Urination in drysuits, Testosterone at Splash Pt II

Floating in an Avon heavy rubber drysuit

Urination in drysuits: A frequent reader has taken me to task for an incomplete answer, after I raised the topic of urination while diving in my blog entry for October 25, 2010. She complained that I mentioned wetsuits but did not cover the options for a diver wearing a drysuit. There are several options for urinating in a drysuit some of which are more satisfactory than others.
• There is the ‘try-holding-it’ option, in my opinion the least satisfactory as it diverts the mind from enjoying the dive and if the diver is determined not to pee in his or her suit it shortens the dive considerably.
• Using a Pee Valve installed on the suit that allows both male and female divers to vent urine outside the suit – if it is working properly. For more about Pee Valves click here. Most of my male dive friends use pee valves but I don’t like them because they interfere with using a vaginal vibrator.
• A third alternative is self catheterization which has fallen out of favor since the advent of the Pee Valve. I’ve tried it and I really hate the feeling of the tube in my urethra and if the balloon deflates or the tube catches on something and the catheter pulls out you pee on yourself anyway. Additionally for women wearing a Penetrator plug with a vibi head for G-spot masturbation is compromised (well, it was for me) by the tube in my urethra.
• Another is to wear an adult diaper. Adult diaper technology has improved dramatically in the last few years and this is my fave alternative if I’m going to be in a drysuit for any length of time. A Penetrator plug (with urethra vent) can be worn to stimulate both the clitoris and G-spot.
• Finally the ‘wear-nothing-and-pee-in-your-suit, option. This is only satisfactory if you plan to intentionally flood your suit. Flooding a drysuit can be risky depending on the type suit and what - if any - other buoyancy devices the diver has available. The shoulder entry suits are the hardest to flood and nearly impossible for the diver to get watertight again by him or her self. My fave suit to flood is the latex HydroGlove that has a fold seal around the diver’s waist. It’s easy to reseal, but very tricky to re-inflate since it is intended for shallow water and has no constant pressure inflator valve so when submerged air has to be inserted past a wrist seal.

Women, relationships and risk in Vegas: My friends try to stay away from serious relationships with men outside the adult entertainment industry because the guys don’t understand what it takes for a woman to be successful here. A girl has to continue to push the envelope if she is going to be any sort of success, which means elbowing the competition out of the way if necessary. It also means continually training to keep a hard flexible bod and well toned pelvic muscles because men are amazed (and some are creeped out) when a small woman who they think of as being frail can ripple-grip a guy’s penis giving him a massive orgasm w/o breaking a sweat while he has her gripped tightly in his arms and is focused on staying as still and deep in her as possible. A hard bodied professional can also crush his shaft with her vaginal muscles. A girl doesn’t want to do that often or she can get a reputation as a ‘man-eater’, but if he won’t behave you have to do what’s necessary to get his attention. After his erectile tissue is crushed a guy is never the same. Transplants, implants, pumps, injections there is only so much even the best urologists can do even at a cost that will put their grandchildren through Harvard.

So a professional must keep up her training regimen which is three hours of ballet; barre, center, technique and pointe as well as two hours of pelvic training- when not with clients - every day. Guys outside the industry love it when they can partner a girl during parts of her pelvic training, but so many of them don't understand the need for a professional to constantly train. They take the girl for granted and become possessive which for them is a huge mistake because she has a long list of other admirers to choose from. It’s a given that a girl will eventually age out as a professional just as dancers and models do, but even with a modest formal education girls can make it to an upper tier with looks, talent and hard work where they can save a lot of money for retirement or to start their own business.

Towel Girls and testosterone at Splash Pt II: The puzzle has been solved. Returning readers will remember that in my entry for October 25, 2010 I wrote about a Towel Girl at Splash who claimed she was having masculizing side effects from excreted testosterone metabolites in club member’s urine and semen. The team of doctors at Splash, a Gynecologist and an Endocrinologist, insist the literature does not support her assertion. The medical team also conducted a complete inventory of the supply of drugs on hand in the small pharmacy at Splash and found a shortage in 10 cc vials of testosterone. Two were missing as were a quantity of disposable syringes. The TG who claimed the masculinizing side effects problem was interviewed and admitted taking the missing testosterone and self administering injections of it over an interval of 26 weeks in order to increase her stamina while with some of the more highly sexed club members. Her leave of absence was changed to immediate termination and increased security has been instituted at the pharmacy.

