St Janice and Barrow Priory students, UNLV graduation

Mind the gap! Guess who forgot their butt glue?

The photo: The beginning of a wedgie. Butt glue is used for photo shoots, pageants and when going clubbing to hold a costume smooth over curves while the wearer is moving. It won’t work if you get the bikini wet so there is no need to waste it if you’re going swimming or plan to have it ripped off during foreplay. Wedgies are a normal part of wearing a bikini if you are going in the water in it. If I’m using butt glue I like the brand ‘It Stays’ in a roll-on. I carry it in case I’m posing, but on Virgin Gorda I almost never use it.

St Janice end of year pelvic and pointe fittings: Saint Janice is an exclusive girl’s school in Berkshire. Veronika, Nika to her friends, the ballerina daughter of my close Belgravia neighbor and Russian ex-pat Alexei teaches master pointe classes to the older girls there from time to time. As the school’s gynecologist was retiring Nika recommended Chris our male Gyn from Blackthorn Clinic to be their replacement gynecology specialist and contraceptive advisor so Chris has been in that capacity for several months. The head mistress had asked if the clinic could fit diaphragms as ‘flood insurance’ for a few of the upper form girls going on a swimming adventure to an Israeli resort on the Red Sea this summer. As I am one of Blackthorn Clinic’s primary cervical barrier fitters I went with Chris when he did the students end of year pelvic exams and check the placement of their stringless Marina IUDs. I fit their cervical barriers. None of the girls was allergic to latex and they all had lovely deep post-pubic vaults so I fitted them with latex coil spring rim diaphragms similar to the old Ortho White that was discontinued years ago. I used a latex barrier because they were going to be having sex underwater in the ocean and need to use a good thick silicone lube that takes a while to wash out even in sea water and Milex silicone barriers shouldn’t be used with a silicone lube because it tends to make them sticky and deteriorate fairly quickly.

Our Blackthorn dance shop is primary pointe-shoe provider to the students at St Janice and Nancy, our fitter, came along to take orders for their summer pointe-shoe needs. We recommend Gaynor Minden pointes for all women who can be fitted correctly in them because they last several times as long as toe-shoes made of traditional materials and take less training to wear confidently and continuously for long intervals while performing, clubbing or in fetish encounters such as ballet-sex where long term support and comfort are needed. Because Gaynors blocks are made of polymer and don’t breathe they are hot to wear and can take several days to dry after a wearing if you don’t have access to a source of dry gentle heat to quickly dry them. That’s why I like to travel with at least three pairs of GM pointes prepared for the roles I’ll be performing be they ballet or fetish performances

Barrow Priory pompoir training: Barrow Priory in Middlesex is the site of Blackthorn Priory’s upper school conveniently located near an elite male school so the two schools can combine their student bodies for courses in human sexual anatomy. Unlike most students at St Janice the girls at Barrow Priory upper school are all training to be escorts and are being tested this spring on their ability to isolate and manipulate their vaginal muscles and for their specialized ballet training to extend the length of their continuous interval en pointe an ability needed to successfully perform ballet-sex. All the girls must have had at least ten years of ballet training four of which must have been in pointe-shoes. All the sixth form girls have done splendidly in their studies and pelvic training and are now able to easily manipulate a pair of 1.0 inch solid surgical steel Ben Wa balls, weighing 2.3 oz. each, while en pointe a skill needed to successfully perform pompoir, the milking of  a partner's penis while he remains stationary inside you.

As with their St Janice counterparts the Barrow Priory students had their end of school year pelvic exams and had their diaphragms, with which they were fitted when they advanced to classes at Barrow, checked for fit before the girls went to their summer work assignments. Unlike the St Janice girls the Barrow girls all have frameless copper bead GyneFix IUDs with the strings removed so they can cycle naturally and enjoy menstrual sex as well as the hormone high of their fertile intervals. Most are going to be pool attendants, life guards or towel girls at up-market swim clubs, spas or as nannies with benefits where they can meet wealthy aristocratic men who could become lovers, clients or both. For the last several years Barrow Priory girls have been placed where their looks and pelvic skills can be appreciated which has increased the demand for them and it is wonderful experience where they can use their pelvic training and make influential friends.

UNLV 2015 commencement: The flight back on Limnaea II out of Gatwick on the 13^th with Marvin was delightful and other than amazing sex was uneventful.  I was fertile and had an Oves screwed down on my ripe cervix for protection from Morning Wood’s little swimmers. Anya met us at McCarran and took us to my old home where we napped until the girls got home. I had Adolph and Kassandra his PA and current lover over for dinner where we had steaks on the grill. It was so good to see them both again and Adolph is still in Kassi’s thrall and as happy as I’ve ever seen him, but I wonder how long that can possibly last.  

Commencement will be today Saturday May 16, at 9am when Willow, Odette and Odile will graduate.  It’s supposed to be a lovely day with low humidity and the temperature in the mid 70s, a welcome change from the cool and damp UK. Bea will be starting Cambridge as an undergrad while the other three go to grad school at Cambridge where Taryn can guide or intercede for them if necessary.

Virgin Gorda: We depart this evening, the 16^th, but I’ve changed my mind about our destination. Rather than returning immediately to London we are going to my place on Lost Cove on Virgin Gorda for a few days before heading back to the UK.  Fortunately I decided before we left the UK so I was able to get the girls reg bags and wetsuits brought down from Blackthorn Castle to bring with us. We have time before the Summer Solstice and before hurricane season starts in the Caribbean. Once back in the UK there will still be plenty of time for the girls to go fetish clubbing in London this summer and for diving my new deep training pool if it’s completed on time.

 

Alice, Duchess of M****, has already had His Grace’s sailing yacht, The Wanton Lass IV, taken around to Charlotte Amalie on St Thomas to meet us at Cyril E. King Airport (IATA: STT) where Limnaea II will land so we could walk to the boat if we didn’t have luggage.

We have a new Princess! Summer activities

Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana of Cambridge in her mother’s arms

The Photo: The fourth in line to the throne will be officially known as HRH Princess Charlotte of Cambridge. A Kensington Palace spokesman said that the names “spoke for themselves”.

Honors for Princess Charlotte: Two salutes took place on Monday May 4^th one at Hyde Park and the other at the Tower of London. The guns used were 13-pounder First World War-era field guns. The Royal Parks said 41 shots were fired at the park and 62 at the Tower, and blank artillery rounds were used. The salute fired fat Hyde Park was quite loud as it was just a few blocks from Eaton Square, but we could also hear the much longer one fired from the Tower of London.

From Wikipedia - Princess Charlotte of Cambridge:

“Title and Style: Princess Charlotte was, from birth, a British princess entitled to the style of Royal Highness under letters patent issued by Queen Elizabeth II on 31 December 2012, which gave the title and style to all children of the Prince of Wales's eldest son. Her official title and style is Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Cambridge.

Ancestry: Through her paternal grandfather, Charles, Prince of Wales, she is a member of the House of Windsor. Through her paternal grandmother, Diana, Princess of Wales, she descends from the Spencer family, whose members include the Earls Spencer, Earls of Sunderland, and Dukes of Marlborough. Through her paternal great-grandfather, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the Princess belongs to the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (Kings of Greece, Denmark, and Norway).”

UNLV 2015 commencement and grad school: Commencement will be on Saturday May 16, at 9am & 2pm. Willow, Odette and Odile will be graduating. Bea will be starting Cambridge as an undergrad while the other three go to grad school at Cambridge where Taryn can guide or intercede for them if necessary. The girls have already shipped their SCUBA gear to Blackthorn castle and most of their things to Blackthorn House in Eaton Square.

Marvin and I will be flying back on Limnaea II out of Gatwick on Wednesday the 13^th for commencement so Anya is having our suite at my place in Vegas where they have all been living readied for us. I plan to depart for London with my wards and perhaps Anya, depending on her next assignment, on the evening of the 16^th. The girls are looking forward to fetish clubbing in London this summer and for diving my new deep training pool if it is completed on time.

Cambridge University: His Grace, the Duke of M**** was very helpful in getting them accepted, not because of their grades which are excellent, but because they are competing with candidates from the UK.  They have to be there and settled for Full Michaelmas term which runs from Tue 6 Oct - Fri 4 Dec by October 1st.

