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.

An intimate relationship with ewes

A highland relationship - Scottish Blackface Sheep

The weather: We made the trip safely landing in Edinburgh and taking a helicopter to His Grace’s hunting lodge in the mountains to the east of Ullapool. The weather here at the lodge is very cool, in the mid 50s F with a brisk wind and light to heavy rain.  The forecast for tomorrow, Sunday September 22 is about the same, but at a much higher elevation it will be colder so it looks like the girls and I are going to perform while soaking wet, unless there is divine intervention. The thought of being cold and wet again brings to mind how delightful it would be to wear a swimskin, but a few sips of The Old Bull’s Gorse brandy before ‘Showtime’ and the stack of soft waterproof blankets made of red deer skins should take care of the cold, for a while at least. We are all going to bed very early tonight as we are still jet-lagged and have to get up at 4:00 AM to have our buns on the altars at sunrise, which is at 7:06 AM.

A complication: Chris, our male Gyn who travels with us, had gone on ahead to the hunting lodge in the hills overlooking Loch Broom. There he met Taryn who cut classes at Cambridge to join him and they met with the Dukes Veterinarian who looks after the flocks of Scottish\h Blackface sheep he raises for their wool, which goes into making Harris Tweed, and meat.  The most delicious rack of lamb is served at His Grace’s table!

Chris was sent ahead to check the sexual health of the boys (13 to 18 years of age) who had been chosen as candidates to be seed planters in celebration of the Autumnal Equinox. There were 20 candidates, all from his Grace’s extensive sheep farming operations in old Wester Ross-Shire. Three of the candidates, two 17 and an 18 y/o, all from the same farm, tested positive for Chlamydia C. abortus.  The chlamydia bacteria are zoonotic. It can be spread to other species including goats, cattle and occasionally humans. C. abortus is the most virulent strain and so while being treated with antibiotics and recovering the boys were out of contention for seed planting on an altar at Location Z on the equinox

Spew in a ewe: More worrying for them however, is the very real possibility of losing their jobs because of transmitting Chlamydia to His Grace’s ewes which can kill their lambs.  Not because they were fucking ewes, which Jack says is common on sheep farms in the Highlands, but because they rode bareback when they were told to wear condoms. Being tight and with a body temperature of 102 – 103 degrees F Jack (speaking from experience) says a ewe makes a delightfully tight warm fuck and there’s no danger of having to pay child support, though the smell leaves something to be desired. I couldn’t really be upset with him, as sheep fucking is something of a male right of passage in the farming communities in the Highlands. Not to mention that I’ve had sex with a Great Dane, a tiger and several dolphins so I couldn’t honestly be upset with him for taking his pleasure where he found it in remote locations w/o women.

Now that chlamydial abortion has been diagnosed the entire flock is being treated with tetracycline. Fortunately the outbreak occurred in the smallest of the flocks so is thought to be isolated and well contained.  Human cases of C. abortus always involve pregnant women, most of whom will miscarry. Of course my circle and I all test to make certain we aren’t pregnant. Even though we all use DiveGel+ with a biocide that should kill the Chlamydia bacteria and we know our partners are clean it’s still scary to know that we could have an STI bacteria deposited in some of us if we hadn’t been pro-active about STI testing since we need to take our equinox altar partners bareback.  

Partner distribution: Two other candidates had minor injuries from recent farm related accidents that made them ineligible this year so we were left with fifteen healthy participating males. The plan is that we make an equal distribution over the five (one principal and four cardinal compass point secondary) altars which will give us three each. I’m taking the youngest, the two thirteen and one fourteen y/os. Bea gets the three fifteen y/os and Cyndi and the twins share the seventeen and eighteen y/os. If any of the girls can’t handle three I’ll take the ones they can’t accommodate and Jack and if the Old Bull feels up to it I’ll service him as well.

Hoods from hares: The Mountain Hare (Lepus timidus) is Britain's only native member of the rabbit/hare group. The women of the village supporting His Grace’s hunting lodge have made rabbit fur hoods with attached capes over the neck, throat and shoulders, for all the visiting altar girls, from the white winter coats of the Mountain Hare. They are beautifully made delightfully warm and were fitted individually over our hair after we arrived. They are ceremonial altar clothing for warmth and head protection while being repeatedly inseminated on behalf of the earth goddess at sunrise on celestially important occasions when ritual seed planting is called for.

The Swan twins, an update: Odette and Odile seem to have adjusted well to their GyneFix IUDs with no pain or spotting after the initial two day discomfort from having the knot buried in the fundus. The day before we left Odette showed Himself the main library at UNLV one evening and was taken (from behind while she was sur les pointes a la seconde in the stacks where she had gotten a job shelf reading. She wore a ball-gag to minimize the noise a brown long sleeve turtleneck thong back leo with matching brown 50 denier tights over the leo for immediate access and brown suede tipped GM pointes for traction on the polished floors as well as to deaden the sound when the old bull repeatedly thrust dropped her. The color of her clothing made her nearly invisible in the low lighting in the stacks. 

