Toe pads and their uses

Some of the toe pads I wear with pointe shoes and ballet boots.

The photo: Shows a selection of my toe pads: gel Bloch and Bunheads (Ouch Pouch), wool and the blue Eurotard elastic polymer. The Eurotard pads tear easily and are very hot. I prefer the Ouch Pouch which I change when I change pointes if I’m wearing Gaynor Mindens because the polymer blocks make the feet sweat so much more than the paste and hessian blocks of my performance shoes, Freed Classics.

Toe pads uses other than for toe protection:  

Souvenirs/favors: Toe pads make great souvenirs for giving by dancers in strip shows where the dancers have multiple shoe changes especially where they are using crossed elastics and not ribbons for speed changes in contemporary ballets. Tossing soggy toe pads one at a time into the audience can cause a riot with guys fighting one another for the talisman of a favorite stripper. Toe pads are a lot cheaper than giving away a pair of pointe shoes regardless of how dead they are as the shoes can always be worn for class and rehearsals. And the lucky guys can slip the pads in their pockets to fondle or suck on at their leisure rather than getting strange looks while carrying a pointe shoe around in the casino.  Commercial priced Bunheads are about $20 USD per pair and Eurotard is about $17 USD per pair. However, buying Ouch Pouch pads in bulk we get a deep discount.

Ejaculation cups: The Eurotard and similar pads of elastic polymer can be used when a dancer or her Dom wants her in pointes with her toes submerged in his semen. For this use they work better in ballet boots since as long as the wearer’s boots are vertical with the platforms pointing down the semen won’t spill as it does when worn in pointe shoes and the wearer isn’t on her toes.

The down side of this for the inseminated pads wearing dancer is that her pads are already soaked with fluid so prolonged wear can soften the calluses of a professional dancer which can be a problem if they soften to the point that they begin to slough off and leave her w/o sufficient callus build up for a busy performance schedule w/o taping her toes. It’s usually not worth the trouble for a professional to let a lover inseminate her toe pads before a performance even if there will be a quick shoe change and dry pads after a few minutes on her toes.

Doms into gags: Doms can use a Sub’s sweaty pads as a gag using her alignment belt or TheraBand tied around her head and open mouth to hold the pads in place while he fucks her brains out.

Submissives into toe cheese: A Submissive man into women’s scent and secretions can suck the sweat and her unique brand of toe cheese (dead skin cells, nail polish chips, toe-tape adhesive residue and tights lint occasionally fortified by puss or blood from a blister or spiced by the tang of liniment) out of a pair of freshly worn pads especially if his mistress was wearing Gaynors so her pads are very soggy with estrogenic sweat.

TheraBands: One of a dancer’s rarely mentioned exercise tools is the TheraBand. It’s a 4 inch wide latex strip, a resistive exercise band that comes in 8 color coded resistance levels. I always have a green or blue TheraBand in my dance bag so I can do ankle exercises while I’m sitting on the floor waiting my turn to rehearse or on a plane flying somewhere. We generally cut our Thera-bands in 9 foot lengths.  

Spring Mountains snow: As this was being written (on 11-23-2013, Saturday afternoon) it was snowing in the higher elevations of the Spring Mountains while it was in the low 40s and raining here in town. In the 40s is good weather to wear latex and leather as the clubs can drop their temps w/o using a/c by decreasing heating and just piping in outside air. Since they were calling for temps in the low 50s and rain the next day too we could have had significant accumulation in the mountains. Fortunately the snow line was well above my home, but there was sleet at home and tricky getting home from work. My Subaru Forrester with AWD is good on the roads but ice is scary. It’s all gone now except for snow an area of the peaks north of Mt. Charleston.

Toe pads as a fetish

Ouch Pouch Jr. toe pads

Sweaty toe pads: The photo is of a model wearing the Ouch pouch Jr. which is what most of my company dancers and St Lucy’s ballet students wear. The crescent-shaped pad is made of a thin layer of gel material inside a fabric pouch. Great for wider feet and for those who want only the toes cushioned. The new design offers more coverage in the bunion areas, a deeper cut vamp to better match the line of the pointe shoe, a sleeker shape that hugs the foot and keeps pads from sliding or bunching and an enhanced gel formulation that helps prevent bottoming out, thinning from use.