2015 Summer solstice: The Summer solstice will occur on Sunday June 21st.  Bea, Willow, Odette and Odile will be taking their respective places on the subtending altars at the celestial temple at Location Z along with me and suitable male partners to welcome the arrival of summer at sunrise on June 21^st. Jack, Viscount Sandbach, is already looking at young aristocrat candidates from his friends families with a view to making the celestial celebrations a bit more up-market. However, I don’t think Aphrodite whose temple we are celebrating in, cares as long as there are good breeding males who have participated and will forever be influenced by their sexual bonding to her at Location Z.

The recent election: His Grace is very pleased that the Conservatives won a majority in parliament as a steady hand is needed on the national purse strings. Not that he is particularly partial in general, but feared the possibility of a sharp swing to the left.

Formaldehyde Hall, necrophilia, pointe-shoe gag, Tahoe

One of Jenna’s Bloch Alpha pointes I use as a gag for Morning Wood.

The photo: A pointe-shoe I use to gag Marvin during Ballet BDSM play when I take him while astride. It was the position Jenna was using during the encounter from which she conceived. In that position I control the angle and depth of penetration and frequency of thrusts. I use one of Jenna’s 4 ½ xxx Bloch Alpha shoes (The size I wear when not menstrual) the toe-box measurements of which are: Platform 2.25 in. wide by 1.5 in. high. And across the toe-box measure 3.25 in. wide by 1.75 in. high. The platform just fits when he opens his jaws wide then I can push on the short hard out-sole and jam it further into his mouth. The ribbons on all pairs are 18 or 19 inches long by 1 inch wide satin nylon and machine sewn to the quarter panels and I tie them behind his neck to hold the gag in place. The platform and sole are seasoned with stage grime and the scent and taste of pine tar from the powdered rosin ground into the platforms and soles. Used as a gag a pointe-shoe is quite effective in keeping him quiet, but shouldn’t be used on anyone with a head cold as they might smother if they are unable to remove it.

Marvin during my absence: Fortunately Marvin has a speaking engagement in NYC at a specialist psychiatry convention during the week I’m in Tahoe so he is polishing his presentation and going east early to renew old school friendships so he shouldn’t miss me too much. Just to remind him of Jenna and me I left him several pairs of my sweat soaked Bloch Alpha pointes and several of her thongs damp with my vaginal secretions from when I was fertile last week. I’m CD16 and ovulated last Friday so I  should be safe from pregnancy for the next several weeks while with my girls and Adolph at the lake.

The Duchess to visit; a quandary: HD, a talented artist friend of mine, sent me a drawing of his impression of Her Grace, Alice Duchess of M****, in a lovely dinner dress with Champaign flute in hand standing in front of a glass tank with a female diver trapped in it. With Alice sipping French champagne the drawing rather reminded me of one of Adolph’s very selective cocktail parties in his museum where he has women in diving gear of various kinds floating in vertical glass tubes of formaldehyde. Lovely ripe young bodies of undocumented women who answered adverts for ‘swimsuit models’…  He said it reduced the work and cost of refilling air tanks and feeding the girls when he switched to formaldehyde for what he calls his ‘museum divers’. Alice has never seen his museum diver display as she has never been to Las Vegas. Until recently I thought Alice too much of a lady to approve of models in formaldehyde, but perhaps not…

Formaldehyde Hall and necrophilia: That display of women divers in formaldehyde is in what I think of as his man cave where very few women have been and come out alive. I think other than me only Anya has been to a party in Formaldehyde Hall and we went together so he would have had to take us both. We were in a group of his European necrophilia fetish friends at the time and we got admiring glances. I suppose they were wondering how we would look laid out on a slab encased in latex catsuits with the relief zippers open offering ice cold pussy and smelling of formaldehyde or bleeding out from a slit throat as they pumped semen into our dying bods.

It’s a really strange feeling talking to a group of men who you know would rather fuck your dead body than to mount you while alive and feel your muscles contract around their penis and suck semen out of them.  

When I shared the drawing (of Alice posed in front of a glass tank with a female diver trapped in it) with her she loved being a muse for fantasy art for the talented friend of mine.  She said being thought of as sexy at her age by a younger man has aroused some predatory instincts in her that she had managed to successfully suppress since her children were born. She has gentlemen lovers of course, but now she wants more… Sigh!  She is coming out to visit me in LV and I’m trying to think of suitable partners for her who we could invent cover stories for if one disappeared during an intimate encounter with her. In my experience it’s rare to find the huntress instinct so strong in an aristocratically bred woman and is a side of her I didn’t know existed until we recently chatted on Skype.

She is remarkably well preserved with a lovely hard body and for travel encounters favors men in their 30s who are skilled cocksmen, but then don’t we all! LOL! I can find a lot of very experienced thirty-somethings with clean full STI panels for her, but they all have lives here and will need to survive their time with her. She is so good at manipulating men that she was able to get her father’s permission to first train as a dancer and then as a surgeon and practiced (briefly) as a surgeon before marrying His Grace so she is very good with a scalpel or filleting knife.

Lake Tahoe: My wards and I are spending the week at Adolph’s estate (which was once a small hotel on the water) on the California side of Lake Tahoe. We arrived yesterday on Limnaea II and Adolph sent three Mercedes SUVs to meet us at Lake Tahoe Airport (TVL) which is just a few miles from the south end of the lake. He has invited some German business friends who were at his 4^th of July party to come up to the lake as sex partners for us all.

The surface of the lake is at about 6,200 feet elevation so we have changed our dive computers to calculate using altitude diving tables which will shorten dive durations somewhat unless we want to use deco stops. The lake is too cold for dive-sex as the guys can’t maintain an erection even when using a performance enhancing medication. So we will use Adolph’s Olympic size pool that is 30 feet deep. At that depth coil spring diaphragms and FemCap will still function effectively and comfortably so if Adolph has other women over who have been fitted for shallow water diving barriers they should be ok. He has converted three rooms in the new wing to soundproof ballet studios which we can use for classes and encounter sallies as I recall the Germans seemed to be very fond of Ballet-sex, which I think is because en pointe a woman’s grip is so much tighter. I made sure that all of us, my girls and staff as well as Adolph and his guests, had negative current full STI panels so our only concern should be pregnancy and wearing our dive diaphragms (Reflexions FS) to reduce the chance of water being forced into the uterus. 

I sent Limnaea II to St Thomas to pick up Her Grace and two of her staff, her personal ladies maid/dresser and personal secretary. They sailed to Charlotte Amalie from Virgin Gorda on the Wanton Lass so they should arrive later today. Her Grace has the suite next to mine. Her Grace will be returning to Las Vegas with us to spend at least a week and I hope longer as she is supposed to be lucky at casino tables.

After Tahoe it will be back to our fall routine; returning to school for the girls and I will be working with the new students entering St Lucy’s giving them their entrance pelvic exam and fitting them all for silicone Semina coil spring diaphragms which is what all students entering SL who have reached menarche start out wearing. All that will be during orientation week, then on Monday August 25 instruction Begins at both UNLV and St Lucy’s.

Ballet BDSM

Red Gaynors with a Reflexions and its introducer

The Photo: A pair of my red Gaynor Minden pointes a color I wear when I’m menstrual or am in a very dominant mood along with one of my latex Reflexions flat spring diaphragms partially folded and tucked into a block and a diaphragm introducer. The introducer was used to help users to more easily insert flat spring diaphragms, but since demand for diaphragms has declined it is no longer made. Folded as it is readers unfamiliar with wearing a flat spring diaphragm can see how the dome folds into ridges. The three valleys between the ridges and the rim are filled with spermicide.

Ballet BDSM: Marvin loves being submissive to me in my role as his dead wife Jenna. Returning readers will recall that he suffers from a localized form of Delusional Disorder “with bizarre content” the bizarre content being the impossibility of my being Jenna, which only occurs when I’m near him for more than fifteen or twenty minutes. One of their games during which she became pregnant was a form of Ballet BDSM. Of course Ballet BDSM comes in all forms limited only by the imaginations of the couples playing. In the case of Jenna and Marvin it was fairly vanilla involving only tying Marvin’s wrists and ankles to the bedposts with the ribbons (hers and my ribbons measure19 or 20 inches each in length and are machine sewn to each quarter section) from two pairs of her Bloch SO104 pointes and gagging him with another. Then she slipped one of her micromesh a thong moist with her vaginal secretions over his nose and the waistband behind his head to hold it in place so her scent filled his lungs as he gasped for air while she mounted him; sitting astride his erection and sucking all the cream out of his éclair with her well toned pelvic muscles.

