You ever go to a beach? See people with children? Men and women holding hands, or being affectionate in public? Because when you’re straight, every day is straight pride day. No one thinks twice about people being straight.

What about a Mardi Gras or Carnivale parade? Straight people absolutely do that shit.

…But people freak the fuck out over gay people doing exactly the same things that straight people do.

Gay Pride is about acceptance. You don’t have to go to Pride, but not wanting to support it because you think it’s “weird” that they want to be accepted? Yeah, that’s absolutely bad. I don’t like the Folsom Street Fair, but I absolutely support the right of the people to do that, as long as everyone involved is consenting.

In short:

Yes.

I just do not want to support the lgbt community

Flip this around: do you want to support the straight community? Do you want to watch men and women parading around together in skimpy outfits on beaches, or showing off their sex-trophies in public? Do you want to constantly be seeing straight people slobber all over each other in public, or any of that bullshit?

You want gay people to hide, to not be out in public; that’s the first step towards pushing them back in the closet, and criminalizing their conduct. We’re not that far removed from the days when it was illegal to be gay in public.

FWIW, feelings on tickling is very split; recipients seem to either love it or hate it, with no in between. Tickling, in a BDSM scene, is absolutely torture, and can be very triggering for some people. Some people can enjoy light tickling in a sensual/erotic manner, and still hate tickling as the primary form of sensation play in a scene.

I am definitely on the sadistic end of that spectrum.

If you try it, set up some kind non-verbal safe signal beforehand, because you may not be able to get words out.

Assuming consent on all fronts, and some kind of safe signal?

Tickle.

IME that ends up being strangely harder on a sub and something that can go on longer–with breaks!–than e.g. caning, flogs, etc. If you go too long with a silicone slapper, you can take skin off; to long/hard with a cane, and you’re causing hematomas. Too long tickling? No physical harm done (as long as they don’t, say, dislocate a shoulder; be careful with how you tie people up, folks!), although a sub might pee the bed, or be laughing so hard that they can’t breathe. That means that you can turn around and do it again the next day. Combine being restrained and blindfolded with sound-isolating earbuds so that a sub can’t tell where you are, and intersperse the tickling with sensual touch, and you can have a sub dreading your touch, flinching at nothing, and drag it out for an hour or more.

I’d remove the gag though; tickling combined with a gag can obstruct breathing.

(Not everyone is ticklish though. IME people that tend towards anxiety have a much stronger reaction to tickling.)

Got one >25 years ago. I had complications because I was dumb enough to help a friend change a tire less than 30 minutes after it was done, but the complications were just mildly inconvenient rather than painful.

I did it for multiple reasons; my ex-wife was on medication for a seizure disorder that would cause serious birth defects if she got pregnant, so pregnancy was completely off the table. By that point I’d also realized that I would not be a good parent. (I was diagnosed as being autistic about a decade ago; that’s probably why I’m usually in my own world, which isn’t a great trait in a parent.) I think that, with insurance, it cost about $100 at the time, which was expensive, but not outrageously so.

I have zero regrets, and I have zero children.

None of them; if that’s how they show up to a job site, then they clearly don’t have a damn clue about the hazards of a working in construction, and I’m not hiring someone that’s incompetent.