2014 Ballet Summer Intensive and 4th of July party

Student’s dead pointes from our ballet summer intensive

The Photo: Some of the summer intensive student’s dead shoes (mostly Freeds) and they aren’t even through the second week.

Adolph’s 4^th of July party: My wards and I and our partners as well as the fifteen SI students all were invited to Adolph’s place in the hills to celebrate the fourth. For one of Adolph’s parties it was pretty tame with no guest or staff disappearances, that I’m aware of. There was only one requirement; that every guest as well as his staff have a clean recent full STI panel. I think that was from a concern on his part that because some of his guests lead very risky lives he didn’t want carelessness on their part to spill over and harm the many students who were at the party. A concern that was quite out of character for him given the callous way some of his dive students have been treated in the recent past.

For drama, there was only one incident each of spontaneous abortion, uterine flooding and a near drowning all of which occurred in the deep water training facility while a divemaster was present. No one knew one of Adolph’s student Submissives was pregnant until she miscarried at a depth of 100 ft as Adolph was taking her in missionary while she was tethered to the safety net with an ankle leash. She has been in residence as a dive student for eight weeks and she had tested negative for pregnancy at our clinic when she arrived and was fitted for a 65mm Reflexions to wear as flood insurance during dive-sex, so the baby was Adolph’s. She is supposed to have been on the pill and perhaps she was, but some girls don’t take their pill as regularly as they should.

The uterine flooding was because another of Adolph’s students, a petite girl of 18, neglected to insert her Reflexions prior to entering the water for dive-sex and Castor, one of the Gemini, who with his brother Pollux are extremely well endowed forced water into her uterus while satisfying her desire to be taken by a heavy hitter, other than Adolph. Chris, our male Gyn put her on a ten day course of an antibiotic to minimize the likelihood of bacteria in the water giving her PID.

On the 4^th my wards and I were all CD7, but as returning readers know they all have stringless GyneFix copper IUDs implanted so they were free to have sex with as many of Adolph’s guests they hadn’t met before w/o any concern about STIs. It was only me who needed cervical protection for contraception as the following day I would become fertile and on edge days like that a girl using a barrier for birth control can never be too careful.

Incest by proxy: Bea, my 17 y/o, ward had fun with a handsome forty-something German chemist who said she reminded him of his daughter who is about Bea’s age. She told me later when we were both in the ladies Kegeling out recent partner’s semen that when they were alone on a bedroom balcony overlooking the city lights after briefly fondling her clit he entered her from behind while she was on her toes in second position bent over the railing watching the fireworks. The other guests were watching from the roof terrace. She said when he came in her he called his daughter’s name several times, but didn’t seem to realize what he’d said as he continued thrusting into her until he went limp. That encounter went so well that later he asked for seconds and then took time to provide her pleasure giving her several G-spot orgasm which had her moaning, mewing, quivering and so rubber-legged she thought she would fall off pointe while she was in orgasm and squeezing the hot cream out of him with her contractions. And during that encounter he again called her by his daughters name.

Pointe shoe fetishists: Adolph had told me his European guests were all pointe shoe fetishists. That is usually a relatively benign fetish as fetishes go, but some men can take it to extremes tying a partner up with the ribbons from her pointes before having sex with her or in one case hanging a girl with the ribbons from three pairs of her pointes w/o removing the ribbons from the shoes.

So he wanted the BSI students and my wards and me in pointes for his party. I’m comfortable in pointes almost anywhere and my wards are becoming accustomed to wearing pointes for all occasions, but the BSI girls needed some convincing. At my suggestion they all wore pairs of their scholarship provided Gaynors as they were the most comfortable and were instructed not to use liniment or alcohol on their feet while preparing for the party as there would undoubtedly be a lot of toe sucking going on. Afterward several of the students thanked me for suggesting Gaynors as their European partners expected ballet-sex (sur les pointes a la seconde) where our pelvic muscles are clenched and with the thrust drop padding I recommended they were relatively comfy being dropped en pointe when a tall partner withdrew on the out-stroke.

Student potential and menstrual status: Selection criteria for BSI students in addition to having Balanchine bodies, considerable talent and ability for classical ballet, a very strong sex drive and an adventurous nature bordering on recklessness included what each candidate wanted to do professionally. None wanted to be professional dancers. They all see ballet as marvelous exercise and stress reducing activity and as a means to keep their lovely bodies in shape and attract men. We see the students potential to be doctors, lawyers, mistresses and wives of influential men and rising to be influential in their own professions where they can be helpful to the interests we represent. Each of the students is a long term investment in her own right as she rises through her chosen field.

