Veronika begins BDSM training

Veronika channels Anastasia Steele

The photo: The poster for the film Fifty Shades of Grey from E.L. James 2012 runaway best seller of that name. It will be released in the U.S. and UK on February 13^th just in time for Valentines Day.

Veronika’s baseline: While Nika isn’t quite a virgin she is very inexperienced in the ways of men with women. So Alexei, her father, asked me to take her in hand, since he no longer has women in his family to help guide her through a series of broadening sexual experience in relative safely. She has been vaccinated against the common childhood diseases: Polio, Whooping cough, Mumps, Measles, lockjaw, Chickenpox and has had her full series of three shots to protect against the most common strains of HPV. She has had a pregnancy test, negative. She has had a full panel STI test and all tests were negative. And her pelvic grip has been measured with a Peritron for pelvic floor assessment.

No leave of absence: I have decided to stay in London for a while as the noise level at Blackthorn-on-summit from the construction of the new dance studio and the dive tank foundation test borings is far too loud to allow me to do much productive work. I thought it wouldn’t be that bad, but I was wrong. 

Also, I have rethought Alexei’s idea of having Nika request a leave of absence from the company so she can train with me. It’s not as though there is any time certain by which she must be proficient in the skills I teach. Furthermore, it’s very short notice and bad timing to ask for time off during winter performing season and while her request would probably be granted (given who her father is) that sort of thing is remembered by management and the other dancers and competition is fierce under the best of circumstances so it would not be a smart career move. As a member of the Corps she will be dancing quite a lot, more than 30 performances and associated rehearsals for two full length ballets for the next several months. The current schedule for Onegin and Swan Lake are:

Onegin: By John Cranko Music: Kurt-Heinz Stolze after Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky John Cranko’s adaptation of Pushkin’s verse-novel, set to music by Tchaikovsky, trembles with emotional charge. Performances will be on:

24 January at 2pm and 7pm; 27 | 28 | 30 January at 7.30pm; 31 January at 12.30pm 2 | 4 February at 7.30pm; 7 February at 12.30pm; 11 February at 2.30pm and 7.30pm; 16 | 18 February at 7.30pm; 27 February at 2.30pm and 7.30pm  13

Swan Lake: By Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, additional choreography by Frederick Ashton and David Bintley Music: Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky Anthony Dowell's production of the greatest romantic ballet draws upon the opulence of 1890s Russia. Performances will be on:

10 | 13 February at 7.30pm; 14 February at 7pm; 19 February at 2pm and 7.30pm; 21 February at 1.30pm and 7pm 13 | 16 | 17† | 18 | 19 | 25 | 26 March at 7.30pm; 14 March at 12.30pm; 21 March at 1.30pm and 7pm 2 | 7 | 9 April at 7.30pm  19

Living in London is far more convenient for now as I can provide ballet therapy during the day in the studio at Blackthorn House for those patients of Marvin’s who need it. Then I can work with Nika schooling her in the art of seduction when her schedule permits. Given her heavy performance schedule its imperative she wear Gaynors to protect her toes during ballet-sex training.

Veronika and hormonal contraceptives: She was on the Progestin-only-pill Cerazette, a 28 tablet packet with each pill containing 75mcg desogestrel. So there were no hormone-free days. I suggested she change to a copper IUD, to get away from having to remember to take a pill at the same time each day. But she was very pleased with how well Cerazette had worked for her and has painful periods and irregular cycles and wants to continue on hormones so she agreed to try a Mirena Levonorgestrel releasing device. The initial Marina release rate of levonorgestrel is 20 mcg/day; this rate is reduced by about 50% after 5 years which is the useful life of the device. Chris, our male Gyn. Inserted one with the strings removed so she can safely wear cervical barriers for flood insurance during dive-sex w/o the danger of possibly pulling the IUD out from the strings sticking to the barrier. As long as she doesn’t take meds or supplements that reduce the hormones efficacy she should be ok. She can slip by the clinic monthly for an ultrasound to make sure the IUD is still positioned correctly like Escorts do who have had framed stringless IUDs placed.

