"Shut off her air"

Dead diver – Breathplay at Lake Tahoe

Popular queries; “Shut off her air”: “Shut off her air” is an amazingly popular search query that brings readers to my blog along with search terms like: ballet boots, anal hooks, heavy rubber, encasement suits and bondage. But it is “shut off her air” that I want to write about in this entry because it’s not only a popular query, but also a very popular method of breath control. Certainly it’s popular with men in the fetish diving community (and some few women) but shutting off a partners air can also be used effectively for breathplay in other hazardous environments such as evacuated hyperbaric chambers and toxic gas filled rooms or chambers.

However, I want to write today about shutting off a woman’s air while she is wearing diving equipment and using it for SCUBA while submerged under water, as opposed to dry-scuba where she is wearing a FFM and breathing compressed gas through a demand valve while in bed or in some other location nowhere near water.

I think having my air shut off is such an elegant way of a partner temporarily dominating me by exerting maximum control over my life with minimal effort. I find it most effective when I’m on the bottom of a pool on my knees with the crotch zipper of my House of Harlot latex catsuit open and a well hung man (a maxi-male) thrusting inside me doggie style. He penetrates me from behind pushing deeper and deeper and as his thrusting gets me ever closer to orgasm by thrusting into the stretchy latex dome of my Reflexions gas guard I begin to come! Then is when he shuts off my air intensifying my orgasm unbelievably!

And, if I’m left submerged with my air shut off, if I’m not in restraints (just weighted to hold me on the bottom) , by adjusting my tank harness enough I can reach the valve and turn my air back on. I can hold my breath for about 2.5 minutes, so if he wants to stay inside me enjoying the afterglow after he gets off I’m really anxious to have him pull out and will contract my vaginal muscles to help reduce his size and force withdraw.

For other women having their air shut off can be anything from traumatic if they are novices to pleasurable if they are well experienced in breathplay. If a woman isn’t expecting a shutoff she could lose any breath she has by struggling, usually w/o success to get away from the man dominating her. She only has a minute or two before a lack of oxygen to her brain will begin killing brain cells. So breathplay by shutting off a diver’s air can be extremely dangerous and shouldn’t be done w/o rehearsing in shallow water how it will be done and agreeing on safe words or signs that the Sub can use if s/he wants to stop the encounter and have her air turned back on.

Dead diver: And no the girl in the image at the top of this entry isn’t dead. She was reenacting for friends what happened to Tina Watson during her honeymoon. On October 22, 2003 while diving with her husband off a dive boat on the Great Barrier Reef she sank to the bottom at 100 feet and died. The coroners report gave the cause of death as drowning. Her husband, Gabe, is serving a sentence in an Australian prison for contributing to her death.

An accident during discipline training: Adolph had an unfortunate incident the other week at his 200 ft deep discipline training facility. A 24 y/o Austrian Sub who had been sent for breathplay training panicked when her air was shut off during a training exercise at a depth of 20 feet. She was wearing a HydroGlove latex drysuit, which she had just been qualified to dive, and most of the air had been vented from it so she was a few pounds negatively buoyant and she was wearing no swim fins. When she panicked she pulled free of her minders and weighted down by her tank and weight belt which she couldn’t unfasten she began to sink. The air in her suit compressed as her depth increased decreasing her buoyancy so the deeper she went the faster she sank. Her minders did their best to reach her and saw her loosen her harness enough to be able to reach the valve and twist it to turn her air back on and the knob came off in her hand. Returning readers will remember that a HydroGlove has no inflation valve and she continued to sink. Without air the buddy-reg on her octopus was of no use to force air under a wrist seal to inflate her suit and she was in an uncontrolled descent. She had been breathing regular air (21% oxygen) and was at 140 feet when she pulled off her Interspiro FFM, probably in a fit of nitrogen narcosis and drowned.

It turned out that she had been sent to Adolph for disciplinary training because she was newly pregnant and wouldn’t terminate the pregnancy. She had what she thought was enough compromising evidence showing her Dom, an Austrian businessman, in some very unflattering candid pics that would keep her safe. Apparently she hadn’t thought her plan through enough to put copies of what ever evidence she had where it would be released if something happened to her. The incriminating evidence was on a flash drive she carried around in her purse.

