Boxing Day, diving the well

This year Monday 28 December is Boxing Day

The Photo: A caution to frenzied UK after Christmas sales shoppers

Blackthorn Barony and Boxing Day: The Oxford English Dictionary gives the earliest attestations of the term as being from England in the 1830s, defining it as 'the first week-day after Christmas-day, observed as a holiday on which post-men, errand-boys, and servants of various kinds expect to receive a Christmas-box'. However there are indications that gift giving to tradesmen and servants on the day after Christmas began long before that name was attached to the custom.

Presently in UK Boxing Day is the day after Christmas. However, because Christmas is on Friday this year Boxing Day is celebrated on the following Monday, December 28^th. These days in the UK, Boxing Day is a bank holiday when the after Christmas sales begin. Traditionally ‘Christmas boxes’ contained money or presents and the Barony’s ‘boxes’ for employees who have performed satisfactorily throughout the year contain a sum of money equal to at least 10% of the servants annual wage. The Barony’s boxes are distributed to employees by the Baroness on the afternoon before Boxing Day and to tradesmen and others on Boxing Day itself.

 For her female employees my predecessor Edith, as 22^nd Baroness Blackthorn, began a tradition in the late 90s of allowing most of the Barony’s women servants to travel to London aboard The Dragon the night before to attend the sales on Boxing Day. The minimum staff that stayed behind on Boxing Day to provide hospitality services to the castle are taken to London for the sales aboard The Dragon the following Monday. Anyone who has been in domestic service in a major household knows how tightly they are run so having time off with meals, transportation and lodging (sleeping aboard the Dragon in very comfy reclining seats) on their employer’s dime is very rare. Although the excursion is not entirely w/o oversight since very junior staff are in the care of senior staff members on the trip to ensure no harm comes to them. Male staff gets an equal amount of time off to hunt or fish on Barony land. So that has proved an extremely popular tradition.

Multi-bed hyperbaric chamber: The four bed industrial multiplace hyperbaric chamber (MHC) was the last piece of major equipment installed in my dive facility. It was installed in a space reserved for it after I decided that I could rent out the facility as a diver school when I wasn’t using it and needed an MHC to ensure I had the equipment needed to get the necessary approvals and licence. It’s an upgrade from the one that is about six years old that Adolph, my friend in Vegas, has installed for his dive facility that was used also by women in residence at his Spa, The Lorelei, near by.  

Diving the Well: I try not to vary my exercise routine very much regardless of what is going on around me because at my age I can’t afford not to keep my body in top dancing condition. That’s especially true over the holidays when fattening foods and sweets are so plentiful so that it is harder to keep the pounds off. So after my daily ballet barre and pointe classes I’ve been diving the shallower, 64 ft., well for dive-sex with one of the ballet-boys who are here to provide erotic companionship over the holidays. Carla fitted him with one of the Guardian FFMs reserved for guests. I chose him because he is very well endowed, is an avid SCUBA diver and has a reputation as a considerate partner and an awesome underwater fuck.

I find it amazingly exciting to hang restrained by an ankle leash weightless tethered to the floor 64 feet below the surface sucking gas while having my brains fucked out by a marvelous hunky and very experienced lover.  At that depth using regular gas rather than a Nitrox mix I sometimes get just a touch of nitrogen narcosis which heightens my danger if I’m not careful. To avoid that we breathe Enriched Air Nitrox with 32% oxygen (EAN32) to minimize the chance of nitrogen narcosis and extend dive time w/o decompression. Even so I have deco lines and spare air hung in both wells for periodic decompression stops the last being at 15 feet if needed. After sex I love having an afterglow nap while still tethered to the bottom. I have my computer set to alarm when I’ve reached table limits and I need to deco during ascent. Dive-sex uses a lot of air as air consumption techniques are pretty much ignored as you are racing toward and at orgasm so we use 130 cu ft HP steel tanks. That way we can usually have at least three encounters and a nap before we ascend.   

Since it’s after Christmas I’m luteal, I ovulated on Christmas day, so right now I don’t need a cervical barrier for contraception. I just need reproductive tract protection for ‘flood insurance’ to prevent having water forced into my uterus from the hydraulics of a lover’s thrusts if or when my vagina floods which is a common occurrence for women during dive-sex.  Ideal for dive-sex flood insurance is a latex Reflexions flat spring diaphragm because silicone lube so necessary for extended intercourse underwater can be safely used with a latex diaphragm and unlike arcing and coil spring rim diaphragms the flat spring rim is nearly impossible to under-thrust even when the man is intentionally trying.

After inserting my Reflexions I always squat push, down to force my cervix closer to the entrance to my vagina and use my fingers to express the air out of the dome forcing the stretchy rubber deep into my anterior fornix to be held there by the suction which appreciably increases the strength of the suction in the dome and therefore the strength of the seal and the safety of the device.

Female staff off: Three thirteen passenger vans took the ladies of the castle staff down to Caersws to board The Dragon for the overnight trip to London for the sales. They will sleep and eat aboard the train and the Dragon will be parked at an unused platform at St Pancras so they can breakfast and leave for the sales when the stores open. They were so excited! I’m glad to be able to do something to please them as they work very hard to please me during the year.

Pussy hooks - the pros and cons

A new St Lucy’s instructor being fitted for a pussy hook

The Photo: You know she’s an instructor because her pubes aren’t waxed. 4^th year ballet students and some new professors (If they teach sexuality) at St Lucy’s get fitted for pussy hooks and Labia leashes at our casino’s bondage boutique, Fasteners, before taking my class ‘Submissive Behavior in a D/s Relationships’.

