Condoms and Zika

Reservoir tip root boots for photoshoots

The Photo: a selection of colored latex condoms now increasing in popularity because of the Zika virus.

Zika protection: My circle and I have reluctantly begun to use condoms with our partners now because there is no other protection from the Zika virus while having sexual intercourse of any kind. For repeated acts of underwater PVI we have always used the nitrile female condom (FC2) – just as Taryn’s porn actresses do during rehearsals -  except for the cum shots - but we hadn’t been using latex condoms except with new men until we got the of their (negative) STI full panel results. Now all our casual partners taken while out clubbing have to glove up. “No glove, no love!” Latex is far better than polyethylene and Nitrile from the standpoint of its heat transfer properties. The super-thin latex is amazing and personally I like the textured ones since in a condom I don’t get the feel of an uncut man’s frenulum rubbing bareback against my G-spot during ballet-sex, when I’m taken from behind while on my toes. However, latex can be easily damaged by a sharp fingernail so there is that to be careful to avoid.

Reality: Most Escorts, Hostesses and women in my circle have never really been too concerned about birth defects since we all are using effective contraceptive methods and would terminate any unplanned pregnancy. But that is certainly foremost in the minds of most women of reproductive age especially now that it’s known that a woman can be infected by sexual intercourse. Our concern now is that as scientists learn more about Zika they are finding that there may be other long term problems (in addition to Guillain-Barre syndrome) even for adults who show no early symptoms.  Now we know that the virus can stay for at least six months or perhaps longer in a man’s semen.

But what about saliva? The U.S. CDC says that any secretions can transmit Zika so fellatio and cunnilingus are included.  I’ve never been a fan of dental dams so when clubbing oral sex is out at least for now. The rules at my London club, “The Costume Club” (AKA Clever Cunts), have been changed to substantially increase the use of condoms and most of the members understand as none of them wants to take Zika back to their wife and/or mistress.

So when I’m with a new and well-endowed man (and not menstrual) I’ll wear one of my transparent silicone Oves cervical caps for contraceptive protection while he wears a ultra-thin latex sheath lubricated with a water base lube. That way I’m not as likely to grip him so tightly when he is in my anterior fornix that the reservoir tip is flattened and his secretions squeezed out around his glans and down his shaft so he slides out. I know I could use an FC2, but inserting it ahead of time spoils the line of my nude pubes under a sheer thong and with the large anterior ring hanging out it is too much like advertising which is such a put-off and not my style at all!

Current UK (NHS) Zika virus guidance: This guidance is from August 6, 2016 the most recent official UK guidance available. However, the intervals of 6 months for avoiding unprotected sex may not be long enough as longer instances of the virus remaining active in semen have been found to occurred in the U.S. The article can be read HERE

Current (8-17-2016) U.S CDC Zika guidance concerning sexual transmission: Sex includes vaginal, anal, oral sex, and the sharing of sex toys The U.S. seems further ahead in Zika research, perhaps because there is greater likelihood of cases in states in the deep south.  The article can be read HERE

U.S. FDA advises testing for Zika virus in all donated blood and blood components in the US: On August 26^th the FDA said “As a further safety measure against the emerging Zika virus outbreak, today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a revised guidance recommending universal testing of donated Whole Blood and blood components for Zika virus in the U.S. and its territories.”

“There is still much uncertainty regarding the nature and extent of Zika virus transmission,” said Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. “At this time, the recommendation for testing the entire blood supply will help ensure that safe blood is available for all individuals who might need transfusion.” The full News Release can be read HERE:

Zika and my circle: Given the cool climate in the UK experts think it unlikely that there will be much spread of Zika by mosquitos. However, it can be spread through bodily secretions during vaginal, anal, oral sex, and the sharing of sex toys so there could be transmission by persons infected by mosquitoes while traveling outside the UK.  Which is why I and my wards and other friends haven’t been visiting my home on Lost Cove on Virgin Gorda recently as the Caribbean is not safe for sunbathing and bikinis right now and it is also hurricane season there now as well. Not that I worry about microcephaly, since we all use effective means of contraception and would terminate an unplanned pregnancy should one occur, but the scientists are finding more about Zika almost daily and there could be more serious and long term effects for adults that are as yet unknown. And of course I wouldn’t want to infect partners during unprotected sex which I enjoy so much and have them spread it to others.

Ovulation pain and spotting, kitting out, hyperventilation

A typical menstrual cycle chart

The Photo: A typical 30 day charting grid for recording menstrual cycle basal body temperatures vertically and cycle days, cervical fluid, intercourse as well as ancillary information horizontally. On this chart ovulation spotting is shown on CD15 I have a very regular 28 day cycle and usually ovulate on CD14. If the woman’s cycle is regular (stable) charting fertile signs this way can be very effectively used to increase the likelihood of pregnancy or to know when protection should be used, or the couple abstain, during the fertile interval if trying to avoid conceiving.

The candidate’s cycles: the seven candidates cycles are all between 28 and 32 days in length, are relatively stable and they haven’t been together long enough to have developed any menstrual synchrony. From the beginning of the eight week course two have just experienced ovulation spotting, one is newly fertile and one has just started her menses. The other three are luteal.

Ovulation pain and spotting:  “Who Has Painful Ovulation? Many women never experience painful ovulation. Some women, however, have mid-cycle pain every month and can determine by the pain that they are ovulating.”

“Mittelschmerz is the pelvic and lower abdominal pain that some women experience during ovulation. Ovulation generally occurs about midway between menstrual cycles; hence the term mittelschmerz, which comes from the German words for "middle" and "pain." The pain of ovulation can range from a mild twinge to severe discomfort and usually lasts from minutes to hours. It is generally felt on one side of the abdomen and may vary each month, depending on which ovary is releasing the egg during that cycle. In some cases, a small amount of vaginal bleeding or discharge may occur. Some women experience nausea, especially if the pain is severe.” The above is from the WebMD article: Painful Ovulation (Mittelschmerz). The entire article can be read HERE.

In my case I have a twinge of pain for a few minutes on the side on which the follicle ruptures to release the egg and a few hours later a little blood colors my fertile cervical mucus pink.

The seven PA candidates as flowers:  My current group of Personal Assistant candidates I’ll refer to as: Cinnamon, Fern, Heather, Holly, Iris, Ivy and Jasmine and their male partners as: Doc, Dopy, Sleepy, Happy, Grumpy, Sneezy and Bashful if I need to be specific.

Kitting out the flowers and dwarfs: Carla, my Divemaster, is taking them through qualifying (or requalifying in two instances) for their Open Water SCUBA certification needed to be able to perform dive-sex in pools in the Americas, the UK, and Europe. Taryn’s new startup is springing for their kitting out. Startup costs are high, but her core business, porn, is extremely profitable so the front end costs aren’t a concern. The girls and their partners are only responsible for their swimsuits; side-tie thong bikinis for the girls and Speedo slingshots for the guys. And I fit the girls with my clinics latex flat spring diaphragms for flood insurance which allows them to use DiveGel+ which is a silicone base combination lube, spermicide and biocide protecting the girls from the likelihood of a yeast infection from having so many male partners. I’m very pleased to say that the latex FS diaphragms in all seven trainees develop very strong suction in the domes indicating a superior fit especially after expressing the remaining air from the dome with the fingers.  

Carla had a rep from the Aberdeen dive shop where she had worked bring a van full of gear and fit them all (women and men) with an OTS Guardian FFM and they tried them out wearing BCs and 80 cu ft HP steel tanks in the shallow (64 ft deep) well just to get them acclimated to the energy and the amount of air expended (you tend to forget about air conservation techniques during orgasm) during dive-sex. They were on regular air rather than Enriched Air Nitrox with 32% oxygen (EAN32) which I use if I’m bottom diving the shallow well or in the deeper one. The net was strung across the well at 30 feet to prevent a diver in an uncontrolled descent from sinking to the bottom. During training the candidates are tethered to the net with an ankle leash which keeps them about fifteen feet below the surface during an encounter. Anya and I already had our FFMs, BCs and pool-pointes in the gear room in the wells ladies’ dressing room. Returning readers may recall that pool-pointes are silicone rubber pointe shoes with nylon ribbons and threaded female connectors on the platforms of the shoes to take male threaded weights that will hold the wearer on the bottom or guarantee the wearer stays in the vertical position in the water because of the weighted footwear.

