"Gen, since I've taken away your ability to speak, for the time being, I want you to snap three times if you want to safe word. Can you do that for me right now please?"
I comply snapping my fingers on both hands three times, easily. "Good girl."
The praise goes right to my nether regions, lighting my blood aflame. Accepting that I love the praise from him was a key to allowing myself to enjoy new things since it was the first kink I noticed that made me wet between my thighs. It was the gateway kink, if you will.