 

 

 



Pictured above is a 1.0 inch diameter stainless steel vaginal hook similar to the one being worn in the top photo so the reader can get an idea of its size. It’s a standard training aid - because of the danger of wearing it it’s used primarily as an example of male misogyny - in my class: Submissive Behavior in D/s Relationships. Even so Students love to pose for selfies with this size hook inserted.

 

This particular size and design is not really a toy though many women like having one amongst their toys and posing for selfies with it inserted to stimulate the interest of the Dom they are interested in serving or are collared to. It was made to hold the woman while she is suspended from her pelvic bone. Of course being hung like that results in the hook tearing through the vaginal wall and bladder or uterus. The pelvis almost always separates at the symphysis – except for a few of the smallest lightest women - which results in the hook tearing out dropping her fatally injured on the dungeon floor.

Small stainless steel pussy hook with 1.5 inch terminal ball

For D/s play a much smaller and lighter stainless steel hook (see photo #3 above) is used and the leash is looped through the ring on the Subs collar so she can be lead around w/o much likelihood of physical damage to the delicate tissue of her reproductive tract.

Pussy hooks; the good and bad: There is very little upside for the wearer of a pussy hook and the possibility of a lot of downside damage. Of course only the psychotic ever willingly attempt being hung by it. Being hung from an industrial vaginal hook often ends in death. If found in time her reproductive tract might be repaired, but the psychological damage to her Chi and libido is usually permanent in the few cases I’m aware of where the woman was left hanging from a pussy hook and survived.

The only good thing might be the eroticism of wearing a light weight vaginal hook to a dress-up vanilla party for the shock value or wearing it under street clothes fastened securely to a sanitary pad belt or a decorative waist chain. But for that sort of turn-on I think loose stainless steel or Pyrex Ben Wa balls would be better and more comfy. Of course for some masochists the hooks shape, size and discomfort are part of its attraction. A nice thing about this light weight surgical stainless steel hook is that the ball terminal allows it to be worn with a diaphragm w/o fear of the end puncturing the dome.

Readers who look this item up on the Internet will find it often offered as an anal hook. My escorts and St Lucy’s girls like training with it as a vaginal hook. However, a wearer of even a light weight ball terminal hook needs to be careful the hook leash looped through her collar ring isn’t jerked too hard as that can crush delicate vestibular tissue and pinch or crush her clitoris when pulled by a mischievous or misogynistic male.

NFL Super Bowl XLVIII: In case someone just landed from outer space, the Seattle Seahawks play the Denver Broncos on Sunday February 2, 2014 in the open air MetLife Stadium at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, with kickoff scheduled for 6:30pm EST. I don’t really have a favorite. I’ve lived in the San Francisco area and it’s beautiful and I danced in Oakland. Even so, I’m sort of leaning toward Denver. Readers who have been with me since my days posting on Yahoo may remember why.

Since I’ve been busy and out of the country for most of the last few weeks Adolph is hosting our Super Bowl party this year during which his deep dive training facility, ‘The Well’ will be available for SCUBA play and the multi-bed hyperbaric chamber will be available if needed. I’m pleased that I can kick back and let go at one of these parties and not have to play hostess. I’m taking my SCUBA gear as I’m expecting to be asked for dive-sex.

Our return home from Davos: Our return was uneventful. We stopped briefly at Stansted airport (STN) north of London to drop off Fiona and Maj. Tree so they can report to Whitehall in person and to top off our tanks. I’m still using the loaned G650 as Limnaea II while my new one is being custom fitted out. I should be able to take delivery in a few weeks.

 

Harvesting a dead woman’s diaphragm

One of my 80mm latex Reflexions flat spring diaphragms

The Photo: A Reflexions latex flat spring rim diaphragm, the type I wear for flood insurance during dive-sex and when with rubberists who crave the experience of thrusting into the stretchy latex membrane while thrusting into my anterior fornix. I also wear Reflexions for flow control while I’m menstrual and since I’m CD2 today I have one inserted as I’m writing this.  

A cautionary tale: The deaths of two navy divers at an east coast training facility. Read the article from the Washington post: HERE I agree with one of the commenters on the article that the divers were very poorly equipped as the situation seems far too risky with the air they had.

Of course we are civilian recreational divers and while dive-sex can be risky we try to be properly equipped. There is a lot of heavy breathing during dive-sex and when we go to the bottom or even below 100 feet for very long we have deco tanks hung in case we need them, we dive with a buddy and there is a divemaster on duty to monitor the dive. Of course all Adolph’s dives are videoed and the most erotic are sold on the porn market, which is why my girls and I always have our FFMs on and AB valves open when we leave the dressing room and are on the surface.

Dive-sex flood insurance: To my women readers I can’t over emphasize the importance of cervical protection during dive-sex. Cervical barrier protection is needed to minimize the possibility that the hydraulics of a partner’s thrusting will force water into the uterus when the vagina floods, which often occurs during dive-sex. However, women with IUDs inserted should be aware that using a diaphragm or FemCap with an IUD could pull the IUD out during barrier removal if the strings stick to the device.

