For me, my submission is something to be given to a single person: the man that I'm in a serious and committed relationship with. It's simply not for anyone else, therefore I don't feel any great urge to need to explain it to anyone else.

Now, if I can see someone is genuinely curious about the Lifestyle or is trying to figure it out for themselves, sure, I will chime in with my experiences as I see fit. I am also open about it on forums such as these because, well, everyone is interested in this type of community or we wouldn't be here, now would we?

I look at it this way - I'm Catholic too and that's a personal choice and private form of self-fufillment for me. Some people accept that, some don't understand it, and that's fine. I'll talk about to those that ask or others in my religious community but it's a choice made by me FOR me so does my best friend who happens not to be Catholic need to hear about it? Nah, prolly not. He knows, but it's not his gig so we leave it at that. Same thing with BDSM, he has an idea, but it's not his gig so I don't worry about "confessing" it in any more detail.

Hmmm... I just reread this and have to wonder if this is the first post where Catholicism and BDSM were compared without the mention of a schoolgirl outfit...