Stamina training and backup protection

A few pairs of dead shoes discarded by the corps

The Photo: Dead Freed and Bloch pointes discarded by the corps. Corps members go through four or five pairs a week. Sometimes more sometimes less depending on the ballets and roles danced.

Pilgrim’s Progress: Here I’m defining Nikolai as a ‘pilgrim’ since he whispers in my ear every time he fills me with his semen how he worships my vagina and the muscles that contract around his erection to milk him of powerful jets of molten pearl. In that sense as his ‘spiritual advisor’ I see him as every bit a sexual pilgrim who I am guiding on a ‘religious’ pilgrimage as intense with his psychological enthrallment and intimate physical interconnection with me as Marvin’s is. I’m pleased to say that Nikolai is very accomplished with needle and thread, a consequence of growing up with hand-me-down practice clothes he had to repair himself when he was a child in ballet school in Leningrad. So he has had no problem in sewing ribbons and elastic on his pointe shoes. He was also familiar with the need to keep his toenails short and I showed him how to economically and effectively use toe tape and toe pads. And he is an exemplary pointe student though he is working on his développés and endurance sur les pointes, but his leaps of course are exquisite!

Ballet-sex dangers, Corps dancer’s stamina: I’ve mentioned in an earlier post the trouble Nikolai got into by impregnating corps dancers, but that was the result of rare failures of the individual women’s IUDs. A much more likely problem is a dancer being injured during ballet-sex even though she is in great shape for dancing.  Returning readers will remember that my definition of ballet-sex is for the woman to be penetrated from behind then rising en pointe and remaining there for the entire time it takes for her partner to give her an orgasm and or to orgasm himself which can sometimes be as long as twenty minutes.  Problems can arise with ballet-sex for several reasons: 1) if the woman must stay continuously en pointe longer than her strength will allow causing her to fall off pointe or; 2) If she has a strong orgasm and doesn’t hold back a bit she could go jelly-boned and lose control of her legs and fall off pointe. 3) Unexpected thrust-drop which is where the male partner’s legs are longer than the woman’s so when he thrusts he lifts her off the floor and drops her back on her platforms when withdrawing which often causes badly bruised nails.  Closely trimmed hails and wearing Gaynor Minden pointes with the thick soft internal platform pads will help minimize the discomfort from thrust-drop.

Some of the more sexually adventuresome Corps girls have tried ballet-sex and found it exhausting and a bit scary so have come to me asking about private stamina training for being penetrated in that position. I suggest they wear Gaynor Minden pointes with sueded tips for their comfort, support and traction during ballet-sex as most of them perform professionally in bespoke Freed Classics. For training I tell them to use a large dildo with a remote controlled vibi and a large suction cup base and a portable barre as most of the fixed barres aren’t far enough from the mirrored walls to get between the mirror and the barre and be able to bend over and support herself on the barre. The height to fasten the dildo to a studio mirror is easily determined by inserting the dildo then doing a 90° forward bend while supporting herself on the barre and backing up to the mirror.  Then go sur les pointes making sure to retain the 90° forward bend and with one hand push the base on to the mirror to develop a good suction. Then step away from the mirror to get off the dildo and mark the spot on the mirror as the height at which the dildo should be suction cupped. Once the spot is unobtrusively marked on the mirror she can fasten the dildo when she wants go en pointe and back on to it then turn on the vibi and move back and forth up and down the shaft. Doing this several times a day and walking around home en pointe should build up stamina for ballet-sex in a few weeks.

Women’s clothing for ballet-sex: Of course the vulva has to be easily accessible. You can wear a thong and sports bra or a thong-back leotard or go commando. I don’t recommend commando because while training with a dildo or during an encounter with a lover secretions can flow profusely and drip on the floor where they can cause a slip especially while en pointe (which is why sueded tips are recommended) I think at least tights or a thong is needed to catch coital discharge while walking to the bathroom or dressing room to kegel out most of it. Since I’m lactating if I’m with a lover I’ll wear a front close sports top so I can breastfeed him as part of foreplay before he penetrates me, a thong or tights with a cotton gusset and old suede tipped Gaynors. I wear old Gaynors because they will probably get splattered with lube and genital secretions during the encounter.