SILCS diaphragm - under development

The single-size (70 mm) SILCS silicone diaphragm

A reader’s query: This was posted as a reader’s comment and my reply on my October 23, 2010 Entry “Gas guards for high school girls”. It concerns a new design for a cervical barrier that still has to be approved by the FDA. I haven’t discussed SILCS before so I thought I would re-post this discussion where more readers can read it.

The reader wrote: “SILCS is an intravaginal barrier device currently under development. It is made of silicone with an arcing ring. SILCS has a pre-shaped rim to cling high in the vaginal vault and a finger cup on one edge for easy removal. It will be a one-size-fits-all device. I would appreciate your expert opinion on this new contraceptive Diaphragm. http://www.path.org/projects/silcs.php”

My reply: Actually, SILCS is a single size (70 mm) one-size-fits-most device of advanced design. I like the design, but I hate the fact that it will be available in only a single size. Current thinking is that SILCS may be available as early as 2011. The FDA has yet to approve it for use in the U.S. I am very skeptical about the effectiveness of one-size-fits-most contraceptive devices.

The intention of PATH is to develop a simple inexpensive device that poor women in under-developed countries can use without the attendant costs of medical providers, pelvic exams and fitting visits and in this they may be successful. The four most prescribed diaphragm sizes in the U.S and Europe are 65 mm, 70 mm, 75 mm and 80 mm. Currently diaphragms are made in sizes from 60 mm to 90 mm.

That SILCS will only be available in a single 70 mm size is worrying. A single 70 mm size is too small in a traditionally shaped diaphragm for many women and using a too small device would decrease its overall effectiveness for users. That’s because a traditionally shaped diaphragm that is too small will expose the anterior rim to the likelihood of being thrust underneath by a partner’s thrusting penis. With the penis under the dome at ejaculation sperm is deposited against the cervix protected only by the spermicide which should be applied in the dome. The curved relief arch (on the anterior rim) of the SILCS design may (or may not) go some way to minimizing the problem of under-thrusting, but we won’t know about that for years.

I have no doubt that if SLICS becomes easily available in under-developed areas where it will give women something to use where previously they had nothing, then it is a major step forward. I’m not at all certain that it is as good as or better than a properly fitted and correctly inserted traditionally shaped diaphragm.

SILCS showing the curved anterior relief arch

Pointe shoe quiz October 26, 2010

Who is the maker of these shoes?

Feminine fluids and diving, Testosterone at Splash

A lactating instructor in custom made DiveRubber

The photo: The lactating instructor in the photo above is thrusting out her chest and bending backward. With the shoulder straps of her tank sloping away from her waist there is an optical illusion that she is big-breasted. By ballet standards she is, but she is only a C-cup when her breasts are full. You can tell by her full lips and the way she grips the mouthpiece of her reg that she has amazing suction for giving head.

Diving and Feminine fluids: A returning reader and friend interested in cervical barriers asks: “Does the pressure experienced in the dive tank cause an expression of breast milk or a more pronounced period. I would think it would but alas I am not a diver.”

BREAST MILK: These are good questions and ones I haven’t answered before. If it’s a normal dive and I’m breathing ambient air as I descend then there is no major pressure change on my breast tissue – other than a tight wetsuit - that would cause me to express my milk. However, there are situations where I do, such as:

1) In a descent with my air shut off (or the reg is out of my mouth) where the change in depth is 10 feet or so my nipples start to leak. If I descend 20 or 30 feet w/o breathing ambient pressure air my milk flows freely. When my milk reaches full flow will depend on how full my breasts are when I dive. I try to have a partner breast feed or I pump to empty them before diving as rough sex with engorged breasts isn’t my idea of fun. Tight rubber compressing engorged breasts may look erotic, but it is very uncomfortable and not the sort of pain I’m into.