Adolph had the Subs body cremated and sent it and the flash drive back to his Austrian friend by courier. His friend was very pleased. Adolph was pleased as well because he got an HD Snuff video out of the accident. He had set the cams to track the girl in her deflated HydroGlove as she sank and has a wonderful set of pics especially of the last 70 feet of her descent after she pulled off her FFM. The air inside her suit was at only one atmosphere and the surrounding water pressure on her HydroGlove crushed her chest cavity. You can see her ribs collapse, her chest flatten and her lung tissue being squeezed up her throat and forced out her open mouth. In Asia there is a huge market for Caucasian girls being crushed or drowning in dive accidents while in rubber encasement suits and this video will have both.

Pointe shoe quiz 09-07-2010

What maker’s shoes is this girl wearing?

I know, it's a male fantasy, but try and focus on the woman’s shoes, ok? This should be an easy one to answer!

Note: This is another instance where the comment moderation feature is going to be useful by letting members submit comments that won’t be posted immediately. The benefit of that is that everyone will get a chance to answer on their own without being guided or confused by someone else’s answer. So to all my pointe shoe enthusiasts: Paul D, Paul, Eric, Joe, Leigha, Ben and others here’s an opportunity to participate in a quiz with a more level playing field. I’ll post the comments two days from now. Good luck to all participants!

Tying up lose threads

Victoria’s Secret Model Doutzen Kroes Pregnant! Oops?


Plastic surgeon dies in car accident: In my entry for August 7, 2010 entitled Therapy with Mack the Knife I wrote about some of my therapy sessions under the knife with a reconstructive surgeon who liked to cut rubber suits off his female partners. He missed two therapy sessions with me so I called his psychiatrist (who I was assisting on his case) to find out where the patient was. The shrink had been on vacation in Europe for three weeks and apologized that no one on his staff knew that I was assisting so didn’t know to tell me that the patient had driven off the road and over a cliff and was killed several weeks ago. I guess that explains why he missed our appointments. In the few times we were together he must have cut at least $6,000 worth of Sailfish wetsuits off me. It was a form of foreplay for him and he was amazing in bed after he cut me out of a Sailfish. Sigh!

I still have three new Sailfish wetsuits that we never got to use. Three weren’t enough for a single afternoon of therapy so I was looking forward to him taking me shopping for sailfish again. It wasn’t as though we didn’t know what size I took. It was the thrill of him groping me in public as he ‘helped’ me into and out of the wonderfully tight German neoprene that we both enjoyed. The looks on the shop assistants faces were priceless as they watched us in the wall mirrors – and one was even filming our reflection in the mirrors with her smart phone - as he inserted two fingers inside me and nearly made me come while supposedly adjusting my crotch. And we did that for every suit and bought at least six each time we went shopping. I think their sales increased by 5% in the few weeks we shopped there. I’m expecting an attempt at blackmail from the girl with the phone-cam because while all the wetsuits were paid for with a corporate CC they were shipped to me so she knows my name and where I live. If she had known who he was the pics would have probably ended up in a tabloid, since I think they are probably too explicit for People Magazine.

Natasha’s eggs: In my entry for July 11, 2010 I mentioned the possibility of harvesting my Russian dancer’s eggs to pay off her gambling debts which I bought to get her to dance for me here in Vegas. I thought we had moved closer to making that happen by having her DNA tested for suitability. No problem I thought since she is a gorgeous woman. How wrong I was! It has taken weeks to have her DNA tested for mutant genes that cause breast cancer, autism, MS and a long list of genetic defects that can, but not always do, appear in carriers. Sadly Natasha’s eggs are not of harvesting quality. Actually, if I were her, I would have my tubes blocked to make certain I had no children. So at this point I’m looking for other ways to make my money back with her. She is still a powerful draw on stage as her erotic classical ballet performances are hugely popular with the high rollers especially the Asians - who fantasize about having gorgeous round eyed Russian ballet dancers as mistresses - go wild at the tables just to get a seat in the auditorium. Perhaps that’s enough. At the current rate I will have my money back in about four months anyway. I was just hoping to speed things up a bit.