Being introduced to Adolph’s European friends at the sort of parties Adolph hosts gives the girls access to powerful men who can help them in their careers in the business world. And the men are delighted since from their perspective the BSI students are almost virginal since they lack the depth of sexual experience of their male partners. I heard one say it was better than fucking his way through the corps of a major European ballet company because the party girls were fresh and relatively innocent and could be molded to meet his needs as an American mistress.

We are into the second week of the BSI now and all the girls have taken their weekly pregnancy tests and none were positive for hCG. It would be too soon to expect a pregnancy from an encounter while a student here to show up, but if someone had been careless or had an accident the week before arriving here it should show up about now. Many of the girls are on extended cycle pills (Seasonale or Seasonique) or started another pack of 21/7 or 24/4 regimen pills w/o taking the placebos to prevent having a pill period during their time at BSI so they would have no way of knowing by the absence of bleeding if they had conceived.  Our phys. Therapist is busy giving massages and treating over worked ankles and knees before they become troublesome injuries since we have a lot invested in the long term health and wellbeing of each of these students.  And the girls and their partners have settled in to mutually satisfactorily short term relationships. Both the male partners and the students are trying to enjoy each other’s bodies as much as possible for the several weeks they are together realizing they will be going their separate ways once the course ends.

Security: All the public rooms, terraces, balconies, encounter sallies, ladies restrooms, bedrooms and the deep water training pool area are covered by HD security cameras that recorded every one of the sexual encounters with faces plainly visible. In case, at some later date we need to influence one or both participants of a particular intimate encounter to do the right thing. Adolph was very pleased how well the party went and how easily the BSI girls and his European guests got along.

St Lucy’s invitational ballet summer intensive

Barre girls in tights before pas de deux class

The photo: A group of summer intensive students warming up before PDD class.

St Lucy’s invitational ballet summer intensive: We changed the format this year to draw participants only from ballet students 21 or older whose names were submitted by their teachers for their outstanding grace, technique, stamina and fearlessness. We had more than 450 submissions and had places for only 15, limited primarily by the number of professional male dancers suitable to be their partners and those 15 were on full scholarship (from my casino/resort) including meals, travel and medical expenses.

In addition to technique, pointe, PDD and mime we are offering ‘contemporary sexual health for the dancer’ for the first time this year as feedback questionnaires said given the opportunities offered while at our summer intensive a more complete foundation in contraception choices and their use would be helpful to first time students to the ballet summer intensive we offer here in Las Vegas.

Screening: All the students and faculty were required to bring recent full STI panels indicating that they are all free of STIs and all have completed their series of Gardasil shots. And the girls were given pregnancy tests upon arrival. Two failed and as they were both 21 were given the chance to terminate their pregnancy w/o their parent’s knowledge (the termination would have been covered by medical insurance through the scholarship) or return home. Both decided to return home – their mothers flew out to take them home - and two alternates were accepted in their places. We think what happened in both cases was the students were on very low dose estrogen/progestin pills and took weight loss pills to trim down for the SBI that speed up their metabolisms so the girls flushed the hormones through their bodies too quickly and the remaining levels weren’t sufficient to suppress ovulation. The literature we sent out in the spring when we selected them cautioned about taking weight loss pills if the student is on contraceptive hormones.

The weather: With the appearance of July it has turned very hot here in Vegas. The forecast is for temps from 111° F to 108° F thorough the weekend so latex catsuits, hoods and gloves are out except for in clubs with the a/c turned full on. Fortunately the practice clothes of thong-back tank top leos, bare legs and pointes in fully air-conditioned studios and encounter sallies are ideal for this weather. Tights are only worn and over leos, for PDD classes. We cautioned the BSI students to bring at least a dozen pairs of shoes as the students are expected to be in pointes for all classes as well as barre.

The Men: The men were chosen from recommendations to and personal knowledge of Willow, Jack’s 20 y/o daughter, who was in the corps of the Royal Ballet and had danced with the Paris Opera Ballet until last year. They were chosen not only for their ability as classical dancers, but physical strength, personality and sexual stamina. The sexual stamina is important during a Ballet Summer Intensive as students are far more likely to experiment sexually while away from home and with strangers and what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, we hope.

Some of the women students have much higher sex drives than others so a hyper-sexual girl can arrange to swap men with a girl with a lower libido to find a guy who can satisfy her more frequently. Performance enhancing meds are available to any man who asks. If he is on an enhancing med it’s usually his secret even though he’s expected to perform satisfactorily as frequently as four times a day for the entire 14 days of the course.