With our play we continue to follow what they were doing during the encounter from which Jenna conceived. Marvin hasn’t said anything about it but I know he would love getting me pregnant. He especially loves the fact that it occurred while Jenna was being dominant and he couldn’t do anything but be a sperm donor as she had her way with him and he is obsessed with trying to have that happen again. At my age having a single act of unprotected sex while fertile I have a 30% chance of becoming preggers, which is why I’m careful to wear the latex Reflexions FS to reduce the likelihood of that happening to an acceptable level.

Ballet intensive, unintended consequences: St Lucy’s was not the only school in town to hold a ballet summer intensive, but we may have been the safest from the standpoint of unintended consequences suffered by the students. The students attending the other BSI had all come to our clinic for evaluation prior to taking the course as it was supposed to push the envelope as far as the student’s endurance. They were all very fit and on hormonal contraceptives. I was surprised who they had as their male pointe teacher. I’ve known Cedric, who dances with the Royal Ballet, since he taught at St Lucy’s several summers ago and thought these students weren’t sexually sophisticated enough to be in one of his classes. However, all I could do was to caution the girls that he was very potent and disliked condoms so they should take care to use their hormonal method according to the instructions that came with it. I also offered to fit them with diaphragms, which their insurance through student health would have paid for, but none accepted my offer.

Most of that school’s BSI students attended it because they would be starting or returning to UNLV in a few weeks and wanted to get settled or back into the life of the city. They had also heard what a stud-muffin Cedric is and so wanted to experience for themselves being in the presence of a ballet sex-god. I understand all too well the strong sexual attraction some men have and Cedric has it in spades. Even I go rubber legged when first around him after being away from him for a while. So I knew all his students would be aroused and vulnerable to his slightest suggestion during class and found myself wishing I could be with them inhaling the testosterone laced pheromones in the scent wafting from his sweat during toe class.

The pace of the SI was said to be so intense that Cedric suggested his students take a nutritional supplement to boost their metabolism to give them more energy. What they weren’t told was that increasing their metabolism would flush hormonal contraceptives out of their bodies so quickly that the amount left borders on ineffectively therapeutic and they should use a barrier as a back-up method until they stop taking it. So at the end of that three week SI two girls, a first year and a returning second year UNLV student, were pregnant by him. This sort of thing happens with him everywhere he teaches as he has an amazing body, great personality and is an amazing chick-magnet. The first year student freaked out as she is from a very strict Christian family and rushed home intending to keep the baby. The family probably won’t sue because they couldn’t stand the publicity. The second year had been around enough to know that a vacuum aspiration was quick almost risk free and was covered by her insurance and it was done at my clinic while I held her hand.

Sex with a Ballet-God: I had sex with Cedric the day before he returned to the UK. We spent the afternoon at the barre and in bed as a going away present (for us both) since he will be rejoining the Royal Ballet as a soloist after their summer hiatus and undoubtedly spend the fall and winter fucking his way through all the new girls in the corps. His body is every bit as beautiful and his technique as gentle and skilled as I remembered it from several years ago. Since I was CD9 and fertile I was careful to wear a latex Reflections flat spring which is nearly impossible to under-thrust as he is mischievous and would like nothing better than to bypass my protection and leave his seed in my tubes to fertilize my egg when I ovulated. It’s too early for me to test to see if he succeeded in impregnating me, but I have no reason to think he was successful as there was no semen just fertile cervical mucus (semen liquefies thirty minutes after ejaculation) in the dome when I removed the diaphragm for cleaning ten hours later.

Priestess therapy: Returning readers will recall Marvin is my psychotherapist and fetish lover, among other things. In his professional capacity he is helping me adapt to and properly assume my responsibilities as a Demi-Goddess, a Priestess of the Goddess Aphrodite/Venus. He is trying to get me to focus on the things around me the Goddess wants me to influence (for example, my students and friends sex lives) and not on generalities like hunger and World Peace which are taking the time and resources of so many others far more skilled in those areas than I. 

In our private lives together (and unbeknownst to him) Marvin is teaching me to mind meld men to cause them willingly to meet my needs by placing them in my thrall. Not that women don’t do that already, to an extent, but male management at the Demi-Goddess level takes a bit of getting used to since it should be done seemingly without effort. My role as Jenna (his dead wife) in our relationship is one such test that the Goddess set for me, a learning experience so I can see how far my power extends before I damage an otherwise perfectly good man. And of course all without calling attention to myself by doing something a beautiful, athletic and sexually active dancer couldn’t possibly accomplish by herself.

 

The vaginal martini, and dive-sex

Pimento Stuffed Gourmet Queen Spanish olives

The Photo: Stuffed Queen Olives used in vaginal martinis described in the post below.

Pirate helps cater a major East Coast event: The head of our escort service was asked by a counterpart in New Jersey to help fill a shortage of talent for the pleasure of out-of-towners attending the Super Bowl. The norovirus has hit the trade hard in New Jersey and they were short the quality of entertainers that they had agreed to provide. Of course the request came at a time of peak demand here as well. He wasn’t about to send his Goddess or Angel level girls even if they hadn’t already been spoken for, but he let about a dozen of his Barbie level girls go on loan and back-filled here with younger girls who he doesn’t want traveling. It was a push, but doing a favor for New Jersey could pay off long term. NJ sent a Learjet for them so we will see how that works out.

Andrea enrolls at UNLV and the Vernal Equinox: It was too late to get her enrolled for the spring semester w/o paying late fees. However, she has one of Adolph’s Amex cards so there wasn’t any problem with that. She just needs a few courses to be credentialed on campus while her primary training will be elsewhere. Working with escort trainees and attending my advances sexual techniques classes. As with UNLV ahe will be starting late but I can coach bher and having come from a Swiss finishing school she already knows a lot. It’s her muscle tone and stamina that she needs to work on.

Looking at the UNLV spring calendar I was pleased to see that the Goddess has again provided, in scheduling the spring break recess for March 17-22. The Vernal equinox is on March 20th so that’s quite a good fit though we might get them back a bit late depending what else happens at Ullapool and Crag Abbey. Projecting out my menstrual calendar I should be CD12 and fertile on the Vernal Equinox and baring upset cycles my wards should be as well. I’m not sure where Andrea will be in her cycle as her cycles will have to stabilize since she has just come off NuvaRing.

The vaginal martini: I’ve been working with two of the girls in my ballet troupe who are Mixologists’ as well to perfect their presentation when preparing vaginal martin’s for Adolph’s Super Bowl party and they – both the girls and the martinis – were a huge hit. The vaginal martini is extremely popular among men, even the ones who aren’t all that fond of gin since it’s the preparation of the drink, specifically the placing of the olive which they seem to be fascinated by.

The ratio of gin to vermouth in a martini has been steadily increasing since the cocktail was created. A ratio of 1:1 was common at the turn of the 20th century, and 3:1 or 4:1 martinis were typical during the 1930s and 1940s. During the latter part of the 20th century, 6:1, 8:1, 12:1, or even 50:1 or 100:1 Martinis became considered the norm.

Our signature party libation, the “vaginal martini” is mixed at a customer’s table from a bar-cart worked by a lovely young woman mixologist nude and totally waxed except for scalp hair and eyebrows wearing only Gaynor Minden pointe shoes she is standing on her toes in.  Our version of the vaginal martini is made with an 8:1 ratio of gin to vermouth and a pimento stuffed queen olive dispensed from the mixologist vagina into the glass with a delicate squeezing of her vaginal muscles after springing to échappé sur les pointes and holding the pose. 

A typical unaroused vagina can hold 4 or 5 queen olives comfortably. To properly prepare and present a vaginal martini the mixologists should be proficient in basic pointework, have strong vaginal muscle tone and be proficient with Ben Wa balls.