I love the scent of sweaty toe pads and one or two of my intimate male friends love the scent and taste of sweaty toe pads too! The ouch pouch Jr is the ideal pad for me worn in Gaynor Mindens (I don’t wear toe pads with GMs during my period when my feet swell a bit) to prevent the shoes getting so sweat soaked when worn for long intervals. Because of the absorbent lining inside plastic boxes Gaynors can take forever to dry and if worn when wet they quickly develop a pungent aroma that only a toe shoe fetishist can love. Additionally, sweaty toe pads make small inexpensive souvenirs that can be given to very close friends as tokens of affection rather than being pressured to give away a pointe shoe or shoes which can be very expensive if a dancer doesn’t have shoes that are so dead they can’t be worn for class. For the Fetishists into the tastes and scents of a woman the freshly used pads worn w/o tights can be turned inside out so salty sweaty residue, tape adhesive, blood, polish chips and toe cheese with the merest dash of my wintergreen liniment can be licked off while my partner is watching me change pads and pointes. I’m taking along several dozen pairs of OP Jr toe pads on my European trip for use and in case I have pad-worthy lovers who I would like to reward with a memento of our intimate assignation.

Slit Kits and contraceptive supplies: In preparation for our European trip I’ve restocked Anya and my large slit kits that we use for extended travel, replacing the Semécide with the new formulation from Labia Labs professional products line of contraceptive products. It is Semécide+ an O9 spermicide made with dive-gel and Octoxynol-9 and contains a biocide that reduces the chances of contracting HIV. I’m stocking it in prefilled 10ml applicators - easily carried in an evening clutch or mesh bag during a dive - and in addition to the applicators in our slit kits I’m taking a 500 applicator case since Semécide+ will be our primary lube for dive-sex. I’m also taking a dozen Reflexions latex FS diaphragms in my size and a dozen in Anya’s for use as gas guards in case we lose one in a pool or have a dome failure. Returning readers will remember Reflexions can be used at any depth and at any point in the menstrual cycle in addition to being extremely difficult for a partner to under-thrust so it is the cervical barrier of choice for professionals specializing in dive-sex. I’ve also replaced the Plan B one-step with the 5-day EC pill ella which is far more effective in case of a contraceptive failure and replaced the original female condoms (FC1) with the new nitrile FC2 which is stronger and has better heat transfer properties.

St Lucy’s girls and Penetrator Plugs: As young women grow and become more sexually experienced their vaginas lengthen and if they are taking pointe their vaginal muscles strengthen from the clenching and contractions while on pointe. So the fit of their Penetrator plugs need to be checked every 6 months or so and just before summer vacation is when St Lucy’s girls have their semi-annual Penetrator checks – along with the barrier (Reflexions or FemCap) that they use as a gas-guard for Upper Reproductive Tract (URT) protection during dive-sex. Having the students vaginal rubber checked at this time in the school year the girls are assured of a proper fit while they are on vacation

Porn pools and training facilities: A reader asked why I don’t just call Adolph’s 200 foot deep training facility and my 68 foot deep pool ‘Porn Pools’, rather than training facilities. I think of Porn Pools as being located in rental homes or foreclosed properties that have been accessed through contacts in the Real Estate industry frantic to get some revenue from a dormant market for upscale homes with nice pools in isolated areas. Or, perhaps worse, homes just squatted in for a few days to get enough video action scenes in the pools to fit into several videos for the adult market. As the weather has warmed up there is more of that going on and there are so many large homes in foreclosure out here that it’s fairly easy to get away with unapproved use of a home.

It’s true that there is a great deal of sex occurring in my and Adolph’s deep pools, but it really is for training of escorts, or European BDSM students (at Adolph’s) or just old fashioned recreational sex w/o a video crew from Taryn’s Adult Media Co. present. So I feel neither Adolph’s nor my facilities can reasonably be thought of as porn pools.

