knucklesdirty: (slow sigh)

[personal profile] knucklesdirty 2021-02-06 01:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Well I guess I'll just... So, you know the Galleria things they set up? I ended up modeling for a few of the displays. It was mostly fine, I had a safeword and everything. But they had me restrained and blindfolded. And I thought I was okay. [He laughs a little, an uneven curve of his mouth.]

I was not okay. But I can't-- When things get heated it's hard for me to know where the lines are. I didn't realize it was wrong until someone saved me from it. And sometimes... I can get so overwhelmed I don't know if I could say anything. I'm also not sure I'd actually be able to use it if something actually distressing happened.

And that would be more or less okay if most people here didn't seem to think that safewords are actually safe and infallible. But they do, and that's the part that scares me.

[He sighs, trying to put the things he's talking about into one piece.] So with people I don't know-- it works better without one, because at least then I have some trust they'll actually pay attention instead of just believing that everything is perfectly fine because I didn't say blueberry pie.

[He fidgets a little, trying to not feel nervous as he looks at Bull.]

So-- I use them with people I trust. But I think that using them with people I don't know actually makes things less safe, at least for me.