The female condom and dive-sex: As I mentioned above latex flat spring diaphragms can be used for ‘flood insurance’ along with silicone base DiveGel+ as a lubricant that isn’t quickly washed away during dive-sex. However, the silicone in DiveGel gets in a partner’s mouth during cunilingus. Since the dwarfs will be licking and sucking the flowers vulvas during surface sex for dive-sex training the girls will dive wearing only the FC2 nitrile female condoms - which have silicone lube preapplied in the sheath - for training purposes since they will be having a lot of underwater penile-vaginal intercourse, PVI.  And, since they don’t need the FC2 for contraception they can reuse them, but only for multiple acts during the same training session encounter.   

Do not try this at home! The FC2 FAQs say the inner ring of an FC2 will interfere with the rim of a diaphragm during contraceptive use and that is a real possibility. The Flowers have GyneFix copper IUDs implanted for contraception and shouldn’t need flood insurance, in case a partner accidently inserts outside the sheath in the rush to reinsert after slipping out, while training with a professional male escort.

However, in my case I feel I need a FS latex diaphragm because of the high frequency of my encounters and training nonprofessionals. I’ve been testing wearing an FC2 in addition to a flat spring latex diaphragm while luteal and have found in my case using an FC2 should not affect the seal when I am using them together for training purposes. That’s because I wear an 80mm diaphragm and the 68mm closed end ring will nest inside the rim on the convex side of my latex diaphragm when air has been expressed from the dome so it develops very strong seal. That way the smaller inner ring of the FC2 will slide over the collapsed dome of the larger diaphragm and shouldn’t affect the seal.

Any wear on the dome of the diaphragm is checked after every encounter and spare diaphragms are available for immediate replacement if necessary. I have been double bagging this way several times a day for several days while diving the well and so far there is no sign of wear on any of the latex diaphragm. The FC2 is about 7.2 inches long the inner ring is 67mm in diameter and it has silicone lubricant already applied in the sheath. When used w/o a diaphragm a very long man penetrating a very deep woman thrusting his glans into her anterior or posterior fornix could force the outer ring into the vagina, but this is unlikely for the average user. However, since the male partners are very well endowed and the Flowers all have long vaginas the men wear a double cock ring to prevent forcing the outer ring of the FC2 into their partner’s vagina during training. A video that shows how to correctly insert and remove a FC2 can be seen HERE.

Dive-sex and Hyperventilation: Hyperventilation is where air is only partially exhaled leaving CO2 in the lungs and little room for fresh air. That makes the diver feel she can’t breathe and try to increase her respiration rate with shallow breaths which only makes the situation worse. Hyperventilation can come from over exertion or stress which increases the breath rate w/o fully emptying the lungs. To prevent that a diver should try to hold her breath rate relatively steady and fully exhale to rid her lungs of the CO2 and needed oxygen can get to her lungs. While having sex using SCUBA gear hyperventilation is a fairly common problem if divers are not taught to control their breathing and fully exhale. When approaching and during orgasm are the most common times when couples new to dive-sex experience hyperventilation.

Equalization difficulties: Two of the trainees have problems equalizing when diving so are on a generic of the Sudafed decongestant. “Pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient in Sudafed(r), is a commonly used decongestant by divers. A recent study* highlighted its effectiveness. The study compared pseudoephedrine to a placebo in its ability to prevent middle ear squeeze in novice divers. It concluded that a 60-milligram dose of pseudoephedrine administered 30 minutes before the dive was effective. This study was conducted to a depth of 40 feet / 12 meters, with objective data gathered only through otologic (ear) exams. Symptoms of side effects were collected in a questionnaire.” The complete article, “Taking medications when you dive” can be read HERE.

 

 

The FC2, NuvaRing and CSH at St Lucy’s

The FC2 nitrile female condom

The Photo: An FC2 female condom made of nitrile Correct use of the FC2 is the starting point for St Lucy’s students in the contraceptives portion of my Contemporary Sexual Health course and an option in the dive-sex portion of my Advanced Sexual Techniques course.  The FC2 is a nitrile sheath or pouch 17 cm (6.7 in) in length. At each end there is a flexible ring. At the closed end of the sheath, the flexible ring is inserted into the vagina to hold the female condom in place. The other end of the sheath stays outside the vulva at the entrance to the vagina.

St Lucy’s Contemporary Sexual Health (CHS) course: All St Lucy’s students who have reached menarche are required to take CSH. Lab training begins with the FC2 female condom. First, how to insert correctly, then with condoms inserted the entire class practicing penetration with dildos in an encounter salle and then in an encounter pool and after that individually with lab partners from UNLV.

Morning Wood and hypersexuality: Returning readers will recall that Morning Wood is my psychiatrist helping me to more effectively manage my responsibilities as a Goddess of Aphrodite by channeling my hypersexuality into higher payback projects.  I don’t really care for the term Nymphomania, but I really, really like having sex with men! For more about hypersexuality Click HERE 

Readers may also remember that he is sweetly delusional about me in that if around me for more than thirty minutes he comes to believe I’m his dead wife Jenna who was a ballerina with the San Francisco Ballet killed in an auto accident with their infant son several years ago. In that delusional state he functions normally except for introducing me to friends as ‘Jenna’ and is one of the most skilled and considerate lovers I’ve ever had.  He has asked me, as Jenna, to renew their wedding vows which for me would mean I’d be marrying him and so far I’ve been successful in avoiding answering that request.

We both know that as my therapist we shouldn’t be having a sexual relationship. However, in this case the sex is so good that it’s helping both of us cope with life’s complications. Really, would I lie about something that important? Between our sexual encounters as my therapist he is trying to get me to concentrate on three areas: 1) my teaching the art of irresistible love-making at St Lucy’s, 2) my helping fit cervical barriers at a local women’s clinic and 3) celebrating the celestial events ushering in the seasons for Aphrodite all of which I see as my callings in support of the Goddess, and all in addition to my responsibilities as Artistic Director and choreographer for my ballet troupe. With some playtime left for me - in addition to mind-blowing sex with my therapist - of course.

Conservation and Jenna’s Bloch Alpha pointes: I’ve been trying to wean Marvin off Jenna’s traditionally made pointe-shoes. The ones she bought and sweated in are becoming a scarce and non renewable resource. Not because Bloch Alpha shoes aren’t available, but because new ones that I break in won’t have her scent in them.  So I have been very slowly bringing him around to accepting me in Gaynor Minden pointes with suede platforms as I  break in new pairs, getting him use to the scent of my sweat, blood and toe-cheese as it interacts with the inside lining of well used GM shoes. Hard shanked suede tipped GM pointes are so much more comfortable to wear, last so much longer and provide so much better support during ballet-sex.

Diva Cup and coitial discharge: An off list use for a menstrual cup (my circle and I prefer the Dive Cup, but any brand that fits should do) is as a collection device for coitial secretion control and reuse. In addition to it’s primary purpose of flow control a menstrual cup is particular useful while producing fertile cervical mucus (FCM) and after bareback intercourse if inserted shortly after withdrawal before the semen liquefies as the contents of the cup are kept away from air – to minimize odor - and at body temperature until they can be consumed by fetishists at some later more convenient time.

DCS at Splash: Divemasters at Splash watch the Towel Girls dive computers to ensure the girls don’t exceed table limits which would require deco stops to minimize the likelihood of getting decompression sickness, DCS. Occasionally a Towel Girl will tamper with her computer to show fewer hours or shallower encounter depths, or both, in order to get more work. That sort of tampering caught up with a 23 y/o blonde Red Door TG over the weekend when she had a seizure while at the bottom of a 25 ft deep encounter pool. Her client was finishing inside her and she was in the middle of what appeared (on the video) to be a marvelous orgasm when she grunted, shuddered and stopped breathing. Her client withdrew and made an emergency ascent for both of them, but it was too late for her. The video of her death will make a great snuff video for the European and Asian markets as blond Caucasians dying during dive-sex are in great demand especially in Asia.

Kassi wows the boot bar: Now that Kassi has officially come out on the local kink scene and is working for Adolph he took her to the Boot Bar at my casino to show off her skill in ballet-boots. She wore a custom made black latex catsuit from Labia Labs and a pair of her new lightly armored ballet-boots from Gepetto’s bootery and she loves them; the smell of fresh leather, leather oil, the creak of the leather as they flex as she walks, the perfect fit gripping her insteps in relative comfort and how long and lovely they make her legs look. She was a gorgeous latex clad Boot-Princess gliding across the floor on Adolph’s arm and quite a hit with the men who had come to worship at the feet of ballet-boots shod women. Morning Wood and I accompanied them just to give Kassi confidence and I was delighted to see how beautifully Adolph – a major player on the kink scene - showed her off since to him she is not only an “exquisite fuck” (his words) but a valuable business asset to use wisely.

