A mistress has a different perspective because by the nature of her work she gets a lot of hands on experience. A guy gets a lot less so most of what he knows is by indirect experience. Besides I was marginal. in my old age I get more sessions than when I was young. So the clips you buy, the subscriptions you make, the forums you participate in are a bigger part of where your impressions come from. My convictions are not based on memory but on a reconstruction based on all the sources I mentioned. This is a process which continues today and is still work in progress. I learned more about UK BDSM in the last few years, and about European in the last. And things seem to converge together. So yes my impression stays, last decade the best. Things could have been as good before, but if they did not leave traces it is like a tree falling in the forest.