2) The other situation that forces lactation is if I’m wearing a drysuit and I intentionally release, or don’t add, air causing the suit to ‘squeeze’ me as I descend. The rubber will compress my breasts and I will lactate in my suit. I have to be careful that a nipple isn’t caught in a fold and nearly crushed as the suit squeezes me because that can be amazingly painful. Lactating in a drysuit from squeeze (or for any other reason) can be annoying. Not from the feel of warm milk trickling down my belly, but because after the dive the suit is a nightmare to clean. The scent of rancid breast milk at one I’ve never come to love so a thorough washing of the inside as soon as possible with a white vinegar and water solution is necessary before the milk turns rancid.

The compression of breast tissue while diving will decrease the milk quantity to an extent and puts a lactating woman at a higher risk of having clogged milk ducts so I use a good skin cleanser after I dive and if I’ve been submerged more than an hour I pump a bit to ensure my ducts are flowing freely.

URINATION: Urine is another fluid the quantity of which is pressure related and that affects both male and female divers. Any diver who says s/he hasn’t peed in his/her wetsuit is lying. When diving the pressure of the surrounding water causes immersion dieresis which is not depth related as long as the diver is breathing ambient air. Immersion dieresis causes buildup of urine from increased pressure squeezing fluid out of body tissue, which is why dehydration is such a problem for divers and it can contribute to decompression sickness. That’s why it is so important that divers stay well hydrated. Immersion dieresis can reduce the amount of breast milk and the thickened milk can contribute to clogged ducts.

MENSTRUAL FLOW: The effect of diving on menstrual flow is to slow or stop menstruation during the dive primarily from the effects of immersion dieresis. Once I’m on the surface again there is a surge in flow over the next few hours that requires emptying my diaphragm more frequently.

Towel Girls and testosterone at Splash: Gigi has an after-school job as a Towel Girl at Adolph’s adult pool facility in the hills. For more about that see my March 9, 2010 Blog entry entitled ‘Towel Girl Fantasies’. One of the hormonal supplements available at Splash is Androderm, the testosterone patch and one of the senior Towel Girls is undergoing physiological changes. Her muscles are beginning to bulk up, her voice is getting deeper and she is beginning to have a little hair growing on her chest and chin. She is a petite blonde with a svelte figure and unblemished skin and that is changing though at this point she is still quite attractive. Rumor is that she is getting a reaction to the testosterone patches than most of her clients wear to improve their muscle mass, virility and stamina. That is because her specialty is mind blowing oral sex and she has swallowed pints of semen and testosterone ladened urine from her clients on a daily basis for the 7 months that testosterone therapy has been available at the club. Approximately 90% of a testosterone dose given intramuscularly (from Androderm) is excreted in the urine as glucuronide and sulfate conjugates of testosterone and its metabolites; about 6% is excreted in the feces, mostly in unconjugated form, so the thought is that she is getting masculinizing side effects from the testosterone excreted in the urine of her clients.

The Gyn who oversees the health of the Towel Girls and Endocrinologist who prescribes the hormonal supplements at Splash deny that there is any connection between this girls symptoms and her secondary ingestion of testosterone. Meanwhile she has taken a leave of absence. Gigi volunteered to take her place since a lot of the men on Androderm are wealthy Europeans who are worth cultivating as sexual partners. I’ve asked my medical advisors at the clinic to research the literature to see if there are any reports of masculinization of escorts and working girls from metabolites of testosterone ingested while giving head to men on supplementary testosterone. Meanwhile her father, Jacques, is supporting her in her desire to take the place of the masculinized blonde saying that Androderm or its equivalent have been in use in Europe for years with no instances of masculinization that can be traced to professional girls providing oral sex.

The first performances of Dracula: The first performances of my adaptation of the ballet Dracula were to packed venues and were very well received! I danced the heroine, Flora, Sunday night. I was CD3 and my period was in full flow so the audience was properly shocked when it seemed as though I was hemorrhaging. My partner, in the role of Dracula, tried to staunch the flow after he had gorged on my blood and flinging the bloody thong around he splattered a few of the men in the first several rows with my flow. I thought for guys wearing $2,000 suits they took being splattered rather well. We offered to have the suits of five men dry-cleaned and only one took the offer. The others said they were not going to have my blood cleaned off. My producer gave each of them our card so if they change their minds they can get back to us. We did say the older the stain the less likely it would come out. Fortunately there were no women in the first few rows.