Super Bowl XLVIII: Seattle Defeats Denver 43-8. So much for ‘evenly matched’ teams! Seattle was given a 2-0 lead on the first play of the game when Denver snapped the ball into the end zone for a safety, and the Broncos never recovered. Sheesh! I was for Denver (sort of) but I didn’t really care who won.  But it wasn’t rven a good gamre. It was as though Denver players had grease bon their hands. They couldn’t hold on to the ball and Seattle players seemed to slip easily out of their grasp when tackles were attempted… Sigh!

I thought even the commercials were poor except for the Budweiser one with the Lab puppy and the Clydesdales. The good news is that Adolph didn’t have any of his girls disappear, which often happens during his parties.

Dive-sex at 60 feet: On the plus side for me I got some pool time. And the men who took me really blissed me out! It was the closest I’d come to having my brains fucked out in quite a while! There was a net strung across The Well at 100 feet so no one could accidently sink below that depth.

I wore my signature canary yellow Gottex thong bikini with my OTS Guardian FFM and twin 130 cu ft. hp steel tanks filled with Nitrox. Even so I had a HP steel 80 hung at 30 feet as a deco stop in case I needed it. I tethered to a float at 60 feet and slipprd out of my tanks and hooked them on to the float as well so I could enjoy both missionary and rear entry sex. Adolph was the first man to take me and he helped me hang my tanks and prepare to be blissed out.

I was CD22 and luteal so there was no chance of becoming preggers. Even so I wore an Oves cap screwed down tight on my cervix and a latex Reflexions Flat Spring diaphragm as flood insurance to prevent a partner’s thrusts from forcing water into my uterus.  Most of the men at the party were rubberists so they loved the fact that when having sex with me they would be thrusting into a natural rubber latex membrane that if they penetrated my anterior fornix would squeeze their glans at maximum thrust depth. I had four lovers at 60 feet who all came to me before it was time to surface. They had given me three massive G-spot orgasms and after each I just hung there gasping for air luxuriating in the afterglow with waves of contractions still occurring long after my partner had withdrawn.

It was so wonderful just hanging there and letting my lovers thrill me completely while sucking gas and watching our bubbles and listening to our bubbles roar and demand valves hiss as we sucked gas and his grunts as he thrust and my moans, mewing then screams as he caressed my G-spot and my muscles contracted around him and we came together! It was heaven!

The chaperone

Which, Odette or Odile? In a plum VS push-up

Late registration at UNLV: It’s been an eventful, but very rushed few days. I had a helicopter pick us up and take us to San Juan where we boarded Limnaea which was returning from Europe carrying small priority packages bound for west coast locations. Our encounter with Roni, Miranda and Ralph over the last few days threw my schedule as well as that of my girls off by several days at an inconvenient time. Not that we all didn’t enjoy meeting Ralph and getting to know him quite well in some ways. The unfortunate part is the delay caused Cyndi and my two new wards (more about them a bit further on) to be late registering for the fall semester at UNLV. Not that that is a mortal sin. Given that the casino is such a big contributor to the university there was no problem once that fact became known.

Have I mentioned that Cyndi has decided to take a gap year and start at Oxford in the fall of 2014? That might have been a problem for some as seats at Oxford (as well as Cambridge) are in such high demand, but being the granddaughter of a Duke has its advantages.  Cyndi isn’t really taking the year off as she will be going to UNLV to take biology courses since right now she wants to be a doctor. And, it will be good to have her home where she can help with Odette and Odile’s extracurricular studies. All three girls will be living with me because of the academic as well as the escort training load they will have. That way my staff can ensure they eat properly at my training table and get enough sleep. Academics can be exhausting on the mind. Escort training takes strength and stamina and is physically exhausting. I intend to make their college years fun, but challenging w/o burning them out. 

The Swan twin’s father: Newly eighteen year old identical twins who I’ll call Odette and Odile when writing about them on this blog have been my vacation neighbors on Virgin Gorda for years. While they vacation on an adjoining estate there is a mile of what I think of as jungle between their father’s villa and mine. They graduated from a private school in NYC and were visiting for the summer. Their father, Paul, is a widower and is a self employed contractor of some sort who travels a great deal. He has a lovely small place, but finding it is nearly impossible even if you know the area well as the access road is overgrown and so deeply rutted you have to have a Land Rover or similar vehicle to get to the place by land. He has asked me over several times when he found I like to shoot pistols and we’ve shot up boxes of 9 mm bullets at a time on his pistol range. He has this amazing strong room hidden in the basement full of various types of guns and ammunition. I think he could be a fun guy if you are really into guns.

I had met Paul at several of the Duchess’s parties initially through his wife who was a Brit and Soloist dancing for The Royal Ballet when he met her. Then after she was killed in a car accident in Europe some years ago the Duchess began trying to get me interested in him as she thought his girls needed a mother. While he is a lovely man and good in bed attending to my needs before he satisfies himself, he somehow seems distant. So there has never been the right chemistry between us for a permanent arrangement, not that I’m looking for one. We are good friends and have been to island parties together and the twins have stayed at my villa with my wards when Paul has been suddenly called away to resolve some business crisis.

So it wasn’t unusual for Paul to ask me as he did several days ago to have the girls stay with me while he is in London for a few days. They are both excellent students and will attend UNLV this fall. I had thought they might go to a school with a higher academic profile, but they have had some disciplinary problems with authority (I can relate and sympathize) so they decided that since UNLV accepted them and it provides a good liberal arts education that’s where they would go. I suspect that my being near by was probably a factor in Paul’s letting them go to Vegas because he had talked about their needing a strong worldly female figure in their lives.

Ballet Girls: The twins enjoy ballet which their mother started them taking when they were four and are quite accomplished in the art of pointework to be amateurs. I call them Odette and Odile because while identical their personalities are polar opposites. Odette is sweet musical and gentle while Odile is a risk taker and mischievous. Paul has been extremely protective of them with boys and I have kept my distance from them in that aspect of their socialization because living in New York the age of consent is eighteen and I didn’t want them to possibly get in trouble if I included them in my wards pelvic training.

Not that they have been untutored in the ways of men as I have given them Ben Wa sets and dildos and taught them how to use them correctly since they needed a knowledgeable woman to take them in hand in that regard. Several years ago I even fitted them with Diva cups and 60 mm Milex Omniflex diaphragms (at that age strictly for use as flow control devices), but it got them used to handling their genitals as so many young women fear to do today. Until now I’ve avoided making available men for sexual encounters other than heavy petting while the twins wore chastity belts (I have a few all custom made by Gepetto for each of my favorite teens) as that sort of denial drives men wild.  However, now that they are 18 and will be attending UNLV they are old enough and close enough to me geographically to come within my sphere of influence for serious pelvic training which will stand them in good stead in the search and competition for the most desirable mates. A day or two ago Chris, our male Gyn, fitted them both with 65 mm Reflexions latex FS diaphragms and verified again that they have lovely deep post-pubic vaults, healthy cervixes and no hymen tissue that needs trimming. So now they can begin their intensive pelvic training safely; even when I take them to the ‘Well’, Adolph’s very deep training facility, for Trimix training.

Chaperone: A “person (as a matron) who for propriety accompanies one or more young unmarried women in public or in mixed company.” After talking around the matter for days Paul asked me to be the twins chaperone a function I performed while he was away while they were on Virgin Gorda. However, he now wants me to watch over them while they attend UNLV. I tried to get him to understand that it is impossible to keep them totally safe (especially Odile) unless they are locked up somewhere. However I agreed to fulfill that duty as I understand it, keeping them relatively safe while exposing them to new and pleasurable experiences that will expand their horizons in so many ways.

Now that they are eighteen and have had all their Gardasil shots I feel free to include them in sexual activities in which Cyndi and Bea routinely participate (especially escort training) as well as take them in hand for individual coaching in the art of seduction, though their natural talent in that regard is already on display. Paul already knows they are on the pill, Beyaz, supposedly to regularize their cycles. So as long as they take their pills correctly and stay with men who have been screened for STIs they should be quite safe. While both have used dildos, Hitachi Magic Wands and Sybian machines I believe neither has been penetrated by a human male making them technically virgins.   