Ginny and rubber lust: The 19 y/o Who came out for the St Lucy’s Ballet SI (in June and early July) and who developed rubber lust and stayed the rest of the summer has returned to college on the east coast. I was amazed that her father was as accommodating with her desires as he was, but that made things easier for me. Returning readers will remember I found her a gig as Adolph’s Pool Assistant and latex arm-candy while Abi was recovering from a YI – see my post for July 10, 2010 – and God knows that broadened Ginny’s sexual experiences and her circle of rubber fetish friends immensely! She wanted to stay and transfer to UNLV, but Abi has fully recovered and is back as Adolph’s number one girl and Ginny’s father wanted her back in school on the east coast so she left last week.

As a going-away present she was cluster-fucked by Adolph and four of his closest German friends. It took them three hours to finish with her and I don’t think she could have enjoyed anything more! It will be an encounter she will remember fondly all her life! Actually she finished them. The men were exhausted and even with performance enhancing chemicals they couldn’t mount her any more. She told me later that she was determined to out last her lovers and she did! She could hardly walk the next day and is on 800 mg of ibuprofen every six hours for the next few days until her muscles stop cramping. I upgraded her ticket to first class and she wore a pad since she will be draining German sperm for days. She has amazing pelvic stamina for a 19 y/o and wants to come back next summer. All her lovers had been screened and were free of STIs and fortunately at my insistence she had a GyneFix implanted so she should be quite safe. If she still wants to work in Vegas next summer I’m sure I can find her something she will like and be good at.

HydroGlove latex drysuits and Blog Stats

Escort candidate in a HydroGlove latex drysuit euphoric on NymphGel

Escort training in HydroGlove drysuits: The new group of escort trainees began last week. Wouldn’t you know everything seems to come at the same time. We are starting out the girls submerged latex encasement training using HydroGlove latex drysuits. HydroGlove is a basic latex suit that is very light and comfortable to wear and it is thin and stretchy enough that it flatters the female figure. It is ideal as a starter suit for use in training pools and sexual encounters. Because it is very thin and can be easily punctured on sharp rocks and metal it shouldn’t be worn in a rough environment.

The HydroGlove is a waist entry suit. The bottom half is pulled on like a pair of very long waisted slacks. Then the long tubular waist is folded down to the wearer’s waist level. The top is slipped on over the head like a rubber hoodie and the tight fitting hood positioned to seal around the face. The upper part has a very long tail rather like wearing an extra large tee as a sleep-shirt and the tail is pulled down and straightened out over the folded down waist of the bottom of the suit. Then the Long waist and the tail of the upper part are rolled together in an inch wide fold up to the wearer’s waist. It folds 4 or 5 times making a water tight seal of the upper and lower halves of the suit around the wearer’s waist.

A flooded HydroGlove: A really nice thing about a HydroGlove is that if it floods while the wearer is using it for buoyancy compensation she isn’t trapped on the bottom of the body of water she is diving. It is relatively easy to get out of a flooded HydroGlove and swim to the surface. That’s a feature more women latex fetish divers are appreciating since it has become distressingly common for men to take out their frustrations on a partner by slashing and flooding her drysuit. They think she will be left helpless to suffocate or drown on the bottom, but if she is wearing a HydroGlove she can survive the attack, unless she has been shackled to the bottom which rarely happens. Then of course she is well and truly fucked in every sense of the word!

There are no fill and dump valves or hose connections to a HydroGlove so it has a clean slimming appearance. The hood seals around the wearer’s face. On the surface it can be inflated by pulling the chin of the hood over the wearer’s mouth and blowing into the suit. Or for compressed gas inflation when submerged the hood can be worn over the skirt of the mask and then by exhaling into the mask air will be forced out the top of the mask and under the hood of the HydroGlove. Or, the mouthpiece of the second stage reg. can be slipped under a wrist seal and the purge button depressed to fill the suit. For deflation a wrist seal is opened a bit to release the desired amount of air.