Let Nikolai be Nikolai: I’ve decided not to attempt to suppress Nikolai’s libido, but let him be the awesome bull his ego and talent make him. I’m already guiding his choices toward a few of the stronger more talented sexually experienced company girls with powerful libidos. These are some of the ones who have a strong desire to see if they can satisfy him enough to take him away from me so in that sense I’m consorting with the enemy. However, I think my plan is clever as I’m turning my competition’s drive and lust to my personal advantage. I am supremely confident that Nokolai is deep enough in my thrall that daily dalliances will not affect his need to thrill me in any way he can. So I will have time to tutor him in the social graces and soften his interaction with women before I release him to select a mate for marriage and a family if he chooses. This arrangement will keep his needs slaked during the day while I’m teaching class and fitting diaphragms at Blackstone Clinic until I can have him to myself when we have both fulfilled our professional responsibilities.    

Caya as backup protection: The corps girls know I fit diaphragms at a private clinic and some of the more sexually active ones have come to me asking about using backup protection. All in the corps are supposedly using effective methods of birth control. However, the two pregnancies that Nikolai was involved with earlier this year have caused them to be extra cautious as often there is no work for a pregnant dancer – if she is pro-life - or there is a huge delay in the career of a rising star if she carries to term. So some of the most talented and attractive dancers, who are also some of the most sexually active, have asked me to fit them for a Caya contoured diaphragm as they are becoming popular as an effective backup method. I have fitted seven of then so far. One of the attractive features of a Caya, from a man’s perspective, is the very lightly textured (think matte) finish on the dome which partners find very pleasing to rub their glans against. In the UK a fitting is not required for a Caya as it is in the U.S. but if a woman buys one w/o a fitting she could find that her vagina is too small (60mm or less) or too large (85 mm or more) or her post-pubic vault is not deep enough to fully contain the relief arch on the anterior end and have wasted her money.

I think it is deliciously ironic that some of these Caya girls are the same ones I’m grooming as day-fucks for Nikolai and each thinks I don’t have a clue that she wants the Caya for backup protection while she works to seduce Nikolai for herself. That doesn’t bother me in the least as while they are young I am far more lovely as an adult beauty, sexually experienced and know tricks they have never imagined to bind a man emotionally to me. The thing I’m going to have to manage carefully is that they don’t turn on each other and cause social rifts the Corps.

Cunt Castle, drysuit training, flood insurance

A shoulder entry Northern Diver drysuit

The photo: A Northern Diver drysuit showing the latex neck seal which can be troublesome if the suit is being used to control diver buoyancy with no external buoyancy compensator. A ruptured neck seal can lead to drowning if the diver is unfamiliar with emergency surfacing procedures.

Cunt Castle: Taryn's home north east of Cambridge is known fondly to her friends as ‘Cunt Castle’. One of the stonemasons working on the renovations (before she moved into the Manor) called it ‘Cunt Castle’ and the name seems to have stuck with her circle of friends, though not with the locals, or at least not to her face.

Taryn asked me to spend a few days at her Cambridge manor house to advise her on a new ballet training regimen for some of her porn empire’s best actors. I was asked to bring Marvin ( my psychiatrist) and Chris (my Clinic’s male Gyn) as it was to be a comprehensive reevaluation of both the male and female actors and survival training needed before production begins on a new rape series videos the first of which has the working title ‘Drysuit Conception’.

I brought my group up from London on the Dragon along with two pallets of contraceptive supplies and Nancy our Gaynor Minden pointe-shoe fitter from my Blackthorn dance supplies shop along with her pallet mounted container of pointe-shoes. The manor house has its own private rail siding which was built in the early 1900s when rail travel was at its peak and fuel and other bulk supplies were brought out from London by rail. Because of Taryn’s business she has a fully equipped Gynecological exam room in which minor surgical procedures can be safely conducted. And I helped Chris do the diaphragm; FemCap and sports plug fittings for the seven porn actresses as well as ultra sounds to check the positions of the girls GyneFix IUDs. And the pointe fitter fit them all with three pairs of GM hard shanked shoes with suede tips which they will be wearing for pointe and stamina training.

