I found this on-line; I refer to the third letter in the column, of course. Not that I had to read it again, as I remember it almost word-for-word from when it appeared in the newspaper 26 years ago.
I cant read it. the print is too small dammit!
Dear Tickled: Your friend is sadistic! Tell him now that you want no part of it, and forbid him to put a tickling finger on you. If he doesn't take you seriously - take a walk. Tickling in reality a thinly disguised method of torture.
After careful deliberation, i support the tickler in this situation!

She uses the word "sadistic" as if it's a bad thing.
to me it is! tickling should be fub for both lee and ler otherwise its usuless torture from demented doodles and it puts a bad spin on those of us who love it!

She uses the word "sadistic" as if it's a bad thing.
I remember that letter from when it first appeared. I remember thinking that Abby was right to condemn non-consensual tickling but very, very wrong in generalizing to say that tickling was just a disguised from of torture.![]()
To a lot of people it is. 🙂 That's why they look at us weird when we tell them we like it.
She scoffed and replied IMMEDIATELY, "10 minutes of papercuts. I hate being touched and tickled."