A properly fitting FemCap can be used as protection during dive-sex when shallow diving in a typical twelve to twenty foot deep commercial pool, but any deeper and the dome of FemCap can squeeze the cervix painfully as water pressure forces the cervix deeper into the caps dome void. An Oves cap (the style I use) can be comfortably worn at any depth because the dome is so small and soft that there is no void to cause squeeze. Since Oves is no longer made this option is not available as flood insurance unless a user stocked up years ago as I did before Oves was withdrawn from the market.

The currently preferred flood insurance device is the latex Reflexions flat spring diaphragm. Women whose vaginas have deep post-pubic vaults and thick soft rugae that allow the diaphragm to seal securely can safely and effectively use the Reflexions as flood insurance as the flat spring rim makes it almost impossible to even intentionally under-thrust the rim. The translucent latex membrane is wonderfully stretchy and has excellent heat transfer properties so men can rarely feel the rim and most, and especially rubberists, enjoy thrusting into the thin rubber dome.

Death Rubber replenishment: Returning readers are familiar with the term ‘death rubber’ that I use to describe a latex Reflexions diaphragm I’ve personally removed from the vagina of a woman who died while having sexual intercourse. Being a sensitive, I’ve found that a latex diaphragm worn at death during sex contains a portion of the dead woman’s Chi which when the diaphragm is worn by a new owner can add to her Chi and significantly enhance the new owner’s libido and confidence. Since the Reflexions is latex heavy usage will cause them to deteriorate much quicker than silicone diaphragms so its important to test the domes integrity before each insertion to check for pin holes, thin spots and cracks in the rubber around the rim to minimize the possibility of dome failure and uterine flooding even if not needed for contraception.

Given the relatively short life of heavily used Reflexions I’m always watching for other Reflexions in my size, 80mm, worn by women who died during intercourse. And when I find one I need to harvest it myself from the dead woman’s vagina so there will be no decrease in the dead woman’s Chi before her Reflexions passes into my care. My clinic has a list of all the women using Reflexions in my size in the area so I can watch for the death of a possible donor during sex as that sort of news travels faster than light. However, most of my death rubber devices come from Adolph’s deep water training facility and occur during dive-sex at depths of one hundred feet or more.  

The donor: A 31 y/o French Courtesan, ‘Julie’ had come to Adolph’s dive training facility to learn deep dive underwater sex techniques with Adolph as her trainer. He had sent her to me for a Reflexions diaphragm fitting, for ‘flood insurance’ before she began training and an 80mm fit her perfectly. She was on the European progestin-only-pill (POP) Cerazette which uses a progestin with a long half-life allowing a twelve hour late window w/o decreasing its effectiveness.  Each Cerazette tablet has 75 micrograms of the progestin Desogestrel which is metabolized into Etonogestrel, the same progestin used in NuvaRing and the single rod implant Nexplanon.

When I fitted Julie for her Reflexions I also routinely tested for hCG and she was pregnant. At that point I urged her to terminate the pregnancy or delay dive training until she was no longer pregnant. She said she felt fine and was determined to continue her scheduled deep water training. I pointed out that in a commercial 15 -20 foot deep pool and diving with a buddy if she was in trouble she could get to the surface in seconds. At the bottom of Adolph’s facility, The Well, she would be breathing Trimix and tethered to the bottom at 216 feet too deep for an emergency ascent to do her any good if she vomited in her FFM. If her mask and lungs were filled with vomit even Adolph’s multi-bed hyperbaric chamber couldn’t save her.

She was adamant that she would continue to dive and wanted to experience dive-sex at 216 feet below the surface. I documented my recommendations and sent a copy to Adolph urging him to refuse to train her in his main deep water pool. He refused and they began her deep water training that afternoon.

Julie’s Reflexions is Harvested: In the evening two days later I got a call from Adolph. He said that Julie was unresponsive at the bottom of The Well after vomiting as she was being penetrated from behind while tethered to the bottom.  And that if I wanted it I should come and harvest my new death rubber and bring her body to the surface as he needed to alert her sister, her only living relative, and send her body back to France.

That night I took Willow with me. It would be her first dive breathing Trimix and to the bottom of The Well. During the dive she could learn how I harvest my new death rubber, so she would know what to do when her time comes to harvest her own. The facility is heated so we wore bikinis with our OTS Guardian FFMs’ and twin 130 cu ft hp steel tanks filled with Trimix. We emptied our bowels and bladders, inserted our Reflexions and applied 10ml disposable vaginal applicators of DiveGel+ because I had asked two male escorts to meet us at the deco stop on our ascent for dive-sex while we decompressed.

I took a new 80mm Reflexions with me to replace the one I was going to remove from Julie’s vagina. We took our time on the descent checking the oxygen tanks and transfer valves at the deco stop at 30 feet before we continued to the bottom in case we needed them on our ascent though we hadn’t planned to stay long enough or work hard enough to use all our Trimix. Neither of us had trouble equalizing our sinuses and ears on the descent and we saw her floating tethered by ankle leashes to the bottom with her long hair down. While her FFM spider held it to her skull the other 18 inches was fanned out around her head like a halo. Adolph has a thing about women diving with our hair down which is really troublesome as loose hair gets tangled in the valves and zippers on our equipment, which is why I always wear a swim cap or hood.

On the bottom before we opened the cuffs of the ankle leashes Julie was weighted so she was floating face down with her legs spread and bikini thong pulled to one side so her vulva was totally uncovered. Her labia were parted and her introitus was still a bit open as though Adolph had just pulled out.  I was wearing nitrile exam gloves and inserted two fingers to feel if her cervix was still under the dome which it was then gripped the anterior rim of the Reflexions and tugged it from behind her cervix then pulled it the rest of the way out. A large quantity of semen came out with the diaphragm suggesting she was not having orgasms or giving him contractions by clenching her muscles when she died. There was spotting in the dome as well as some of her natural arousal lube. I could feel it slippery on the inside of the dome before it washed away.

