Quote Originally Posted by pamela7 View Post
Ok Leslie, as no-one else has responded to this. There's a MASSIVE difference between tights and stockings+suspenders (S&S), just starting with "ease of access for intercourse/foreplay". I'm surprised this is limited to the UK, certainly the Moulin Rouge and Berlin lounges would suggest France and Germany are into suspenders, not also forgetting Amsterdam red-light districts. Personally, I feel many times more eroticised if my SO is wearing S&S (as opposed to tights=turnOFF), and likewise for myself. Both of us in S&S together, aaahh, awesomeness does not describe it. There's no shortage of US porn sites with ladies in S&S, so really I'm sure its universal to the occident.
OK this isn't very PC but when I was somewhat younger and just starting out in the work place the older guys would refer to the top of stockings as the "Giggle band"; get past that and you were laughing!

Getting back on subject I think there's a real danger of the grass always being greener on the other side of, in this case, the pond.

On the UK side I can't say that we have an equivalent of the bible belt and while we have rural areas, being such a small country those are relatively small in population terms with larger conurbations being within easy driving distance <1hr. The Police are very aware of what are now called Hate Crimes so attacks on the grounds of race or sexuality are taken seriously carrying possible prison sentences. Many TV soaps have carried serious story lines of same sex relationships and so I think in general it's become or is becoming a more accepting society.

However, that doesn't necessarily translate into partners being accepting of a CD'ing husband. Generation is likely to play a big part with the young showing greater tolerance. Also class and education will play their parts.

Having said that i can't see a major UK city electing an openly crossdressing mayor which would tend to indicate that the big cities of the US display greater tolerance than would be found over here.