During our time there three Boot-Knights asked permission to physically adore her boots and when Adolph granted it knelt before her and ejaculated into her spider filament laces. She left the club very pleased with herself at having that effect on men whose fresh semen added its scent to the bouquet from her boots as it splattered and ran into the tongues and laces. She told me later that when they got back to Adolph’s home he was very attentive to her needs in bed.

NuvaRing for swim team: St. Lucy’s swim team switched to the vaginal ring as the team’s preferred form of contraception. I have the ballet students on the frameless copper bead GyneFix IUD. However, several of the swim team members suffer from painful menstrual periods (dysmenorrhea) so Depo-subQ Provera 104 (the shot), Nexplanon and IUDs weren’t a good choice because of the possibility of weight gain, the implant can be seen while swimming and IUDs were too invasive.

NuvaRing can be a good choice for women with a pronounced post-pubic vault so the ring rests against the back of the pubic bone. It is a non-biodegradable, flexible, transparent, colorless to almost colorless, combination contraceptive vaginal ring, with an outer diameter of 54 mm and contains 11.7 mg etonogestrel and 2.7 mg ethinyl estradiol. When placed in the vagina, each ring releases on average 0.120 mg/day of etonogestrel and 0.015 mg/day of ethinyl estradiol over a three-week period of use after which it is removed for one week. Then a new ring is inserted. And, the ring can be worn under a diaphragm if the woman needs flood protection for dive-sex. 

When worn w/o a diaphragm it can be hooked and pulled out by a partner’s penis so a wearer should insert a finger immediately before and after each act to ensure the ring is in place. It can be temporarily removed for intervals of less than three hours w/o decreasing the effectiveness of a wearer’s protection. And, if it is inadvertently removed or expelled it can be rinsed in cool water and reinserted.

Contraceptive sabotage

Contraceptive sabotage, a push-pin pregnancy

Naughty’s and sabotage: For women new to the scene the front room of the Meat Market at Naughty Pleasures can be a thrilling but risky adventure. Condom sabotage is a fairly common pastime for some regulars at Naughty’s. We have undercover security women, who try and catch these guys, but they are like cockroaches and we can’t get rid of them all. On-site hookups or take-out relationships for women who rely solely on condoms and don’t use EC as back-up can often result in their partners leaving them with a little something to remember him by. If I’m looking for a quick load not from a Mister Right but a Mr. Right Now I use my own condoms. Not because I’m afraid of conceiving, but to minimize the possibility of being given a STI which can easily be transmitted through pin-holes. The back room at Naughty’s (the STI screened area) where sexually experienced women gather is far safer from the standpoint of exposure to STIs and unintended pregnancy.

Reduced effectiveness: It’s a shame so few women understand their bodies and how to safely use the various methods of contraception available. That goes for men as well if they are into fantasy conception. However, women who are with men into ‘reality breeding’ of women have a different problem if they are insistent on using contraception.

If she fears her partner might sabotage her birth control the woman should be familiar with effective methods that can be used to sabotage her birth control so she can guard against them just as she watches her drink to see she isn’t slipped Rohypnol (flunitrazepam, also known as "roofies"). Here is a summery of some, but not all, methods that can be used to decrease the effectiveness of a woman’s contraception

Hormonal methods: Ideally, if a woman is using her hormonal method correctly her cycle is suspended and ovulation is suppressed so she is safe from pregnancy with an unprotected man. If she misses a pill or two or is late starting a new pack, inserting a new ring, changing a patch or getting her shot late her cycle can start and she will ovulate often w/o her realizing she is in danger unless she is familiar with her fertile signs; a ‘ripe’ high, soft, open cervix discharging a thick very slippery and stretchy cervical mucus and a greater interest in men and sex. If she isn’t impregnated about two weeks after ovulation she will have her period which will probably be off schedule which may be the first time she knows to review her regimen to see why she may have ovulated. If a woman is familiar with her menstrual cycle she can tell when she becomes fertile when she shouldn’t be.

If a woman on hormonal contraceptives takes a drug or herbal product that induces enzymes that metabolize contraceptive hormones the effectiveness of her birth control can be reduced. Some drugs in that category are barbiturates, topiramate (an antiseizure/ migraines and weight loss med), as well as some antibiotics. Ella (the EC pill) will block a woman’s progestin receptors for the rest of her cycle after taking it as EC. Over time these meds can work to reduce the effectiveness of Mirena, Skyla, Implanon/Nexplanon, Ortho Evra (the patch) and NuvaRing (the ring), Depo-Provera (the shot) as well as combined (estrogen/progestin) and mini-pill (progestin-only-pills). St John’s Wort will affect the estrogen in combined pills. There is no hormonal contraceptive that can’t be sabotaged if a man is clever and patient enough

Most of these interactive meds require an Rx, at least in the U.S. so women using them for medical reasons should be aware of their decreasing the effectiveness of hormonal birth control and avoid hormonal methods while on them. A man would need the assistance of a medical practitioner or pharmacist to obtain them for use against an unwilling woman.

NuvaRing: Women using NuvaRing (a vaginal ring) should be careful to destroy an old ring when removed. Otherwise a lover intent on sabotaging her protection can fish the old ring out of the trash and switch it with the new ring she just inserted during foreplay. If a guy wants to try that he should soak the ring he pulled from the trash in hot water for several days to ensure all the hormone is relased from the ring. Care should be taken that the water not be too hot that it melts the weld holding the ends of the ring together or he will have to fish another used NuvaRing out of the trash.

Barrier methods: Women using a barrier as their primary method of birth control are usually cycling naturally with a cycle of between 25 and 35 days. On average a woman’s natural cycle will vary around 28 days. Women cycling naturally usually keep a menstrual calendar so we aren’t surprised by our periods appearing w/o warning for those of us fortunate not to suffer from PMS.

Diaphragms, cervical caps and male and female condoms can be tampered with to lessen their effectiveness. Poor storage, of latex condoms in the glove compartment of a car in the summer or using after the use-by date has passed can be quite risky. Female condoms (the FC2) are made of nitrile and have no temperature storage limitations, just a 3 year shelf life set by the FDA. Latex condoms and latex and silicone cervical barriers can be damaged by using natural oils and petroleum based lubricants (Vaseline) with them.

Most barrier methods can be punctured by a pin or torn accidentally or intentionally by a sharp fingernail. Male latex condoms are especially vulnerable to being punctured though the FC2 and the silicone Semina and latex Reflexions diaphragms are also relatively easily torn. The FemCap dome is so thick it can’t be easily torn by a fingernail, but can be punctured. If the woman has a well fitting diaphragm or FemCap and the dome has been punctured it won’t develop a tight suction which is a tip-off that there is something wrong. Older vintage true cervical caps, which grip the cervix, like the latex Prentif cavity rim and the silicone Oves can also be easily punctured and affected by oily or petroleum based lubes. Oil based or petroleum based lubes can be identified by their scents. A woman concerned that an incorrect lube might be used should provide her own water based lube.

Breeding diaphragms: [condensed from my December 18, 2011 post about breeders] Since there has been an increase in the number of men asking for breeding encounters with our escorts I’ve started training the girls to use a ‘breeding diaphragm’. For rape fantasies I take a different approach when providing contraceptive protection that ‘accidentally’ fails. Rather than sabotage my partner’s condoms which they hate wearing anyway I wear what I call a breeding diaphragm. A breeding diaphragm is one that is two sizes smaller than the size the woman should wear for it to be effectively used for contraception. And it is worn ‘dry’, that is w/o spermicide in the dome. I’ve found the type diaphragms that work best as breeders are the Ortho All-Flex (arcing spring) or a Milex Omniflex (coil spring) rim styles.

When a woman has a diaphragm inserted that is considerably smaller than her correct size it is much easier for her partner/fantasist to under-thrust the rim with his penis and plant his seed under or in the dome so that when he withdraws the rim will reseal on the anterior wall of her vagina trapping almost all of his semen inside the dome where the tip of her cervix will be submerged in a pool of semen while she sleeps. Or if the couple is into bondage and the woman is tied down and to be gagged during the encounter an additional advantage of using a diaphragm during a rape/breeding encounter is that it can be pulled out by her attacker and shoved in her mouth as a gag.

Ideally an Ortho All-Flex is the best breeder because the rim is the easiest to under-thrust. However, the smallest size All-Flex is a 65mm and some adult women might take a 60mm in a breeder so they would need an Omniflex which makes a 60mm in a coil spring rim.

