Channeling Giulietta

The Venetian courtesan Giulietta aboard her Gondola

The Photo: The 24-year-old Parisian ballerina Ludmilla Tchérina costumed as the Venetian courtesan Giulietta, who stole Hoffmann’s soul in the 1951 film The Tales of Hoffmann.  

Channeling Giulietta: Returning readers will recall that in my post of September 29 entitled “Clinching the sale” over dinner Ron and I had discovered we were both Moira Shearer fans and talked about the films she was in. In addition to The Red Shoes we both loved the 1951 film The Tales of Hoffman in which she performed two roles; 1) as Stella a ballerina who (costumed as a praying mantis kills her partner) and; 2) Olympia (a doll that comes to life). We also agreed that another favorite - and to me a very empowering - character in the Hoffmann film was the role Ludmilla Tchérina performed as the Venetian courtesan Giulietta, who stole Hoffmann’s soul.  

So I was astounded when Ron gave me the most amazing compliment as he walked me to the car that would take me back to Blackthorn House. He called me Giulietta! I was very pleased and tried not to blush while thinking he was a lot more perceptive than I first thought! He continued to hold my hand after he helped me into the car and before releasing me he put my hand to his lips and kissed it! I gave him one of my most provocative smiles as he closed the door. I was delighted as I thought of the twenty-four hours we spent together, the intimacies we had shared and thought perhaps our encounter had put him in my thrall. But one can never be certain about these things so early in a relationship and with a man in such an exalted position one should proceed slowly if at all, certainly letting him make the first move if he is interested in a relationship. Sophie was still inside so didn’t see his kiss. I certainly don’t want to beguile him so thoroughly that I take him away from Sophie as he needs a young, lovely and accomplished partner who will give him children since the need to continue his line is a must.

Physically I’m not exactly like the Giulietta who stole Hoffman’s soul and turned it into an exquisite necklace. However, I do have a lovely figure with long shapely legs, high cheekbones and long hair. My hair is red not dark and I don’t often dress all in black as Giulietta does, but it suits her as black is suggestive of the black arts at which she is adept. As much as I admired Moira Shearer and Cyd Charisse for the most part I see them as “good girls.” However, when I go clubbing with girlfriends looking for an encounter I think of myself as channeling Giulietta (she of the feminine art of seduction and a distant relative of my Goddess Aphrodite) since she was a powerful enchantress who could steal a man’s soul by just looking at him. So when I’m dressing for a night of clubbing I insert one of my flat spring latex diaphragms with DiveGel+ (a lube, biocide and spermicide) in the dome to ensure I’ll be ready should an opportunity for an encounter with an ardent and marvelously hunky man appear.

Over the years as I became proficient and confident with my pelvic skills I developed the ability to quickly enthrall a man if I develop a physical interest in him as I can cloud a man’s mind if we lock gazes however briefly. I’m told my look suggests exquisite sexual pleasure in the male mind and I find considerable pleasure and power in clouding men’s minds that way. When I was younger I occasionally (unintentionally) put one of the less interesting men in my thrall enrapturing him with a psychological penis leash. Since I gained full control of my powers that hasn’t happened in a long time.    

Sophie and her slit-kit: As agreed, the next day Sophie came to Blackthorn House, my home on Eaton Square in Belgravia to discuss her training equipment. She is in a private car with smoked windows and comes through the Mews entrance into the rear court so she can’t be identified by people in Eaton Square since seeing her as a regular visitor could start rumors. I welcomed her to Blackthorn House and over tea I presented her with a slit kit that I give all my pelvic students and we went over the uses of the items. It contained:

• 2 flat spring latex diaphragms. One for use and one for backup.
• 1 22mm FemCap for flood insurance during shallow (less than 25 feet) dives.
• 5 10ml prefilled vaginal applicators of silicone based DiveGel+ to be used as a vaginal lube for ballet and dive-sex.
• 4 each of 4 sizes of ultra-sheer latex condoms if her partner askes to use one.
• 6 tampons in her size (Playtex Sport regular) in applicators used to absorb residual discharge after Kegeling coitial discharge if her costume is too revealing to wear a pad.
• 2 packets of hygienic hand wipes for menstrual and coitial discharge.
• 3 pairs of Nitrile exam gloves in case a man who has been eating hot wings with his fingers wants to give a pelvic exam w/o washing his hands.
• 20 25mg sildenafil citrate (Viagra the “Pfizer riser”) tablets. 50mg is the normal dose one hour before sex in case her partner(s) need a performance enhancer.
• 2 1.0-inch diameter sets of Ben Wa balls. One a solid borosilicate glass set weighs a total of 1.3 oz. while the second a solid surgical stainless steel set weighs a total of 4.3 oz. Both are used for vaginal muscle training.
• A place for her Sports Plug for which she had been fitted when she got her diaphragms at my Gyn clinic. The Sports Plug is used primarily to prevent vaginal penetration when being groped, while out with rich men. Like Donald Trump was talking about on the video recently introduced into the U.S. presidential race.

Latex catsuits: Sophie asked me about wearing latex other than her diaphragm, specifically latex catsuits as Ron had mentioned that he thought she would look stunning in one. She saw my latex closet when I was showing her around Blackthorn House and admired my collection. I certainly agree as she has a wonderfully toned athletic figure, a bit curvier than a Balanchine ballerina body, but she has kept in excellent shape by all the ballet training she takes. So we agreed that I would take her to my fave custom latex shop to be fitted for several catsuits if she meets the training schedule we agreed upon to prepare her for Pompoir.

At first I thought I had made a mistake in showing her some of my latex collection. However, rethinking the situation I’m glad she saw it as getting fitted for a latex catsuit is just the thing to increase her incentive – though I don’t think she needed it - to meet or better the schedule we set. When she is properly fitted for a latex catsuit I’ll have her take pointe class with me while we are wearing full latex. That is a huge stamina builder if you begin slowly and stay well hydrated with sports drinks that replace electrolytes as the sweat pours out of the wrist and ankle openings and soaks the pointes so that’s another reason to wear Gaynor pointes as they retain their shape and support when wet and sueded tips minimize the likelihood of slipping on sweat dampened Marley floors.

To be continued…   

Hurricane Matthew: For returning readers who recall that I have a winter get-away in the BVIs – unused in the past year because of the Zika virus - I’ll just mention that as of Monday October 11^th Virgin Gorda where I have a villa on Lost Cove was fortunate to have had Matthew pass to the south and west a few days ago so we avoided major damage from a very large storm. I feel so sorry for the people in Haiti and in the U.S. living on the southern east coast who got battered quite hard.

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.

The Zika virus and intimate contact

The Aedes aegypti mosquito transmits Zika virus

The Photo: An Aedes aegypti mosquito feeding. Photo by Muhammad Mahdi Karim (www.micro2macro.net) Facebook YouTube - Own work, GFDL 1.2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11185617.

The Zika virus mosquito (Aedes aegypti) is a mosquito that can be recognized by white markings on its legs and a marking in the form of a lyre on the upper surface of the thorax. The mosquito originated in Africa but is now found in tropical and subtropical regions throughout the world and in 2015 was recognized as starting the Zika virus caused epidemic of babies with microcephaly. The term refers to a rare neurological condition in which children have unusually small heads. In many cases it also means a baby's brain is smaller and may not have developed properly.

Lost Cove, Virgin Gorda and Zika: The BVIs Government haven’t put out much on limiting exposure to the Zika virus which is sure to be in the BVIs by now. My caretaker staff overseen by the estate manager for my good friend Alice Duchess of M**** who has an estate just over the ridge from mine has her staff and mine ensuring there is no standing water where larvae can mature and power foggers are spraying insecticides routinely. I’m now really of two minds about vacationing at Lost Cove. I was so looking forward to several weeks of sun and sand away from the seemingly perpetual rainy skies and gales of the UK. Now it seems I may have waited too late to vacation there this year or until there is a vaccine for Zika. Not that I want to get preggers, but to have to use condoms with my partners while there and for several weeks afterward is such an inconvenience and robs the act of a lot of the skin-on-skin intimacy and the actual exchange of fluids which I so enjoy.