Taryn also has a woman Divemaster in residence to check and repair pieces of dive gear and tend to the refilling of tanks with regular air. Her pool though only a few years old is no more than 30 feet deep so she has no need for enhanced air mixtures of any kind.

Screen Play: The story line for ‘Drysuit Conception’ will span several installments in 20 minute videos. It begins with the heroine in a pool side dressing room inserting the Milex diaphragm she uses for flood insurance, then donning a deep pink shoulder entry Northern Diver drysuit (similar to the one shown in the photo at the top of this entry) before diving alone learning to regulate her buoyancy. During her training she nearly dies when her neck seal is slit by a bikini clad jealous rival flooding her suit and trapping her on the pool bottom where she is left to drown.  With creativity and a major effort she manages to get out of the pool by herself and lies exhausted on the pool deck too weak to get out of her drysuit.  

A man enters the pool area finds her and helps her out of her tank harness. Getting her on to her hands and knees he helps her get her head and arms out of the suit. Then kneeling between her legs he pulls the suit down over her hips where it lays in thick folds around her thighs. By that time she is somewhat aware of her surroundings and is gasping and shuddering. He leaves her on her hands and knees with legs spread trapped in the heavy fabric and boots while he pushes her thong bikini to one side exposing her vulva. He spreads her labia and inserts two fingers in her vagina searching for a cervical barrier. He inserts a finger between the vaginal wall and the diaphragm rim, breaks the seal and pulls it out and when she turns her head to see what’s going on and opens her mouth to ask he stuffs it in her mouth as an effective gag. She can taste her fertile cervical mucus secretions along with the lactic acid spermicide that fills the dome. Her tongue can’t dislodge the rim jammed behind her upper teeth and she can’t use a hand to remove it as she needs both of them to prevent falling on her face.

She is so glad to be alive that when he mounts her from behind she enjoys their encounter during which he gives her a mind-blowing G-spot orgasm and holds her in ecstasy until she faints. After their intense encounter she is so exhausted that her faint turns into a deep sleep on the pool surround still partially in her drysuit. Later as she regains consciousness she is startled to find her diaphragm in her mouth and realizes she was not thinking clearly when she let him pull it out and stuff it in her mouth and wonders if the EC drug ellaOne in her purse in her locker will be enough to prevent her from becoming pregnant.  When she wakes up her lover has disappeared leaving only his liquefied semen draining out of her and a wonderful memory of the ecstasy he gave her with such an amazing orgasm.

Eight weeks later when she finds she’s pregnant and goes for an abortion she recognizes the father of her baby. He is a gorgeous young Gyn at the clinic, but not the one who performs the vacuum aspiration sucking out the small amount of reproducing tissue ridding her of the consequences of her drysuit rape encounter. She did have time to notice that he was wearing no wedding band. Before leaving the clinic she asks the receptionist who the young doctor is and decides to meet him socially as she desperately wants more sex with him.

Ruptured neck seal training: One popular scenario for dive porn is the damsel –in-distress who when saved ravages her dive buddy to show her lust for life after a narrow escape from drowning in her flooded drysuit. To properly video the escape scene the actress whose neck seal is slit – often in films by a jealous woman trying to kill her for having an affair with her boyfriend – needs to know how to safely get to the surface by herself with limited air and no external buoyancy device.  For this sort of escape scene a stunt-double is often used.  

I am teaching Taryn’s stunt-double, one of the more experienced actresses, how to intentionally invert herself to inflate the legs of a drysuit with a torn neck seal so she can reach the surface and the dive platform of a yacht or the walk-out ledge or the shallow end of a training pool where there are ladders or the water is shallow enough that the diver with the torn neck seal can climb, walk or crawl out of the water. It’s takes a lot of core strength when at the surface to basically do sit-ups with the tank on your back to grab the platform, ladder or ledge to get your head above the surface. Fortunately as dancers the girls all have that ability.

