). How come you didn't discover it earlier? You just... "never thought of it that way", or something?

Well, they're either scared or just, you know, not that interested :)

I'm seriously holding you to that if I ever get to Sweden. I can take or leave the meatballs, but you definitely owe me a moose! :cool:

What I meant when I explained about discovering the tickling fetish, which I now see I didn't explain very well, was that I discovered that it was something that OTHER people were into. I had always liked tickling, to the point where literally my earliest childhood memories involve tickling girls in my neighborhood. But until I saw that ad in a magazine, I didn't think of it as something people would be into, even myself.

Until then, if I thought about it at all, I would just think of it as "Tickling girls is fun and I like doing it. Who wouldn't?" Without considering whether my interest was unusually strong, or unusually focused on that.

It's hard to really explain... I just never thought about it. It was just something I liked and took for granted until I saw that ad and realized there must be a bunch of people who had the same interest as me. And that was what sort of led me to realize that it could be a fetish at all.

[punkrockergirl]

awesome profile.. loved hearing the story of how this place got started

[TMF Jeff]

Thanks! :cool:

[Iris]

:ty: Hey Dude... You may not realize it but You my friend have a huge positive impact on thousands of peoples lives..... mine for one!!! ROCK ON with your bad self and keep on doing what you are doing!!!!!! Thanks to TMF....2009 is so far the best year ever for me!!!!! YEOWWZZAAA!!!!!:shock:

[CrystalLight]

:roflmao:

:typerhappy:

:yayzorz:

:tiger:

[TMF Jeff]

:ty: Hey Dude... You may not realize it but You my friend have a huge positive impact on thousands of peoples lives..... mine for one!!! ROCK ON with your bad self and keep on doing what you are doing!!!!!! Thanks to TMF....2009 is so far the best year ever for me!!!!! YEOWWZZAAA!!!!!:shock:

Thanks very much for saying that :) I'm really glad that the TMF has had such an impact on your life :)

[TMF Jeff]

:roflmao:

:typerhappy:

:yayzorz:

:tiger:

:bubbleheart: :dropem: :bubbleheart:

:serenity:

[daddy]

Yes Jeff. You have done a fantastic job on giving all of us a place to call home! I remember when you and I were talking about something similar back in the day. If I remember correctly we were trying to figure a way to make the ultimate tk database'd website which would include the whole community as one. Even Robert was in on helping getting it going, but it somehow fizzled which bums me to this day in a certain sort of way. I would have loved to be a part of that :-)

Miss chatting with ya bro. :gathering:

peace out,
daddy

[TMF Jeff]

Yes Jeff. You have done a fantastic job on giving all of us a place to call home! I remember when you and I were talking about something similar back in the day. If I remember correctly we were trying to figure a way to make the ultimate tk database'd website which would include the whole community as one. Even Robert was in on helping getting it going, but it somehow fizzled which bums me to this day in a certain sort of way. I would have loved to be a part of that :-)

Miss chatting with ya bro. :gathering:

peace out,
daddy

Thanks man! I remember those conversations too :)

We should catch up sometime.

Jeff

[Tortuga]

:hysteriatrain:
I LOVE YOU!
:wave:
I LOVE YOU SO HARD!
:redheart:

[TMF Jeff]

:hysteriatrain:
I LOVE YOU!
:wave:
I LOVE YOU SO HARD!
:redheart:

Awww! I love you too! :twohugs: :headpat:

[Rupert]

In fact if it wasn't for your site (back when it was Vhs only) i wouldn't have even know such things existed.
Your site linked me to the ez boards forum and i still remember the day when everyone made the switch,
WHICH IM REALLY GLAD WE DID :)

anyways just wanted to throw you some major kudos for helping a young guy like me into one hell of a community

o and your movies really really did rock :) and def STILL DO

[TMF Jeff]

In fact if it wasn't for your site (back when it was Vhs only) i wouldn't have even know such things existed.
Your site linked me to the ez boards forum and i still remember the day when everyone made the switch,
WHICH IM REALLY GLAD WE DID :)

anyways just wanted to throw you some major kudos for helping a young guy like me into one hell of a community

o and your movies really really did rock :) and def STILL DO

Thanks man! I saw in your profile that you're a marine, which I think is awesome. I'm really glad you decided to become more active.