Still, our female staff and guests are cautioned to be sure to use their birth control method(s) correctly since a bite from a Zika carrying mosquito can doom a wanted pregnancy. So far the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in Brazil where the virus seems to have first appeared in the Americas has not officially taken a stand on aborting a Zika damaged pregnancy, although one bishop has said a fetus with severe birth defects is no reason to abort the pregnancy. Easy for him to say! He is undoubtedly the very model of a 19^th centaury prelate poncing about in a dress with his head up his a**!  The Church is going to spring for the care of all the micro cephalic infants that weren’t aborted because abortion is illegal in Catholic South American countries, aren’t they! Oh yes! No one should hold their breath! One hopes that South American political and Catholic Church officials come to their senses and show the compassion they continually preach to their flock in the cases of impaired pregnancies.  

The 2016 Summer Olympic Games: There are reports that health authorities in Brazil (where the pandemic began in South America) are not being cooperative in supplying samples of the virus to other countries researchers. This is said to have something with Brazilian laws! Go figure! Earlier reports of sewage filled swimming competition locations were bad enough! However, with what is known now about the hazards of Zika (unless there is some miraculous scientific breakthrough that eradicates Zika) I can’t imagine the 2016 Olympic Games (the XXXI Olympiad) being held as currently scheduled in Rio de Janeiro from August 5^th August 21^st.  Or if the games are not canceled the huge disappointment to young couples trying to get pregnant canceling attending, or risking infection and birth defects by attending.

Zika can be transmitted through sex: The virus can stay active in blood for about a week and can be transmitted through unprotected intercourse and active virus has now been found in saliva and urine. It is not clear that Zika can be transmitted through saliva and urine, but some authorities in Brazil recommend avoiding kissing. As this is written it is unclear how long secretions from a Zika infected person can transmit the virus to his or her partner. The US CDC is working on an answer. For penile-vaginal intercourse this is making latex or nitrile condoms the safest way to have sex with a person who has been in an area where Zika is known to be active, but saliva and urine as possible virus transmitters makes it a whole new ballgame putting kissing not to mention cunnilingus and fellatio risky as well. Since the HIV virus can penetrate natural lamb condoms they probably aren’t safe to use as protection from Zika either. Nothing has been said (yet) about the virus in perspiration.

Zika is an Arbovirus so there is no quick field test to determine if a person is infected. Blood test intervals of 4 to 14 days can be expected depending on lab load which peaks in summer months.

NHS Zika guidelines can be found HERE

US CDC Zika diagnostic guidelines can be found HERE.

US CDC Zika Q&A can be found HERE

The Costume Club and Zika:  The transmission of Zika through human secretions has caused precautions to be taken with members of my London club in Kensington off Holland Park road. The Costume Club, AKA Clever Cunts), is requiring members to have a current passport showing they have not been in Central or South America or other Zika affected areas for at least three weeks before being allowed to exchange secretions with a Hostess. Otherwise it is using latex or nitrile condoms for every act of anal, vaginal or oral intercourse. The Aedes aegypti mosquito likes warm weather so England in the winter isn’t likely to breed many, but travelers can bring the virus back to the UK. It would be bad enough if a Hostess or two contracted Zika from a member, but since they are all using very effective LARC methods of contraception there is little likelihood of a Hostess becoming pregnant with an infant with serious birth defects. It is thought that once infected with Zika a person builds up immunity and can not be reinfected.

However, an infected Hostess could spread Zika to other club members which is unacceptable. It is far more difficult to be dismissive about a member contracting Zika from a Hostess and giving it to his mistress and/or pregnant wife. The board of governors acted quickly and unanimously on that so while there has been some grumbling, members understand.