I tucked the harvested device in my mesh specimen bag and took out the new one compressed the rim and carefully inserted it along the posterior vaginal wall and up behind her cervix. Then pushed the anterior rim further in and up into her post-pubic vault and felt for her cervix under the dome so I was sure it was properly placed. And I did all that while hovering over her body so the HD cams couldn’t video what I was doing. Once the new Reflexions was in place I pulled her thong back over her vulva giving her a small measure of modesty in death as I inflated her BC and Willow released the ankle leashes and Julie began her final ascent.

Well bottom cleanup: While Willow and I were on the bottom we still had plenty of gas to allow us to collect the debris that had fallen to the bottom during training sessions in the last few months. I had brought along two large fine mesh specimen bags and we began collecting the bits and pieces of women students suits and contraceptive devices and training equipment that dad been dropped during training sessions.

There were torn bikini tops and thongs that had apparently been ripped from under tank harnesses and BCDs.  There were All-Flex, Milex, Semina and Reflexions diaphragms in various sizes and quantities from 60mm to 90mm. There were swim fins, pool-pointes and a pair of latex ballet-boots with lead weighted toe-box platforms. And there were a few FC2 nitrile female condoms and vaginal toys like Pyrex dildos, several very expensive ones, as well as Glass, steel and jade Ben Wa balls of different sizes between .5 and 1.5 inches in diameter. Tellingly, there were also three small pairs of needle nose vice grip pliers that Adolph uses to crimp closed the air hoses of female students who displease him.

And not surprisingly, because we were at the bottom of Adolph’s fetish training facility, though I cringed when I saw the first one, there were a number of IUDs littering the bottom as well.

A German Goldring Medusa gold and copper IUD.

The IUDs were mostly Mirena a few ParaGard and German version of the copper T a German IUD I’d heard of but never seen before with a gold core; the Goldring Medusa (Gold/copper) AuCu IUD. The Medusa (pictured above) looks like it was invented by a sadist and must have hurt when Adolph pulled them out as I can’t imagine a Goldring Medusa being spontaneously expelled. 

When we finished cleanup we sent the debris up on a lift bag and began our ascent which was uneventful until we reached the 30 foot deco stop where we were met by our dive-sex partners. We attached ourselves with ankle leashes and enjoyed a lovely slow dive-sex encounter during the 30 minutes we stayed at 30 feet degassing. Both men were rubberists and enjoyed having their glans squeezed by the stretchy domes as they thrust into our anterior fornices before they got us off with twin G-spot rim-rubs. It was a fun evening for all, except Julie of course, and an amazing learning experience for Willow. The next day an assistant coroner who Adolph knows ruled Julie’s death was “death by misadventure” and the body was released for transport back to France. 

 

Bea’s social education begins

A C-string invisible thong panty

The photo: The C-string panty eliminates panty lines in tight skirts and slacks and covers the head of a Penetrator plug when the wearer is performing on stage in pasties and C-string with her plug inserted.

Bea becomes my protégé: Now that I’ve taken a personal interest in her I’ve arranged for her to stay with me for training over the summer holiday as her mom is now in an acute care facility. As my protégé she will be taught all I know about seduction then be presented into society to make the most of her considerable talents. I’ll love watching her cutting a swathe through the men in society breaking hearts and mind-fucking contenders left and right as her favors are competed for. She definitely has a seriously kinky side so one of the first things is to find her a 65mm Reflexions death rubber as I’ve found the Chi of the former owner can be a huge confidence boost when I’m feeling tentative.

Bea, her Reflexions and ‘cervical grip’: Returning readers will remember that I recently wrote about fitting Bea with her first latex diaphragm, a 65mm flat spring Reflexions. The advantages of wearing a flat spring latex diaphragm are better heat transfer characteristics and it’s nearly impossible to under-thrust. Under-thrust protection is very important since she is too small for an IUD and she will be continuing her training encounters with escort candidates and possibly Brian. Also with Reflexions, on the sensual side there is the marvelous feeling that I’ll call ‘cervical grip’ when wearing it with the dome under significant vacuum while diving or pumped down in a hyperbaric chamber under positive pressure.

I hadn’t had the opportunity to take her to Adolph’s multi-bed hyperbaric chamber to see if the seal of her Reflexions was good enough that the dome would hold a strong vacuum to sustain her cervical grip until she broke the seal. Though she has deep soft vaginal rugae and it seemed to me that the rim should seal well enough to develop and retain a strong vacuum you can’t tell for sure until the individual actually puts her diaphragm under vacuum.

It wasn’t the best time for either of us since we were both on our periods. I was CD1 and flowing lightly and she was CD5 and over her heavy days for the month. But I had a patient from The Lorelei, who I was going to try and fit for a high-vac dome so time in the chamber was available and we took it. We emptied our diaphragms then reinserted making sure that they were positioned correctly and were comfortable. Then I had the chamber operator take us down slowly to 100 feet as we adjusted to the pressure and the air was squeezed out of the domes and the latex membranes were stretched over our cervixes and into our anterior fornices. Bea loved the feeling. She said it was as though her uterus was being gently pushed higher inside her, which indeed it was, slightly. It’s somewhat the same feeling a woman gets when she wears a pessary for a minor uterine prolapse, minus the pain and other side effects associated with the prolapse.