I also saw that you're 22, so I'm going to ignore the obvious implication of you having been here when we made the switch from ezboard :cool:

[Cavum]

Like I sayd to you on the chat, you where the one who made me discover the tickling world. I remeber that the MTP site was the first thing with tickling I saw online. You really deserve all the respect and honor you can get for what you done. :)

Big thanks from Norway!
And if you ever plan to go to Norway, your welcome to come and visit us anytime!

[Rupert]

Thanks man! I saw in your profile that you're a marine, which I think is awesome. I'm really glad you decided to become more active.

I also saw that you're 22, so I'm going to ignore the obvious implication of you having been here when we made the switch from ezboard :cool:

Thanks its really nothing to special. Not like tickling beautiful women all day :) but it does feel good knowing you support your troops

oh and the age thing.......i swear the computer was just on the site one day and i happened to glance over before i realized it was adult content and turned away.....promise :innocent:

[TMF Jeff]

Like I sayd to you on the chat, you where the one who made me discover the tickling world. I remeber that the MTP site was the first thing with tickling I saw online. You really deserve all the respect and honor you can get for what you done. :)

Big thanks from Norway!
And if you ever plan to go to Norway, your welcome to come and visit us anytime!


Thanks man, I really appreciate it. If I'm ever in your part of the world, I definately will look you up. You two should come to the US for NEST, this year or failing that definately next year. :)

[Cavum]

Thanks man, I really appreciate it. If I'm ever in your part of the world, I definately will look you up. You two should come to the US for NEST, this year or failing that definately next year. :)

Next year is the year I hope. Thats at least what Im planning. If things go as I want then me, absentia and veritanne will come over :)
Would be awesome to finaly get to meet you in person.

[taptoematt]

Hello mr. MTPjeff ,

I'm not one to get involved in the buisness of this forum. I love being here and posting and meeting like minded people etc etc.
I have wondered if we can kill two birds with one stone here, by letting some of us guys, like myself, have our own image forum where we can flash our feet to the ladies without bringing attention to ourselves from the rest of the male population.
It would make everyone much more happy and it would give a place that the ladies could go to post comments on our peds.
Thankyou for any help you can give us

Regards,
Matt

[TMF Jeff]

Hello mr. MTPjeff ,

I'm not one to get involved in the buisness of this forum. I love being here and posting and meeting like minded people etc etc.
I have wondered if we can kill two birds with one stone here, by letting some of us guys, like myself, have our own image forum where we can flash our feet to the ladies without bringing attention to ourselves from the rest of the male population.
It would make everyone much more happy and it would give a place that the ladies could go to post comments on our peds.
Thankyou for any help you can give us

Regards,
Matt

I'm not really sure that's a great long term solution. Male lee's are just as much a part of the population of the TMF as any other group, and there's no need, in my mind, for them to be segregated.

The only adjustment that needs to be made is in the attitude of anyone who has a problem with somone, male or female, posting pictures of their feet on the TMF.

[taptoematt]

I'm not really sure that's a great long term solution. Male lee's are just as much a part of the population of the TMF as any other group, and there's no need, in my mind, for them to be segregated.

The only adjustment that needs to be made is in the attitude of anyone who has a problem with somone, male or female, posting pictures of their feet on the TMF.

Thankyou for your time Jeff, I respect your decision.

[Marquis De Sade]

That was really awesome. And...really heartfelt. :)

It's always cool learning about the history of this place and how it came to be and the people behind it and the work they put into it to keep it running and how much it means to them. Makes me proud/happy to be a part of here. :D

[TMF Jeff]

That was really awesome. And...really heartfelt. :)

It's always cool learning about the history of this place and how it came to be and the people behind it and the work they put into it to keep it running and how much it means to them. Makes me proud/happy to be a part of here. :D

Thanks man :)

[Miss Serendipity]

That was a really neat story! great Read!
I like this whole member profile/ mod thing. its a great
way to get to know people a bit better!

