Pointe-shoe Quiz April 8, 2015

Who is the maker of these shoes?

 And for extra credit, where were they made?

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.

The ultimate fetish pointe-shoe

The ultimate fetish pointe-shoe: the Bloch Alpha (S0104) ¾ outsole pointe.

The Photo: The Bloch Alpha (S0104) ¾ outsole pointe. They show off a woman’s high arches wonderfully and guys seem to like the heels totally sheathed in satin. These are my menstrual shoes a bit larger that the ones I wear during the rest of my cycle.  The Alpha S0104 should only be worn by experienced dancers, but that hasn’t stopped wannabes buying them from their LDS after I recently began wearing mine to the clubs in town. If that continues the sports Orthropods should be busy with ankle and foot injuries. I thought I’d post this shot as men always seem to appreciate seeing me with my legs in the air.

The Bloch Alpha as a fetish pointe-shoe: Not only are pointe-shoes more physically and technically difficult to wear than ballet-boots, but the Bloch Alpha is (in my opinion) the most difficult pointe-shoe to train, perform and play in. Since I’ve been wearing Alphas to the foot-fetish venues at Naughty Pleasures there has been a spike in interest in Bloch Alpha pointes by other women far less qualified to wear them than me.

Alpha pointes for ballet-sex: Wearing Bloch Alpha pointes for ballet-sex [defined as: being penetrated from behind while bent over holding on to a barre, chair or table with the feet sur les pointes a la seconde] should not be attempted by inexperienced women. Alpha pointes are for women very experienced in pointework at the professional level and then only by ones with very strong feet. A friend suggested I try Alphas for ballet-sex. I was skeptical, but I’m glad I agreed to try them as I love wearing Alphas when being taken by a lusty man!

Returning readers know how much I like hard shanked Gaynors for ballet-sex since they allow me to not have to concentrate on staying over the blocks and let me enjoy my orgasms. And with platform pads Gaynors provide the best protection against injury from thrust-drop with a much taller partner. With Alpha’s very light full insoles - a 2.5MM red board just above the outsole cut while a full-length top layer of leather board is placed to protect the arch tendons and muscles - no appreciable weight can be put on the heels for any length of time though the insole will flex during thrust-drop. But putting weight on the heels (called ‘sitting in the shoes’) can crush the light insoles which provide no support.  However, Alpha pointes look and feel amazingly erotic!  Alpha runs 2 ½ sizes smaller than my street shoe size and the widths are narrower than in Freeds. The 4 ½, my regular size, are just a tiny bit snug on me with toe pads which I like in a pointe-shoe made of conventional materials because they will stretch slightly with wear. The 5 ½ size I wear when I’m on my period.

The eroticism of wearing Alpha pointes and knowing how they show off my high arches motivates me to both stay over the blocks and be able to relax enough to enjoy my orgasms something I’d found difficult to do before in shoes made of conventional materials. And, satin under the heels gives them an inverted heel ratio that stretches the Achilles tendons when flat, which is always a good thing. They are a bit different and harder to balance in when used to wearing full soled more heavily shanked pointes because of the lack of full supportive shanks, which I think is good in a training shoe. And the width is narrower, but the broad box is excellent for the Giselle/peasant foot with three toes of the same length which I have and I love the sueded insole liner.

Risks and rewards: There are risks for dancers like me with high arches when wearing Alpha with a ¾ outsole and basically no shanks as we typically have weak arches and need hard shanked shoes. However, I have very strong feet and more than thirty years on my toes so I feel quite safe while wearing them for ballet-sex even when with a partner where there is significant thrust-drop. That’s because as tight as the shoes are my toes are numb by the time I warm up and he gets his rhythm going. I just need to be sure my nails are cut close so I don’t bruise a nail when I’m dropped on my platforms. As a masochist I like the feeling of being dropped on my toes and as a narcissist I love how well the shoes show off my high arches, satin sheathed heels and make my feet and legs look gorgeous! 

 

 

George Petty and the pointe-shoe

A Petty Girl at her best!