Someone unfamiliar with cervical barriers might ask why not use a cervical cap, such as FemCap for breeding? The answer is that while an improperly sized FemCap can be displaced off the cervix with a thrusting penis it may fill with semen, but it is very unlikely to reseat itself on the cervix after withdrawal. And a diaphragm rather than a FemCap is far safer for the woman since a FemCap if pulled out and used as a gag can easily be lodged in the woman’s throat and her partner, with his mind elsewhere, may think she is squirming in ecstasy when in fact she is being asphyxiated, especially if she has been penetrated from the rear, taken doggie style, where he can’t see her face.

Men wanting to surprise a partner can order a diaphragm on-line that is two sizes smaller than her correct size and ask to insert it himself as part of foreplay. If she checks after him to make certain her cervix is covered an alert woman can tell he has substituted a smaller one, but if her mind is elsewhere he can often get away with the substitution. If she doesn’t check that the diaphragm immediately after she lets him insert it and he is gentle while under-thrusting the rim the next time she might notice something is wrong is when she has very little coitial discharge or has trouble reaching the smaller device to remove it. It’s best for a man to have her accustomed to him inserting her regular size diaphragm so she is less likely to check when she is fertile and he substitutes a breeder in its place.

A note to my women readers: ALWAYS check to see that your cervical barrier is properly placed and developing the proper vacuum in the dome before any penile penetration.

The copper IUD: The Nova-T and Flexi-T in Canada, the ParaGard in the U.S and GyneFix implant (which we are using on a clinical trial basis) are all copper IUDs. A copper IUD is immune to being tampered with by being given something that would decrease its effectiveness unknown to the wearer. My clinic prefers the three year GyneFix implant placed w/o strings so a cervical barrier can be worn with no danger of the barrier pulling out the IUD upon removal after using it as flood insurance during dive-sex.

The only possibilities for decreasing the effectiveness of a copper IUD are to cause the wearer such strong uterine cramps they might displace the IUD or to tug on the strings and pull the IUD out. The latter is not usually painful and if done during menstrual sex the woman may not feel a thing and only notice when she intentionally feels for the strings. Women with new male partners should always check the strings of their IUDs before and after an encounter to be certain it is still where it should be.

Beavertails, Holiday ballets and helping friends

Salmon beavertail wetsuit from Labia Labs custom designs

Salmon beavertail jackets for dive-sex students: The Advanced Sexual Techniques class was fitted for their distinctive color beavertail jackets in September. They are the same color and style that the escort trainees wear which makes the SL girls feel more secure. The SL students wear the jackets to give them a sense of control, confident that they are covered while allowing almost immediate access, rather than entering the pool wearing bikinis which some initially feel are too revealing for a student/instructor penetrative encounter. The beavertail gives them a bit more time to prepare mentally while their trainer is opening the twist-latches and zipper. If a student has prepared physically, done stretching exercises, inserted her gas guard – a latex Reflexions FS diaphragm - and lubed up by inserting a 10ml applicator of DiveGel+ containing a powerful spermicide/biocide, she should be fine, but with new students there is always some apprehension during the first few dives when penetration will occur.

When I’m teaching a dive-sex lab I wear a student suit and matching pool pointes so I can circulate among the trainer-partner/student couples w/o being too obvious. Because of my small size if I’m in a salmon beavertail, hood, FFM and pool-pointes I can often pass as a student because the students are too focused on what their trainers are doing with them.

Wednesday 10-26-2011: I’m CD6 and menstrual so I have one of my latex Reflexions flat spring diaphragms inserted for flow control and contraception.. I love it when I’m on my period because I enjoy menstrual sex. I’ve just been really busy choreographing and rehearsing the programs for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas for my dancers and I’ve been trying to help Taryn’s friend at UNLV - there have been some unintended pregnancies among her friends that needed to be taken care of - as well as a stalker. And then Adolph is up to his old tricks again! Sigh!

Ballets for the holidays: I’ve revived Dracula as our Halloween ballet. It’s been a favorite and my company has been fairly stable for the last several years so most of them know it well. The first perf of this run was this past Monday and it’s very popular with the high-rollers! For Thanksgiving we are going to do La Fille Mal de Gardée and I’m setting it in the harvest season in colonial times with an old landowner after the farmer’s daughter for his wife while she is sweet on and being drilled by one of her father’s indentured servants. For Christmas we will do my erotic version of the Nutcracker where the daughters who are helping their grandfather distribute presents get diaphragms as gifts and suck the cream out of their teen male cousin’s éclairs while trying (unsuccessfully) to avoid being boned by the boy’s fathers.

The UNLV pregnancies: were terminated with Mifeprex, but one required a menstrual extraction (vacuum aspiration) when she didn’t pass the entire placenta. The pregnancies seemed to be because the women forgot to take their pills or they began taking diet pills and the increase in their metabolism caused the contraceptive hormones to pass through their systems too fast reducing the effectiveness of their pills. That’s a common problem with low dose pills. None of the women wanted to go through Student Health because records of the procedures covered by insurance are available to their parents.

I think the stalker will probably just ‘disappear’. We are working toward that end. With Adolph he is fond of European girls who are in the country illegally so no one knows or cares who they are or questions when they move on. You would be surprised how many of them there are.

Crush training: An old friend and frequent reader asked for more details about the crush training course I conduct occasionally. The classes are infrequent because there are so few women who are willing to commit the time and effort to learn the technique. Even with highly motivated students there is about a 50% drop-out rate. Women who are only into vanilla sex find it difficult to believe that the pelvic floor muscles can be developed to the extent that they can crush a vaginal penetrating penis, but it’s true. Think of the strength of the muscle contractions of women with vaginismus. We use those muscles and develop the ability to control when the muscles contract and by how much. If a woman can master that, and it takes months of intensive control and strength training to accomplish, she has a very good chance of destroying the erectile tissues of a penile shaft .penetrating her vagina. When I have the time I’ll try to write up something about crush training in a bit more detail.

Sorority Cosplay in body condoms: Taryn’s friend, I'll call the 'Chloe', who is a second year at UNLV, asked me on behalf of her sorority’s president, to help the cosplay group get fitted for body condoms to wear for ‘Hex or Sex’, an adult version of 'trick or treat', at their off campus Halloween party, the proceeds from which will go to feed poor children in the area. So I have been working with Gepetto’s latex shop to get the thirteen neophyte rubber-chicks, including Chloe, who will be putting out fitted and comfortable wearing their latex skins. We decided on slightly opaque cream latex so no one could see their faces. None of them had any idea how hot and sweaty having sex while wearing a latex body condom can be so it’s taking them a while to get used to the experience. They just need to stay well hydrated and let the guys do most of the work. Fortunately none of them is allergic to latex.

Two of them will be on their periods so menstrual sex will be on offer as well as plain vanilla. The girls all had full SDI panels and tested negative. For birth control six – including Chloe - have ParaGard copper IUDs inserted. Three have Implanon (etonogestrel) implants. Two are on Depo-Provera and two are on Yaz, ethinyl estradiol and drospirenone. They will wear FC2s while with a client so they will probably be safe.

World Contraception day September 26, 2011

World Contraception Day September 26, 2011

Contraception at St Lucy’s: As returning readers know the faculty and students at St Lucy’s take contraception very seriously. Using an effective method of birth control correctly permits worry free participation in intimate aspects of the curriculum as well as recreational sex. There is of course the problem of STIs some of which have become life threatening in the last 25 years with the possibility of contracting HIV. We minimize the likelihood of students being exposed to STIs by having the males employed as instructors and lab partners for students tested frequently with full STI panels and since it’s possible that students can have sex with men other than their instructor/partners the girls are tested as well. Rather than male condoms Student Health advises students to use the nitrile FC2 condom while being intimate with men who have unknown sexual histories. The FC2s wide anterior opening offers far better protection for the student’s vulvar tissues than if her partner wears a male condom. Emergency contraceptives, Plan B one step (effective for up to 72 hours after a birth control failure) and ella (effective for up to 120 hours after a birth control failure) are available free of charge to students and female faculty. And if all else fails terminations using Mifeprex or by means of a menstrual extraction are paid for by insurance every female at St Lucy’s has through Student Health.