HydroGlove penetrative encounters: Clients are increasingly asking for dive-sex encounters with a woman wearing a drysuit. A heavy rubber shoulder entry dry suit like an Avon or GNT isn’t suitable for penetrative dive-sex as the zipper is under her tank and she has to take off her breathing equipment to get out of the neck seal. Though a client into technical diving might want exactly that! More typically a man just wants the thrill of seeing his partner’s protective drysuit flood leaving her vulnerable to the ambient water temp, even though the water is a comfy 85 degrees. I think it’s important to keep in mind that the brain is a person’s most powerful sexual organ! Men who have talked to me about their reasons say they enjoy the thoughts of endangering their partner during sex. I would say that is misogynistic except that there are a lot of women in my circle who enjoy the thrill of having their protection compromised every bit as much as the guys enjoy doing it. Estrogen and testosterone getting the two sexes to the same kinky place! Go figure!

HydroGlove is ideal for submerged penetrative sex as all that needs to be done is unroll the waist seal. Of course once flooded it is difficult to purge the water from the suit. It can be done not quite completely (but more than enough to use it for buoyancy control) with a HydroGlove by resealing the waist and introducing gas into the suit by inserting the mouthpiece of the reg under a wrist seal with the wearer’s feet higher than her head so the air flows to the feet of the suit while the water is pushed out through the same open wrist seal as the suit fills. The problem with that is that it is a tricky process and the wearer needs to be tethered to the bottom to prevent an uncontrolled ascent to the surface. So in practice after foreplay while the escort is still in her in inflated HydroGlove she lets her partner unroll her waist seal and flood her suit and she lets him penetrate her after checking that her gas guard is in place and she has enough DiveGel inserted. She wears a short tank so she can be taken conveniently from behind and she lets him finish inside her planting hundreds of millions of sperm deep inside her up against the stretchy rubber dome of her gas guard. After he withdraws she removes the upper half of her HydroGlove, drops her weight belt and they head for the surface together.

Submissives in HydroGloves: We are holding a class for a few of the Local rubber Doms favorite Submissives to train them to use the HydroGlove as an encasement suit as well as to use the suit for dive sex. The girls are enthusiastic about wearing HydroGloves because of their lightness, the flattering fit and ease of movement when fully encased. For fave Subs they have a lot of spirit, but perhaps that’s because they are in one another’s company and all have repressive disciplinary regimens they live under. And while in training they are out from under the discipline of their Doms. All the costs for equipment as well as room board and tuition, covering instruction expenses as well as cost of the training facility, are paid for by the Dom sending his Sub for training.

Costs: The cost of a HydroGlove dive sex encounter with a commercial escort is very expensive because of the additional training. It also includes the cost of a hooded HydroGlove ($170 USD retail) from http://www.hydroglove.com/ or a distributor. That’s because clients are so anxious to flood their escorts suit that they often tear it and while a torn suit can usually be repaired you don’t want to wear a repaired suit for an encounter that has cost the client thousands of dollars. However, we do use the repaired suits for training and our own in-house BDSM encounters.

Blogger Stats and Latex Lit: I’ve been looking at my blog stats from the new Blogger Stats feature that was just activated and guess what the eight most popular entries on my blog are. In order of popularity they are:

Open water bondage Apr 3, 2010 707 page views
Snuff videos and heavy rubber Nov 30, 2009 501 page views
Gasmask-sex underwater April 14, 2010 364 page views
BDSM Fellatio collars July 17, 2010 308 page views
Gas masks, rebreather bags and heavy rubber September 7, 2009 225 page views
Heavy rubber and rebreather bags August 5, 2009 191 page views
Ballet-boot maintenance and etiquette September 6, 2009 181 page views
The Sybian machine July 20 2010 145 page views

So Eric, while I’m not a Geek Goddess I have, without even trying, seem to have become an ‘author of explicit rubber narratives’, better known as Latex Lit. Or perhaps it’s just that a lot of my readers think I am. Not that I mind. I think someone should be writing about what goes on in the local BDSM community and behind all the glitter and glamour of Vegas. I think the greed, envy, and psychopathic violence in the fetish community is fascinating and being a part of it keeps my adrenaline pumping and my skills well honed. Given that I’m a ‘Rubber Slut’ (the highest position a woman can hold in the local latex fetish community) and having insight into what is happening out here I suppose, for now, that someone is me.