The North Atlantic Drift: I’ve got a few minutes to myself so I’m actually missing the desert weather in Las Vegas. Go figure! The forecast for Llanidloes, the closest forecast to the castle, calls for heavy rain for the next three days from all the relatively warm air coming off the Atlantic dropping its moisture as it rises over the Cambrian Mountains. It’s making me want to risk a trip to Lost Cove regardless of the Zika virus.  

The North Atlantic Drift is the eastern branch of the Gulf Stream that turns south along the coast of Europe. The relatively warm waters of the North Atlantic Drift are responsible for moderating the climate of Western Europe, so that winters are less cold than would otherwise be expected at its latitude. Without the warm North Atlantic Drift, the UK and other places in Europe would be as cold as Canada, at the same latitude. For example, without this steady stream of warmth the British Isles winters are estimated to be more than 5 °C cooler, bringing the average December temperature in London to about 2°C, 35.6°F. Due to climate change the west coast of England and Wales is expected to get wetter and warmer over time.

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.

 

 

Mine inspection, girl-girl with Anya, Zika virus

A nugget of gold from northern Wales photo National Museum of Wales

The Photo: Welsh Gold. “Waterworn gold nugget 20 mm in length and 6.5 g. Found in 2001 following severe flash-floods on the Afon Wen, Gwynedd. Nuggets of this size are now exceptionally rare in North Wales rivers following centuries of prospecting. © J.S. Mason.” National Museum of Wales. Records indicate nothing approaching the size of this nugget has been found in the stream near the Barony’s mine.

Blackthorn Barony minerals: In the north east part of Carmarthenshire, near village of Pumsaint is the oldest known gold mine in Wales, the Dolaucothi, which was worked by the Romans around 74 AD, but may have been worked by Bronze age settlers long before that. The Dolaucothi mine on the River Cothi is now owned by the National Trust. However, further north and east into the Cambrian Mountains is a small gold mine on Barony property which is still operating working a rich vein of very rare Welsh gold.

Charles, my Chamberlain of the Household and Estate Manager, had set up the tour and accompanied me. I got to talk to the miners their foreman and the works manager over lunch. They had come up to the castle, on a Barony provided shuttle, on Boxing Day to receive their boxes and my thanks, but I had been looking forward to meeting them again this time in situ. I had never been in an underground mine before even though I was born in a coal mining town in Southwest Virginia. When I was growing up they didn’t have take your daughter to work day in the mines, not that they do now either. So this was my first time in a working mine of any kind much less a gold mine that I own. Well, the barony owns it but it’s under my stewardship while I’m Baroness. 

My wards return:  Their vacation at Lost Cove on Virgin Gorda is over. Undergraduate and graduate classes begin at Trinity College Cambridge this Monday January 25 so Bea is now back at Cambridge. The Dryads (Bryony and Claire) will be back researching male fetishes for their doctorates in Psychology at the Costume Club AKA Clever Cunts in London. I didn’t get to enjoy the warm sun and clear water in the BVIs over the year end holidays, but my responsibilities as Baroness and Tim being here made it essential as well as a pleasure to remain in residence at Blackthorn Castle. I should be able to get some beach time before hurricane season begins in June.  Anya is staying with me at the castle for several weeks as her scheduler doesn’t have another assignment for her at the moment and here she can continue her workouts to remain in shape.

The Zika virus: Fortunately the Zika virus is not yet in the BVIs so my wards and Anya were safe. Zika, which resembles a light case of the flu, is spread by mosquitoes and is often so mild that people don't realize they have it. But health officials in Latin America say the tropical fever is linked to neurological problems and a surge in microcephaly, a condition in which babies are born with abnormally small heads. The defect can cause brain damage and death. While there is no vaccination using effective contraception or termination can avoid the tragedy of a baby with microcephaly. However, there is another possible problem as Zika seems to have a connection with Guillain-Barre syndrome which in severe cases can leave a sufferer partially paralyzed and that is a terror for athletic women like dancers!  For more about the Zika virus see the U.S. CDC site HERE.