Sorority Tampon troubles: I was talking with Taryn’s friend [I wrote about her in my entry for April 14, 2011] who is a second year student at UNLV. She said the school’s Student Health found that three members of her sorority’s cosplay club had their menstrual supplies, specifically tampons, tampered with. This is of particular interest to me at the moment because today I’m CD3 and bleeding heavily myself. Of course I’m not using tampons I’m using a diaphragm for flow control and I make certain that my menstrual and contraceptive supplies can’t be tampered with. Tampering with something as intimate as a woman’s menstrual protection is pretty creepy.

The problem they had is that the three members have come down with pelvic infections that are traceable back to the fact that they were menstrual and all using tampons, though there were three different kinds being used. It’s not Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS) which immediately springs to mind when someone mentions an infection traceable to menstrual products, its chlamydia. Chlamydia is probably the most common STI and is known as a "silent" disease because the majority of infected people have no symptoms and it can be spread by oral, anal or vaginal sex. One of the infected women has multiple partners, but is careful to use condoms and says she had only vaginal sex and was symptom free when being routinely tested for STIs when she tested positive. The two other women are in monogamous relationships. One was having pelvic pain and the other had no symptoms, but both went to be tested when their sorority sister unexpectedly found she had chlamydia.

Because both monogamous couples were in a very early stage in their relationships they were just starting hormonal birth control and waiting for the hormones to build up to an effective level so they were still using condoms and their male partners hadn’t been infected. At that point all the sorority sisters were tested and no one else tested positive. The infected women were treated with a single dose of azithromycin and are recovering. Student Health sent the samples to the pathology lab on campus for testing where it was discovered that the samples that tested positive had a tracking agent in the bacteria showing that the strain of bacterium, Chlamydia trachomatis, had been lab cultured by a biology student in the PhD program indicating that the strain had somehow escaped from the laboratory.

Someone in Student Health thought to test the tampons the infected women were using, perhaps because the men in the women’s lives were free of the infection and the bacteria was home grown and they were looking for something that served as a delivery medium. They tested two partial boxes of tampons; the other woman had finished her partial box, and in both boxes they found several tampons with punctures in the individual wrappers and when they tested the tampons they found the chlamydia bacteria with the marker! So then the question became how someone, almost certainly a woman, got access to the women’s menstrual supplies. They are checking the backgrounds of the cleaning crew from a local maid service the sorority uses occasionally, the lab assistants and have questioned the sorority members individually and haven’t turned up anything that they are willing to discuss. But the intentionally spread infection has increased the member’s paranoia and led to all the bedroom doors being fitted with good locks and being kept locked when their occupants aren’t there. Going a step further the members checked all their other menstrual and contraceptive supplies for tampering and found no indication of tampering.

Birth control pill recall: On 09/15/2011 due to a packaging error Qualitest Pharmaceuticals, a manufacturer of generic BCPs, voluntarily recalled certain lots of Cyclafem, Emoquette, Gildess, Orsythia, Previfem and Tri-Previfem. As a result of this packaging error, the daily regimen for these oral contraceptives may be incorrect and could leave women without adequate contraception, and at risk for unintended pregnancy. The FDA MedWatch link is: http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm272199.htm I’m pleased to say that no students at St Lucy’s or any of our escorts are using any of these generic pills.

Dive-sex on Trimix

An Ocean Technologies Guardian FFM

Discipline facility maintenance: Taryn wanted to dive Trimix while she is home and the only place deep enough to do that is Adolph’s 216 foot deep by 36 foot diameter well at his discipline training facility. Adolph lets us dive it when the facility isn’t in use, mainly for training young European Rubber-Girl Submissives. Adolph has one of the few very deep all-year training facilities so Doms are willing to pay transportation, room and board to get newbies to the fetish taught the basics of being sexually dominated underwater while incased in rubber. The Dom gets videos of her training to savor in private moments or show to friends.

I’ll do a Trimix dive at Adolph’s occasionally when I want to have a lover plant sperm in me while I’m 200 feet below the surface, which is a huge thrill for me! In return I’ll clean up the debris on the bottom of the well. Abi, Adolph’s Pool-Assistant (and Lorelei in residence), is afraid of diving to the bottom of the well with Adolph because he is very rough with her and she is scared of rough sex at that depth. That means the bottom doesn’t get cleaned very often, but that gives me a chance to be useful to him in a matter concerning the training facility which grants me access to it.

So Taryn and I took two of our fave deep diving stallions and went on a prearranged ‘bottom-date’ in the well this morning. We wore the Gottex thong bikinis that are the casinos signature swimsuits. And we both had Reflexions inserted as gas-guards because our lovers both enjoy the feel of thrusting into the thin stretchy latex membrane of the domes. The water in the well is heated to 85° F and circulated so the pool is a uniform temperature throughout it’s entire depth so wearing thongs on the bottom was comfy, but then dive-sex is strenuous so we were working with heavy respiration quite a bit of the time.

We used Ocean Technologies Guardian FFMs equipped for Trimix and a Trimix blend of 19/30 in Worthington HP steel X8-130 twin sets with tanks of 100% oxygen pre-positioned at our 40 ft. deco stop. The importance of a using an FFM for deep dives and dive-sex can’t be overemphasized. For dive-sex if it gets rough and having her cervix rammed causes the woman to expel her reg at best it interrupts the moment and at worst she ingests enough water that she needs to terminate the dive. The other reason a FFM is so important is in case of decompression sickness (DCS) where the diver might pass out or have a seizure and expel his or her regulator and it may be impossible for the dive buddy to get the reg back in her mouth. That is a very common cause of dive fatalities especially where the ascent will take too long for there to be a reasonable chance of survival w/o being able to breathe.

The men took care of our needs, twice for each of us, and then we let them go while we cleaned up the bottom. We could have used their help, but I didn’t want them to pay attention to what was on the bottom and start asking questions and getting ideas. What we found was chilling. I’ve mentioned before seeing training pools where women’s birth control and cervical protection devices littered the bottom and that was the case on the bottom of the well. What I found exceptionally scary was that there were three GyneFix IUDs (the gold standard for non-hormonal contraception) on the bottom. In the case of two the implanted knot had come out of the fundus and the entire device had been expelled. On the third the cord holding the copper sleeves had broken and only two of the six sleeves were still on the cord. I’m hoping the expulsion of GyneFix IUDs can be explained by the fact that several years ago when GyneFix first came on the marked in Europe the implantation process hadn’t been perfected and the expulsion rate was about 10 – 15% during the first three months after implantation. Our clinic hasn’t had any expulsions or cords breaking in the two years since we have been using the new implantation procedure. In addition to the GyneFix devices we found:

• Ortho latex Coil spring diaphragm, one, 60mm with a thin spot that became a hole in the dome
• Ortho latex All-Flex arcing spring diaphragms, two 65 mm one of which had a tear in the dome.
• Silicone All-Flex arcing spring diaphragms, 7 of various, but mostly 65 mm sizes two of which had punctures in the domes.
• Cooper Surgical (Milex) Omniflex silicone diaphragms, 2 a 65 mm and 70 mm
• Reflexions latex flat spring diaphragm, one 75 mm.
• FemCaps, 3 one small 22 mm and two mediums size, 26 mm
• Prentif Cavity rim cervical caps, 2 a 22 mm and a 25 mm.
• Oves cervical caps, 2 both 28 mm
• ParaGard framed copper IUDs, 3 two with bent frames
• Mirena, IUD, 1 with a bent frame
• FC1 condoms, 16
• FC2 condoms, 27
• Filled DiveGel applicators, 7
• Empty DiveGel applicators, 37
• Filled Semécide applicators, 1
• Empty Semécide applicators, 43
• Filled Conceptrol spermicide applicators, 3
• Empty Conceptrol spermicide applicators, 5

From the Number and type contraceptive products we found it seems clear that: Women being sent for training at a facility deeper than 30 feet were not being told that if a diaphragm was to be used for training only a Reflexions flat spring latex diaphragm would provide under-thrust and distortion free protection down to at least 200 feet. All the women sent are beautiful and slim. It seems likely that the 65 mm silicone All-Flex devices were too small (under-sizing is a common mistake made by inexperienced fitters) making them easier to dislodge and expel. The number of full lube and spermicide applicators on the bottom suggests that the women were nervous about being in training and not confident about the use of vaginal applicators. And, additionally, a lot of their diaphragms or caps were being either expelled or intentionally being pulled out by their partner/instructors. That being the case one hopes they are being removed after providing protection as gas-guards during dive-sex. Contraception is a different matter entirely and can be taken care of easily with emergency contraception especially since Ella is now available in the U.S. And pregnancy at least through the 8th week with Mifeprex so while it might put the woman in a moral quandary she has options readily available. That isn’t the case if she gets an embolism because her gas guard was pulled out during dive-sex before she was penetrated.

