While I do visit this thread to enjoy your excellent pictures...thank you so very much!...it is a nice added to read this thought you put out there. Knowing what and who I am as a submissive, it is difficult at times to express myself as such without getting comments from my vanilla friends. Only one of them knows of this part of me, yet even at times, she too will remark on my actions. Not that the gay community has it so easy, but I have found myself thinking that it would be lovely if my sexuality could be as incorporated into my life as theirs is becoming to be for some of them (gay BDSM'ers will have to out only one side of themselves, I suppose. And not to compare my life to that of a gay person's. If everyone all over knew exactly what my husband and I were about, mostly what we'd get is a "you do WHAT?!?!?!" as opposed to members of the gay community who face real threat. Just a comparison for example. No offense intended in any way at all! If someone takes my comments as such, then I will feel just horrible.)

The vanilla world won't keep me from calling my husband "Sir" in public nor will it keep his guiding hand off my neck when we are together out somewhere, as he's taken to doing that of late. But I will say that some of the looks we get sometimes border on the slightly hostile side of rude. This past weekend it happened and I just wanted to say, "what the hell difference does it possibly make to you??", but I didn't. That's giving credence to an assumption on my part as well as acknowledging the rudeness. Why is it that people are so very intolerant of what they don't understand?

So I am going to live my life as I desire. Not forcing it on anyone or asking them to accept it. Just let me be.

And again, really great images. Thanks!

Here's to living as we wish-
tessa