Anya as a sex partner: Anya and I get along amazingly well as a couple since she can be very submissive when she wants to be and with me she wants to be almost always. As this is written I’m CD15 and ovulated yesterday, not that it matters at the moment as I have no male partner with me now, even so I wear an FemCap cervical cap to protect my cervix (reserving wearing an Oves or a latex Reflexions diaphragm for when I’m playing with a man or sperm-bank semen) should Anya blow or force compressed gas into my vagina during play. Anya also wears a FemCap to protect herself for the same reason when we play. Too, a FemCap can be worn down to a depth of 25 to 30 feet w/o discomfort (due to squeeze) to prevent water being forced into the vagina if we are using dildos during dive-sex. Also FemCap can be used as a thrust-buffer as the removal strap acts to prevent a dildo from ramming the cervix by distributing the force of the blow to the vaginal walls and fornices leaving the cervix under a correctly sized FemCap untouched.

For contraceptive protection Anya has switched to Nexplanon (the single rod upper arm implant which releases etonogestrel) which given her job is a better option than an IUD and she is getting along well on that progestin as it has caused amenorrhea (her periods have stopped) and she hasn’t any other side effects like affecting her libido which is wonderful.  She likes to breast feed and is a very gentle when she milks me, but can be delightfully rough if I want her to gently bite my nipples. She loves having me manipulate her G-spot and the shaft of her clitoris with my rubber gloved fingers. She has a wonderfully strong pelvic grip so during her vaginal contractions her grip on my gloved fingers can be uncomfortable.

We both wear latex exam gloves for vaginal play since neither of us are allergic to latex and the heat transfer properties are superior to nitrile gloves. We wear gloves because even though our nails are short and we wash our hands wearing latex gloves minimizes the possibility of small vaginal tears from our nails while fingering the G-spot and cervix by allowing gentle use the hard fore-edge of the nail for stimulation.

Playing with sperm-bank semen: For times when no suitable men are available I like to keep a few vials of high quality semen in cryo-storage - in a liquid nitrogen cryo-vault - to play with when I’m follicular and fertile as I feel adding a bit of pregnancy risk to a girl-girl encounter always gets me quickly aroused by heightening the chance of unintended consequences from the encounter.  Now that my clinic has a sperm bank I can get sperm to play with at wholesale prices rather than the retail rate I paid when I was in Nevada. So a few days ago – when I was fertile - Anya filled me with a vial of sperm-bank semen delivered from a dildo with a spring loaded syringe that was triggered by my contractions when I orgasmed. For that I wore an Oves as I love the fantasy of an unintended pregnancy, but I try my best to avoid it.

 

 

The Mare’s Trick and contraceptive sabotage

Afterglow: bare legged in well worn GM play shoes

The Photo: Floored! Napping bare legged in Gaynors after performing Pompoir and the Mare’s Trick with clenched thighs and pelvic muscles while penetrated from the rear by Marvin. I love it when our passion is so great he takes me on the carpet.

The Mare’s Trick: clenching the thighs and pelvic muscles to prevent a man’s penis leaking blood and losing his erection during his refractory period after ejaculation. With skill a woman can keep her lover continuously hard between a series of his orgasms. Performing Pompoir (penis milking) and the Mare’s Trick takes considerable skill and effort and I’m fortunate that I almost always have an unbelievably intense orgasm at the end that puts me to sleep during afterglow. I know it sounds strange, but having my toes packed tightly in the blocks of Gaynor pointes while I’m milking a lover’s erection or have it trapped inside me gives me additional reassurance that I’m in control.

Menstrual cycling and barrier usage: As this is written (on Sunday 4/12/15) I’m CD9 and newly fertile. I finished my period with a Milex Omniflex inserted for flow control on CD6 because I’m not concerned about contraception during my menses since I have stable cycles and don’t become fertile until CD8 or 9 so the wide internal rim flange of the Milex provides the best seal for menstrual flow control if the wearer isn’t concerned about the possibility of becoming pregnant from a partner under-thrusting the coil spring rim of an Omniflex.  I switched back to an Oves cap this past Thursday when I stopped spotting. I love wearing Oves as it’s so tiny that I can take a very large man in my posterior fornix w/o him feeling it.