Bea kitted out for underwater sex: Now that I have more control over her training I had her kitted out for dive-sex. Fortunately she is already PADI open water qualified which saves us a world of time as we can get straight to diving with male escorts. That will be a help to the men, having Bea in their rotation as there aren’t that many St Lucy’s girls who are interested in sex underwater even in a properly equipped and well heated pool. I’ll admit a girl does have to be adventuresome and have a raging libido to enjoy dive-sex so Bea should fit right in.

I had our divemaster fit her with an Oceans Technology Systems Guardian full face mask (OTS Guardian FFM) with an ambient breathing valve (abv) that saves air when on the surface and a comm. Link so she can talk to her dive partner while under water. But the really practical thing about FFMs for dive-sex is that during orgasm you don’t have to worry about losing your reg if you open your mouth to scream which, at least for women, lets us forget about equipment and just enjoy sucking gas and our partner’s thrust technique.

Pool pointes, silicone toe-shoes with replaceable satin ribbons, come in standard U.S. women’s shoe sizes so there was no problem in having her fitted at Gepetto’s fetish shoe amd; boot boutique. The pointes came with a full set of lead platform weights from one to twenty pounds in two pound increments. Returning readers will remember the weights can be screwed onto the platforms of the buoyancy neutral shoes to hold the wearer in the vertical position under water or with the heavier weights on the bottom like a divers lead weighted boots.

Brian and the Mumps: I haven’t heard from Brian for almost a month. Callisto called today to say that he had had a very bad case of Mumps and wondered where he had gotten it since no one in his classes at the university have had it recently. I’m fairly certain that I know where he contracted it, from one of his St Lucy’s Muses though none of them presented any symptoms of the virus. A significant percentage of cases are asymptomatic and St Lucy’s did have a few presenting cases about that time even though we had all been inoculated with the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine. Callisto said that his testicles had become swolen and very painful and that he seems to be taking a very long time to recover. Side effects are rare but can be very serious in adults. I have no way t prove it but he spent so much time privately coaching Bea that I think he probably got it from her even though she presented no symptoms and seemed in top physical condition during their repeated sexual encounters. Callisto said he has revised his schedule to cancel all travel for the rest of the academic year, which is a relief since I hadn’t decided exactly how I was going to prevent Brian privately coaching Bea as he said he intended to do and still keep him happy.

Fisting diaphragms

A compressed flat spring diaphragm showing the folds in the latex dome

High-vac diaphragm play: Returning readers will remember that I’ve written about the advantages of wearing a flat spring latex diaphragm (better heat transfer characteristics and it’s nearly impossible to under-thrust) for dive-sex and about the amazing feeling that I’ll call ‘cervical grip’ when wearing it with the dome under significant vacuum while diving or in a hyperbaric chamber under positive pressure. You can get a somewhat similar effect with a silicone (Ortho or Milex) diaphragm, but because a silicone dome is thicker and less elastic the amount of stretch to be had with a latex dome is far superior and the voids left unfilled by a silicone dome can cause painful squeeze.

In my experience as a cervical barrier fitter less than half the women correctly fitted with diaphragms have the vaginal wall structure that will allow developing and retaining a very strong vacuum in the dome. Diaphragms for the rest will work perfectly well for vanilla sex when spermicide is used in the dome, but their rugae – the transverse ridges that allow the vagina to stretch during childbirth - will not allow the rim to seal tight enough to sustain a high vacuum. A woman having a pronounced post-pubic vault and soft thick rugae is an ideal candidate to wear a latex diaphragm and achieve a high vacuum in the dome to enjoy its cervical grip even without penetrative sex. I thought high-vacuum diaphragms would be of primary interest to the young rich Europeans at The Lorelei, but it turns out that a few menopausal guests, whose rugae are atrophied, find their diaphragms often seal very well, and love them as much as reproductive age women. The older ones seem to like the clandestine masturbatory aspects of wearing a ‘fisting’ diaphragm (more about them below) w/o the mess of being mounted by a man regardless of how magnificent his body. With the availability of multi-bed hyperbaric chambers small groups of friends in this amazingly erotic fetish can all insert and establish the vacuum in their diaphragms before they go hunting men or just clubbing.

High-vac ‘Fisting’: It’s not nearly the experience of having a partner’s fist in your vagina, but still there is a lot to enjoy. With a strong vacuum in a latex dome the membrane will be stretched down over the cervix filling all the voids in both posterior and anterior fornix. In a properly fitted diaphragm the rim never fully opens because it is gripped by the muscles in the vaginal walls and the flat spring rim will not fold at a right angle to the plane of the rim so it provides a stable base to take the strain of the stretched latex w/o deforming. The folds (shown in the photo accompanying this entry) will be stretched out to fill the anterior fornix and flatten the rugae on the anterior wall causing the dome to be stretched upward putting pressure on the bladder as though the woman is being fisted by her diaphragm. So empting the bladder prior to inserting a diaphragm for high-vac play is very important. Under vacuum the dome also puts pressure on the woman’s G-spot causing some of us to become aroused and far more easily taken to orgasm by inserted fingers, vibrator or a thrusting penis. The problem with using a latex diaphragm for high-vacuum applications is that the dome failure rate is quite high for diaphragms in use for more than six months.

