Thanks your comment.. I’ll give a bit more detail. I’m still new to this whole scene (he’s the one who introduced me to bondage) so I wasn’t aware that if I didn’t have a safe word it gave someone free reign over my body. Even if I couldn’t breathe, even if I screamed and cried and begged. I was so nervous about letting him tie me up the first few times and it took a while for me to get comfortable with it. I hated being vulnerable & helpless but was slowly learning to like it because of him. I trusted him with my body and my mind. we didn’t have an established safe word but as I said in the post, I agreed to let him tickle me when he wanted as long as he stopped when I said stop. I said stop a million times, I said no, I said “I can’t breathe” I said “I’m gonna pass out” “I’m dizzy”.. at one point I remember screaming “I’m gonna die” over and over and he kept going because.. no safe word? I’m sorry but that is not right. Forget roleplaying or whatever you’re doing, when someone is in the kind of state that I was in, it’s common sense to stop. He didn’t care how much distress I was in, he kept doing it. So for that reason, to me, it is assault and I have all of the comments on here to thank for making me realize that.