I think what Tickleteasing is getting at is: Would you worry about the scenario that played itself out in the mid-'70s, wherein a man helped save President Ford from an assassination attempt by spotting the gunwoman in the nick of time, and then the press disclosed that he was gay--and this was a time when homophobia was a lot more pervasive and violent than it is now (and even now there's a long way to go). The question is, if you became an international hero, would you change your living patterns in order to avoid having your fetish become the front page headline of the New York Post?
Being as I haven't been to anything kinkier than a munch in the past two years, and haven't had a romantic partner to tickle in considerably longer, I'm not sure I'd have to change much of anything even if I chose to. But I will say this much: I'm not the one to be the ticklephile pride spokesman, and I wouldn't volunteer for the job if I suddenly became a celebrity. If I caught Bin Laden, I think I'd give the media and the public six months to forget me, doing nothing to attract any special notice from them during that time, and then gradually return to my occasional NEST and my occasional visit to Paddles in New York and the kinky scene in the DC area, after the reporters were gone. Different people are cut out for different things, and I'm not cut out to be the hero who enlightens the whole world about tickling.