It was a fun morning and Taryn and I enjoyed ourselves immensely! We masturbated each other while we were tethered to the deco buoy at 40 feet so we were really relaxed by the time we reached the surface. I kept all the debris we collected on the bottom and will give it to Jeff for analysis by his technicians at Labia Labs. They can sometimes get the wearer’s DNA from the devices and test the effectiveness of lube and spermicide remaining in the empty applicators. It’s amazing what you can learn about the women who pass through Adolph’s training facility by doing that.

Obesity and birth control

The weight loss drug Qnexa

The Wall Street Journal - Business
July 13, 2010
By Jennifer Corbett Dooren Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

FDA Says Obesity Drug Works But With Side Effects

“WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that a proposed Vivus Inc. (VVUS) weight-loss drug resulted in "significant" weight loss, but the agency raised questions about the drug's long-term side effects.

The questions from the FDA aren't related to Qnexa's effectiveness, which has been proved in multiple clinical trials, but rather to the side effects of a drug that the agency is assuming may be taken indefinitely. Specifically, the panel pointed to increases in anxiety, sleep disturbances and depression, and debated usage by pregnant women.

Qnexa faces a review by the FDA's endocrinologic and metabolic drugs advisory committee Thursday. The panel of non-FDA medical experts will vote then on whether it thinks Qnexa should be approved by the larger FDA in a decision expected by late October.

Tuesday, the FDA posted its review of the product, which totaled 248 pages, on the agency's website.

Shares of Vivus rose 12.4% to $11.98 in early trading Tuesday. Wall Street analysts said the documents weren't particularly negative in their tone or content, but they warned that there remains a great deal of uncertainty about the panel's ultimate outcome.

A Vivus spokesman said the company looks forward to answering the FDA's questions at the panel, but he declined to comment further.

In its safety review of Qnexa, the FDA said it saw increases in heart rate among patients taking the drug but that the clinical significance of the finding is unknown.

The agency also said it saw increases in anxiety, sleep disturbances and depression among patients taking Qnexa compared to placebo but said the overall incidence of such side effects were low. The agency noted, however, that four to seven times as many patients taking the highest dose of Qnexa dropped out of the study because of anxiety-, sleep-, or depression-related side effects.

The FDA's review of Qnexa and the advisory committee meeting are being watched carefully by other companies with obesity drugs in development. Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s (ARNA) lorcaserin will face an FDA panel in September, and Orexigen Therapeutics Inc.'s (OREX) Contrave is tentatively scheduled for a December panel review. The three drugs use different methods of damping appetite.

The other two stocks also rose Tuesday. Arena added 9.2% to $4.14, while Orexigen jumped 19% to $4.94.

The development of obesity compounds has been a tough area for companies since the fen-phen drug combination was taken off the U.S. market in 1997 after one of the medication's components was linked to heart-valve damage.

In 2007, an FDA panel unanimously rejected Sanofi Aventis SA's (SNY, SAN.FR) obesity drug Acomplia on concerns that the drug increased the number of psychiatric events, such as depression and suicidal thinking, among users. Sanofi later withdrew its application seeking FDA approval for the drug, and Pfizer Inc. (PFE) and Merck & Co. (MRK) scrapped plans in 2008 to continue developing similar drugs.

However, given that one-third of Americans are considered obese, companies successful at gaining FDA approval could tap a large market.

Qnexa is a controlled-release formulation that combines low doses of two older drugs: the stimulant phentermine, which cuts appetite, and topiramate, which increases the sense of feeling full. Topiramate is sold under the brand name Topamax by Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) to treat migraines and seizures.

Said the FDA: "Both drugs have reasonably well-established safety profiles because of their widespread use."

But because of the heart problems seen among patients taking fen-phen, the FDA looked at such side effects that might be attributed to phentermine and whether psychiatric side effects and birth defects potentially linked to topiramate would be seen among patients taken Qnexa. The agency noted that current evidence indicates the increased risk for heart-valve problems was attributable to fenfluramine and not to phentermine, one of Qnexa's components.

The FDA said heart palpitations were seen among 1.8% of Qnexa patients compared to 0.8% of patients taking a placebo. Patients taking Qnexa also experienced an increased heart rate. The agency said the clinical significance of the events "in terms of hard cardiovascular outcomes in the overweight and obese population is unknown."

The agency said it was concerned about a "large potential" for women to become pregnant while taking the drug as 34 pregnancies were seen in clinical trials despite instructions to use birth control and obtain a pregnancy test at each doctor visit. Of the 19 pregnancies carried to term, no birth defects were seen, although studies of topiramate in animals have shown it can cause birth defects.

Vivus is seeking a more relaxed birth-defects designation in its application, but FDA documents said the proposed labeling could be confusing to physicians and patients of child-bearing age. The FDA recommended that Qnexa be labeled as pregnancy category X, which means that the risk of using of the drug during pregnancy "clearly outweighs any possible benefit."

Two main clinical studies involving Qnexa were submitted to the FDA. The studies compared about 2,200 patients taking three doses of Qnexa to about 1,500 patients on a placebo, or fake drug, for 56 weeks.

The FDA said patients in the highest dose of Qnexa lost an average of 10.6% of their starting body weight, compared to an 8.6% loss for the middle-dose of Qnexa, 5.1% for the lowest dose and 1.7% for patients on placebo.”

Personal comment: My circle has no problem with obesity. Actually, with the calories we burn our problem is to keep our weight up healthily. I posted this article because we are seeing a lot of women coming into the clinic for help with weight reduction. And obesity and weight loss meds can decrease the effectiveness of hormonal birth control. In addition some weight-loss medications can cause birth defects. Weight loss can also decrease the effectiveness of cervical barrier methods of birth control because a woman’s reproductive anatomy changes with weight gain or loss. A diaphragm should be checked for correct size for every +/- 7 to 10 pounds of weight change and a cervical cap should be checked for every +/- 14 to 20 pounds of weight change. That’s why if a woman plans to lose a lot of weight our clinic recommends she use FC2 condoms until her weight stabilizes because they are safe, effective, aren’t weight sensitive and better tolerated by male partners.

The guest artist

A marvelously detailed tutu upskirt

A Guest Artist: My ballet company has a Guest Artist this summer. She is a first soloist of Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia and we had been negotiating with her agent for months. Tanaquil closed the deal by buying her Monte Carlo gambling debts on my behalf from our sister casino in the principality. When she got here it also turned out that she was newly preggers and needed an abortion though she is conflicted about whether to go through with it. Like most young and very talented ballerinas she lives to dance and carrying the baby to term will take the better part of a year out of her career when she won’t be able to dance. There is also the fact that she says she doesn’t know who the father is. She has a very active social life and says it could be any of four men. The other side is that she comes from a very religious and conservative family and if they knew they would be opposed to her terminating the pregnancy. Most recently she has been a guest artist with the Frankfurt Ballet and she picked up an admirer one of her partners from the Vienna Opera Ballet who has followed her to Vegas.

She is going to have to decide soon what she is going to do and if she decides to terminate then whether to go with Mifeprex, she still has a few days, or a menstrual extraction. I’ve recommended an ME because it is over with in less than an hour, there are almost no side effects and she can resume sex as soon as she feels able if she is on an antibiotic regimen and wears a gas guard. While on the table she could also have a GyneFix implanted which would make it far less likely that she would ever need another abortion. My Gyn is expert at menstrual extractions and performs a lot of them for young A-List Hollywood actresses who need that sort of help.

Frederick the Great: Our new Russian ballerina’s German lover auditioned for an opening in our ballet company and I hired him as another guest artist even though I know he is a trouble maker. I took him because he can partner her without any training interval and they have amazing chemistry together since their styles complement one another. He is also one of the four men who may be responsible for her current condition. It turns out that Adolph knows of him because he is a distant cousin who has a well deserved bad-boy reputation among European ballet companies. It’s the sort of thing we often see with itinerant male dancers of considerable ability and charm. They are a type who can charm their way into the tights of any dancer they want and leave a string of pregnancies behind as they move from one company to the next. You would think we would know better but our hormones keep getting in the way of prudence. The guys get away with that sort of behavior because there are so few really great male ballet dancers. They will perform Pas de deux from the classics: Don Quixote, La Corsaire, La Bayadere, Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty in our High-Rollers Club.