This entry: As readers will see this post is not an exhaustive account of the commercial artist George Petty’s work, it’s simply a reminiscence of my first encounter with his art and my love of his skill in which even 60 years after its production for me one of his drawings (above) has lost none of its wonder. It is a glorious and timeless depiction of a playful fantasy ballet dancer.

George Brown Petty IV: (April 27, 1894 – July 21, 1975) was an American pin-up artist. His pin-up art appeared primarily in Esquire and Fawcett Publication’s True but was also in calendars marketed by Esquire, True and Ridgid Tool Company. Petty's Esquire gatefolds originated and popularized the magazine device of centerfold spreads. Reproductions of his work were widely rendered by military artists as nose art decorating warplanes during the Second World War, including the Memphis Belle, known as “Petty Girls” … “Petty is especially known for “the Petty Girl”, a series of pin-up paintings of women done for Esquire from the autumn of 1933 until 1956. Petty frequently depicted these women with the relative lengths of their legs being longer—and the relative sizes of their heads being smaller—than those of his actual models.”(From Petty’s Wikipedia entry)

Shoes in his illustrations: Petty drew women in all sorts of footwear; Sandals, stilettos, sling-backs, peep-toes (with ankle bows), mules, boots, ice-skates and even pointe-shoe ice-skates as well as in hose, body-stockings and occasionally barefoot. But given my background the illustrations I like the most are where the girl is wearing toe-shoes as I think when en pointe it gives the legs a much longer line, emphasizes the calves and tightens the buttocks making the wearer more attractive, which is why some of us wear pointes whenever we can.

While Petty frequently depicted his girls with the relative lengths of their legs being longer—and the relative sizes of their heads being smaller at the same time George Balanchine was developing his ballet company with dancers having what he considered the ideal ballet body; long legs, short trunk, long neck, small head and small breasts. The only place Petty’s and Balanchine’s female fantasies diverged were on breast size. A Petty girl displayed ample breasts. I like to think that Petty studied the body shapes of NYCB dancers

Petty pointes: I first came across a George Petty’s pin-up illustration when I was a child in Southwest, Virginia. There was a very old framed calendar illustration in a place of honor on the wall of the gas station where my father had his car serviced. As I was already taking ballet I was fascinated to see that the girl on that calendar (the same illustration that appears at the top of this entry) was wearing toe-shoes and asked my father if she was a dancer. He mumbled something then asked if I wanted a Dr Pepper.

I never forgot that picture. She looked like she was having such fun playing with one of the ribbons on her shoe. I only came across George Petty’s work again a few years ago when I began collecting memorabilia for one of the dancers I looked up to as a role model when I was young, Cyd Charisse. Petty drew some of the advertising art for MGM’s 1945 production of Ziegfeld Follies in which Cyd had a small part; however she still was listed below the stars. I bought an original poster for the Follies with Cyd’s name on it and a full length illustration of a dancer en pointe by Petty and he was back in my life.

The illustration: I think the illustration at the top of this entry is one of George Petty’s very best! It sets off the woman’s long legs with the back seams of her transparent bodysuit, and displays her relatively small breasts with no bows to hide her slim ankles. The foot of the standing leg is delightfully winged so she is balanced with her weight on the inside corner of the platform and from what we can tell the ribbons on her left shoe are tied correctly. I love the detail of the pleats on the under side of the block of the shoe on her working leg. While the ribbons of her right shoe seem to be wrapped tightly around her ankle the ribbon in her right hand suggests they are not and that by fingering the loose ribbon and with that lovely smile she is inviting the male viewer (this appeared on an Esquire calendar) to remove her shoe and play with her.

Ribbons and vamps: Petty in his calendar art was as likely to have his girls tie their pointe-shoes with bows in front to add a bit more fantasy as to tie them correctly knotting the ribbons and tucking the ends into the hollow behind the inside anklebone. However, from the illustrations I’ve seen where his artwork was for films like Ziegfeld Follies (1945) and The Petty Girl (1950) or an industrial client like Ridgid Tool he seems to have shown the women’s pointe-shoe ribbons tied correctly. Well, almost, since in the Follies artwork the ribbons are just wrapped around the ankles not crossed over the instep or attached to the shoes! But no bows! By the 1950s in his calendars and illustrations for Ridgid tool Co he had some girls wearing pointes with very high square vamps, as though they had sewn vamp extensions on their shoes, though there is no change in color or texture to indicate an extension. So we can probably put the change down to artistic license. It would be fascinating to know if his models posed in pointe shoes for him. My guess is that they did.