I finally did mine but I took forever writing it.

Anway nice to learn about how this place came to be.

[TMF Jeff]

That was a really neat story! great Read!
I like this whole member profile/ mod thing. its a great
way to get to know people a bit better!

I finally did mine but I took forever writing it.

Anway nice to learn about how this place came to be.

Thanks Chey :) It was actually a lot of fun to write, it's the first time I had ever sort of walked myself through the whole process.

[Tortuga]

That's a pretty bad ass banner there Jeff Fa Fa....hahah Love you!

[TMF Jeff]

That's a pretty bad ass banner there Jeff Fa Fa....hahah Love you!

Ya, the person who made it must be pretty amazing :)

I love you too :twohugs:

[Tortuga]

so uh did you hang it up yet?

[TMF Jeff]

so uh did you hang it up yet?

Of course :)

[Bugman]

I've taken the time to read this thread,and i just wanted too say a few things.Jeff,when i was new here i thought you were completely unapproachable and more then a tad arrogant.It took a long time for me to understand how wrong i was.

Thanks to you,Myriads,and the mods for the TMF.Another poster mentioned how finding the TMF was a life changing experience.It sure was for me.See you in May.:)

[TMF Jeff]

I've taken the time to read this thread,and i just wanted too say a few things.Jeff,when i was new here i thought you were completely unapproachable and more then a tad arrogant.It took a long time for me to understand how wrong i was.

Thanks to you,Myriads,and the mods for the TMF.Another poster mentioned how finding the TMF was a life changing experience.It sure was for me.See you in May.:)

I really appreciate you saying that, man. See you soon :)

[unit5610]

I wasn't on the internet until the late 90s and didn't get involved with the message boards, but I did hunt around for the early tickling websites and I remember being blown away when I saw all that the TMF had to offer when I first found it a couple of months after its inception. I lurked for over 4 years, but that's another story. To me Jeff was always this mythical figure, the high and mighty Creator of the premier tickling site on the planet, who certainly appreciated the presence of, but didn't have much other contact with, the common folk.
I was proven very wrong on this count when I met Jeff at a SNOB munch last fall. Jeff, it turns out, is a regular guy who is passionate about his career and this community, talks with everybody, expects excellent restaurant service, and does not put himself above others.
It was a great pleasure to have met you, Mr. TMF, and I hope our paths cross again.

[TMF Jeff]

Jeff, it turns out, is a regular guy who is passionate about his career and this community, talks with everybody, expects excellent restaurant service, and does not put himself above others.
It was a great pleasure to have met you, Mr. TMF, and I hope our paths cross again.

hahahahaha :cool:

It was great meeting you too, hopefully I'll see you at another munch, eh?

[nerdness]

The F did you get sued for?

By the way, MTP was the first tickling video site I ever found. Ahhh the days of patiently waiting for the previews to download on a dial-up connection.

[TMF Jeff]

The F did you get sued for?


The lawsuit is a long story that I only tell in person, not here :cool:

[BellaRisa]

Honestly I'm not sure I wouldn't trade the tickling business and accompanying adventures for 20 years of marriage.

One can do both, but without sleep :zzzzz:

:ily:

[TMF Jeff]

One can do both, but without sleep :zzzzz:

:ily:

Well you're an exceptional person in many ways :cool:

[New2u]

Jeff, tickling fetishists sorely needed a home, a community to call their own. Like you (and no doubt others) I have felt in the past alone in my personal love for tickling, I always thought there must be something wrong with me, I love, no desire to tickle women's barefeet and soles. I could never get enough of it. It was something I always kept to myself like I had some sort of dreaded disease and probably would have stayed that way until the advent of the Global internet. When I first accessed the 'net, the first thing I did was to type-in the word "tickle" or "tickling" to see what "popped" up. To my amazement, I was only expecting to see one or two sites, instead, four dozen sites popped up but their were disappointingly "porn" sites. As time moved on I started to see more and more sophisticated sites and things did get better culminating in the fall of 2000 with the birth of the TMF which completely "centralized" the entire tickling community from all over the America and now Globally. The tickle fetish has come out of the closet at long last and we're starting to see more and more inclusion of tickling in our society thanks to sites like this one. Much like the foot fetish has become a normal part of our current society I see the same thing happening with the tickle fetish.