The use of a stunt-double for most of the dangerous scenes is to minimize liability for injuries, limit the number of hazard pay bonuses and minimize equipment damage, in this case the number of neck seals that need to be slit.  I’m working with her and one or two other girls who want to learn how to save themselves if a neck seal fails. The Divemaster has a supply of Northern Diver latex neck seals to replace the ones intentionally slit and any others than might leak.  

Vaginal flood insurance: The porn actresses are all quite young and some are very shapely with wide hips and lovely large, high, firm breasts, only a few of which have been augmented with implants. However, there is a growing market for actress/divers with ballet experience and Balanchine bodies so Taryn is recruiting from the dance schools and ballet companies. These days most porn actresses are on LARC methods, usually copper bead frameless GyneFix IUDs with the strings removed so they can work menstrual sex scenes during their periods so they get bloody sex work when their friends on hormones aren’t bleeding enough for good visuals on menstrual sex videos.

Almost all the young ones want children eventually so in addition to contraception it’s important to protect their upper reproductive tracts from having water forced into the uterus when the vagina floods as it typically does during dive-sex. So they have come to me (well Taryn has on their behalf) to be fitted for cervical barriers to reduce the likelihood of having a partner’s thrusts force water through the cervix during underwater sex. It’s amazing to me that so few women realize the possibility and danger of having water forced into the uterus during underwater sex, but perhaps that’s because so few of us ever experience the pleasure of having penetrative sex underwater.

Enemas and SCUBA sex: In preparing for penetrative underwater sex a knowledgeable woman takes the usual precautions for contraception and flood control and empties her bowels and bladder before donning her swim gear. However, if she knows that she will be penetrated by a very well endowed partner she should give herself an enema to make sure her lower bowel is empty when she will be taking the thrusts of a very large penis. Failure to evacuate the bowel with an enema can lead to some very messy situations causing loss of production time and the sterilization of a lot of equipment all of which costs money for porn production companies. That is why porn actresses working for Taryn’s company are required to have enemas prior to suiting up for underwater sex scenes.

Given Taryn’s business and her fondness for sexual encounter parties the women’s dressing room at the underground pool at Cunt Castle was sized with the need in mind to care for a large number of simultaneous users. It has ten toilet stalls so none of the actresses has to wait in line for toilet time. A very good thing when we all are giving ourselves enemas simultaneously or are menstrual.

 

 

The face of the Republican Party

Old, fat, white, misogynist Republican leader

Rush Limbaugh: Rush, a man, who has considerable influence on conservative Republicans - which speaks volumes about the Republican Party -, enjoys attacking ordinary people who have different views that he does and who for all practical purposes can’t fight back. He tried it again last week when he savaged Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University law student, with misogynistic and vitriolic comments and misrepresented the position of Ms. Fluke in her testimony before congress. The blowback has been severe, (So far he has lost 7 sponsors for his radio show.) though probably not sufficient to cripple his style for long. He is a terrible spokesperson for Republican causes and I hope he continues his garbage-mouth tactics at least through the national elections.

Obama recasts birth control debate on own terms

"WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama waded deep into the culture wars of American politics by rushing to the defense of a female law student Rush Limbaugh verbally attacked.

And by doing so, the president cast the contraception controversy raging in America as an issue of women's rights, not religious freedom.

Friday's telephone call of support to Sandra Fluke was nothing short of an election-year appeal to a crucial voting bloc — and it also had the political benefit of forcing Republicans to choose between siding with the president and taking what critics view as an extreme position to counter him.”

For the complete article click HERE.

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Have You No Shame, Rush?
NYT OP-Ed columnist Maureen Dowd March 3, 2012

“AS a woman who has been viciously slashed by Rush Limbaugh, I can tell you, it’s no fun.

At first you think, if he objects to the substance of what you’re saying, why can’t he just object to the substance of what you’re saying? Why go after you in the most personal and humiliating way?

Then, once you accept the fact that he has become the puppet master of the Republican Party by stirring bloodlust (earning enough to bribe Elton John to play at his fourth wedding), you still cringe at the thought that your mom might hear the ugly things he said.

Now he’s brutalizing a poised, wholesome-looking 30-year-old Georgetown law student as a “slut,” “a prostitute” and “round-heeled” simply for testifying to lawmakers about wanting the school to amend its health insurance to cover contraception.”