His name is Frederick and he has a pointe shoe fetish which I find rather endearing. He is almost as good as a woman en pointe but he gets off by smelling women’s sweaty shoes and having the girl wear pairs of pointes in which he comes so she can feel his seed squishing between her toes during a performance or as he fucks her brains out. His fetishes aren’t uniquely kinky coming from an expert swordsman among ballet dancers, but they are ones I find erotically exciting, a condition that is all too common among supposedly sensible ballerinas.

I’ve already talked to my women dancers about sex with Freddy. Not that I care if everyone gets her share, but sex with him is like a three-year old playing with a loaded gun, because his gun is always loaded and he has a very high sperm count. As a capable lover he’s awesome! I’ve already taken him for a test drive - wearing an FC2 because he is still in quarantine for his HIV interval.

He is called ‘The Great’ (behind his back) though I think he knows and is pleased, because of his magnificent package and the skill with which he uses it. He is long, rock hard and amazingly thick! I love a thick shaft as it presses harder on the nerves ringing the entrance to my vagina. I like to think I can get an amazingly tight grip on it when my muscles spasm when I orgasm or if I’m ripple gripping him. And, he has a wonderfully easy going disposition, probably because he can talk almost any woman into doing anything. I’ve cautioned the girls that no one can expect fidelity from him. He isn’t even a serial monogamist. One of my dancers compared him to a bee flitting from flower to flower, “So many girls and so little time”. I just told them to be careful and don’t let him pollinate them. I think most of the girls in my company should be fine physically because they have GyneFix IUD implants, but they might take a hit mentally if they fall for him, even knowing he’s a snake. But he’s such a beautiful one!

Germany and the World Cup: Adolph had a few of us over to watch Germany play Spain in the World Cup on the 7th. As everyone who cares knows by now Spain beat Germany 1-0 to advance to its first World Cup final. To say he was disappointed would be like saying the ocean is wet, but he will probably get over it by Sunday. In Sunday's final, Spain will meet the Netherlands, which also has never won the World Cup. Since the Netherlands is a Teutonic country he expects the Netherlands to win.

Elke and Flibanserin, an update: In my June 17, 2010 entry I mentioned Adolph is having Abigail (Abi) his new Pool-Assistant and arm-candy take Flibanserin so she will show a bit more enthusiasm as a submissive (she’s primarily Domme and isn’t really submissive in any real sense) for her encounters with him rather than trying to dominate him. Abi is Prussian and has such a strong will he needs an edge. Otherwise, he says, he is afraid he will kill her during a sexual encounter while trying to bend her to his will. It has been five weeks now and she seems to be compliant enough with Adolph that she just raises his ardor rather than his temper so he hasn’t tried to beat her. I think if he seriously mistreated her he would wake one morning to find his balls in his mouth. If he’s fortunate it won’t come to that. Abi still thinks its fun tormenting him and he must be very fond of her, in his way, because she seems to be able to get away with it.

The FC2 and recreational sex

The FC2 Female Condom

The FC2 and teens: At St Lucy’s we believe “Sex is pleasurable and pleasure is good for you”. The pace of the Summer Intensive is horrendous so the students need a proven stress releaser. That’s why we recommend recreational sex rather than controlled pharmaceuticals to allow the students, especially the women who are (because of our hormonal fluctuations) more emotional than the men, to relax quickly enough to get a good nights sleep. We also recognize that providing young women with sex during our Summer Intensive in a well protected environment with STI screened partners doesn’t fully prepare them for the real world. So we have ‘Reality Days’ where the girls wear the new nitrile FC2 condom under tights for class. A lot of the girls start out thinking wearing an FC under tights is a bit sluty, but they soon come around when they see that they can get away with it undetected. For most girls, even the smaller ones, if properly positioned the lined crotch gusset of the tights usually hides the outline of the FC labia ring – unless the girl is wearing custom tights or has them pulled up with the waistband rolled over a belt to emphasize her mons veneris and vulva, or unless she is wearing transparent seamless tights such as Wolford Fatals. In the case of transparent or skin tight tights or if the girl is unsure of the attractiveness of her pelvic line the labia ring is compressed and inserted in the vagina as though inserting a diaphragm and becomes totally invisible. Then if the need arises with a finger she can hook the ring and pull it out and be ready to rock and roll. We provide private time on Reality Days for a student and her partner to use her FC. The man is familiar with how to use it and the precautions needed so he doesn’t slip out so it is an intimate learning experience for each student.

While it’s the same principle as going to work wearing a diaphragm, which most smart diaphragm wearers do there are two opposing views about a dancer wearing an FC before she has a demonstrated need to use it, probably because the labia ring can be seen through tight clothing if it is not positioned correctly. The first is that she is a slut who is thinking about spending time on her back working under a man when she should be concentrating on perfecting her art. The second, and in my opinion the correct one, is that she is a forward thinking woman who likes being prepared to take advantage of an opportunity for recreational sex in the safest possible way. Rather than being a submissive slut she is in fact using her knowledge to protect both herself and her partner while getting the most pleasure possible from a sexual encounter. Realizing that when the moment is right she may not have time to search through her dancebag for her box of condoms and insert one before the window of opportunity closes she is prepared. That seems to me to show initiative and be by far the better course when a girl wants to take advantage of an opportunity for recreational sex and does not know her partner’s sexual history, but longs to have an intimate encounter with her hunky male.

Slit kits and recreational sex: Every one of the SI students is given a slit kit. It’s not as elaborate as the ones given to the escorts who complete their training but it covers most situations. A SI slit kit contains a place for the students own dial or blister pack if she is on the pill a place for her cervical barrier needed as a gas guard during dive-sex and four FC2 condoms, six prefilled applicators of DiveGel, a selection of male condoms, three different size cock-rings and a dose of Plan-B One-step (levonorgestrel) in case of an accident. For any item used the clinic has refills/replacements including refills of all brands of birth control pills the students are taking. We have the students carry the kits in their dancebags or reg bags when they are taking dive-sex lessons so they will have their supplies nearby if needed.

A ‘new man’ and the FC2: For sex with a new man with an unknown sexual history I have switched to using an FC2 for protection in addition to an Oves. A Nitrile FC2 is far less likely to burst or tear than latex or polyurethane condoms and the material has as good heat transfer properties as the best ultra sheer latex. And wearing the condom myself rather than depending on my partner I’m in control of removing it so there is no quizzical look or question if after removal I slip a used one into a pouch on my side of the bed. Readers who have been with me from my days posting on Yahoo 360 will recall that I save the condom from the first sexual encounter I have with a man so I can have his semen analyzed for the quality and quantity of his sperm but more importantly to detect any STIs he may be carrying. I also keep the condom in its own compartment with his name and the date of the encounter. Switching to the FC2 requires a larger compartment (to accommodate the labia ring, the open end), but it’s worth it for the improved safety and the fact that I’m in control of the condom at all times. The only thing a girl has to be careful of when using an FC2 is that on the withdrawal stroke he doesn’t slip out. If he slips out you need to be really careful that he reenters inside the labia ring and not outside the sheath which could lead to all sorts of unpleasant surprises. I make certain that he doesn’t slip out by wrapping my legs around his waist or his upper thighs to lock him to me and limit the length of his stroke keeping most of him inside me once he is inside the sheath. I make up for shortening his stroke by pulsing my vaginal muscles tightening just a bit in time with his thrusts and withdrawals (One partner called it ‘double clutching’ which stuck in my mind) to provide a superior tactile encounter for his glans. It’s a cousin of the ‘ripple grip’ technique, but ‘double clutching’ a guy while wearing an FC2 is a much more gentle experience for him.

Rude noises and a sense of humor: The female condom is a lot more likely to produce vaginal farts - called a Queef or quife and pussy fart - from air being expelled around the sheath during thrusting than while using a male condom. A couple can be so distracted by the sound the interruption can take some of the urgency from an approaching orgasm to the extent that they have to refocus. So it really pays to have a good sense of humor.

Ballet Summer Intensive - update: Today is the start of the second week (6/13-6/19) of the SI and so far our improved screening procedures seem to be working. The first week saw some pelvic bruising and even as physically active as the students were at home and with the week of ramp-up prep all of them needed deep body massages, lots of ibuprofen and smelled of liniment. One of the first fun things we did during prep week was take the girls to Body Buffers and they all got a full body wax, everything but eyebrows and scalp hair was removed. For most it was their first full body wax and one or two who had to be coaxed into getting waxed (peer pressure really) were nearly in shock afterward. But 600 mg of ibuprofen and liberal application of a soothing aloe vera gel during a full body massage brought relief and now they all are strutting around admiring their smooth legs and pubes in the dorm mirrors. With their Balanchine bodies – long legs, short trunk, small breasts, long neck, and small head - and no pubic hair a lot of them look like they are 11 instead of 17 or 18 years old.