[BrightEyes1082]

You're basically the only person in my life who consistently doesn't
make me feel like an asshole (unless I'm being an asshole), who always
shows up when you say you're going to show up, and does exactly what
you say you're going to do. You spend consistent, quality time with me,
and you never act like it's a chore. I can't tell you how appreciative I am.
You're one of my very best friends, and for that I am grateful. If you called
me up at 3am and asked me to make you tacos and bring them right over, I
totally would do it.

[dvnc]

Wow. I still remember you contacting me when I was doing the website and videos for Solefully Yours. You'd barely started and had all sorts of questions about the site management, video clip creation (fighting AVI sizes and QuickTime's complexities back then was so fun), and promptly went on to kick ass and take names.

Ya left out an event I remember you hosting for the West Coast Gatherings. Then again, while I had a great time hangin' with ya, it's not so mentionable. ;)

Still glad yer in this, brother. Always glad.

[BigJim]

You were, I believe, the second person I purchased tickling videos from, in what was probably 2000. I can even remember that those two videos were Phoenix's First Time and Laura's Feet, both of which I enjoyed hugely. I can remember expressing the same sentiments expressed above, emailing you and saying how great it was to find a producer who didn't make his stuff look like blatant and trashy porn with "the model's legs jacked apart like a sacrifice". Didn't I also say I stopped trying to count how many times Laura said "no" after it reached six figures?

No matter...

Thank God for the TMF, which got most of us started. Certainly without it there would be no UKTF and no BAST and little else on the British scene.

Now get some more of your old VHS's digitised and in your effing clip store! :rockon::siterocks:

By the way... this... -------> :england2: is not the English flag as the code says, it's the British flag. :-D

[TMF Jeff]

You were, I believe, the second person I purchased tickling videos from, in what was probably 2000. I can even remember that those two videos were Phoenix's First Time and Laura's Feet, both of which I enjoyed hugely. I can remember expressing the same sentiments expressed above, emailing you and saying how great it was to find a producer who didn't make his stuff look like blatant and trashy porn with "the model's legs jacked apart like a sacrifice". Didn't I also say I stopped trying to count how many times Laura said "no" after it reached six figures?

No matter...

Thank God for the TMF, which got most of us started. Certainly without it there would be no UKTF and no BAST and little else on the British scene.

Now get some more of your old VHS's digitised and in your effing clip store! :rockon::siterocks:

By the way... this... -------> :england2: is not the English flag as the code says, it's the British flag. :-D

Thanks man :cool:

Flag is fixed, or at least renamed. If you find an english flag icon, we'll add it :britishflag:

[Iggy]

Hey Jeff
Wow, I only read this now. Thanks for being such a pioneer!
Yours were the first videos I bought, and I still have that nostalgia for the chemistry you had with your early videos. It was Farra's First Time and your last one with Jackie that stick out particularly.
Props again!

[TMF Jeff]

Hey Jeff
Wow, I only read this now. Thanks for being such a pioneer!
Yours were the first videos I bought, and I still have that nostalgia for the chemistry you had with your early videos. It was Farra's First Time and your last one with Jackie that stick out particularly.
Props again!

Thanks man :cool:

[skelyrata]

Great story!

I love TMF! Is the only forum on the internet that I actually feel at home.
You and the TMF staff have built a great community and use ticklelover owe a lot to TMF.

Keep it up!

[riker13]

I remember you had been shooting in your apartment, and the police showed up after the Farra video. I was wondering, what happened after that? Did your neighbors find out what you were doing? Did you keep on doing it, or try to make it quieter, or move to another location, or what?

[TMF Jeff]

I remember you had been shooting in your apartment, and the police showed up after the Farra video. I was wondering, what happened after that? Did your neighbors find out what you were doing? Did you keep on doing it, or try to make it quieter, or move to another location, or what?

