It's not even that I want to walk around being led on a leash in public. Though I wouldn't mind wearing a collar for my woman.

But, for example, I've got all this writing I've done. I've shared most of it here on this site. It's become an important part of my journey in the lifestyle and I plan to continue with it for the forseeable future. But I can't show it to my family, or my friends outside of the lifestyle, without being labelled a pervert by a very big number of them (knowing these people as I do). So now if they ask what I've been doing, I have to bullshit people and tell them something that isn't true, and I don't like that, but there's really not much of anything that can be done about it. I can't even tell them I've taken up writing at all, since this is what I write about, and it's an inevitable jump that if I bring up the entire idea of me writing (which I haven't been doing in the past) that eventually people are going to dig into what it is. And in my family, I have a pretty good idea what they'd think of a lot of my work. So there's one example of the kind of thing I guess I'm talking about.

It's not like I expect it to change, I just needed a place to rant about the fact it's there at all. Thanks to the forum for being there to listen.