No my Mother doesn't know. My famaly is old school in there thinking. Thay believe what thay see on TV and in the Movies, on what is depicted as BDSM, and this lifestyle. That and when some sick freeks whent and started a sex traid and kidnapping ring from Cleavlant to Chicago, and Detroit, and when that were arrested thay said thay were in the D/s lifestyle it didn't help eather. You shood here her on gays, even though we have three gay cousins.