Slit Kits part 2

Wolford Legwarmers - Merino Rib Wool

The Photo: This Fall St Lucy’s ballet students have a new dancewear fashion fad Merino wool legwarmers from Wolford for 43 GBP a pair. Not a problem for St Lucy’s students who each have several pairs in Fall colors.

Brenda’s long comment on Slit Kits: Your "slit kit" is certainly complete and to be highly recommended. I recently was asked to moderate a session for mothers at the university school on "the talk." There were about twenty of them, all in their thirties and each with a daughter between twelve and fifteen. I essentially gave them the outline that I used for so many years with girls at their first pelvic exam and added colour and brochures for them to use. The discussion become rather free-wheeling after that with one woman saying she had found semen spots on her daughters knickers and others admitting to indications that their daughters had yielded their virginity. "What do I do now?" was the question.

I recalled for them my teen years in a government school in the Hebrides where we had a strict uniform code and requirements for materials in our book bags. Girls over twelve had to have a napkin and spare pair of cotton knickers; tampons were absolutely taboo. We were required to wear "lightly padded" bras. They explained how it made us look more feminine but we all knew it was only to cover our nipples through the cotton blouses. The standard uniform bras at the local dry goods merchant were barely more than constricting straps and I was greatly relieved when my aunt took me shopping for my first "real bra."

Only a very few of us were ready to be using our genitals but we planned things well. One of the tampon companies was giving away holder that could take two applicator tampons. If, instead, we used non-applicator tampons a few condoms and a few vaginal suppositories would fit in their as well. What is more natural than a fifteen year old girl having tampons in her purse? The butch sports teacher who would check for out pads and panties did not even open the tampon holders. I was berated one time for using tampons but if she had opened the case she would have been really surprised.

I believe that those mothers who had seen signs sex left prepared to equip their daughters similarly. Others had the question, "What do I tell her to do if 'things start to get out of hand'?" I threw the question back to them and only one stated she never had that experience. The other responses ran from "I did it and had an abortion six weeks later" to "I started to yell 'rape.'" A few of them had given in, a few adamantly refused, a few had given hand jobs or blowjobs. Then "What would you do knowing what you do now." All agreed that they would have refused more strongly BUT all agreed that the girl should be equipped in case she willingly accepts. Interesting discussion and I am encouraged that the mothers you deal with are so accepting that sex is part of life, whether or not part of the curriculum. In most secondary schools, it may as well be part of the curriculum!

My reply:

[Brenda] Only a very few of us were ready to be using our genitals but we planned things well. One of the tampon companies was giving away holder that could take two applicator tampons. If, instead, we used non-applicator tampons a few condoms and a few vaginal suppositories would fit in their as well. What is more natural than a fifteen year old girl having tampons in her purse?

[Jill] How adult you must have felt having your own supplies immediately to hand should you want to take advantage of an opportunity!

[Brenda] all agreed that the girl should be equipped in case she willingly accepts. Interesting discussion and I am encouraged that the mothers you deal with are so accepting that sex is part of life, whether or not part of the curriculum. In most secondary schools, it may as well be part of the curriculum!

[Jill] Because St Lucy’s founder believed that young women should be willing and able to enjoy the full range of pleasurable experiences while being as safe as possible entrance requirements are geared not only toward meeting the standards of a rigorous academic curriculum, but also include a tendency toward being sexually assertive and adventuresome. While guiding and shaping each bright young adventuresome mind certain precautions are taken. Each St. Lucy’s student is required to have completed the series of Gardasil injections before arriving on campus. And, as I mentioned in an earlier post we strongly recommend that every new student be fitted with an copper IUD, preferably a GyneFix, so they can continue to experience the cyclical hormonal swings that are the source of so much female creativity.

We require that the strings be removed at placement of the IUD to prevent interfering with the seal of a cervical barrier or sticking to the barrier and being accidentally pulled out when the barrier (used for flood insurance during dive-sex) is removed. Actually, dive-sex is a huge motivator as no student wants to be so difficult that she is denied participating in that semester long class. Waxed pubes are also a requirement for students as well as their male partners so that vaginal plugs seat properly, thongs fit snugly and reduce the likelihood that repeated acts of penetrative intercourse might cause ‘beaver burn’.

During a student’s first year my Contemporary Sexual Health (CSH) class is mandatory. Then in her second year Advances Sexual Techniques (AST) is an elective, but every student takes it. In CSH students are taught the advantages, disadvantages and correct use of all forms of contraception and the standard positions for penetrative intercourse as well as the proper use of toys; Ben Wa balls, dildos and butt plugs as well as how to safely use machines like the Sybian.

AST teaches fetishes; rubber, gags & plugs, breathplay (using dive gear and gasmasks), bondage (with rope, chain, straps and scarves), Domination as well as Submissive techniques, the use of safe words and how to play rough while remaining unmarked are some of the things on the extensive syllabus.

The male partners used during the laboratory projects in both CSH and AST are recruited from students at UNLV and very carefully screened. Both the students and their partners are routinely tested for STIs and the women for pregnancy each week. The men selected are screened for HIV well in advance of partnering students so the quarantine interval is over before hand and none have sex except with students in the class they are participating in. Since the guys have a fantasy job, being paid to perform sexually with beautiful young women, the likelihood of them fucking other women is very unlikely since they can get as much tight pussy as they can handle. Even so, as an ex-president said, “trust but verify” so we set honey traps to test their adherence to the rules.

We like the girls to avoid using condoms with their lab partners so they can begin to develop confidence in the effectiveness of their IUDs or other female controlled contraceptive she is using, but that can bring its own problem with multiple unprotected partners changing the vaginal pH.

To stabilize their vaginal pH while sexually active with multiple partners students are encouraged to apply 10ml of DiveGel+ (used primarily for dive-sex) in their vaginas from prefilled disposable applicators before penetration. It’s a marvelous lube of course if the couple can’t wait for her to become aroused and produce her natural lube, but at St Lucy’s it’s used for surface sex more for the biocide in it which minimizes the likelihood of students getting yeast infections from having so many different sets of bacteria inserted in their vaginas over a short period of time.

The Ringlets, NuvaRing and dive-sex

The vaginal ring, NuvaRing, and its packaging

The Ringlets: A group of UNLV women graduate students in their mid 20s calling themselves the Ringlets because they all use NuvaRing have recently become interested in dive-sex. Having heard about me from Taryn’s friend they asked me for guidance in becoming sexually active underwater. Along with their boyfriends they have rented a live-aboard dive boat in Cancun for the holidays and needed basic contraceptive barrier (gas-guard) skills and necessary supplies. I’ve been talking to them about getting copper IUDs, but at this point it’s too late to change contraceptive methods before their trip. That’s because unless there is a serious problem with her current birth control it’s not a good idea to change methods just before a woman expects to have a high level of sexual activity. So since they all have been on NuvaRing for several years and none is experiencing any problem with it they should be ok.

NuvaRing description: NuvaRing (etonogestrel/ethinyl estradiol vaginal ring) is a nonbiodegradable, flexible, transparent, colorless to almost colorless, combination contraceptive vaginal ring containing two active components, a progestin, etonogestrel and an estrogen, ethinyl estradiol. When placed in the vagina, each ring releases on average 0.120 mg/day of etonogestrel and 0.015 mg/day of ethinyl estradiol over a three-week period of use. NuvaRing® is made of ethylene vinylacetate copolymers (28% and 9% vinylacetate) and magnesium stearate and contains 11.7 mg etonogestrel and 2.7mg ethinyl estradiol. NuvaRing is latex-free. NuvaRing® has an outer diameter of 54 mm and a cross-sectional diameter of 4 mm. [From the NuvaRing prescribing information at: http://www.spfiles.com/pinuvaring.pdf ]

Fitting the Ringlets: In addition to needing a gas-guard for upper reproductive tract protection - in case the vagina floods during submerged penetrative sex – a NuvaRing user needs something to prevent her ring from being hooked and pulled out by a partner’s penis as he withdraws after ejaculation while she is in the water. Having a ring pulled out is not uncommon especially if the man is well endowed and it is easily found in the bed clothes or in the car after vanilla sex. However having a ring pulled out while the woman is swimming is a different matter entirely. Submerged couples minds are often on air consumption and other things after the ecstasy of an underwater orgasm so a missing ring is easy to overlook and if noticed at all difficult to find afterward on the bottom of a pool and impossible in open water. So a diaphragm is a form of ring insurance for those women who don’t want to remove NuvaRing before a dive. There is a three hour maximum interval that the ring can be out w/o decreasing the effectiveness of the wearer’s protection. However there is very little privacy on a live-aboard for women to remove and insert their rings before and after dives, so wearing their rings under an Omniflex is becoming a popular alternative.