For the complete article click HERE

The Personhood amendment

A fertilized human egg


The New York Times
October 25, 2011
By ERIK ECKHOLM

Push for ‘Personhood’ Amendment Represents New Tack in Abortion Fight

“A constitutional amendment facing voters in Mississippi on Nov. 8, and similar initiatives brewing in half a dozen other states including Florida and Ohio, would declare a fertilized human egg to be a legal person, effectively branding abortion and some forms of birth control as murder.

With this far-reaching anti-abortion strategy, the proponents of what they call personhood amendments hope to reshape the national debate.

“I view it as transformative,” said Brad Prewitt, a lawyer and executive director of the Yes on 26 campaign, which is named for the Mississippi proposition. “Personhood is bigger than just shutting abortion clinics; it’s an opportunity for people to say that we’re made in the image of God.”

Many doctors and women’s health advocates say the proposals would cause a dangerous intrusion of criminal law into medical care, jeopardizing women’s rights and even their lives.

The amendment in Mississippi would ban virtually all abortions, including those resulting from rape or incest. It would bar some birth control methods, including IUDs and “morning-after pills” that prevent fertilized eggs from implanting in the uterus. It would also outlaw the destruction of embryos created in laboratories.

The amendment has been endorsed by candidates for governor from both major parties, and it appears likely to pass, said W. Martin Wiseman, director of the John C. Stennis Institute of Government at Mississippi State University. Legal challenges would surely follow, but even if the amendment is ultimately declared unconstitutional, it could disrupt vital care, critics say, and force years of costly court battles.

“This is the most extreme in a field of extreme anti-abortion measures that have been before the states this year,” said Nancy Northrup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, a legal advocacy group.

Opponents, who were handing out brochures on Saturday to tailgate partiers before the University of Southern Mississippi football game in Hattiesburg, said they hoped to dispel the impression that the amendment simply bars abortions — a popular idea in Mississippi — by warning that it would also limit contraceptives, make doctors afraid to save women with life-threatening pregnancies and possibly hamper in vitro fertility treatments.

The drive for personhood amendments has split the anti-abortion forces nationally. Some groups call it an inspired moral leap, while traditional leaders of the fight, including National Right to Life and the Roman Catholic bishops, have refused to promote it, charging that the tactic is reckless and could backfire, leading to a Supreme Court defeat that would undermine progress in carving away at Roe v. Wade.

The approach, granting legal rights to embryos, is fundamentally different from the abortion restrictions that have been adopted in dozens of states. These try to narrow or hamper access to abortions by, for example, sharply restricting the procedures at as early as 20 weeks, requiring women to view ultrasounds of the fetus, curbing insurance coverage and imposing expensive regulations on clinics.

The Mississippi amendment aims to sidestep existing legal battles, simply stating that “the term ‘person’ or ‘persons’ shall include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning or the functional equivalent thereof.”

A similar measure has been defeated twice, by large margins, in Colorado. But the national campaign, promoted by Personhood USA, a Colorado-based group, found more receptive ground in Mississippi, where anti-abortion sentiment crosses party and racial lines, and where the state already has so many restrictions on abortion that only one clinic performs the procedure.

In 2009, an ardent abortion foe named Les Riley formed a state personhood group and started collecting the signatures needed to reach the ballot. Evangelicals and other longtime abortion opponents have pressed the case, and Proposition 26 has the support of a range of political leaders. Its passage could energize similar drives brewing in Florida, Michigan, Montana, Ohio, Wisconsin and other states.

In Mississippi, the emotional battle is being fought with radio and television ads, phone banks and old-fashioned canvassing.

Among the picnicking fans being lobbied outside the stadium in Hattiesburg on Saturday, Lauree Mooney, 40, and her husband, Jerry Mooney, 45, U.S.M. alumni, disagreed with each other. She said that she is against abortion but that the amendment is “too extreme.” Mr. Mooney said he would vote yes because “I’ve always been against abortion.”

Shelley Shoemake, 41, a chiropractor, said the proposal is “yanking me in one direction and the other.” She knows women who had abortions as teenagers, and feels compassion for them. “I’ve got a lot of praying to do” before the vote, she said.