Training pool pregnancies: Our clinic is seeing a spike in pregnancies involving women being impregnated during private dive-sex lessons while training in unlicensed dive schools set up in large up-market foreclosed homes in isolated sections of town. These small ‘SCUBA Schools’ advertise teaching intimate dive skills at low prices primarily so the ‘trainer’ can get paid by his students for having dive-sex with them. Usually the women are young, sexually inexperienced and new in town and trying to get training w/o having to pay much for it. Some of them end up having to pay for an abortion. Most thought they were on the pill, but weren’t taking it correctly or were taking another med that interfered with their birth control hormones effectiveness and none were wearing gas guards for upper reproductive tract protection. So far none of the women have wanted to call attention to themselves by reporting the scuba schools for fear their pregnancy and abortion will become public knowledge and become known by their parents or ruin any chance they might have of getting a job as an entertainer or into an escort training program. These women usually end up having a GyneFix IUD implanted if they can become part of the GyneFix clinical trial.

Cocaine and toe pads

Nearly new Gaynors with sueded platforms

Cocaine and toe pads: I’ve seen women overdose on cocaine dusted into the dome of a diaphragm and mixed with spermicide as a method of prolonging her high and enhancing her encounter experience, but until the other day I’d never encountered snow in a dancer’s toe pads. I was called to clean up a situation that occurred in a vacant McMansion west of the city and Gigi, Jacques 17 y/o daughter, went with me. She is interested in starting a small collection of items in her size that women were wearing when they died and I’m helping her when I can. I suppose she got the idea from me and my fascination with death rubber, but I don’t think her collecting interests are that tightly focused, at least not yet.

We put on respirators to filter the air and block some of the smell, pulled on latex exam gloves and began cleaning up. From what we found it appears a working girl in her mid 20s had set up business as an independent operator and had been offering ballet sex, doing clients on her toes, in the 4 Ts (full costume: tights, tutu, tiara and toe shoes) in a large room set up with portable mirrors and barre and video cams for recording her encounters. The cleaning crew sent by the realtor to check that the house was ready to show found her slumped against one of the mirrors with her dance bag at her side and a surprised look on her face. She had been dead a few hours as rigor had passed and her body cavities were attracting flies. In a closed house you have to wonder where the flies come from, but they were there. There was vomit covering the bodice of her tutu and it looked to me as though she had been in the midst if an encounter when she was stricken as her thong-back tutu and crotchless tights were askew and she was draining vaginal discharge. There were several empty condom packets, but no used condoms so her client must have cleaned up after himself.

Her dance bag held her partial packet of Yaz birth control pills, her diaphragm case with a heavily stained 70 mm All-Flex inside – suggesting to me that she used it for menstrual flow control as well as a gas-guard during dive-sex in the home’s enclosed pool – a tube of ContraGel spermicide that she was probably using as an intimate lube and a clean micromesh thong. We also found a small Ziploc sandwich bag containing a white powder which I thought was probably her coke stash and there was a lot of it. I’d seen enough stashes to see that it didn’t look quite right and I felt the consistency through the bag and there were tiny granules in it so someone had cut it with something they shouldn’t have.

We looked in the two large closets in the master bedroom that she was using and found one filled with ballet costumes and the other with designer clothes which she probably wore while trolling for clients. Then there was a smaller bedroom that she used to store her dive equipment, wetsuits, regulators and FFMs and rubber fetishwear. The air tanks and compressor to fill them was in the garage with the intake hose running under the garage door and into the top of a large bush by the door to get it at least 5 feet off the ground and hidden from sight to the casual observer. She had so much stuff that I thought someone must have helped her get set up or it must have taken her the better part of a week and a rental truck to do it herself. I found the receipt for the rental truck so she was probably working solo. Her driver’s license and passport said she was Canadian.

