answer:Banned? No. If they’re willing to tolerate the looks, the comments, and the judgment, then it’s up to them. I am distressed and angered by various religious indoctrination rules under which women are required to have long hair, wear long dresses, cover their bodies, walk behind the men of the family – whatever – but no one’s trying to ban them. One hopes that the BDSM lifestyle was entered into voluntarily and with full disclosure, but women and children raised in strict religions in which they are (at best) second class citizens often don’t have the opportunity know any better.