Protection for play: In my welcoming remarks to the girls during their orientation I suggested that they might want to try wearing Gaynor Minden pointes for play as they often provide better support and the shanks and blocks last far longer than pointes made of traditional materials. The only problem with GMs is that they don’t breathe, so are hot to wear and take longer to dry. We have taken care of the drying problem by providing drying boxes that circulate warm very dry air across sweat soaked shoes. Our GM representative fit them all with at least two pairs of shoes each, the cost of which is included in the scholarships.

I made it a point right up front that the students male partners were highly fertile and would be having sex with them unprotected unless the woman asked for him to wear a condom. So it is the responsibility of each woman to ask her partner to wear protection or use an effective contraceptive method and if there is any concern about a birth control failure the morning-after pill is available 24/7 at student health.

Also mentioned in my introduction to contemporary sexual health class is that if they wanted to experience dive-sex - and they all did - they would have to be fitted for a diaphragm to be used as flood insurance since the vagina commonly floods during underwater sex, so the diaphragm is used as flood insurance to prevent a partner’s thrusting penis from forcing water or an air bubble into the uterus which could cause PID or an embolism.  Fortunately they all use menstrual cups so were familiar with folding and inserting vaginal devices so none had an ‘ick-factor’ associated with using a diaphragm

Dive-sex was high on their list of recreational choices so no one had a problem with being fitted with a diaphragm and since only one woman (and no men) was allergic to latex Chris, our male Gyn, fitted them with the latex Reflexions flat spring style which is nearly impossible for a mischievous partner to under-thrust and showed them how to use the 10 ml prefilled disposable applicators of DiveGel+. The latex allergic student was fitted with a silicone Milex wide seal arcing spring diaphragm which, with its two elbow hinges, is the next best thing to a Reflexions for flood insurance.  As a confidence builder I have them all wear their diaphragms during ballet classes so they could get used to inserting, removing and moving with it inserted finding that once inserted and properly positioned they can’t feel them.

Toe-tape, the pointe-shoe club: Returning readers will recall that in my post for April 14, 2014 I introduced you to Toe-tape a new Mini-club, writing: “Our Casino/Resort has opened ‘Toe-tape’, a ballet club for adventuresome young women who want to show off their feet and legs for admiring men. I know the name sounds like it should be a Chick band, but we tested it and found it’s the sort of name that appeals to young highly motivated female dancers craving excitement.”

I’m introducing the BSI students to clubbing in pointes, where they can be admired by men with a pointe fetish. Having students 21 or older this year simplifies entertaining them on the clubs scene since I’m not trying to pass them off as older than they really are.  Their male BSI partners (English and French straight ballet dancers from major companies) are here as much for the sex as for what we are paying them and having them along gave the girls time to get to know the guys personally and sort out sleeping arrangements. We prefer that couples sleep in the dorm at St Lucy’s which has private rooms with full baths.  That way there is excellent security and it’s close to the studios.

Fourth of July celebration: Tomorrow evening Adolph has invited the BSI students and faculty to his 4^th of July party. He has promised to have no wood chipper within … well he said “nowhere near” the party so it should be safe enough. And the students will get to dive The Well, his 216 ft dive training facility. He has a net spread across it at 100 ft so none of the newbies to the facility can go deeper accidently.

An ideal breath play FFM

Desco Inferno free flow FFM ideal for breath play

An ideal breath play FFM: The surface supplied Desco FFM worn by an escort in the photo above is ideal for underwater breath play in my 68 foot deep pool. That’s because this models recommended max depth is 30 feet after which – even with the free flow valve fully open - the air pressure isn’t sufficient to provide enough air for strenuous activity and the deeper a diver goes the more difficult it becomes to breathe. That makes it ideal for breath play during strenuous dive-sex at 45 or 50 feet where the wearer is struggling to breathe and her face is being pushed deeper into her mask by the pressure. Having my face pushed closer to the lens of the mask also decreases the masks buoyancy, which makes me sink faster. I’ve found wearing a Desco FF FFM during orgasms at 50 feet to be an amazingly intense experience while trying to suck enough gas to prevent asphyxiation. It is relatively safe (if I don’t pass out) as all I need do is ascend to increase the air in my lungs. In my experience it’s almost always the woman who wears a Desco FF FFM for breath play because most men can’t function effectively enough when deprived of air to get his partner off. Though, it might work for a man who is masturbating because it works for me when I’m fucking myself with a dildo.

