ImpGrrl -> RE: Slaves and Safewords (4/13/2008 4:42:02 PM)
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ORIGINAL: OmegaG I never think of a safeword as a way to opt out of something that I just don't enjoy, in fact the times that I for a moment thought that I couldn't endure any more of a particular activity because of the sensation, I've kept quiet and gotten over that feeling and enjoyed the entire scene and would do it again. I think of safewords as just one more way to prevent medical crisis and I would only ever think to use it if I couldn't formulate what was wrong but I knew if we kept going that it would result in a trip to the ER. For me, it's not a lack of trusting him, it's knowing that he's not a mind reader nor omnipotent and more a lack of trust in my communication ability for a given moment. And again, I've never reached a stage that I haven't been able to elucidate a problem, but that's not to say it won't ever happen. I was trying to think of how to formulate my answer to this thread, and here it is. Thank you OG. I have a safeword (or rather, I'm allowed to say "safeword" during play). I'm his slave. And I don't, generally, believe in their use. I agree fully with all of the people here who have spoken up for clear communication without codes. And that's what I practice. Except. One day, in play, it hurt so badly in a bad, felt-like-real-damage way. And I couldn't clearly communicate that, because it was bad enough, in that moment, that my communication shut down - which never happens to me. I am not a non-verbal "subspace" kind of player. But in this moment, something felt terribly wrong and I couldn't say what it was. What I *could* say was "please" and "no" over and over, which to us is all part of a good hot time. And, while I usually mean it (in that it fucking hurts and I really am begging him to stop because that took over), this time I meant it in a "I feel like something is wrong" way. But there was no difference in tone, in what I was able to say - nothing that would possibly have clued him in. He didn't know anything was wrong until later, when I was able to figure it out enough to talk about it. And at that point, he said "next time, you can say "safeword"." We didn't have one until that point - now we do. It's never been used, and it's not to be used except in that type of emergency - but his promise was that he would stop long enough for me to communicate - and then he would decide whether or not to continue, and how.
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