The Duke of M****’s new mistress:  Returning readers will recall that in my post for March 27^th “The reburial of Richard III” His Grace was to start interviewing candidates for a new intimate companion. I wrote:

“Ashley (Jack’s fiancée) was to introduce him to a dancer friend as his former ballet dancer mistress has returned to Russia to recover from an abortion and to begin performing again with the Mariinsky. He is now interviewing sexually adventuresome ballet dancers Ashley’s age looking for a new intimate companion.”

After more than two weeks interviewing the seven possible candidates “in depth” he selected a 23 y/o soloist with the première ballet company in England headquartered here in London. Her name for her appearances in my blog will be ‘Verity’ (not the name she dances under) and I met her when she came to our clinic for the obligatory full STI panel and serum pregnancy test prior to her initial meeting with His Grace. All seven candidates passed through our clinic for testing prior to meeting with the old bull and I thought she would be the one he would choose as her attitude and looks are quite similar to mine though she is not nearly as dominant, but still will provide him a challenge. The deciding factor though was almost certainly when His Grace found out about Verity’s being SCUBA qualified and her delight in dive-sex as she becomes very aroused even when talking about sex in a hostile environment and she has her own OTS Guardian FFM for diving.

His Grace has almost no women other than me who will dive the Crag Abbey cistern with him for dive-sex even though the water is filtered and heated so that’s pretty high on a mistresses must-have abilities. He has often told me he wishes he had met me twenty years earlier. Not that that has stopped him from inseminating me every chance he gets and I suspect he will continue to want sex with me even with Verity in residence. That could be a problem for both His Grace and me as I’m not sure how possessive she will become with him. She already knows he will never marry her so perhaps she won’t care all that much as long as he doesn’t embarrass her by flaunting his other trysts. Verity and I get along well right now and she is depending on me to help her develop her pelvic skills so I will have her working with Ben Wa ball sets to isolate and manipulate her PC muscled sets for Pompoir and eventually, if she wants to expend the effort, the Mare’s Trick.

Pompoir: The Urban dictionary has the best definition of the term I’ve seen so far, which reads in part:

“Use of the vaginal muscles to milk the penis. Linguistically, this is a French corruption (via the Portuguese) of the original Tamil place-name Pahmpur or Pampur, which is the Dravida Kurumba Pulayam city where this esteemed practice originated.” The link is: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pompoir

Verity gets a GyneFix, FemCap and Reflexions: Now that His Grace has made his choice and Verity accepted it she came back to the clinic to have a full size, six copper beads, frameless IUD - with the strings removed so she can safely wear a cervical barrier - implanted. And because she will be having dive-sex I fit her with a 22mm FemCap for shallow dives (down to 25 feet) and a 75mm latex Reflexions flat spring diaphragm for use at unlimited depths. With a GyneFix implanted she won’t need the barriers for contraception, but will need them for ‘flood insurance’, to prevent the hydraulics of a lover’s thrusts from forcing water into her uterus during dive-sex.

Mews entrance Eaton Square: To give His Grace and Verity some privacy while he tested her skill at dive-sex I let him use the pool at Blackthorn House, Eaton Square. On the back of the property there is the mews entrance. You can drive through a massive timber and steel door into a small courtyard to unload supplies and carry away refuse. It’s also the way the air tanks and associated equipment for diving is gotten to the pool area. It’s quite private so guests can arrive and depart with hardly anyone knowing.

Club hygienic products and pregnancy: One of the rubber fetish clubs in London – not the one owned by the Blackthorn Trust - had been getting a lot of complaints from women who are members and frequent users that they are becoming pregnant from sexual encounters at the club.  Even though there are few women members and clubs try to attract them (because they in turn attract more men) at first club management paid no attention to the complaints until one woman threatened to go to the tabloid press. At that point the club asked our clinic to quietly investigate to see if there could be any possible club involvement in the member’s pregnancies.