To prevent accidentally pulling the mask off if my air hose gets yanked during a sexual encounter I loop it under my left arm and once around my body so the hose will just tighten around my chest, above my breasts, rather than flood or pull my mask off. I haven’t yet figured out how to assure my ascent if I should pass out during solo breath play, which leaves me at considerable risk of suffocating, or worse permanent brain damage from lack of oxygen, but that does add a frissson of terror to use of the Desco for breath play during solo dive-sex. I do wear flippers to speed the ascent, but I’ve had times I was so starved for oxygen I could hardly move. The easiest thing to do would be to arrange a weight drop from an inflated buoyancy control vest if I should pass out, but I hate wearing a BCD when I’m masturbating so I haven’t given a safe ascent strategy the attention it deserves.

Induced lactation for escorts: I was asked to help coach a few experienced escorts who want to offer breastfeeding as a chargeable service. I declined the request because of my other commitments and the fact that I plan to be traveling for several months during the summer. Inducing lactation is not a step an escort, or any woman, should take w/o giving it serious thought because it is time consuming to prepare the breasts of a nulliparous woman for lactation. It is also labor intensive to pump to first stimulate and then empty lactating breasts and provide good nipple care with lanolin cream to prevent cracked nipples and clogged milk ducts. In addition, it almost always requires hormone therapy and a hospital quality twin breast pump is a must for times when there will not be an infant or adult lover to breast feed, because over-filled breasts are unbelievably painful. More than half the girls who think they want to induce lactation drop out of the program. They don’t follow the lactation protocol long enough or thoroughly enough to get meaningful amounts of milk which leads to discouragement and then they quit after having spent months and considerable money having nothing to show for their trouble.

My own experience, never having been pregnant, was that I accidentally induced lactation and from all accounts of problems inducing in nulliparous breasts my milk arrived fairly easily as far as the time it took and the amount of milk I produce. I began lactating in about three months of fairly constant nipple manipulation from getting into and out of latex encasement suits when I was a rubber fetish model one summer about 6 years ago and at the same time I had a lover who was into dancers with small breasts and he was constantly at my breasts sucking my nipples when we were at my apartment or even in public places in Montréal. I’m told my prolactin level was high and I had been experimenting with the birth control pill Yasmin and unbeknownst to me at the time the Progestin in it prepared my breasts for the production of milk and Oxytocin from all the breast play stimulated its release. Even now it’s time consuming to breastfeed or pump and perform breast maintenance, but breastfeeding or pumping is so arousing that it contributes significantly to my enjoyment of penetrative sexual encounters, especially with men.

Orienting Ballet SI teachers: I have been orienting male ballet teachers for St Lucy’s Summer Intensive to be held this June and July. Their background and accomplishments in the art are well known to me, but I’m testing their sexual stamina because St Lucy’s SI is known for the intimacy with which student and teachers interact and the fact than none of the instructors wear condoms. The men all are between the ages of 25 and 33, have had the complete course of Gardasil HPV vaccine injections and have had a recent, full and clean STI panel, just as have all students admitted to our SI. There were far more applicants than we needed even though our male instructor to student ratio is 1:10. So it was a matter of selecting the ones with personality, the charisma to charm a student out of her tights with a single glance and the sexual stamina and control to hold her in orgasm until she faints. The SLSI is known for providing a ‘Las Vegas ballet experience’, meaning its dedication to Vaganova method and its liberal view of student faculty relations, so an instructor unable to perform during an intimate training session with a student would be an embarrassment to the school. Therefore, we try to select only expert male dancers who are known for their sexual stamina.

Our SLBI students have been referred to us by their teachers as adventuresome women who enjoy physical and emotional challenges so we prefer that their teachers have high sperm counts since that is another reason for the students to be in awe of them, but a high sperm count is not mandatory as the students are supposed to make every effort to avoid pregnancy. It’s in the agreement signed for admittance to the SI. We recommend that where possible SI students have a copper IUD inserted several months prior (shortly after being accepted) to arriving for the SI. That way there is little danger of a student conceiving from intercourse with faculty or male student partners.

