7) ) There are a lot of questions I would like to see discussed among the elders, i.e, those who were raised in the 1950's and 1960's. Young people just do not comprehend anything about sexuality in those decades. Society is so permissive now that I truly think young people do not comprehend.. So would any seniors like to tell us what life was like for them back then ?
I started dressing around 1953, just trying on my mother's nylons whenever the chance presented itself. From there through the 60s, the only change was I started buying my own stockings. It wasn't until the late 70s that I started expanding to a more complete wardrobe. But to get back to the original question, certainly the biggest difference was the unavailability of the Internet, which has proven a gold mine for so many aspects of CDing. Back then, my biggest concern was, why am I doing this? To get an answer I spent countless hours in libraries, searching through card catalogues and book indexes. The term "crossdressing" wasn't really used, so I had to search for "transvestism". More often than not, it didn't show up either. The upside(?) was that I got to know more about Transvaal than I ever wanted to know. The first real source of great information I finally found was the book, "Men in Love" by Nancy Friday, which didn't come out until 1980. It had an entire chapter on transvestites. What a relief it provided! From there I discovered Letters to Penthouse, which often included letters (probably phony) from CDs. I used to read those in the bookstores. Times have definitely changed for the better.
