i will admit that i am very new to all of this. but my opinion is that forbidding the use of a safe word is like having no safe word at all.

even if i know my Master well and trust him. knowing that he demands that i have this for our mutual protection makes me trust him more... not less.

that trust makes me less likely to ever use or need that safe word,

just a the 2 cent opinoin of a "newbie" sub.