Gasmasks and breath play: Recently I’ve been cautioning my Wards, Cyndi, Gigi and Aimée to be careful at UNLV fetish parties they are being invited to because there is someone who is into breath play going around incapacitating women in gas masks by tampering with their mask to constrict or entirely block their air. The victims say that a young couple are working together (passing themselves off as grad-students) to distract then immobilize women by asking them to pose for photos and in the set-up for the pics block the air through the filter canister either by stretching a balloon over the opening, effectively making it a rebreather bag, or unscrewing the canister and putting a piece of rubber or plastic in the canister fitting and reattaching the canister hiding the blockage. If the gasmask chick has a good seal on her mask and can’t move enough to push her mask against something to break the seal she will suffocate or suffer brain damage in just a few minutes. The two instances of rebreather bags on the incapacitated women have had an anesthetic liquid, chloroform perhaps, in them so that a breath or two with the balloon over the filter and the wearer is unconscious and left to suffocate from rebreathing her own carbon dioxide. It’s only by luck that there have been no fatalities caused by this couple as yet. The suspected couple was wearing high quality gasmasks so no one seems to know who they are.

Perfect bodies & Summer ballet intensive

A ballerina with her perfect body on display

The Photo: A dancer exercising her nearly perfect unadorned Balanchine body during a private class. I’m indebted to Paul D for the photo.

Jack on perfect bodies: “Perfect Bodies While there are obviously different concepts of what a perfect human body form is there is more consensus then divergence on the matter. The ideal female form seems to evolve over time at least the Caucasian female whose ideal form is memorialize in art and sculpture handed down through the ages. Male form seems to have evolved less over time as we can see from the Elgin marbles right through to the Renaissance in Michelangelo's David. We can certainly see a series of rapid changes in the ideal female in from the 19th century to the present when some of the great choreographers such as Petipa emerged and reinvigorated interest in ballet. There appears to be a divergence in the artistic form of the dancer from the common vernacular of pop culture and the cartoon like form of pornography and erotica. These may each represent a different ideal forms and appeal to different sensibilities and lifestyles. Cosmetic surgery has presented the opportunity to literally resculpt the body into almost any form desired. And then there are the adornments which are used to enhance the female form. Clothing, of course comes to mind as the most obvious means to change, amplify, de emphasize parts of the form. And then there is hair which becomes part of the form and that is a whole other discussion. Jewelry, makeup and now tattoos are very much connected to and part of the female form. For something like ballet aside from story ballet with costuming jewelry, body mods, tattoos would be considered "blasphemy" as the pure unadorned form is an ideal which can only be lessened by such things. The body mod aesthetic and sensibility is so randomized and chaotic it defies the notion of a perfect form. Some women place symmetrical patterns of ink in their bodies which others use their skin for a canvas to portray an image or even write a message in text. Piercings and implants are placed in an almost defiant manner as if to challenge the very nature of conventional thinking about beauty. And much of this stuff is seen on some of the most stunning natural beauties. Is this an attempt to separate themselves from some sort of iconic mold and provide their own identity? Is it an attempt to demand that we see beauty as deeper than the surface of the skin or the shape of it? Is it an effort to engage our own skin and bodies and senses in a more expansive manner then a blank canvas? All the bod mods and tats certainly do destroy the notion of what an ideal female form would be. Personally I find the development off putting and jarring to my aesthetic sensibilities. Yet the fetish community which seems so body conscious incorporates bod mods almost as a fetish to be celebrated. It's a mad, mad, mad world. Ain't it?”

I totally agree with the Jack when he wrote: “For something like ballet aside from story ballet with costuming jewelry, body mods, tattoos would be considered "blasphemy" as the pure unadorned form is an ideal which can only be lessened by such things.”

The worst technical and esthetic error in the film Black Swan was the tattoo of wings on Lily’s back! No mainstream ballet company, much less a major one, would stand for tattoos where they can be easily seen in revealing costumes. ADs even hate tan lines from sunning in swimsuits so tats are a huge no-no! To my mind beautiful soft unblemished skin is one of our most glorious assets.

Auditions for places in St Lucy’s ballet program: It’s time again for auditions for St Lucy’s ballet Summer Intensive. We will accept videos, but prefer the prospective student to appear in front of the judges in person. A reader asked why parents would want to have their daughters take ballet at St Lucy’s when they could (possibly) attend ABT’s JKO School or NYCB’s SAB. The answer of course is that the goal of St Lucy’s ballet training is far different than turning out superbly trained professional dancers.

