RE: safeword ,,,question, or confuseion... or well i ... - 4/15/2010 7:11:31 PM
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Andalusite
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Trust isn't an absolute on/off condition. For example, you can trust someone to not seriously injure or kill you, but not trust him to listen to you or abide by his promise or respect your boundaries, as in this case. Another example is someone might be trusted not to steal from you, but can't be trusted to use your computer without sneaking around or use your bathroom without being nosy about what is in your cabinet and drawers. I've had a similar situation happen a couple of times, years ago, with vanilla guys. I told them not to do a specific thing, and they tried to sneak it in during other activities. I yelled at them and dumped each of them. So far, it hasn't happened in a BDSM context - I think the communication and safewords help discourage it. Aileen, as far as I can tell from her posts, she wasn't in a relationship with this guy, so I disagree that he had authority to override her limits, as he might if they were in a D/s or M/s relationship. When I've played casually, I've set boundaries on sexual activity - no genital contact, and I will yellow if I get too aroused (if I'm bottoming, if I'm topping, then that most likely wouldn't be necessary). It's not that I get panicky. I'm just ok with casual play, but not interested at all in casual sex. If someone disregarded that boundary and didn't stop after I'd called both yellow and red, I'd be extremely pissed off at them. I might not press charges or get violent - it would probably depend on what they did exactly, but I sure wouldn't play with them and probably wouldn't want to speak to them again. Usually I've only played casually in more public situations, so I could generally yell "safeword" and the DM would intervene, but there have been a couple of exceptions when I knew the person well and we'd been friends for a long time. I wouldn't trust him to respect me or keep his word. However, I probably wouldn't jump to the conclusion that he was going to dismember and kill me.
< Message edited by Andalusite -- 4/15/2010 7:14:06 PM >
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