Thanks and call for requests: I want to thank all the members of the U.S, and European fetish communities who are reading my blog. [Though I don’t think they read my general posts like this one.] There are aspects of the D/S BDSM community here that I haven’t written about because they don’t interest me. However, if a reader has a particular fetish that s/he hasn’t seen mentioned please let me know (by leaving a comment) and if it’s happening here I’ll post about it. Ok?

Review of Black Swan

Natalie Portman at the Venice Film festival 2010 premier of Black Swan

The New York Times
Review
By RODERICK CONWAY MORRIS
September 2, 2010

Venice Festival Opens With Glimpses Into the Pitfalls of Passion

VENICE — Darren Aronofsky’s in-competition movie “Black Swan” opened the 67th Venice International Film Festival on Wednesday night. Having won the Golden Lion two years ago with “The Wrestler,” could Mr. Aronofsky repeat the unprecedented double break of Ang Lee, who has twice carried off the top prize, first in 2005 and again in 2007? Probably not.

“Black Swan” takes us into the ballet world and explores the huge physical and emotional demands it makes on a star performer. So, Powell and Pressburger’s “The Red Shoes” revisited? Not quite. “The Red Shoes” was, of course, inspired by a fairy tale, a story full of colorful fantasy, set in a sophisticated, glamorous, international world of grand hotels and limousines, tracing the trajectory of a prima ballerina at the height of her career spiraling toward a tragic end.

“Black Swan” is not about a prima ballerina, but an aspiring one, who travels on the New York subway and commutes to and from a cluttered and cramped apartment she lives in with her mother. Nina (Natalie Portman) is picked out of the corps de ballet to replace the previous in-house star Beth (Winona Ryder), who has been rather brutally traded in by the sexual-predator who is the director of the ballet company, Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel), for a younger, fitter, sleeker model to lead in the season’s opening production, “Swan Lake.”

Thomas sees Nina as ideal for the role of the White Swan in Tchaikovsky’s ballet — technically she cannot be faulted as a dancer — but he has doubts as to whether she can rise emotionally to the task of conveying the necessary seductive malevolence of the Black Swan.

Much of the film takes place not on the stage, but in the rehearsal rooms, dressing rooms, bathrooms and corridors in the bowels of the theater. These settings are very effectively used in the darkly contrasted monochrome design and cinematography of the film, conveying the claustrophobic life of an institution that seems as glamour-free as ancient Spartan barracks.

Home life for Nina is no picnic either. Her mother (Barbara Hershey) is a former dancer who cultivates the myth that she has sacrificed her own career for the sake of her daughter, through whom she is now living an entirely vicarious life. But emotionally immature, vulnerable and sexually repressed Nina, in her obsessive determination to dance the part of the Swan Queen, is driven more and more to challenge her mother’s sinisterly stifling and intrusive control.

Nina’s insecurities intensify when a new ballerina, Lily (Mila Kunis), arrives from San Francisco. Sassy, worldly-wise, promiscuous, a rule-breaker, Lily catches the eye of Thomas as a possible natural candidate for the Black Swan role. So the rivalry between the two dancers — or at least Nina’s perception of rivalry — begins to take on dangerous proportions.

The movie is billed as a psychological thriller but the psychology is as monochrome as the settings and characterization. There are scenes of masturbation and sapphic sex, which are sure to get the movie talked about. The cast is dominated by women, but the view of them is stereotypical and unflattering, since the principal characters (except perhaps Lily) seem paranoid, hysterical, underhanded or manipulative, if not frankly deranged. And the climax of the film is as inevitable as it is implausible.”

Personal comment: This review has been edited to post only the review of Black Swan. The setting in rehearsal studios, cramped hallways and less that palatial NYC apartments is very realistic as is the mental pull of competing emotions within a dancer. Regardless of how confident one seems on the outside there is always a need to get into your dance space mentally where you focus only on being the character in the role and let muscle memory and the music take over.