Gas guards for high school girls

An All-Flex silicone arcing spring diaphragm

Offering advice and support: I try to stay away from involvement with high school girls in town. I have more than enough to do with my work at St Lucy’s as well as my full time job with the ballet. But several weeks ago a friend who is a pit boss at the casino and the mom of 15 and 17 y/o daughters in city schools came to me for advice. She understands the culture here and both girls are on birth control pills, to ‘regulate their cycles’. Well, I’ll accept that explanation as it’s the standard reason at their ages. So she wasn’t concerned about pregnancy as much (although that is always a concern in a mom’s mind) as she was about the unintended consequences of oral sex.

Safe sex: Oral sex is usually thought of as ‘safe sex’ because there is no danger of pregnancy. But the community is finding out the hard way that in addition to transmitting STIs oral can have additional dangers. That’s because there was a recent instance of a very popular girl in her daughter’s school who had a pulmonary embolism when her boyfriends blew air into her vagina while giving her oral. He did it with her permission so that they both could hear her Queef, which they thought was hilarious. Apparently she had been letting him fill her vagina with air for months and they had been getting away with it until at the end of her most recent period while the walls of her uterus were still raw an air bubble got in her bloodstream and caused a clot that lodged in her lung. She claimed the clot was caused by her birth control pill, Yaz, but the nature of the clot and the fact that there was no sign of deep vein thrombosis, points to the fact that her BF caused it by filling her vagina with air. It used to be that blowing into a vagina was known to be dangerous and girls were taught that and wouldn’t allow their sex partners to do it, but times have changed and some young women are paying dearly for their lack of knowledge or - if they know - willingness to take that sort of risk. It can be very dangerous, but I’m not against having air forced into my vagina if I take the proper precautions. [See my post about ‘Vaginal Breathing’ for more about having orgasms using compressed air.] Actually, I find it great fun when a partner forces air into me using his mouth. I get a lovely full feeling having my vagina expanded with air, but there is a safe way to do it and that is to use a gas guard.

My friend wanted me to meet with a group of her friends who are mom’s who have daughters and a few who have sons in the city schools to talk about the danger of forcing air in the vagina and if there was a way to protect their girls. They were all past the point of trying to get their teens not to do it, knowing full well that some would try it anyway. They were interested in how to protect their daughters. As I mentioned earlier the way for a woman to protect herself against vaginal over-pressure events is to wear a gas guard. I asked if any of the girls had a Mirena or ParaGard or any other framed IUD inserted and was told that none did. That was good news because you shouldn’t wear a diaphragm or cervical cap with IUD strings hanging out of the cervix because removing the barrier can pull out the IUD if the strings stick to the barrier. Finding that none of the girls had an IUD I recommended to the moms that they have their daughters fitted with All-Flex diaphragms.

I recommended All-Flex because it is made of silicone, is rugged, is the easiest style to insert correctly and can be ordered through local pharmacies. The possible problems with using an All-Flex is if the girl takes a very small size (All-Flex isn’t made in sizes smaller than 65 mm) or has a very shallow pubic notch it wouldn’t be right for her. Most teen’s first diaphragms are 65 mm and few women have shallow pubic notches so I thought they would probably be ok, and they were. The girls have all been fitted and all but one took 65 mm devices. The other took a 70 mm. I was pleased that they were already sexually active so their vaginas had been stretched a bit by dildos and their partner’s penises. The moms wanted to know if All-Flex was the same style that I used for dive-sex (the word is getting around about my fondness for dive-sex) and when I told them that it wasn’t they wanted to know why I wasn’t recommending the one I used. I didn’t want the conversation to get diverted to my involvement in dive-sex which several of the women tried to do. I kept them focused on protection during oral sex, but I did tell them why I wasn’t recommending the style diaphragm I use.

