I suppose this is a question aimed at some of the younger members here or those who have recently joined.
The more mature ones amongst us who are 60 plus often write about how isolated we felt in our earlier years as not having the benefit of the internet we were largely left to our own devices. Cross dressing was a subject of ridicule, homosexuality was illegal and could get you banged up in prison.
The internet gave us all a common pathway to grow our knowledge and to slowly feel less alone. So here's the question. If as a younger person society remained as liberal as it is at the moment but you had no access to the internet and wonderful resources like this site, would your CD'ing journey be as smooth, as easy as it may have been? Would knowing that there are LGBT friendly bars, clubs, holiday accommodation, laws protecting your freedoms be sufficient to carry you forward or would you like your predecessors struggle to develop as we did?