02-01-2012, 06:15 PM
I'm back...and can't resist putting in my two penn'orth!
Personally, I'd go with just about all the reasons that everyone else has put forward already - from reduced time pressure with advancing age, through increased awareness and availability of the necessary herbs etc due to the 'net, to naturally decreased T and increased E as a side effect of age.
There is also far more openess about 'alternative sexualities' in society as a whole than there was back in the 50's and 60's - I vividly remember trying to read the reports about April Ashley ( Britains first TS ), when she was outed in the Sunday papers, without anyone seeing what I was reading! FWIW, in the context of this thread, I had no idea why I found the story so fascinating, I just did, even though I was only about 12 or 13 at the time.
Personally, I'd go with just about all the reasons that everyone else has put forward already - from reduced time pressure with advancing age, through increased awareness and availability of the necessary herbs etc due to the 'net, to naturally decreased T and increased E as a side effect of age.
There is also far more openess about 'alternative sexualities' in society as a whole than there was back in the 50's and 60's - I vividly remember trying to read the reports about April Ashley ( Britains first TS ), when she was outed in the Sunday papers, without anyone seeing what I was reading! FWIW, in the context of this thread, I had no idea why I found the story so fascinating, I just did, even though I was only about 12 or 13 at the time.