Mississippi will also elect a new governor on Nov. 8. The Republican candidate, Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant, is co-chairman of Yes on 26 and his campaign distributes bumper stickers for the initiative. The Democratic candidate, Johnny DuPree, the mayor of Hattiesburg and the state’s first black major-party candidate for governor in modern times, says he will vote for it though he is worried about its impact on medical care and contraception.

No one can yet be sure of how the amendment would affect criminal proceedings, said Jonathan Will, director of the Bioethics and Health Law Center at the Mississippi College School of Law. Could a woman taking a morning-after pill be charged with murder?

But many leaders of the anti-abortion movement fear that the strategy will be counterproductive. Federal courts would almost surely declare the amendment unconstitutional, said James Bopp Jr., a prominent conservative lawyer from Terre Haute, Ind., and general counsel of National Right to Life, since it contradicts a woman’s current right to an abortion in the early weeks of pregnancy.

“From the standpoint of protecting unborn lives it’s utterly futile,” he said, “and it has the grave risk that if it did get to the Supreme Court, the court would write an even more extreme abortion policy.”

Bishop Joseph Latino of Jackson, Miss., said in a statement last week that the Roman Catholic Church does not support Proposition 26 because “the push for a state amendment could ultimately harm our efforts to overturn Roe vs. Wade.”

Conservative Christian groups including the American Family Association and the Family Research Council are firmly behind the proposal.

Dr. Randall S. Hines, a fertility specialist in Jackson working against Proposition 26 with the group Mississippians for Healthy Families, said that the amendment reflects “biological ignorance.” Most fertilized eggs, he said, do not implant in the uterus or develop further.

“Once you recognize that the majority of fertilized eggs don’t become people, then you recognize how absurd this amendment is,” Dr. Hines said. He fears severe unintended consequences for doctors and women dealing with ectopic or other dangerous pregnancies and for in vitro fertility treatments. “We’ll be asking the Legislature, the governor, judges to decide what is best for the patient,” he said.

Dr. Eric Webb, an obstetrician in Tupelo, Miss., who has spoken out on behalf of Proposition 26, said that the concerns about wider impacts were overblown and that the critics were “avoiding the central moral question.”

“With the union of the egg and sperm, that is life, and genetically human,” Dr. Webb said.

Keith Mason, president of Personhood USA, said he did not agree that the Supreme Court would necessarily reject a personhood amendment. The ultimate goal, he said, is a federal amendment, with a victory in Mississippi as the first step.”


The New York Times
Editorial
October 27, 2011

The ‘Personhood’ Initiative

“A ballot measure going before voters in Mississippi on Nov. 8 would define the term “person” in the State Constitution to include fertilized human eggs and grant to fertilized eggs the legal rights and protections that apply to people. It is among the most extreme assaults in the push to end women’s reproductive rights.

The aim is to redefine abortion and some of the most widely used forms of contraception as murder, obliterating a woman’s right to make childbearing decisions under the 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade.

Besides outlawing all abortions, with no exceptions for rape or incest or when a woman’s life is in danger, and banning any contraception that may prevent implantation of a fertilized egg, including birth control pills, the amendment carries many implications, some quite serious.

It could curtail medical research involving embryos, shutter fertility clinics and put doctors in legal jeopardy for providing needed medical care that might endanger a pregnancy. Pregnant women also could become subject to criminal prosecution. A fertilized egg might be eligible to inherit money or be counted when drawing voting districts by population. Because a multitude of laws use the terms “person” or “people,” there would be no shortage of unintended consequences.

A similar ballot measure was handily rejected by Colorado voters in 2008 and 2010. But, in Mississippi, which has already imposed so many burdensome restrictions that the state has only one abortion clinic, there is a real possibility that voters will not react as wisely. Voter approval could energize similar “personhood” initiatives in half a dozen other states, including Florida and Ohio.

Both the Republican and Democratic candidates for governor in Mississippi have endorsed the measure, even though some traditional leaders in the anti-abortion battle, including National Right to Life, have declined to do so, viewing it as a reckless strategy that could lead to a defeat in the Supreme Court. This extreme measure would protect zygotes at the expense of all women while creating a legal quagmire — at least until the courts rule it unconstitutional, as they should.”


