Unfortunately, General Zod passed away around the time I found TMF.
Chad was a very decent fellow, a long-distance truck driver who also built model tanks. KT and I met him at the Albany munch. Unfortunately he died of cancer in early January of 2018, having been diagnosed in late November of 2017. He deserves to be remembered and spoken well of.
As for my finding the TMF, it was in the best way possible. I was in a London fetish club in the very late nineties, watching a woman get flogged. I idly turned to the unknown tall dark-haired (very authentic) beauty next to me, and said, 'My own interests are far more subtle.' And she stared at me and said, 'What do you mean'?!'
Feeling cavalier, I told her, and she told me shyly in return in fits and starts through her embarrassment that tickling was the most erotic thing she could think of and always had been. She couldn't even say the 'T' word. She'd had a tickle-dom in the past but had been without that variation for a vey long time.
We went back to her place and had a very laughter-filled night, bondage and all, and stayed together intermittently for a while playing pretty hard until things trickled off but are still friends over twenty years later, seeing one another platonically now and again.
And she's the one who introduced me to this site- I lurked for a while, then joined.