Monday, August 9, 2010

Safe Word

I was having a discussion the other day with my friend about safe words. She was telling me her safe word was "sandwich," which I thought was hilarious. A British friend of hers chided her choice, saying is someone was playing with her, they would think she was hungry and stop to offer her refreshment. Knowing the British I can see this scenario happening:

A man caning a cute, plump bottom. Suddenly, she screams, "Sandwich!"
The man immediately stops, and says, "Right-o. I could use a spot of tea myself."

Generally, people use "mercy" to signal the stop of play; at a club where it's hard to hear, a hand is raised. Some use green, yellow, and red in accordance with the traffic signal meanings; green, keep going; yellow, slow down, and read, STOP. A playmate of mine would use his first, middle and last names the same way, which I always thought was clever and as he said, "It's something I won't forget."

What is your safe word?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

My safeword is "safeword." No chance of me forgetting it.

- s.

Anonymous said...

The best safe phrase I have ever encountered was the phrase, "Mistress, please punish me instead".
This lays out the promise for something else, possibly worse...

Anonymous said...

sometimes in practice it turns out to be OH SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK!!