The first thing we found was that the women were all on hormonal birth control and none had their partners wear condoms. We ran blood tests, but it had been too long since the encounters of concern and the blood tests were negative for any suspicious substance. Two of the pregnant women were on Nexplanon, the single rod implant releasing etonogestrel. One was on the Mirena IUD that releases Levonorgestrel and two were using NuvaRing which releases a combination of ethinyl estradiol and etonogestrel and is worn in the vagina continuously for three weeks before removing for a withdrawal bleed.  So it was unlikely that any of them had been using their method incorrectly that would interfere with releasing the hormones.

I immediately suspected an employee of the club intentionally planting a contaminated hygienic product of some sort one that would be used each time a woman came to the club.  So what items supplied by the club would be commonly used by women members and could any of them be easily tampered with? Suspicion quickly centered to the supplies in the women’s loo; aloe wipes, hand cream, boxes of nitrile exam gloves similar to the ones available in the bar and each of the encounter sallies that are snapped on before fondling a partner’s genitalia and tubes of a water soluble gel-lube to lubricate the gloved fingers or penis before inserting them in the woman’s vagina. The lube is heavily and frequently used as some women on hormones find its difficult to get wet with their natural lube even with considerable foreplay.

We clandestinely gathered and tested samples of each item that might be used to distribute a progesterone agonist/antagonist, something similar to ulipristal acetate that is used in the EC ellaOne, which binds to the progesterone receptor. Using a progestin for contraception and another med that binds to the progesterone receptors together could reduce their hormonal methods contraceptive efficacy. Returning readers may recall that the instructions for using ellaOne say:

 “After using ellaOne, if a woman wishes to use hormonal contraception, she should do so no sooner than 5 days after the intake of ellaOne, and she should use a reliable barrier method until the next menstrual period.”  

Lube gel tampered with: What we found was the tubes of water-based lubricating gel had all been replaced with counterfeit ones that included  a chemical that binds to the woman’s progesterone receptors for at least twice as long as ulipristal acetate, at least ten days. The pregnant club members were all frequently in the club to pick up Mr. Right Now so their hormonal contraception was quickly sabotaged.  The switch couldn’t have been going on very long or other hormonal users would have noticed fertility symptoms and full period bleeds rather than just a light withdrawal bleed or perhaps no bleed at all if they were enjoying the absence of their periods. An intense interrogation of the employee who was responsible for distributing the tubes of lube got an admission of guilt, she was paid by a rival club, and more of the sabotaged gel was found in her locker.

Fortunately the pregnancies were detected within the first few weeks and all were terminated through vacuum aspiration at our clinic and were paid for by the clubs insurance. There will also be a quick cash settlement if the individual women agree not to sue the club and no one wants the publicity that would bring.  

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.

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.

Toe pads as a fetish

Ouch Pouch Jr. toe pads

Sweaty toe pads: The photo is of a model wearing the Ouch pouch Jr. which is what most of my company dancers and St Lucy’s ballet students wear. The crescent-shaped pad is made of a thin layer of gel material inside a fabric pouch. Great for wider feet and for those who want only the toes cushioned. The new design offers more coverage in the bunion areas, a deeper cut vamp to better match the line of the pointe shoe, a sleeker shape that hugs the foot and keeps pads from sliding or bunching and an enhanced gel formulation that helps prevent bottoming out, thinning from use.

I love the scent of sweaty toe pads and one or two of my intimate male friends love the scent and taste of sweaty toe pads too! The ouch pouch Jr is the ideal pad for me worn in Gaynor Mindens (I don’t wear toe pads with GMs during my period when my feet swell a bit) to prevent the shoes getting so sweat soaked when worn for long intervals. Because of the absorbent lining inside plastic boxes Gaynors can take forever to dry and if worn when wet they quickly develop a pungent aroma that only a toe shoe fetishist can love. Additionally, sweaty toe pads make small inexpensive souvenirs that can be given to very close friends as tokens of affection rather than being pressured to give away a pointe shoe or shoes which can be very expensive if a dancer doesn’t have shoes that are so dead they can’t be worn for class. For the Fetishists into the tastes and scents of a woman the freshly used pads worn w/o tights can be turned inside out so salty sweaty residue, tape adhesive, blood, polish chips and toe cheese with the merest dash of my wintergreen liniment can be licked off while my partner is watching me change pads and pointes. I’m taking along several dozen pairs of OP Jr toe pads on my European trip for use and in case I have pad-worthy lovers who I would like to reward with a memento of our intimate assignation.