The diaphragm make and rim style I fitted the girls with was the Cooper Surgical Milex wide seal Omniflex (coil spring) rim. That was because they are all young with good vaginal muscle tone and all wear 70mm or 75mm diameter diaphragms which are large enough that the ring can safely and comfortably fit in the dome and the wide lip or flange around the inner edge of the rim helps hold the ring inside the dome. In addition I recommended that the Ringlets each take a spare ring and got them all two 12 applicator boxes of 10 ml DiveGel prefilled disposable applicators as well as a box each of FC2 condoms. A very good article (below) from Marie Claire earlier this year discusses NuvaRing and the possible adverse side effects of etonogestrel, a metabolite of desogestrel, used in it. The tips at the end of the article about clot control for women on the pill are particularly valuable.

Marie Claire
May 24, 2011
http://www.marieclaire.com/health-fitness/news/birth-control-safety
By Laura Beil

Is Your Birth Control as Safe as You Think?

Since NuvaRing hit the market, more than 700 women have filed lawsuits, claiming it has caused potentially life-threatening blood clots. The battle may change the way millions of women prevent pregnancy.

Christen Childs woke up on September 12, 2009, in the pitch dark of early morning with what she thought was a pulled muscle in her leg. She reached down to massage the cramp, trying to fathom how her left calf could be so achingly sore when she hadn't made it to the gym in weeks. This was a Saturday — by Monday, her leg was swollen and hot, and when she tried to stand, jolts of pain shot up to her spine. She consulted her brother-in-law, a doctor, and he told her to go to the ER immediately. He suspected what an ultrasound would confirm: Childs, 26, had a blood clot in her leg — left untreated, it could kill her. "When the doctor diagnosed me, I started crying," she says. "I was stunned by how close I had come to dying."

Death would come closer still. Later that day, the clot broke apart and traveled to her lungs. Straining to breathe, she remained bedridden in the intensive-care unit as blood thinners were injected into her stomach four times a day for six days. By the following weekend, she was released, instructed to return weekly for hematology checks to make sure new clots hadn't formed. Meanwhile, her doctors ran a battery of tests to figure out what exactly went wrong. After all, Childs didn't have any of the risk factors associated with blood clots: She didn't smoke, wasn't overweight, and had no family history of clots. After six months on blood thinners, Childs was finally back to her old self, with one exception: Her doctors wouldn't let her go back on NuvaRing, her birth control, which they determined was the likely culprit behind her near-fatal illness.

NuvaRing is one of the world's most popular forms of non-pill birth control, and recent data indicates that more than 5.5 million prescriptions were written in the U.S. in 2010, according to IMS Health, a health-care information company. But in recent years, serious questions have arisen concerning its safety. To date, almost 1,000 cases of possible NuvaRing-related blood clots have been reported to the FDA, and more than 700 women in the U.S. are currently suing Merck, NuvaRing's manufacturer, for downplaying its health risks. Most of those lawsuits have been consolidated into a massive, multidistrict federal case that's expected to go to trial in Missouri next year. The NuvaRing case is being closely watched by physicians and the pharm industry. If the litigants persuade a jury that Merck undersold the device's risk for blood clots — a big if, to be sure — it could have far-reaching consequences for several contraceptives on the market.

• When it was approved by the FDA in 2001, NuvaRing became the world's first vaginal birth-control ring. Inserted just once a month, it dispenses hormones directly into the bloodstream. Unlike oral contraceptives, which require taking a pill the same time every day, NuvaRing is marketed as a pill-free, no-muss/no-fuss alternative. Just pop it in and forget about it (the ring remains in for three weeks and comes out for a week during your period). That pitch clearly resonated with women. Last year, NuvaRing generated $559 million in international sales for Merck.

It's worth noting that all hormonal birth control with added estrogen carries a risk of blood clots. In the 1960s, the estrogen used in the earliest pills raised the risk of clots more than nine fold. A decade later, a second generation of pills containing a much gentler dose of the hormone, coupled with the synthetic hormone progestin, had been developed. Though these second-generation pills are effective and safe, drugmakers have sought new forms to market as better able to control conditions like facial hair and acne. NuvaRing contains a version of the third-generation progestin desogestrel. There's even a fourth-generation progestin, said to alleviate symptoms of PMS; it's the essential component of Yaz and Yasmin, two top-selling oral contraceptives.

The problem? Some researchers say third- and fourth-generation contraceptives — including those containing desogestrel — raise the risk of blood clots without adding any benefit. In 2007, the consumer watchdog group Public Citizen petitioned the FDA to ban oral contraceptives containing desogestrel. Although NuvaRing wasn't named in that petition because it was still fairly new, the director of Public Citizen's Health Resource Group, Dr. Sidney Wolfe, reached an unequivocal conclusion: "We've told people not to use these drugs and have advised women that the safest contraceptives are the older, second-generation ones." The FDA didn't act on Public Citizen's claims, even though during its own review process, the agency concluded that NuvaRing's label should "clearly reflect safety concerns about an increased risk" for blood clots.

In 2009, the British Medical Journal published two investigations of desogestrel and fourth-generation progestins that seemed to bolster critics' concerns. Both studies found that women taking third- and fourth-generation pills were almost twice as likely to get a blood clot than those who took second-generation contraceptives. Frits Rosendaal, Ph.D., an epidemiologist at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands who has contributed to more than a dozen scientific papers on desogestrel, coauthored one of the studies that found a higher risk for clots in NuvaRing than in second-generation birth control. "To me, it's incredible that [Merck] used desogestrel and not a second-generation progestin. Why not go for the one with the lowest risk?" says Rosendaal.

But Merck and other scientists dispute claims that NuvaRing poses a higher risk than other contraceptives. In NuvaRing's product information pamphlet, Merck acknowledges the findings, but adds, "Data from additional studies have not shown this twofold increase in risk. It is unknown if NuvaRing has a different risk of [blood clots] than second-generation oral contraceptives." That position infuriates NuvaRing's critics. "Nine years after the product was put on the market, they still say the risk is unknown. To say, 'We just don't know' is not sufficient," says Thomas Lamb, a North Carolina — based attorney whose firm represents more than 50 women around the country who have filed suit against NuvaRing, Yaz, and other third- and fourth-generation contraceptives.

Among those wanting answers is Robert Bozicev, 37, of Tom's River, New Jersey. His 32-year-old wife, Jackie, had begun using NuvaRing shortly after the birth of their daughter in 2007. One Friday morning, as he stood in the kitchen making breakfast for their two kids, he heard her puttering about in their second-floor bathroom. As she was about to step into the shower, she called his name. He answered her, preoccupied with their son, 2, who was demanding another waffle. After she cried for him a second time, barely able to get out his name, he dashed upstairs and found her on the floor, unable to breathe. "She was in a lot of pain, rolling around, trying to get onto her stomach," he says. "My son was there, watching the whole thing." To his horror, Jackie started turning blue.

When an ambulance arrived, emergency techs tried to restart her breathing. Bozicev was gripped with terror. Doctors continued to try to revive her in the hospital but eventually had to give up. She died that day. The cause of death: massive pulmonary thromboemboli due to deep vein thrombosis. In other words, she died from a blood clot. Anxious to learn more about what had happened, Bozicev searched online and came upon reports linking NuvaRing to an increased risk of clots. Knowing Jackie had been healthy before she started using the device (she wasn't overweight and didn't smoke), Bozicev concluded that NuvaRing was to blame, and filed a wrongful-death suit against Merck in March 2008. "Even to this day — and this is three and a half years later — I still can't believe it happened," he says. Jackie's clothes remain in her closet. He is too heartbroken to take them out.