Latex fatigue dome failures: In high-vac dome-fisting applications the domes of properly cared for latex diaphragms will rarely tear, but will develop a thin spot or spots which will fail during use and in some cases no thin spots can be seen when checked just prior to failure. What we recommend for escorts and individual clients using latex diaphragms for high-vac applications is that regardless of how structurally sound a latex diaphragm appears to be during a stretch test no latex diaphragm should be used for high-vac play for longer than six months.

Women who enjoy high-vac diaphragm play usually use another method for contraception, typically hormonal; the pill, patch or shot, but some few have IUDs inserted or are menopausal. Since a silicone gel is used in the dome to reduce the likelihood of rugae squeeze the lube also reduces the possibility of the IUD strings sticking to the diaphragm and being pulled out when the diaphragm is removed. I of course wear an Oves cap under my fisting diaphragm. With a flat spring under high-vac I can compress the rim with my muscles and caress my G-spot in a solo orgasm so intense it’s addictive.

Establishing dome vacuum: This discussion assumes the woman has been tested and found to have the necessary pelvic anatomy to retain a significant dome vacuum at ambient atmospheric pressure. The woman should be on another effective method of contraception if a sexual encounter is anticipated in case there is a dome failure. She should also take a decongestant an hour ahead of her chamber appointment if she is prone to ear and sinus pressure equalization problems when diving or cycling in a hyperbaric chamber.

The flat spring latex diaphragm is checked for obvious signs of latex fatigue. If none are found silicone gel (we use DiveGel+ which includes a spermicide) is applied in the dome to lubricate the cervix and prevent rugae squeeze, then the diaphragm is inserted and checked to ensure the cervix is under the dome. Then the client goes into the chamber with an attendant and the pressure is increased by the desired amount

Over time we have found that a pressure of two atmospheres (the equivalent of a dive to approximately 30 feet), which puts a vacuum of about -14 psi in the dome, is sufficient to cause the dome of a Reflexions diaphragm to be sucked into all the voids on the anterior wall and surrounding the cervix. This can take a few minutes depending on how well the client adjusts to the pressure cycle and if the vacuum holds when the chamber is returned to ambient pressure. It’s a weird feeling having the vacuum push on the bladder and grip the cervix and it can take a bit of getting used to even by fisting diaphragm fetishists. Once the client’s diaphragm is under vacuum and she is comfortable she is free to leave the chamber to continue her day.

Exclusivity: High-vac dome play had, until recently, been limited to dive-sex, or a very few airline cabin attendants who could insert their diaphragms while still at altitude, but with the availability of multi-bed hyperbaric chambers at Adolph’s club, Splash, his resort/spa, The Lorelei, and another at his deep dive training facility the ability of guests to walk around during daily spa or shopping activity while enjoying the tight cervical grip of a latex diaphragm is available to those women with the necessary pelvic anatomy and money to afford it. In addition to pelvic anatomy the number of possible high-vac users is limited further because many women can’t stand the continuous pressure, the ‘cervical grip’, of the dome. It just freaks a lot of women out to have continuous pressure on their cervix. So with the small number of women, who are actually aroused by the feel of their cervix gripped by a fisting diaphragm under vacuum as a prelude to sex, the circle of women interested in the fetish is quite small and they often form close and lasting friendships.

Side effects/problems: Of course with latex diaphragms they can’t be used by couples either of whom have or develop a latex allergy, but aside from that: As mentioned earlier the dome under vacuum puts pressure on the bladder and cause the need to urinate frequently so we recommend that women prepping for a high-vac experience avoid diuretics, such as coffee.

We are finding that prolonged continuous use of a latex diaphragm under high-vac can lead to exhaustion, vaginal muscle soreness and the possibility of tears in the rugae if not lubricated with a silicone gel. Another problem can be releasing the vacuum in the dome when the wearer wants to remove her diaphragm. The hard flat spring rim has been pulled tightly against and seemingly buried in the soft tissue of the rugae making the rim very difficult to get a finger under to break the seal and fingernails can easily tear rugae. What works well as a removal aid is a flat handle ice tea spoon. The spoon can be warmed and the tip of the handle lubricated and inserted carefully under the anterior rim just behind the pubic bone. It’s not as difficult as it sounds and it just takes a time or two to develop a removal technique that works for you.

Like wearing negative rise shoes to stretch the achilles tendons after spending hours in pointe-shoes, the use of Ben Wa balls for toning before and after wearing a diaphragm at fisting vacuum is highly recommended as the vacuum can stretch the wearer’s muscles and if not countered with toning exercises may result in reduced vaginal grip.

High-vac and death rubber: I find it especially erotic to wear a latex diaphragm that I’ve harvested from the body of a woman who died while having sex. Returning readers will recall that any rubber apparel or devices I harvest for my own use I call ‘death rubber’. When we found that the life of a frequently used fisting diaphragm was only six months I was concerned that I wouldn’t be able to harvest enough FS latex diaphragms in my size to keep me supplied. However, because there is a high turnover of Towel-Girls at Splash and because many of them are tall show-girls moonlighting there a very high percentage of them wear my size diaphragm for fetish encounters. So far enough of them have run into difficulties – usually during exotic off-prem encounters - that there has been no shortage of death rubber. Fisting diaphragms are a niche market, but since the demand for latex flat spring diaphragms is increasing - from young escorts offering fetish encounters - I think with the usual casualty rate in that line of work I should have a steady supply for my personal needs.

