No Safewords
2003-10-08 18:10:50.681769+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Over at Not Safe For Work there's an interesting screed against safewords. Worth a read for anyone who likes to play in dangerous spaces:
The BDSM community tries to fetishize safety, and deifies safewords and mantras like "Safe, Sane and Consensual" as if they were some kind of replacement for personal responsibility. At worst, safewords are a PR stunt, a way to try and convince ourselves that what we're doing is softer and fluffier than it is.