Nina (Natalie Portman) being picked out of the corps to dance Odette/Odile is a huge stretch (but this is Hollywood) because the demands on stamina, technique and emotional range of the dual role are so great. In some companies the role is divided when a single dancer isn’t up to the demands of both, but doing that advertises both the limitations of the dancer and the lack of depth of talent in the company. In a major company that would never happen unless the ballerina in the role for that performance became injured. Perhaps the AD is using Lily (Mila Kunis) as a motivator for Nina to push her to her limit by considering Lily for the role of Odile. You think?

Competing dancers sometimes do play mind games with each other, but from what we know about the plot it seems Nina is being mind-fucked by so many of her circle; her mother, the Artistic Director and Lily, her rival for the role, that she should be on a mental contraceptive. Will Lily have enough time to harden Nina mentally and bring out her darker side with the malevolence necessary to portray Odile effectively? I can’t wait to see the film and find out!

Extreme training for Black Swan

A pair of Natalie’s pointe shoes worn during filming Black Swan

Yahoo Movies
MOVIE TALK
by Erin Carlson
September 2, 2010

Natalie Portman Trained To The Extreme For Ballet Drama 'Black Swan'

Natalie Portman is earning early raves - and Oscar buzz - for her role as an unhinged ballerina in the upcoming psycho-drama "Black Swan". The 29-year-old actor fully immersed herself in the part, which required hours upon hours of extreme training.

Portman, who studied dance until she 13 years old, got a jump on her preparation for the film.

"Physically, I trained starting a year ahead of time, and then the six months prior to [shooting] the film, went into a sort of hyper training, where I was doing five hours a day of both ballet and cross training with swimming," she told reporters at a press conference at the Venice Film Festival, where "Black Swan" debuted to glowing reviews Wednesday night.

The much-talked-about film, directed by Darren Aronofsky, opens in theaters December 1, just in time for Oscar consideration. Portman portrays Nina, a repressed star ballerina whose devotion to her art takes a wild turn when a talented rival (Mila Kunis) enters her life and throws her life off balance.

Portman began learning the choreography several months before filming began last December. "It was very extreme, and the mindset during the film was just sort of extreme discipline and focus and obsession ... which was fantastic," she said.

The grueling sessions paid off in other ways: The dance lessons sparked a romance between Portman and Benjamin Millepied, a principal dancer for the New York City Ballet, who helped choreograph scenes for "Black Swan." According to an interview with Details magazine, he can't resist texting his "girlfriend" and "Swan" co-star (he also has a small part in the movie).

But back to the movie itself: The images in the promotional material and trailer are dark, haunting, and terrifying. Portman, who has already been praised by various critics for leaving her comfort zone and taking risks in an edgier role, is shown in several scenes with bloodshot red eyes and stark white makeup.

It's not the first time she's undergone a radical makeover for a role. The pixie-ish actor - renowned for her beauty - shaved her head near-bald for the politically charged movie "V for Vendetta."

But with "Black Swan," Portman's acting immersion might pay off with something that has eluded her slender grasp: an Oscar. She was previously nominated for a supporting role in 2004's "Closer," in which she portrayed a gentleman's club dancer (who wore a really cool pink wig).

After a mini career slump ("New York, I Love You," anyone?), she seems to have lined up a series of parts in buzzier projects. She landed the "Black Swan" gig and other high-profile roles, spanning from blockbuster ("Thor") to highbrow ("Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"). With "Black Swan," she has doubtlessly bridged the gap between both.

Personal comment: Playing Nina, a corps member given an opportunity to be first cast in an iconic role we should hope the Natalie developed a hardbody for the role! If she took ballet until she was 13 perhaps she had several years of pointe.

."It was very extreme, and the mindset during the film was just sort of extreme discipline and focus and obsession”

Ohhh? Welcome to the world of a professional ballet dancer! Coming back to pointe after 15 years out of pointe shoes must have been an experience, but far better tolerated with professional trainers and adult muscles and bone structure and the motivation of a staring role than as an adolescent with so many other calls on her time. I hope the role of Nina will be one in which Natalie can influence young women to take up ballet as an adult exercise for the challenges and thrills working en pointe can bring.

Pointe shoe quiz 09-01-2010

What maker’s shoes is this swan wearing?

Please give the reason(s) for your answer