Wednesday, January 13, 2010

The vaginal contraceptive ring


NuvaRing a 2” diameter ring worn for 3 weeks

NuvaRing stroke and DVT: One of Cyndi’s friends at St Lucy’s is using NuvaRing as her primary contraceptive method and a strapless FemCap as a gas guard when she has dive-sex classes, an elective at St Lucy’s. And before someone asks, no, FemCap won’t decrease the effectiveness of NuvaRing although the ring does have to be removed in order to insert FemCap, then the ring is reinserted. Cyndi’s friend has come to me asking if NuvaRing is safe to use. The answer is that (relatively speaking) it is. Perhaps not quite as safe from deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and strokes as some older progestin/estrogen combinations, but NuvaRing is still very safe. Personal injury lawyers would have women believe otherwise, but there is only a statistically small increase in blood clots and strokes for women on etonogestrel (a progestin) and ethinyl estradiol (an estrogen) in NuvaRing, than older types of progestins used in contraceptives. That is no comfort to the few additional women out of 10,000 who may be affected, but the risks are very slight if the woman is young, in good health, does not smoke and is not overweight.

Even so I’m not an advocate of hormonal contraceptives because, even for something as easy to use as NuvaRing annoying hormonal side effects like irregular bleeding, bloating, breast tenderness and reduced libido can be avoided by using a cervical barrier or frameless IUD. One other reason is the cost and another is that hormonal contraceptives can be tampered with and some medicines and foods can decrease the effectiveness of hormonal contraceptives, especially the very low dose kinds like NuvaRing so if the user gets a sinus or ear infection the antibiotic she is given to cure the infection could cause her to have breakthrough ovulation. Another of Cyndi’s friends who uses NuvaRing was the target of a practical joke. She was in the habit of removing her ring for sex because her guy is large and often pulls the ring out when he withdraws. While she was asleep after sex with her boyfriend a roommate dropped her ring into a pan of very hot water which quickly leached all the time-release hormones out of it and then returned it to her bedside, so when she reinserted her ring it was ineffective and she was w/o hormonal protection for a week before she found out what had happened (a friend told her) and unprotected for another week after she inserted a new ring while her hormonal protection was being reestablished. It caused her to have breakthrough bleeding and ovulate, but she took Plan B and dodged the pregnancy bullet.

A surprise: The security service that was supposed to be guarding the middle eastern dive-chick who had the back of her head blown off the other day [See my entry for January 11, 2010 ‘Cara gets her feet wet’] went to the house to search it professionally and sort through why their guys were taken so easily that they lost a client w/o even getting wounded. They found some scary things. One of their technicians looking behind pictures on the walls found a wall safe in the room that seemed to be used as an office. The safe was locked but the tech didn’t have any trouble opening it and found a quantity of Semtex plastic explosive, several packs of polyurethane male condoms, three prepaid cell phones, 2 packages of BBs and several photocopied sheets of instructions about how to make a vaginal (or rectal I suppose) bomb.

A cunt-cutter: The tech called that sort of device a vaginal torpedo or a cunt-cutter. It’s surprisingly simple to make. Roll a 2 inch diameter 5 inch long (smaller if to fit up the rectum) rod of Semtex in BBs, then roll a polyurethane condom onto the BB encrusted rod, insert a radio controlled detonator (a cell phone ringer) and insert in the vagina and wedge it behind the pubic bone so it won’t slide out. If made for the rectum a hollow butt plug can house the detonator. A girl wearing a cunt-cutter could get next to a male target and ask for oral and with his tongue licking her labia when she depressed the detonator her hips and her targets head would disappear in a wet and chunky pink mist. Awesomely destructive! I can’t imagine a woman crazy enough to wear one but apparently there are some. Security thinks someone suspected she was a suicide assassin and took her out before she could get to her target. Security wanted to her body, but there was nothing left of it by the time they asked so they are using DNA material from her shower, dildo and hair brushes. And I gave them the projectile fragments I picked up off the pool bottom. I don’t think it will be reported because their guards didn’t cover themselves with glory when they let her be killed, though as it turned out that was probably a good thing. In my and my employer’s defense, no one knew she was anything but a student, model wannabe and lastly a mess that needed cleaning up. Go figure!

Barre Girls: We have opened a small secluded lounge for dancers, called Barre Girls. It’s a place that women can get away from the pressure of the male gaze and men are welcome only when in the company of a member. It’s a niche market, but a lot of my friends have asked for a place for women only. Somewhere that they aren’t expected to drink alcohol since dancers don’t need the empty calories or the high if we have too much. We make a profit on tea and coffee and the area was created from a bit of strangely shaped floor space that was going unused. We hope to attract dancers from other casinos too as a sort of dance sorority hangout. It’s a great place to discuss menstrual cramps, contraceptive options and the pros and cons of recent boyfriends and husbands w/o worrying about being overheard by men.

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I'm a classically trained dancer and SAB grad. A Dance Captain and go-to girl overseeing high-roller entertainment for a major casino/resort