Stocking Nika’s Slit-kit: While we were at the clinic I had Nika fitted for a latex Reflexions diaphragm, she got three in her size, for flood insurance during dive-sex and a sports plug, for grope protection while clubbing. She already uses a Diva menstrual cup for flow control. We added some Nitrile FC2 female condoms and a 12-pack of super-sheer Japanese male condoms and six 10ml prefilled disposable applicators of DiveGel+ the lubricant spermicide-biocide used primarily for dive-sex. The six were put in her kit and she got a carton of twenty-four 10ml prefilled applicators to backfill her kit.

In the clinic’s toy store: We bought her several sets of Ben Wa balls. First a pair of 1.0 inch 316 surgical steel balls weighting 2.3 oz. each for a total of 4.6 oz. or quarter-pounder McBalls. And a 1.0 inch set of borosilicate (Pyrex) glass balls weighing 0.63 oz. each. We finished her initial purchases with several suction cup mounted silicone and Borosilicate glass dildos. The suction cup base ones for sticking to the mirrors in the studio and backing on to them while en pointe to train solo for ballet-sex.

Pointe-shoes: Veronika wears Freed Classics for training and performing with her company, but if she is going to train for ballet-sex she really should wear hard shanked Gaynor Minden shoes. Returning readers will recall ballet-sex is defined for purposes of this blog as penile-vaginal intercourse to orgasm preferably by both partners while the woman is en pointe a la seconde bending over holding on to a barre or other suitable support while being penetrated from the rear. The pre-arched hard shanks allow a wearer to put a significant portion of her weight on her heels to rest w/o crushing the shanks, during the extended interval she is continuously en pointe during ballet-sex.

While allowing the tightest pelvic grip possible ballet-sex can injure the woman’s feet by bruising her toes from thrust-drop, especially if the man is taller than the woman when she is on her toes. Some few women don’t find GM pointes comfortable and with polymer blocks and shanks they are hot, but the thick platform pads as well as the usual toe tape and toe-pads provide the best protection against bruised toes which are very painful and look terrible as well if you’re a sandals girl. Fortunately Veronika found a size in GM that fit properly and were comfortable, relatively speaking, and she bought six pairs, making sure to try both shoes of each pair on so to ensure there were no manufacturing defects.

Nika in ballet-boots: For any rising fetishista ballet-boots for clubbing are a must-have. So we went by Blackthorn Fetishwear to have her fitted. Cleo, Gepetto’s 26 y/o daughter is working at Blackthorn Ballet shoes and Fetishwear to fit his custom titanium unitized toe-box and shank leather ballet-boots as well as Gaynor Minden pointe shoes. Cleo had been working in Gepetto’s Vegas shop for five years and is an expert fitter. The cost is $2500 USD (about 1655 GBP) for a basic pair and she bought three more expensive pairs - all lightly armored as I don’t want her injured from a heel in her calf or instep by a jealous competitor - in black leather with lace splitter rapier heels, spider filament laces and three sets of Inman heel guards for use while wearing them at her home and mine and if we shop in them to protect the floors and carpeting from punctures. It’s best to have a pair of heel-guards for each pair as in a scramble where you have to release your guards to fight it is easy to lose one or both in the melee.

I bought an addition two pairs as well since with so much rain here it is more likely that they will get wet. Even though heavily oiled if you are caught in a downpour or have to wade to a taxi they can get soaked and take a while to dry properly.  

Old business: First it’s 25 miles (or so) from St. George’s Channel,  the south entrance to the Irish Sea on the west coast of Wales to the Cumbrian Mountains not the 50 that I wrote an earlier post.

And a frequent reader [thank you Eric] corrected me as I had misidentified one of the teams in the 2015 AFC playoff. It was the Indianapolis Colts that the New England Patriots cheated (in my opinion) in Deflate-Gate to get a spot in Super Bowl XLIX.