Personal comment: If the knuckle draggers who are pushing ‘personhood’ for fertilized eggs have their way women in Mississippi and other radically conservative states will be continuously under suspicion, except perhaps for Nuns. I can’t imagine that legislation so terribly ill-advised would pass, but in the Deep South you never know. Hopefully women who use birth control will vote against ‘Personhood’ as the backers will almost certainly ban hormonal contraceptives and IUDs as abortifacients because with ‘rights’ granted to a fertilized egg the possibility of an implantation failure would be murder.

How would they know a fertilized egg didn’t implant? It is very difficult to detect an egg expelled from the uterus. Would ‘Fertility Police’ be established to test all women between the ages of 12 and 50 on a weekly basis for pregnancy so the government could ensure any fetus was carried to term? And the conservatives say they want smaller less invasive government! Go figure!

Contraception and the media

1.5 mg of levonorgestrel for purse and dancebag

Eximiner.com
August 30, 2010
Sarah Estrella
Sex Education Examiner

American Academy of Pediatrics: 'The media have become one of the leading sex educators in the U.S.'

In a policy statement released yesterday, the American Academy of Pediatrics weighs in on Sexuality, Contraception, and the Media, calls for a national task force on children, adolescents, and the media, and advocates for comprehensive sex education, noting that "It is unwise to promote 'abstinence-only' sex education when it has been shown to be ineffective and when the media have become such an important source of information about 'non-abstinence.'"

Although much of the policy statement focuses on negative impacts of TV and media on the sexual behavior of children and teenagers – "more than 75% of prime-time programs contain sexual content, yet only 14% of sexual incidents mention any risks or responsibilities of sexual activity" – and increased sexual content and sexual suggestiveness in music, movies, television shows, teen magazines, the Internet, social networking web sites, and advertisements – lead author Victor C. Strasburger, MD also sees opportunity for positive impact, noting "The media can be powerful vehicles for sexual health education."

Among the American Academy of Pediatrics' recommendations:

* "Pediatricians can help parents and teenagers to recognize the importance of the media by asking at least 2 media-related questions at each well visit: (1) How much time do you spend daily with entertainment media? And (2) Is there a TV set or Internet access in your bedroom? Research has shown that bedroom TVs are associated with greater substance use and sexual activity by teenagers. A recent study revealed that office-based counseling is effective and could result in nearly 1 million more children and adolescents adhering to the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation to limit media time to less than 2 hours/day.

* "Pediatricians should urge schools to insist on comprehensive sex education programs (to counter the influence of sexually suggestive and explicit media) that incorporate basic principles of media literacy into their sex education pro- grams. Studies have shown that effective media literacy programs can be protective against unhealthy media effects. Federal money should be spent on comprehensive sex education programs but not on abstinence-only programs, which have been found to be ineffective."

* "Pediatricians should urge the broadcast industry to air advertisements for birth control products. The federal government also needs to encourage the advertising of birth control, especially emergency contraceptives."

* "Pediatricians should urge the broadcast industry to limit advertisements for erectile dysfunction drugs until after 10 PM."

* "Pediatricians should urge the broadcast media to include healthy messages about sex and sexuality in their programming, especially in media that children and early teenagers use most frequently."

Personal comment: We agree that ED drug ads are far too prevalent on television and there are almost no adverts for emergency contraceptives like Plan B one-step that a girl could find herself needing if she is caught unprepared. St Lucy’s students 16 and over carry Plan B one-step in their purses and dancebags as backup in case an opportunity is just too good to miss and with healthy, energetic outgoing teens that sort of thing will invariably happen, which is why we recommend all students 16 or older have a GyneFix implanted.

St Lucy’s prides itself on providing age appropriate comprehensive sex education for students, the next generation of our nation’s female leaders. In this regard St Lucy’s is especially strong in the field of technique courses, contraception and STI avoidance providing through student health a full range of contraceptive devices and medications so there is an effective method available for every girl who needs one. And, there is counseling on a complete set of other options should the need arise.