The second way to answer the question is to respond with another question, namely, what is it that the submissive woman has to offer? This also is extremely important to grasp because a woman cannot submit that which she does not herself possess because nobody can give what they haven't got. A woman in a male-led relationship can, if she chooses, submit to her man her talents, her energy, her material resources, and her body. I'll come back to what this means in a moment but, for now, we only need to see that if she has no energy and no talents and no resources then she cannot offer those things to her man which means she can only offer her body. Also, “talents”, in this context, does not just mean things like the ability to prepare a meal dinner, repair a broken window, organise an event, wash clothes, manage a household or children, or run a transnational corporation; it also includes talents such as patience, selflessness, kindness, tact, charm, a smile, empathy, the ability to hold an intelligent conversation and all the other dozens of personal qualities that can be used to make life better.