i use "safeword" as my safeword, for the reason everyone already mentioned about trying to remember funny words.
my fiance wanted me to have a safeword long before we started exploring my submission because he was vanilla and it made him feel more comfortable to know that there was something clear to put a halt to things. and now that i am officially "owned," my owners still want me to use the safeword and they really use it as their main stop sign-- i.e., if my words or body language suggest that i'm frantic they may stop to check on me, but they won't really change what they're doing unless i use the safeword.
i would like to believe that eventually (we have been involved for about 6 months) the safeword will be more of an emergency thing because they will know me well enough to judge for themselves. but we try so many things that are new to me that i think they feel more confident in having a clear signal for when my limits have been stretched too far.
that said, i have used the safeword and then when we've stopped everything to discuss, the decision has been made to continue doing whatever it was that scared me enough to safeword. i say "scared" because i tend to use it more when my emotional limits have been pushed too far than my physical limits (even if my emotional limits are being pushed BECAUSE my physical limits are ALSO being pushed. does that make sense?).
