To tell you the truth, Steph, I don't care if my tickle partner is 21 or 45. The following criteria are important for me when meeting with a new tickle partner:
1) LEGAL AGE. As long as the lady is 18 or over, I will galdly meet with them as long as my other stipulations are also met. I can participate in platonic tickling and I can also particpate in erotic tickling which can get sexual if that is the desire of both parties. For those reasons, as well as legalities, the lady must be at least 18.
2) RESPECT. When I chat with a lady about tickling and the possibilities of tickling, I give, and expect to receive, total respect. After you have chatted with a person long enough, you can get a sence of whether the respect is there or not.
3) HONESTY. When I consider meeting a person, I want to know that the person is being honest and above board with me. I look for ladies who I can build a good, trusting friendship with and I am weary of the few who play deceptive headgames. Just look at what happened to the college football coach (Coach Price) who took a "dancer" to his hotel room for the purposes of touching and tickling her. She ran up over $1,000 on his credit card and blabbed to the press causing him to lose his job (and possibly, his marraige). Granted, he fooled around but the point is, I need to trust the person I am developing a friendship with.
4. TICKLISH? As long as the first three stipulations are completely satisfied, the fourth obvious stipulation is that she be more than just "slightly ticklish". It is always frustrating to tickle a person who is either not ticklish or totally able to control the tickling so that they don't react. Just takes all the fun out of it.
4) LIKES TO TICKLE. This is not as important as the first four as I would willingly tickle a ticklee. I, however, enjoy the pleasures of being tickled so I prefer to meet ladies who will tickle me as well.
I can understand how many members of this group as partial to younger looking 'lees & 'lers and I cannot fault anybody for their preferences. My only 'warning' is that you might miss out on a very special 'ler or 'lee if you don't take things on a case-by-case basis and base it entirely on age and looks.
I will now climb off of my pedistool.