Rebreathers and breathplay

An Ocean Reef FFM is awesome for breathplay

Rebreather bag dangers: A reader asked: Are rebreather bags for bondage dangerous? Used incorrectly almost anything can be dangerous so the short answer is yes. A rebreather bag certainly can be dangerous if not used correctly. Rebreather bag accidents that cause injury or death are, unfortunately, common among new members of the fetish community who haven’t had rebreather training or enough experience with using rebreather bags during breath play to recognize the dangers Used in bondage situations the safety of a RB depends entirely on the experience and goals of the Dom or Top in charge. The least bit of inattention on the part of the Dom (or Domme) and it is easy to end up with a brain damaged Bottom who then needs care for the rest of his or her life or another maintenance option.

FFMs as breathplay rebreathers: A trend that’s catching on with up-market bondage divers out here is using a full face mask as a rebreather. If the Bottom is breathing Nitrox II (36% oxygen) or something blended higher to first oxygenate his or her blood. That way the person denied air can last far longer and those of us who have tried it think the orgasms after Nitrox oxygenation are more intense. Oxygenation was first started here by the Gay diving community, but has spread to the general bondage community and is now particularly favored by straight women since Doms want to give their women an exceptionally erotic near death experience and we believe sex with an expert lover during an asphyxia encounter using a FFM is about as close to that as a girl can get. I love the way the mask seals even tighter after every exhalation when my air is shut off. And, if I’m having rubbery sex - being dive-fucked where I can feel my partner thrusting into my latex gas guard - while my lunge are burning from lack of air and I’m gasping in orgasm 30 feet or more below the surface of the pool I think that’s about as good as breathplay gets

Hoods: There are a number of different types and materials used for hoods. Neoprene of various thicknesses, latex and silicone to name three common materials, and diving, fetish and BDSM hoods to name three common types. Fetish and BDSM hoods can be solid over the ears, but with hoods used while diving there needs to be circulation of ambient water around the wearer’s ears to allow pressure equalization. BDSM hoods often are made of leather with zippers to close the eye, nose and mouth openings and some are arranged to fit gags of various sorts, ring, ball, penis etc, in the wearer’s mouth while wearing the hood. Latex is a favorite material for fetish hoods because of it’s thin (or thick) and shiny surface. Neoprene is often used for diving because of its insulation and buoyancy properties. I like wearing a hood while diving as it keeps my long hair from tangling in the valves, hoses and straps of my equipment. And, a hood offers some protection if a diver is hit in the head by her partner’s tank; something that can happen if s/he is suddenly goosed and reacts forcefully. I also wear a hood along with gloves and booties with a light rubber encasement suit while on clean-up operations to prevent leaving my DNA at the scene.

Adolph’s hyperbaric chamber: My German collector / Rubber Dom friend just took possession of a large hyperbaric chamber facility attached to the building where his 200 ft deep training well is located. He says it is to be used if someone gets decompression sickness while diving the well and I’m sure it will be used for that, but I really think he got it for experimenting with crushing women in drysuits that have integral hard helmets. The kind that locks into a padded neck ring attached to the suit. He and I have discussed his interest in seeing how much pressure it would take to crush a diver’s body to the consistency of strawberry jam and squeeze her pulped tissues into her helmet. There are enough stray beautiful women in town that he would probably be able to get as many girls as he needs for experiments. What I’ve wondered about is whether her breaking bones (ribs immediately come to mind) would pierce the woman’s suit and ruin the experiment. If he decides to go through with the ‘Strawberry Jam’ project, as I’ve come to think of it, he may have to order drysuits of thicker material to prevent accidental punctures as the girl is crushed. He’d have to work w/o his Well Attendants, but he does that from time to time anyway when he needs secrecy and there is no trainee in the well to be carefully monitored.

A new deep-dive gas guard

A dive-chick having a DCS attack

Decompression sickness, DCS: Adolph has a young dive facility attendant who went up to his summer place on Lake Tahoe to bring back some dive equipment to the training facility. It’s about a 500 mile trip one way – his place is on the California side south of Truckee - so they were going to stay over night. The lake is at an average surface elevation of 6,225ft, about 4,000 feet higher than Vegas, and the dive-chick wasn’t paying attention to her nitrogen loading. She had dived to depth the evening before she and her boyfriend drove his truck to Tahoe. They were going to have a swim in Adolph’s indoor-outdoor pool so she changed into her wetsuit and went out on the dock to get the equipment off his boat. She hadn’t been feeling well on the drive up and had an attack of DCS and collapsed before she got to the boat. This is an example of DCS from diving before moving to altitude. If the diver moves to a high-altitude location on land immediately after scuba diving s/he may be at risk of DCS. With this dive-chick she is young, thin, and healthy and so a +4,000 change in elevation shouldn’t have been much additional risk, but she was on the edge of her nitrogen limit and some people are more likely to be affected by DCS than others and she was one of them. Her BF dialed 911 and an EMT crew were there in about half an hour. Fortunately there is a hyperbaric chamber facility in Reno which was only about 70 miles away East on I80. She’s doing well and will probably make a complete recovery, but she won’t be able to be an active diver again.

