I believe that 20 years ago there were many people who had the same feeling about people in he LGBTQA community. As people realized that community including friends, neighbors, or family they became more accepting. Not everyone in that community choses to make heir sexuality public but many do and i believe the world is a better more accepting place because of it

I dont know if The BDSM community has an exact correlation but as i get older i start to care a lot less about what peoples negative viewpoints on BDSM are. I feel like the more i talk about the more normal it becomes. I believe many of us struggle because we have to hide this.

I will make comments like. “my gf and I participate in consensual female domination or bdsm”. I feel no shame in hiding it and if folks have a problem with it i dont care.