NuvaRing isn't the only pill-free contraceptive beset by litigation. When Ortho Evra hit pharmacy shelves in 2002, it was the first birth-control patch of its kind. Its selling point: Simply slap a Band-Aid-like adhesive on your arm, stomach, or back each week. Within two years, sales had swelled to nearly $400 million. But soon after, studies emerged indicating that the blood concentrations of estrogen in Ortho Evra users might be much higher than previously thought, resulting in a greater risk of clots. That's when the lawsuits piled up. In November 2005, Ortho Evra, under an agreement with the FDA, added a black-box warning to its packages stating that patch users are exposed to roughly 60 percent more estrogen than the typical pill user, resulting in a potential "approximate doubling of risk of serious blood clots." The warning also stated that the risk might not increase at all, but it was still enough to scare off doctors. By year-end 2010, Ortho Evra's sales had fallen 69 percent to $124 million.

Merck, hoping to avoid a similar fallout, is standing by its product. "The decision was made to use this particular form of progestin [in Nuva Ring] because of the long history of safety and efficacy," says Dr. Michelle Vichnin, one of Merck's medical directors. When contacted by Marie Claire regarding the pending lawsuits, a Merck spokesperson stated: "The company intends to defend itself against these lawsuits." Possibly helping their case: In March 2010, researchers from the Cochrane Collaboration, a respected international organization that reviews published scientific data, analyzed 10 randomized studies of NuvaRing involving 3,000 women. They found that only two women in the study group developed clots, and one was later found to have a genetic risk.

Often lost in the discussion is just how unlikely the average healthy woman's chances of getting a blood clot are, whether she takes a second- or third-generation birth control. The risk of blood clots for women on a desogestrel-based contraceptive is about 30 out of 100,000, according to some studies — still less than half a percent. You're more likely to get struck by lightning over the course of your lifetime. And that risk is still several fold less than that of a woman who is pregnant or postpartum. Another issue undermining the claims against Merck is the scope of prior studies, which didn't look at a large enough pool of NuvaRing users, according to Dr. Andrew Kaunitz, a professor at the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Florida in Jacksonville. (Kaunitz consults for several pharmaceutical companies, including Merck.) To investigate the effect of something so marginal, he says, scientists need to conduct much bigger studies on women who do not have any known risk factors for clots. "When you're looking at rare events, even small biases can throw off your findings," says Kaunitz.

Larger studies are on the way. Merck is currently underwriting a massive trial of some 30,000 NuvaRing and pill users — the largest, most comprehensive study of the contraceptive to date.

The company says it expects to publicize results next year. "The study was started because we wanted to answer questions that were being discussed in the medical community," says Merck's Vichnin. Meanwhile, all eyes are on the impending litigation against fourth-generation pills like Yaz and Yasmin, also under fire for their potential blood clot risks and set to go to trial in September.

So what should NuvaRing users do in the meantime? Don't be afraid to ask your doctor questions about which birth control is right for you, given your medical history and lifestyle. There are close to 100 oral and pill-free contraceptives on the market today, yet many women take whatever their gynecologist recommends, no questions asked. Says epidemiologist Rosendaal, "It's not like there aren't options."

Clot Control

A healthy woman's risk of a blood clot increases dramatically if she takes birth control with estrogen. Here's what you need to know to diagnose and prevent a clot:

• What is a blood clot? A tiny buildup of platelets and blood plasma proteins caused by decreased blood flow to the lower extremities. Pregnancy, obesity, or being squashed like a sardine on a flight to Hong Kong all allow blood to pool, which can lead to a clot. On top of that, estrogen from oral contraceptives increases the levels of four of the blood's 12 clotting factors, making clots more likely, says Barbara Dehn, a nurse practitioner with the Women Physicians OB/GYN Medical Group in Mountain View, California.

• Telltale symptoms: Cramplike leg pain and red, swollen, or warm skin. Chest pain, shortness of breath, and heart palpitations may signal a pulmonary embolism (meaning a piece of the clot has broken off and traveled to the lungs). If you have any of these symptoms, get to the emergency room. Doctors will give you blood-thinning drugs; in an extreme emergency, you'll get an injection of a "clot-busting" drug like TPA (tissue plasminogen activator).

• Preventive measures: Drinking 8 ounces of water every two hours when on a plane will make a clot less likely. And do five minutes of toe raises or calf flexes every hour while traveling, says Dr. Mark Melrose, an emergency room physician and cofounder of Urgent Care Manhattan, a walk-in medical practice in New York. If you're pregnant or have had a clot before, wear support stockings (thick, tight panty hose that encourages circulation). And don't smoke — it increases the risk by a factor of nine, according to one study.

• Genes count. Get a "clotting workup," a blood test to detect inherited clotting disorders like factor V Leiden or a protein C or S deficiency. The conditions are rare, but if a family member has had a clot, get tested. (It costs about $200 if your insurance doesn't cover it.) Dehn recently told a patient whose sister had had a clot-related stroke to take the test before starting birth-control pills with estrogen. It turned out she had factor V Leiden, an inherited clotting disorder found in, on average, 5 percent of Caucasians; 2 percent of Latinos; and 1 percent or fewer of African-Americans, Native Americans, and Asians. She chose a different birth control, totally "blown away she could've put her life at risk," says Dehn. — Sophia Banay Moura”

Beavertails, Holiday ballets and helping friends

Salmon beavertail wetsuit from Labia Labs custom designs

Salmon beavertail jackets for dive-sex students: The Advanced Sexual Techniques class was fitted for their distinctive color beavertail jackets in September. They are the same color and style that the escort trainees wear which makes the SL girls feel more secure. The SL students wear the jackets to give them a sense of control, confident that they are covered while allowing almost immediate access, rather than entering the pool wearing bikinis which some initially feel are too revealing for a student/instructor penetrative encounter. The beavertail gives them a bit more time to prepare mentally while their trainer is opening the twist-latches and zipper. If a student has prepared physically, done stretching exercises, inserted her gas guard – a latex Reflexions FS diaphragm - and lubed up by inserting a 10ml applicator of DiveGel+ containing a powerful spermicide/biocide, she should be fine, but with new students there is always some apprehension during the first few dives when penetration will occur.

When I’m teaching a dive-sex lab I wear a student suit and matching pool pointes so I can circulate among the trainer-partner/student couples w/o being too obvious. Because of my small size if I’m in a salmon beavertail, hood, FFM and pool-pointes I can often pass as a student because the students are too focused on what their trainers are doing with them.

Wednesday 10-26-2011: I’m CD6 and menstrual so I have one of my latex Reflexions flat spring diaphragms inserted for flow control and contraception.. I love it when I’m on my period because I enjoy menstrual sex. I’ve just been really busy choreographing and rehearsing the programs for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas for my dancers and I’ve been trying to help Taryn’s friend at UNLV - there have been some unintended pregnancies among her friends that needed to be taken care of - as well as a stalker. And then Adolph is up to his old tricks again! Sigh!

Ballets for the holidays: I’ve revived Dracula as our Halloween ballet. It’s been a favorite and my company has been fairly stable for the last several years so most of them know it well. The first perf of this run was this past Monday and it’s very popular with the high-rollers! For Thanksgiving we are going to do La Fille Mal de Gardée and I’m setting it in the harvest season in colonial times with an old landowner after the farmer’s daughter for his wife while she is sweet on and being drilled by one of her father’s indentured servants. For Christmas we will do my erotic version of the Nutcracker where the daughters who are helping their grandfather distribute presents get diaphragms as gifts and suck the cream out of their teen male cousin’s éclairs while trying (unsuccessfully) to avoid being boned by the boy’s fathers.

The UNLV pregnancies: were terminated with Mifeprex, but one required a menstrual extraction (vacuum aspiration) when she didn’t pass the entire placenta. The pregnancies seemed to be because the women forgot to take their pills or they began taking diet pills and the increase in their metabolism caused the contraceptive hormones to pass through their systems too fast reducing the effectiveness of their pills. That’s a common problem with low dose pills. None of the women wanted to go through Student Health because records of the procedures covered by insurance are available to their parents.

I think the stalker will probably just ‘disappear’. We are working toward that end. With Adolph he is fond of European girls who are in the country illegally so no one knows or cares who they are or questions when they move on. You would be surprised how many of them there are.