Contraception and the Petty Girl: In the U.S. the 1940s and 50s when the Petty Girl illustrations were most popular diaphragms were in use by more than one third of the married couples in the U.S. However, because of “Crimes against Chastity, Decency, Morality and Good Order laws” unmarried women in 26 states were prohibited from legally purchasing diaphragms until Eisenstadt v. Baird legalized birth control for all Americans on March 22, 1972. Even so in the 40s and 50s an unmarried woman wanting to use a barrier method that she controlled could often get a diaphragm through her gynecologist if she was bold enough to ask for one. I just know that the woman in this picture was assertive and confident enough that she would be using a diaphragm as her preferred method of protection.

Ballet inspired haut couture heels and slit-kits

An haute couture Fall 2012 ballet-look in footwear.

The photo: With pleated toes, drawstring bows and straps suggesting ribbons a pointe-shoe inspired look by Dior for the well-heeled set. Chanel tried something similar years ago and it didn’t catch on, but this style looks like it might be more comfortable to wear if fitted correctly. In the Chanel design the vamp throat was a problem for many wearers. Regardless of how expensive or fashion forward this style is wearing actual pointe-shoes in a formal social setting and staying on ones toes while wearing them is far more fashion forward. Of course the problem is that few women have the physical ability and fewer still the audacity and talent to pull it off flawlessly as I can. 

Student slit-kits and contraception: Part of the orientation for students who have reached menarche and are new to St Lucy’s is to give them each a kit fully stocked with the sort of contraceptive supplies she will need for the semester. Returning readers will remember the students call them slit-kits. Exactly how the kit is stocked can vary depending on the student’s primary method of birth control and it also includes a selection of different size male condoms and the FC2 female condom to protect against STIs, spermicide/biocide (DiveGel+) which also provides vaginal pH balance to minimize the likelihood of yeast infections in women who wear tight fitting nylon or rubber catsuits. There is also a place to put the student’s individually fitted diaphragm or cervical cap (needed for flood insurance during dive-sex classes) and room for a small number of miscellaneous items. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts the cervical barriers have RFID chips in them that give the students name and basic medical information about her so the teachers can easily check that every student who is attending a course requiring a cervical barrier has it inserted before being allowed to participate in the class.

In the brochure given to parents of prospective students 16 y/o and older the need for contraception is stressed and the fitting of a cervical barrier, specifically a latex flat spring diaphragm or FemCap is required if the student will be participating in the SCUBA recreational package being offered. Even 14 y/o boarding students at St Lucy’s enrolled in my Contemporary Sexual Health class learn the importance of cervical barriers for upper reproductive tract protection and are fitted with diaphragms to use for menstrual flow control. That way when they are old enough to have penetrative sex they will be familiar with how to insert, remove and care for it when they need it for contraceptive protection.

The need for contraception and the benefit of an enrolling student being already sexually active (but free of STIs) is addressed in the brochure and well known to most mothers sending their daughters to St Lucy’s. Even so it still surprises some parents. Why that should be when the liberal views of the school and the Progressive nature of the courses taught are well known by families wanting to enroll their daughters, is a mystery to me. Immediately upon arrival every student is given a thorough pelvic exam and all students are given a pelvic at the first of each semester and more frequently if needed to make certain we know the reproductive health status of every student. New students are asked to bring prescriptions from their family GP or Gyn for any medications they are taking.

We recommend students have an IUD (preferably a stringless GyneFix copper IUD) inserted at menarche if possible. If an IUD can’t be placed then the single rod implant Nexplanon should be implanted. This year only two incoming students needed Nexplanon and they are still adjusting to the hormone, etonogestrel, the same one used in NuvaRing. Nexplanon, the newer version of Implanon, is radio opaque so if the rod migrates (which is rare) it can be located by x-ray.