On cleanup I and whoever helps me gets to keep any of the possessions of the dead that we want, within reason. I think if we found a lot of cash that wouldn’t fly if the Organization found out, but personal positions are ours for the taking. Gigi was interested in the almost new Gaynor pointes with sueded leather platforms she was wearing as they looked to be about her size so she carefully untied the ribbons and pulled the backs down off her heels and off her feet. The Gaynors were her size with a medium box, high heel and deep and vamp. She was wearing Ouch Pouch toe pads that looked like she had sweated through them and bled through the one on her right foot. And when Gigi peeled them off her toes there was a white paste between her toes and in the bottom of the pads which I immediately suspected was how she took her hit and ended up overdosing. It’s unusual for a dancer wearing toe pads in Gaynors to get blisters and the blood was from a blister on the big toe that had opened and then started to bleed. I wondered how that happened, then thought to check the consistency of the cocaine residue she had poured into each toe pad and found the granules in her stash hadn’t dissolved in her sweat and were probably what had caused the blister, bleeding and perhaps the OD. I had Gigi put the toe pads in a specimen bag for analysis and looked at the shoe the Canadian has bled in. It wasn’t noticeable so I let Gigi keep the Gaynors.

We rolled the body into a rubber body-bag and loaded it into the van. Then we looked through all the Canadian’s other things for anything of interest I took the cash in her purse and we packed up all her ID to take with the body. There was nothing else we wanted – her new La Perla bras were too large for us - so we left her things for the Organization to use for their escorts and in their fetish and dive clubs. Since the Canadian had ID I called my contact and asked if we should bring her in to put on ice while enquiries were made or run her through the chipper. I was told to bring her into the cold storage facility. We put her along side the bodies of the French couple we found nearly two months ago.

Jack on Ballet sex: “Jill, Don't fret. It was an interesting post about the Paris Opera Ballet scene. I am hesitant to show this blog to some female dancers I know for fear they will think I am stark raving mad. But I find pointe sex a "stretch" and I would like to know if I am naive to believe it or I am naive to not believe it. Standing sex from my perspective as a man is not as comfortable as it is when the female is "supported" against the thrusts such as supine or from behind etc. Thrusting when standing is a strange movement if done by the male of going up and down and up and down... or holding the female by the waist and lifting up and down and up and down. The latter requires a petite female and a strong male to lift her 100 pounds for so many repetitions. The female might love the ride of course… but she's no longer en pointe ie supported on her toe box... I'd like to give pointe sex a try, but I don't think so in this life time as I don't know a cooperative ballerina here in NYC to give it a go (with me at least) ha-ha-ha. Perhaps you could get me a pointe sex date? OK maybe you can get some ballerina to email me about her pointe sex experiences.”

My reply: I see I wasn’t as clear as I should have been about describing dancers being taken en pointe for ballet sex. I thought with all the times I’ve described being taken from behind en pointe bending over… Well, we are standing up, feet en pointe in second position, but bent over with our backs horizontal and holding on to the barre or a table, chair, the hood of a car or whatever is available so we are penetrated while the vagina is horizontal. There can be some thrusting to lift us off our platforms if a partner is thrusting into the back wall of the vagina where the woman may be briefly suspended on the base of her partner’s shaft when our platforms are off the floor, but with a couple well matched in height there isn’t much if any of that. With a man a bit too tall to enter his partner w/o bending his knees there may be a good bit more when he straightens his legs at maximum thrust depth. Holding the woman vertical or with her legs wrapped around her partner and held against a wall doesn’t technically count as ballet sex even if she is wearing pointes, she has to be standing en pointe.

Jack, I don’t know if your dancer friends have heard of having sex on their toes or not. It depends on how experienced they are and what sorts of friends they have. Ballet sex is absolutely real, but I suspect not widely practiced in the vanilla ballet world because of the stamina and concentration it takes to be drilled w/o falling off pointe or going rubber-legged in he middle of the encounter. It’s a lot easier for the woman to be taken doggie style while on her hands and knees where she doesn’t have to worry about her ankles or knees giving out, but that way there is no clenching of the pelvic muscles to tighten the vagina which is the reason for ballet sex in the first place. It’s a pity you aren’t on intimate enough terms with your dancer friends to see if one would be interested in giving it a try, if they aren’t already familiar with it. Of course, if you are married that would pose a moral problem, but since you asked for a reference one assumes you have already thought that through or are not married.

Posting note: I’ve tweaked the code a bit to get the paragraphs to format properly until Google fixes the bug which will probably throw this entry off when the problem is corrected. I suspect I’ll regret doing that.