Reflexions latex diaphragms as deep-dive gas guards: I have been working with my Gyn to try the Reflexions latex flat spring diaphragm as an effective gas guard at depths below 30 feet. Returning readers will remember that most diaphragms, the ones with arching spring and coil spring rims, should not be used for contraception or as a gas guard if the wearer intends to dive below 30 feet. That’s because the arcing spring and coil spring designs have air pockets in the rims that cause the rims to distort at pressure below 2 atmospheres, 33 feet. The much more seldom prescribed flat spring rim has no voids in the rim that will make it sensitive to distortion from pressure below 33 feet. I’ve been testing the flat spring diaphragm by using it as a gas guard (worn over my primary protection, an Oves cap) at the bottom of the pit about 65 feet below the surface and it has worked very well. The pit is 68 feet deep, but to prevent being rammed into the bottom while penetrated I like to be taken a few feet off the bottom. A few more successful tests and I will have the confidence to use a Reflexions during my 2 to 3 day period – when I can’t wear an Oves - so I can have deep dive-sex on any day during my cycle. The next step was to test Reflexions at 130 and with Adolph as my partner. I was sure it should work at that depth as well as it does at a depth of 65 feet. Talk about a breakthrough in deep dive-sex! And of course almost any woman can be fitted for a Reflexions so she can have effective .protection for deep dive-sex regardless of where she is in her cycle which is so awesome!

I had planned to wait until Elke was through with her visit to Adolph’s but she developed a sinus infection and a migraine headache and has to lie still in a darkened room and can’t dive for a few days so Adolph asked if I wanted to try my gas guard tests with Reflexions at 130 feet this weekend. That worked well with me since Jacques is in Europe on business so I had some free time. Adolph is fun to be with if you are careful to double check your equipment and enjoy risk taking. He’s way kinky and can be very sadistic, but he’s not so bad when he is with me as a partner. However, if he can be somewhere else when his guest’s are using diving equipment an accident seems to happen. His women guests will almost certainly have a major equipment failure of some sort and his students have multiple equipment failures from which they learn to survive, or not.

Breathing gas: We decided to do the 130 foot test breathing regular air (21% oxygen) rather than Nitrox because at that depth with higher concentrations of oxygen there is a greater risk of oxygen toxicity and 130 feet is below the safety level of both Nitrox I and II mixes contain 32% and 36% oxygen, which have maximum operating depths of 110 ft and 95 ft respectively. So we took the penalty in the form of a long decompression stop on our ascent. Even so we wore Ocean Reef FFMs so if we did have an OT seizure we wouldn’t have to worry about losing a regular when unconscious. At 130 feet we were both feeling the effects of nitrogen narcosis, but as long as we concentrated on having sex we were safe enough. Afterward we ascended to a bit above 100 feet to enjoy the afterglow w/o either of us doing something stupid while narced. Before someone asks why we didn’t use Trimix again the answer is that Helium conducts heat 5 times faster than air and so it can chill divers who then need thermal protection (When we used Trimix a few days ago we were in wetsuits in relatively warm water.) not something I wanted to contend with during dive-sex device testing. The facilities water heaters and circulators have been running full time and the water was a uniform 78° F, delightful for dive-sex because both partners expend a lot of energy. Adolph wore a Speedo slingshot and I wore one of my custom made Gottex yellow thong bikinis under my BCD. The Gottex suit was almost a mistake since I don’t like to lose one of them and I didn’t want to dive to the bottom to retrieve it if it fell away unnoticed. So after he undressed me I wedged the suit under the first stage regulator fitting on my tank. And afterward it wasn’t as though the deco stop was wasted time. I had Adolph take me again while I was tethered by 2 ankle leashes to wall mounted D-rings at a depth of 20 feet. He penetrated me in Missionary (I was tethered in a split) so I could watch him moving in and out of me. He is quirky, but he was very considerate of me and gave me a massive G-spot orgasm before he spewed hundreds of millions of sperm against the stretchy latex membrane of my gas guard.

130 foot depth test results: After we decompressed and rested I Kegeled then douched with clean water to get the semen out of me so that as I removed the Reflexions the dome wouldn’t pick up any semen from my vaginal walls. I had worn the diaphragm dry (without spermicide) and was double bagged, with an Oves sucking on my cervix so if the diaphragm leaked I wouldn’t be at risk, and was delighted to find that with the exception of a little natural lube the dome was empty. There was no leakage of any sort water or semen from three very intense encounters with a lot of cervical thrusting two of which were below 130 feet. I realize a single test dive isn’t definitive, but I see no reason why the results shouldn’t be repeatable with a properly fitted and positioned flat spring diaphragm.

Super Bowl XLIV (44) 02-07-2010: A friend asked what I will be doing on Super Bowl Sunday. At the casino there will be the usual private parties - I think we are nearly at capacity - and the screens in the bars will be showing SB XLIV, but I'm using the occasion as an opportunity to get away from work. I’m having a get-together at my place similar to the one I had at Thanksgiving. I’m thinking the guests will be: Taryn & Chuck, Cyndi & Chris, Anya & Robin, Shelly & Jeff, Marie-Claude & Pirate, Diané & Peter and Jacques & me. And, perhaps Elke and Adolph if they get along well and Elke can stay another few days. I’ve also invited Cyndi’s mom Fiona and her escort of choice – on Thanksgiving it was the sponge worthy Maj. Colin Tree – but I’m not sure she can join us if congress is in session. The menu will be primarily barbecue but steaks and chicken will be available cooked by casino kitchen and wait staff while off duty so they can make some extra money. The pit and swimming pools will be open for qualified divers so I’m hoping to have sex with Pirate and Chris neither of whom I’ve been with intimately since Thanksgiving. I’ll be CD24 then and still have Oves sucking on my cervix so I will be able to have dive-sex at any depth.