Differences in latex Vs silicone gas guards: I explained that while the use as a gas guard was similar in the two situations (oral sex and submerged intercourse) the ambient conditions were quite different. The girls don’t need a diaphragm to protect the upper reproductive tract that can safely handle the wide variations in pressure encountered during dive-sex below 30 feet. All their daughters need is a single atmosphere device to prevent embolisms during an oral over-pressure encounter. And, the only diaphragm that provides protection below 30 feet is made of latex, which isn’t as well tolerated by users because of the possibility of latex allergy, latex is more susceptible to damage from oily lubes and meds, latex is more likely to contribute to infections and the flat spring rim of the latex diaphragm is more difficult to insert correctly. My explanation relieved any concern about my choice of an All-Flex for their daughters.

Fitting and wearing regimen: We talked a bit about getting the girls fitted and that it would be good to go to one of the local clinics that fit entertainers with diaphragms because the fitters are highly experienced and will provide a supportive fitting experience. I wanted to stay away from having anything to do with having local girls as young as 14 being fitted with diaphragms – though the reasons could be that it was needed as a pessary - because they are below the age of consent. But what the teens do while using their diaphragms is up to them. I did talk to the moms about their daughter’s gas guard wearing regimen. I recommended that the girls insert their barriers before each time they are around their BFs because teens are very spontaneous and if they are going to have oral they really needed to be protected rather than ending up with a lot of ‘just-this-once’ encounters where the teen’s gas guard is at home while she is being eaten during lunch in the back seat of a car in the school parking lot.

The moms said that most of their daughters were really freaked out about their friend’s pulmonary embolism so if they can develop the habit of wearing their diaphragm before the horror of what happened wears off things might just work out. I suggested the moms mention to their daughters that gas guards are worn by some celebrity entertainers. That’s true, they do, and because out here local teens look up to young super club and cabaret entertainers as role models they are more likely to wear their protection if they think that Tara or Mila or Anna is wearing one too.

Dracula for Halloween

Count Dracula and Flora

Dracula in Vegas: For Halloween we are presenting eight performances of Dracula in the various high-roller venues. It’s an occult holiday favorite that we are bringing back and hope to make it a tradition. The original three act ballet was created by Houston Ballet’s Ben Stevenson in 1997 to mark the 100th anniversary of Bram Stoker’s novel and with music by Franz Liszt has become a modern classic. I have had to shorten and reduce its scale appreciably to fit our performance venues and the attention span of my audience and rather than the quite chaste neck punctures by Dracula’s fangs I have substituted a more effective but no less dangerous way for a woman to be taken over to the dark-side.

Induced menstruation: In my version, instead of sucking blood from his female victim’s neck Dracula spellbinds her and then while giving her an orgasm during oral sex forces his saliva into her uterus where its anti-coagulant properties induce her period causing her to bleed heavily. In order for this to work properly in front of an audience the dancers in the role of Flora (Mina in the book) have to be cycling naturally so their periods will be relatively heavy. It also requires scheduling their periods so they are bleeding for the performance. I’m cycle day one (CD1) today and just starting my period so I will be in full flow by tomorrow night when I will dance Flora for the evening performance. For dancers whose cycles aren’t synched to mine we shift them a few days by having them take a regimen of Aygestin tablets containing 5 mg of the progestin norethisterone which delays their periods a few days until needed for their performances as Flora.

After each performance one or two fortunate members of the audiences come away with one of Flora’s break-away thongs soaked with her menstrual blood as a souvenir. I will use the first one of mine with the blood from a public performance in a spell that I will cast for Halloween. Readers of my 360 blog know that I am, at the very least, a ‘sensitive’ though my spells are (usually) of a benign nature. Unlike Christine O'Donnell I’m not running for public office so I don’t really care if people know I’m a witch. I don’t usually mention it in public because it tends to raise eyebrows and then people want me to do something to prove it and when I don’t they think I’m kidding or lying to them. But on Halloween and the Summer and Winter solstices the power of the old religions is very much alive, and in many places it is just below the surface of what is happening in ordinary peoples lives.

I will use my bloody thong as the wick in an ancient oil lamp that will be lit for the Halloween party I’m having at my place Sunday evening. As long as the blood on the thong is less than three days old the spell is quite potent. Blood from a virgin can be used for up to three weeks after her period with no loss in the spells potency. Burning the fragrant oil with a blood-soaked wick will ensure the party is a festive one.

Pointe shoe quiz October 20, 2010

Who is the maker of this shoe?

This should be an easy one to answer.