Our Summer Intensive is intended to assess and increase the skill and stamina of aspiring St Lucy’s students and is the primary source from which new students are invited to enter our ballet program. At St Lucy’s a solid background in classical ballet technique and a well toned ballet body is the foundation necessary for a student to successfully master the more advanced sexual techniques and skills for which St Lucy’s graduates are coveted as wives and mistresses. Training a student’s intellect is a primary goal at St Lucy’s so she can move confidently up through the business and social world and many students enter with just that as their goal. But a significant percentage recognize the ability to successfully compete for and retain the best mates is extremely important as well and our ballet and ancillary programs are designed to meet that need; to allow a graduate to so mesmerize a chosen male with her body, guile and erotic skills that he will stay bonded to her for as long as she wants him.

Given the importance of ballet in the development of a St. Lucy’s girl it’s understandable that there is intense competition for spots in the program. We have increased the size of the program this year, but not the size of the classes. We had been turning away so many well qualified girls that there will be no reduction in the skill levels of graduates successfully completing what has come to be thought of as the ‘Giulietta’ suite of courses, named for the courtesan of that name played by Ludmilla Tchérina in the 1951 film The Tales of Hoffmann.

Student sexual healthcare and reader’s questions

A Vacusafe aspiration system

Summer Intensive complications: Several weekends ago I was helping out at the clinic and one of the chaperones from the ballet summer intensive being held across town came in with a 14 y/o student who had missed her period and tested positive for pregnancy. The school has a pretty strict dorm policy for students under 16 and she had only been at the SI for a week when her period was late. The fact later emerged that this was the second period she had missed so it’s certain she was impregnated before coming to Vegas for school. Her widowed father had been notified by the school and our Gyn talked with him and had the release forms faxed, signed and faxed back to allow a termination which the student and her father agreed was the best alternative. The Gyn said her father wasn’t mad, just terribly sad and cried wondering how it could have happened because she was on the pill.

The student wanted the fastest possible procedure so she wouldn’t miss any of her classes the following Monday, so it was agreed she would have a vacuum aspiration abortion as the quickest and safest method then be given a course of antibiotics to minimize the likelihood of infection as her uterus repairs itself. Because she was so young her cervix was numbed and dilated to allow easier insertion of the soft cannula. The process of removing her endometrium and the other tissue took about fifteen minutes. The removed uterine contents were examined and the Gyn was satisfied that all the tissue associated with the pregnancy was there (typically an 8 week old fetus is about .5 inches long and weighs about .04oz) so the termination was complete and she spent an hour in post-op recovery to make sure she was ok. I was so proud of how well she handled a difficult situation while away from home and her usual support network.

She was given a pack of pads to wear as she would be spotting for a day or so and two packs of the birth control pill, Yaz, that she is on and condoms and was told not to have intercourse for two weeks and to use condoms while on the antibiotic and until she had taken at least 7 consecutive active pills from a new pack after she had finished the course of antibiotics so she can be sure her hormonal protection is properly reestablished. Fourteen is below the age of consent here so with the schools chaperones I imagine she was safe enough for the rest of the SI.

As to how she could have become preggers while taking her pills consistently, it’s a story we had heard many times before. She had reached menarche only about a year ago and suffered from erratic cycles and painful periods. For the last six months her Gyn had put her on Yaz to stabilize her cycle and lessen the discomfort she was having when menstrual. Then she had been given an antibiotic by her GP to treat a sinus infection. Our Gyn thinks that’s what lessened her protection enough to allow breakthrough ovulation so that taking a partner who wasn’t wearing a condom allowed him to impregnate her. She said he is the only boy she has been intimate with and that she took her pills regularly each morning. Women on hormonal contraceptives do have to be careful about interactions with other meds and some foods as well as vomiting with 4 hours of taking a pill because the hormones may not be fully digested and in the bloodstream until then.

Reader’s questions: A reader asked, “How much do you charge for service?” My reply was: “I teach and am an event planner, I don't charge for personal services. Well, not directly anyway. My fee is distributed over the many services my organization provides.” I’m a brand now and if I were a pharmaceutical the FDA would say my girls are ‘therapeutic equivalents’ of me. I’ve never been for sale so that someone could by a piece of me. Even when I was in school I’ve always been able to choose my partners both male and female and my readers know some of the men as my handsome virile stallions.

During a chat a night or two ago another reader asked if I had ever found someone I wanted to marry. I said I had, but they were married. I said I was confident that I could have seduced him and taken him away from his wife. However, if I did that I would have a man I knew was unfaithful and if he was unfaithful to the woman I took him from he would eventually be unfaithful to me and I don’t need that! I have a wonderful circle of strong talented men for companionship and sexual pleasure and I have plenty of money so I don’t need to be kept; I’m too independent for that anyway. So I’ll be satisfied with the way things are, until Mr. Right comes along.

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.