That was a great story. I had been shooting with Farra, who was insanely ticklish and very vocal about it. By the end of the video, she was screaming her head off and begging for mercy and thrashing around and just generally having such a great time that the legs of the bed were thumping against the floor and the windows were probably rattling.

So I was doing a post-video interview with her, when there was suddenly a knock at the door... and it was the police... asking what was going on...

So now here I am at the door with two very serious cops who have been called into what they think is a domestic violence incident. They don't quite have their hands on their nightsticks, but there's something like that in their attitude. And of course standing next to me is Farra, trailing ropes from her wrists and ankles while I explain to the two nice policemen about how this is all in good fun.

They heard me out surprisingly good-naturedly, probably because Farra seemed unhurt and cheerful, but they still wanted to talk to her alone. So they asked me to stay in the apartment and took her out into the hall to ask her a few questions.

I interviewed her about that the next day, so I'll let her tell that part of the story in the attached clip.

As for the aftermath, I didn't do anything different. I always assumed the neighbors more or less knew what was going on even before that. I wasn't secretive about it, and anyone who asked I would just tell.

I assumed that about my neighbors in Vegas too, though, and when we later became friends it turned out that they didn't have a clue what I was doing. I could have been an accountant for all they knew.

[elmer]

That was a great story. I had been shooting with Farra, who was insanely ticklish and very vocal about it. By the end of the video, she was screaming her head off and begging for mercy and thrashing around and just generally having such a great time that the legs of the bed were thumping against the floor and the windows were probably rattling.



Speaking of Farra is it still possible to buy the videos you made with her?

Can't find them anywhere on your site.
I'm specifically looking for Farra 3 which I have wanted to find since I
first saw the preview many many ears ago.

Regards

[TMF Jeff]

Checking now, I realize that I never digitized that particular clip. Right now I don't have a converter that works, because my old one broke and the one I bought to replace it didn't work on my computer. But I expect to have a new one soon and I'll try to make that video the first one I work on.

[Artoo]

So I was doing a post-video interview with her, when there was suddenly a knock at the door... and it was the police... asking what was going on...

So now here I am at the door with two very serious cops who have been called into what they think is a domestic violence incident. They don't quite have their hands on their nightsticks, but there's something like that in their attitude. And of course standing next to me is Farra, trailing ropes from her wrists and ankles while I explain to the two nice policemen about how this is all in good fun.

They heard me out surprisingly good-naturedly, probably because Farra seemed unhurt and cheerful, but they still wanted to talk to her alone. So they asked me to stay in the apartment and took her out into the hall to ask her a few questions.

I interviewed her about that the next day, so I'll let her tell that part of the story in the attached clip.

Dude.

How on earth did I not know about this already? It's possibly the best thing ever. :D

[Darkknight]

Checking now, I realize that I never digitized that particular clip. Right now I don't have a converter that works, because my old one broke and the one I bought to replace it didn't work on my computer. But I expect to have a new one soon and I'll try to make that video the first one I work on.

Cool Jeff, I was going through all my Farah tapes and noticed I never bought Farra 3, that's the last one she did correct? I need that one on clip, so thanks for working on converting it!

Yeah, always loved that story and Farah, one of my fav ticklees of all time. :lover:

DK

[TMF Jeff]

Dude.

How on earth did I not know about this already? It's possibly the best thing ever. :D

Well, you were probably about 9 years old when it was happening :cool:


Cool Jeff, I was going through all my Farah tapes and noticed I never bought Farra 3, that's the last one she did correct? I need that one on clip, so thanks for working on converting it!

Yeah, always loved that story and Farah, one of my fav ticklees of all time. :lover:

DK


Second to last one, it's the one where she's in pigtails and a skirt. I was never thrilled with the way she looked in that getup, which is probably why I never got around to digitizing that footage.