Slit Kits and contraceptive supplies: In preparation for our European trip I’ve restocked Anya and my large slit kits that we use for extended travel, replacing the Semécide with the new formulation from Labia Labs professional products line of contraceptive products. It is Semécide+ an O9 spermicide made with dive-gel and Octoxynol-9 and contains a biocide that reduces the chances of contracting HIV. I’m stocking it in prefilled 10ml applicators - easily carried in an evening clutch or mesh bag during a dive - and in addition to the applicators in our slit kits I’m taking a 500 applicator case since Semécide+ will be our primary lube for dive-sex. I’m also taking a dozen Reflexions latex FS diaphragms in my size and a dozen in Anya’s for use as gas guards in case we lose one in a pool or have a dome failure. Returning readers will remember Reflexions can be used at any depth and at any point in the menstrual cycle in addition to being extremely difficult for a partner to under-thrust so it is the cervical barrier of choice for professionals specializing in dive-sex. I’ve also replaced the Plan B one-step with the 5-day EC pill ella which is far more effective in case of a contraceptive failure and replaced the original female condoms (FC1) with the new nitrile FC2 which is stronger and has better heat transfer properties.

St Lucy’s girls and Penetrator Plugs: As young women grow and become more sexually experienced their vaginas lengthen and if they are taking pointe their vaginal muscles strengthen from the clenching and contractions while on pointe. So the fit of their Penetrator plugs need to be checked every 6 months or so and just before summer vacation is when St Lucy’s girls have their semi-annual Penetrator checks – along with the barrier (Reflexions or FemCap) that they use as a gas-guard for Upper Reproductive Tract (URT) protection during dive-sex. Having the students vaginal rubber checked at this time in the school year the girls are assured of a proper fit while they are on vacation

Porn pools and training facilities: A reader asked why I don’t just call Adolph’s 200 foot deep training facility and my 68 foot deep pool ‘Porn Pools’, rather than training facilities. I think of Porn Pools as being located in rental homes or foreclosed properties that have been accessed through contacts in the Real Estate industry frantic to get some revenue from a dormant market for upscale homes with nice pools in isolated areas. Or, perhaps worse, homes just squatted in for a few days to get enough video action scenes in the pools to fit into several videos for the adult market. As the weather has warmed up there is more of that going on and there are so many large homes in foreclosure out here that it’s fairly easy to get away with unapproved use of a home.

It’s true that there is a great deal of sex occurring in my and Adolph’s deep pools, but it really is for training of escorts, or European BDSM students (at Adolph’s) or just old fashioned recreational sex w/o a video crew from Taryn’s Adult Media Co. present. So I feel neither Adolph’s nor my facilities can reasonably be thought of as porn pools.

Training pool pregnancies: Our clinic is seeing a spike in pregnancies involving women being impregnated during private dive-sex lessons while training in unlicensed dive schools set up in large up-market foreclosed homes in isolated sections of town. These small ‘SCUBA Schools’ advertise teaching intimate dive skills at low prices primarily so the ‘trainer’ can get paid by his students for having dive-sex with them. Usually the women are young, sexually inexperienced and new in town and trying to get training w/o having to pay much for it. Some of them end up having to pay for an abortion. Most thought they were on the pill, but weren’t taking it correctly or were taking another med that interfered with their birth control hormones effectiveness and none were wearing gas guards for upper reproductive tract protection. So far none of the women have wanted to call attention to themselves by reporting the scuba schools for fear their pregnancy and abortion will become public knowledge and become known by their parents or ruin any chance they might have of getting a job as an entertainer or into an escort training program. These women usually end up having a GyneFix IUD implanted if they can become part of the GyneFix clinical trial.

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.