I'm a boomer but totally agree with this post. When I was younger I was brought up in the macho ways of masculinity, but life and travel changed my perspectives.

I lived in Pattaya, Thailand for 12 years and saw how the locals totally lived and let live in everything. Their acceptance of different swings in sexual behaviour was greeted with a regular answer of "up to you." I even saw a bar called that. Khatoeys (ladyboys) worked normally in shops, and were accepted and known officially as "ladies of the 3rd gender," and I saw European women pick up boys, Tomboy women with girlfriends, newlywed western couples asking a bargirl to join them that night. I've been invited to the bedroom by many older women as well as young and not always about money, it was often just an expression of desire at the time. Ladyboys were the same. Some want to fall in love, but others just want to get off at a particular time when they feel horny.

Pattaya gets a bad press from western papers, with reports quoting 30,000 prostitutes working there. A completely outrageous misunderstanding of the local culture. To live there and understand the live and let live culture was an amazing experience and changed my restricted mindset forever. Maybe the west and Gen Z are just catching up with half of South East Asia at last and just accepting the fact that we are humans and sex is not a deviation, but an essential body function.