Newbies. I am husband. My wife is just starting out with her Dom (friend of mine 20 years plus, trust him). He describes himself as a quiet and gentle dom and doesn't believe in safe words per se.

Is rationale is:

A personal view on "safewords" and unilateral vetos - You will always have the option of calling a stop at any time during a meeting but I am not myself a fan of things like safe words, for two reasons. Firstly, they imply that a Dom does not know when enough is too much. If done well there should be an implicit understanding in a meeting of when to push and when to do the opposite - hence my frequent communication during a meeting. Secondly, if armed with a safeword the temptation for the Sub is to use it too early. The impact of this is that it can sometimes get in the way of a very necessary element - that of pushing oneself and testing limits. Sometimes we need to experiment and suspend judgement and reflect/review afterwards. So you will always have the option to say "stop now" and this will happen immediately, but my expectation is that we may never need this.

Your thoughts? Any red flags?