Crush training: An old friend and frequent reader asked for more details about the crush training course I conduct occasionally. The classes are infrequent because there are so few women who are willing to commit the time and effort to learn the technique. Even with highly motivated students there is about a 50% drop-out rate. Women who are only into vanilla sex find it difficult to believe that the pelvic floor muscles can be developed to the extent that they can crush a vaginal penetrating penis, but it’s true. Think of the strength of the muscle contractions of women with vaginismus. We use those muscles and develop the ability to control when the muscles contract and by how much. If a woman can master that, and it takes months of intensive control and strength training to accomplish, she has a very good chance of destroying the erectile tissues of a penile shaft .penetrating her vagina. When I have the time I’ll try to write up something about crush training in a bit more detail.

Sorority Cosplay in body condoms: Taryn’s friend, I'll call the 'Chloe', who is a second year at UNLV, asked me on behalf of her sorority’s president, to help the cosplay group get fitted for body condoms to wear for ‘Hex or Sex’, an adult version of 'trick or treat', at their off campus Halloween party, the proceeds from which will go to feed poor children in the area. So I have been working with Gepetto’s latex shop to get the thirteen neophyte rubber-chicks, including Chloe, who will be putting out fitted and comfortable wearing their latex skins. We decided on slightly opaque cream latex so no one could see their faces. None of them had any idea how hot and sweaty having sex while wearing a latex body condom can be so it’s taking them a while to get used to the experience. They just need to stay well hydrated and let the guys do most of the work. Fortunately none of them is allergic to latex.

Two of them will be on their periods so menstrual sex will be on offer as well as plain vanilla. The girls all had full SDI panels and tested negative. For birth control six – including Chloe - have ParaGard copper IUDs inserted. Three have Implanon (etonogestrel) implants. Two are on Depo-Provera and two are on Yaz, ethinyl estradiol and drospirenone. They will wear FC2s while with a client so they will probably be safe.

Ballet Cosplay & Horizontal Academics

Old Freed Classics used for Cosplay

Ballet training for UNLV Cosplay women: There is a cosplay (costume play) club associated with a popular sorority at UNLV that is using a set of period (1950s) story lines that involve ballet for role playing. The idea is that the costumes and equipment for and the interpretation of the individual roles have to be as nearly as perfectly period as possible and errors in costuming or performance are brutally criticized and the girl making the errors is humiliated in front of other club members as a form of sorority hazing.

A friend of Taryn’s, who graduated from St Lucy’s at the same time as Taryn, is now an Advanced Placement second year student at UNLV asked for my help in getting herself and two of her sorority sisters up to speed in pointe work and contraception (which are the two aspects where they feel their experiences and training are the weakest) to avoid being humiliated by the stream of invectives directed at new club members who make costume and performance errors.

For pointe shoes we are using old Freed Classics which use traditional materials and manufacturing techniques and are the closest to the pointes used in the fifties. We get them from the discarded shoes from several of my company dancers and pad-up so the shoes don’t hurt that much. When the girls get good at it I will reduce their padding and refit them with shoes that are a better fit. And we replaced some of the ribbons that had elastic in them to lessen the chances of tendonitis because elastic wasn’t used in the ribbons in the fifties.

One of the girls balked at the time I insisted they take for training, but after one of her friends was so humiliated during a critique of her Cosplay performance she resigned from the sorority she changed her mind and is now 100% committed to learning as much from me as she can. It would have been a hopeless task to train them except for the fact that all three had taken pointe several years ago and so they were rusty, but with proper training and dedication were back up to passable amateur speed in a few weeks.

The contraception problem limits the girls to condoms and diaphragms since the ballet roles are set in the 1950s and the women are not supposed to use hormonal contraceptives or IUDs which weren’t invented or in use in the U.S then and that freaked them out. As far as cervical barriers are concerned the FemCap wasn’t available then nor was Oves or the Prentif cervical cap so the only method of contraception that the woman herself could use was the diaphragm which became available in the 1930s. The girls were very concerned about using only diaphragms for protection, but I assured them that a properly fitted and correctly used diaphragm is 96% effective and that when used simultaneously with a male condom the combined effeteness is above 99%, just as effective as the pill or an IUD. I would like to have fit the three of them with All-Flex silicone diaphragms since it is rugged and the easiest style to insert correctly. However, they needed latex because diaphragms were made of latex in the 1950s. So I fit them with Reflexions flat spring diaphragms the only latex devices still made by a major manufacturer. A flat spring diaphragm is a bit harder to insert correctly. Fortunately their fingers are long enough that they can feel their cervixes, so I taught them how to check with their fingers that the stretchy rubber dome is covering the cervix. And a gas Guard inserted protects a girl from her partner blowing air up her vagina while giving her oral, something fifties women using diaphragms were automatically protected against.

Dive-sex wasn’t a part of normal sexual activity in the fifties so with wanting to be as true to the period as possible during a cosplay sexual encounter they shouldn’t be having dive-sex. However, a benefit of a flat spring diaphragm is that it can be use at any depth for dive-sex so if somehow they find themselves in that situation they are still safe. Of course there is nothing to prevent the girls using their flat spring diaphragms for dive-sex with a favorite partner outside the Cosplay setting. Diving deeper than 30 feet seems very unlikely since the only dive facilities deeper than 30 feet in the area are my pit and Adolph’s well and neither of us is allowing UNLV students in our training facilities.

The girls use our in-house experimental silicone base intimate lube and spermicide Semécide from Labia Labs professional line of contraceptive products. The spermicide made with dive-gel and Octoxynol-9 (O9) and is far less irritating and just as effective as spermicides using Nonoxynol 9 (N9) and can be used with both silicone and latex barriers.

They have been able to avoid any of the ballet scenarios during Cosplay so far, but their training has reached the point that they don’t wobble en pointe and their poses, développés, bourrées and jumps are quite good for amateurs so I think they should be ready to compete in that category in the next few days.

Horizontal Academics: Karen Owens PowerPoint presentation during her senior year at Duke University is old news by now. However, the same thing is going on at UNLV with, hopefully, a bit more discretion. With today’s sexually liberated women keeping a tally and rating a girl’s sexual conquests is common, especially among sorority sisters who share the information while mentoring younger women. Horizontal Academics is not a for-credit course, but it certainly is a valuable part of a young woman’s education. I’m working with Student Health to provide dive-sex training for the few sorority women who want to score in non traditional public locations and counseling them about being careful what information they post about themselves and others on social networking sites.

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Laid in the Lied

Part of the stacks in Lied Library UNLV

UNLV Library privileges: Robin and I went scouting new venues for shooting adult videos and we looked at the new Lied Library at UNLV. I thought it might be too public to video sex in the stacks. Too bright and airy, that sort of thing, but in the evenings at the far end on the fifth floor (on the top floor off to the right side of the image accompanying this entry) where there is less traffic we found a really great place. Robin has a student ID which he will keep active by taking an occasional course and I’m on the adjunct faculty as a sexual health instructor so we had no problem with access, not that we were questioned at all. I wore baggy sweats that covered my transparent body condom with split sole canvas ballet slippers on my feet so leather slippers wouldn’t squeak on the tile floors. I carried several pairs of pointe shoes and a pair of Gepetto’s Pleasure boots in my backpack along with my ball gag, gasmask, a box of FC2 condoms, and several pairs of disposable nitrile gloves, just in case. Robin wore sweats too with only a Speedo slingshot underneath and a pair of scuffed Timberlands. He carried the cam in his backpack. We have a clamp mount and wide angle auto focus lens so it will clamp onto a shelf and catch all the action. We sent a copy of the unedited video to the Theme & Location director at one of Taryn’s adult media companies and if she likes it she will recommend sending a small team in.

Geology coeds at play: Given the subject: A coed, during drilling technology lab with her tutor, it will probably be a covert operation. If they stick with that theme. Some parts of the Lied are difficult to disguise, not that there is any serious attempt to hide the locations of shoots but there is no overt acknowledgement of a location like videoing the name on the building. They have successfully completed similar projects at the Houghton rare book and manuscript library at Harvard and at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale so there is no reason to believe they can’t do it again at the Lied.