[Artoo]

Well, you were probably about 9 years old when it was happening :cool:

And yet, I remember when that video came out. XD

[labattblueeh]

Hello Jeff. How are your? Well i have bought several of your video clipse and i think your work is great. I remember you had an event in 2008 in Philadelphia for tickling lover. I am wondering if and when there will be another one. I a little shy with this so i was reluctant to go but if you dont mind telling me more about it maybe i'll feel a little better about going to something like that if there is another event like that again. Thanks for your time.

[BrightEyes1082]

Hello Jeff. How are your? Well i have bought several of your video clipse and i think your work is great. I remember you had an event in 2008 in Philadelphia for tickling lover. I am wondering if and when there will be another one. I a little shy with this so i was reluctant to go but if you dont mind telling me more about it maybe i'll feel a little better about going to something like that if there is another event like that again. Thanks for your time.

You're thinking of NEST. LeeAllure organizes NEST, and you
can view more info about it by going to the NEST section,
under the Gatherings sub-forum. It's the first weekend in
May every year. For 2010, that's Apr 30 - May 3. Registration
info will be posted closer to the event time, but you can go
ahead and save the date now. :)

Hope to see you there!

Amanda

[BlackBelt15]

I remember that the first tickling videos I saw online were from Magic Touch and I was hooked. You had gorgeous models, fun rapport with them, and you could tell that for the most part they had a blast being tickled.

[flashy_athlete]

Since creating this community way back when, what has been its greatest successes so far?

[TMF Jeff]

Its greatest success has got to be its sheer size. Not just the membership numbers, but the volume of traffic that we get.

We churn over half a terabyte in bandwidth and serve over seven million page impressions every single month. For a fetish site, that's an absolutely incredible achievement.

In the US, we're in the top 16000 most trafficed websites, which sounds like a high number but that's including all the biggies like google and amazon.

[New2u]

That's wonderful, Jeff. The TMF site has become an allstar website. :siterocks:

[cardman123]

It really is incredibly what you and the others have done with the place: congrats!

[pandora101]

I LOVE it! Absolutely great job Jeff :) <3

[TMF Jeff]

Thanks you guys :)

[skelyrata]

This is a great place man.

This is the only forum in the entire web where I actually feel like home.

[ShadowKat]

Hi Jeff,
Thanks for having this great site, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading about how it all started. My first exposure to the genre was "Tied And Tickled" magazine back in the late 80's. Then I found your MTP website sometime in 98 shortly after getting my first decent computer. It's funny you'd mention the Mary video, because I think that was the first one I downloaded, and it was well worth it, back in the days of dialup, for the 20-30 minute wait to download a 3 or 4 minute clip. Good times! Again, thanks for being here, and keep up the good work.

[New2u]

Thanks you guys :)

Your welcome Jeff. The TMF has possibly become a major force in helping the tickle and foot fetish to become mainstream. You're seeing more of it in movies and on T.V., keep up the wonderful work.

[tickleaway]

Hello MTP jeff! IM fairly new here,and just gettin to know the sight. I would like to say thanks for creating a site that people like us can go to and communicate in such a way!
If you would please also extend my thanks and appreciationto the rest of the staff!

[tickleaway]

gladly!!

[goatlord00]

Hey Jeff, I've been a member here for a while. Never really posted because I've always been on someone elses computer and had to keep a low profile. Just wanted to say KUDOS to you for all you have done. I didn't actually discover I had a tickling fetish until I saw some of the magic touch vids. I have a bellybutton fetish, but I didnt reallize it had to involve tickling until then. Like you, I never really thought about it. I just thought thats what I was supposed to do. How little I knew. LOL!!! My favorite Magic touch vid was, for you #7. I cant remember her name, it seems a life time ago. I had the vid, but my computer crashed and with it all my stuff. anyway all that to say, thanks man. And everyone else.

[TMF Jeff]

Thanks very much :)

[New2u]

Jeff, you've done such an excellent job of bringing the tickle fetishist out of the closet with the TMF, thank you again. Now with the help of the Fetish meeting website, "FetLife" which in itself is impressive and they opened a 'TMF on FetLife' meeting club tickling fetishism will hopefully become more mainstream.