Anal sex and the FC2

The FC2 condom made of nitrile

The FC2 and anal sex: In my contemporary sexual health classes at St Lucy’s, I’m teaching the use of the new female condom (the FC2) made of nitrile as protection during anal sex. It hasn’t been fully tested for use as protection during anal sex and some testing organizations are reluctant to conduct clinical tests for safety during anal sex because of the moral implications for conservatives, but the Gay community is already using the FC2 very successfully and so there should be no reason the straight community can’t use it for heterosexual anal penetration for hygienic reasons as well as STI protection. I’m sure you have noticed as I have that number of celebrities who are dying of rectal cancers. Gardasil will protect against a lot but not all of that risk going forward, so the FC2 is a valuable tool in a woman’s protective arsenal if she or her partner are into anal sex.

Personally I don’t care for anal sex, but if I won’t do it myself I shouldn’t be teaching it which is why during my class I’ll personally demonstrate the use of an FC2 for anal sex by having one of the casino escorts join me for the class. He inserts the FC2 in me then penetrates me inside it. We show them how to remove the condom from its packet and insert a well-lubed dildo into it then check to see that the sheath is in good condition. Then either of the couple glove up (usually it’s the man, but it doesn’t have to be) then lube their fingers and insert one, then two then three fingers in the woman’s anus to stretch it a bit to make it easier to take the dildo with the FC2 on it. Once the woman’s sphincters are stretched the well-lubed sheath with the dildo inside will be slowly pushed in. Easing the smaller inner ring past the woman’s sphincters first is I think the least comfortable part. Then it becomes easier to get it further inside until the large ring of the open end is up against her perineum. Once the FC2 is in then the lubed dildo is carefully removed and the condom is ready to take her partners penis. I have my escort penetrate me doggie style because a man can get the deepest into me in that position and let him give me a G-spot orgasm before he takes his own pleasure leaving 7 to 10 ml of semen with hundreds of millions of sperm in the sheath. After he withdraws I gently pull the FC2 out of my ass and put it in a Ziploc bag for disposal. I never leave a used condom with freshly ejaculated semen in it where someone can pick it up. There is too much temptation for a prankster or someone with a more evil motive to do something with it that can cause the donor or an innocent woman a lot of trouble. I think an actual demonstration of an FC2 being used by an instructor and her partner is far more likely to be remembered than just having my students read about it.

I don’t understand the interest of straight men in having anal sex with a woman. A guy’s partner’s vagina could be much tighter than her ass if she was interested in toning it and routinely taking it up the ass is bad for a girl’s anal sphincters. Taking too large a man up her ass and she could find herself needing a diaper. I can understand a Gay couple enjoying it where the anus takes the place of a vagina. And (I’m told) having the prostate massaged with a penis can be awesome! Perhaps the initial anal penetration for a straight couple is because they were both curious about what a Captain Kirk moment – “To boldly go where no man has gone before” - would feel like, but a man frequently going up a woman’s ass is purely to dominate her. In my mind, he’s just doing it because he can. A man who wants his partner’s vagina tighter should tell her. There are exercises, Kegels and that sort of thing… that can tighten up the vagina amazingly, but it will take a few months of constant work like toning any other part of the body. Unless she enjoys having him up her ass, he should leave it alone. If she likes it then its ok, what ever turns her on.

The FC2 is not for dive-sex: Some women have tried wearing an FC2 as a gas guard during dive-sex. Used with dive-gel inside the sheath it will stay in place during a submerged penetrative encounter. However, our clinic strongly recommends against using a female condom as a gas guard because the inner ring doesn’t seal over the cervix as a fitted diaphragm or cervical cap will so it could still allow pool water and air bubbles to bypass the condom and be forced into her cervix by the hydraulics of her partner’s thrusting if the outside of the sheath started to move with his thrusts. As far as I know there haven’t been any instances of a woman using an FC as a gas guard during dive-sex getting PID or an embolism, but it is a very new usage so those of us who teach safe sexual techniques are trying to get ahead of the problem to prevent women from seriously injuring themselves by using a device that won’t protect them from the common dangers associated with dive-sex.

Training plugs and sports

An escort on her ass after a TP shock

An escort trying to get up after a TP shock

Wet winter weather: As the storms that have pounded California moved east in the last week, Las Vegas set two daily rainfall records and had a total of 1.7 inches of rain as of noon today, which is more than the 1.59 inches recorded in all of 2009. The normal precipitation for McCarran international airport (just a few miles south of the Strip) for January is .59 of an inch and for the year is 4.49 inches. The weather service said that McCarran has so far had 288 percent of the normal precipitation for January and 37.8 percent of the normal annual precipitation. On Thursday, 1/21, McCarran received .89 of an inch of rain, which broke the old record for that date of .4 of an inch, set 71 years ago in 1939. And Thursday's rain also washed away the all-time January daily rainfall record, which had been .81 of an inch set on Jan. 3, 2005, the weather service said. Earlier in the week, .49 of an inch of rain fell on Tuesday, breaking the old record of .42 of an inch of rain that fell on that date in 1954.

For readers wondering where I’m going with the Vegas weather report its background to explain how we managed to have a rare opportunity for some of us to take our latex fetish into the mountains west of town to play in the icy water of a small sometime lake fed by rain swollen creeks that are normally dry gullies. There are some very large rocks, deep holes and the water is swift and cold so snorkels are needed. We all wore latex encasement suits, hoods, gloves and slipper booties so we could more securely feel the bottom. Robin and Peter came along (as prizes) with twelve escort trainees and Anya and me. The fourteen women were split into two groups with one man in each group. The game was for the seven women to protect ‘their’ man in and around the creek and lake while trying to get to the other groups stallion. The group who got the others stallion on his back on the ground or in the water first wins and gets to have sex with him.

A recreational use for training plugs: To make the game more competitive we all wore electrostimulation training plugs (TPs) and every woman was given a waterproof very low power directional remote that could activate the TP and shock the woman it was pointed at or was touching rather than everyone on that particular frequency. The low power on the shock activators is so that a team member must be within a few inches of or in contact with her adversary’s pelvis to activate the other woman’s shock generator. The close contact shock activators used for the game are pink so that no one mistakes a low power game unit for one with a full range transmitter. Using the TPs on stun was something that equalized the team’s member’s effectiveness. Both Anya and I are a lot stronger and faster than most of the escorts, but having your pelvic muscles spasmed painfully by a joule jolt from the TP is an immobilizing experience regardless of how skilled the woman is. Several of my team members accidentally dropped their remote activators in the lake when stunned and from then on they were continuous jolt targets and were very little help either on offense or defense. Anya and her team won and got to have Peter – my team’s stallion – have sex with the seven of them while the rest of us watched. For this sort of game you really need men with a huge amount of stamina and concentration (which is why we asked Peter and Robin to play) so the guy can finish inside one woman then move quickly to the next. It was a lot of fun and not too cold as long as we all kept moving. It was also quite different from the water volleyball that the girls often use to burn energy. There were no injuries and only a few bruises and three suits were punctured on rocks.

Condoms and the taste of semen: In the contemporary sexual health class I teach at St Lucy’s we have been covering the taste of the various materials condoms are made of: latex, polyurethane, Nitrile (the FC2) and lambskin and how the condom material affects the taste of a man’s ejaculate. A lot of time went into a discussion of technique, how best to get your partners load out of his condom so you can swallow it while it’s still at body temperature. Actually, it came down to just biting through the tip of the closed end and then while holding the used condom by its open end so that it hangs vertically with the bitten-through tip in your mouth squeeze the sheath gently between the thumb and forefinger and run them down the condom, while sucking on the punctured tip. This will squeeze and suck all the semen out of the ruined sheath in less than a second. That works well for latex, polyurethane and nitrile condoms. It also works well for lambskin too but lambskin is a bit more difficult to bite through so the semen can be swallowed.

The taste of semen can be changed not only by the material the condom is made from but by the man’s diet and lube-spermicide used. Going natural, using only the woman’s natural lube, helps get closer to the taste of a partners seed as she bites through the tip. Alcohol, red meat and spicy foods can make a man’s ejaculate bitter and eating asparagus before sex makes his semen smell terrible. Fruit, especially strawberries and pineapple can make semen taste sweet.