It was a simple matter for Himself to pull her tights down and when she bent over and held on to the metal shelving he slipped the thong to one side, spread her lips and inserted himself bareback with a single stroke that completely filled her and rammed her cervix she moaned and tears ran from her eyes.  She was very excited to have him thrusting into her cervix and he actually gave her an orgasm before shooting his load to coat her cervix with his thick creamy semen. Afterward she unbuckled her ball gag, pulled it out and was gasping for breath as she Kegeled out most of his ejaculate. She adjusted her thong, pulled up her tights and the rest of their coitial discharge drained into the thong of her leo and the absorbent crotch grommet of her tights as they walked back to her car.

The Sling Bar: sex in a ‘glamour harness’

A Gamma harness used as a bar sling at Naughty Pleasures

The photo: A female rigger’s safety harness. The manufacturer’s literature says: “The Gamma™ Harness designed to fit the specific safety needs of a woman, the Gamma™ is accessorized with ComfortFit™ shoulder padding, and the cross-fit style eliminates the possibility of improper adjustments. The Gamma™ combines comfort and performance for a harness that works as hard as you do. Improper positioning of the "D" ring or wearing a traditional parachute-style harness can have devastating effects for a woman's body in the event of a fall. With a back-only D-ring, the Gamma™ helps ensure that she is properly clipped in. The cross-fit style harness is not only more comfortable to wear it can help minimize damage to the reproductive organs from falls.”

Not that a woman in a bar sling at Naughty’s is likely to fall very far, physically I mean. Morally is an entirely different matter. If she’s new to the experience she might fall a considerable distance and with the right man enjoy the encounter immensely while buckled into a bar sling at Naughty’s.

Women and the Sling Bar at Naughty’s: In order to attract men young, unaccompanied, attractive women get priority at the velvet rope and discounted drinks. And they are used to stock the Meat Market, Naughty’s singles bar. A few of the more adventuresome ask to be fitted with a bar-sling – a premium service and an unmistakable sign that they are available – and be allowed into the intimate Sling Bar where, rather than sit on a bar stool they can easily have sex at the bar while sitting in the harness. We originally tried various parachute harness designs, but decided to use Gamma harnesses because they are designed for women and with grommet buckles are easily adjusted and can’t accidentally be unfastened during an intense physical encounter.

Another of the casino’s female shareowners has a harness fetish and thought of the idea for an intimate place where like minded women could select a mate and have more or less safe casual sex while hanging suspended in a sexy harness. The board thought it was a good idea since no one else in town is offering that kink so we are trying it in a small way to see if it is profitable. There is harness rental, cover charges for men, the sale of alcohol and bar food so it’s not as though it will ever be a huge profit center, but you never know. We thought about calling it the Harness Bar but that sounded too much like a tack shop so we decided to call it the Sling Bar.

A woman asking for a bar sling must have a recent negative full STI panel on file before she is fitted. Properly screened she is shown to a fitting room and buckled into a Gamma harness her size and shown how to sit in it for the greatest comfort while penetrated. They are also told that the harness has an RFID chip in it. A woman can go anywhere in the club while wearing it but if she has forgotten and left her purse, cell phone etc in her car she will have to take it off or send a valet (a service we offer free to bar sling wearers) for it. For use in the Sling Bar a Gamma Harness is modified to line the inside of the straps, the side that is against the wearer’s body, with tough but soft nylon satin fabric for comfort. Of course the harnesses are fully sanitized after each wearing.

She is also given a disposable mesh bag for her shoes while she is hanging in her sling. Condoms of various sizes are in bowls on the bar so couples can protect themselves from each other’s fluids, or not. The women’s need to be very sexually adventuresome and STI screened limits the number of applicant, but increases their quality significantly, especially their beauty. Why the more adventuresome are more classically beautiful is a mystery.

Mr. Right Now: I have my own Gamma harness that Jack, Viscount Sandbach, calls my ‘glamour harness.’ I keep it in a small gym bag with a selection of appropriate Sling Bar clothing. I buckle myself into it when I’m lonely and want a new man. Not Mr. Right, just Mr. Right Now! Too, I’ve found Jack is into girls in harnesses (not that a Glamour harness is all that restrictive) so he really likes to take me to and in the Sling Bar! I love the way men’s minds work and having Jack stand in the midst of the pool of males for sling-girls to choose from keeps him on edge and aroused. He’s never quite certain I will choose him and that gives me a chance to playfully mind-fuck him by pretending to initially choose someone else! I’ve found doing that makes him far more ardent after he suspends me securely in the bar! Of course the Meat Market also has a substantial selection area charge for men and like the women the guys need a current negative full STI panel on file before they are allowed in the catwalk viewing and selection area.

Running the gauntlet: Leaving the fitting boutique wearing her harness a woman has three options: 1) going back into the main lobby, 2) going into the Meat Market selection area to choose a partner or 3) going directly into the very intimate Sling Bar located behind the Meat Market. Unaccompanied harness wearer’s almost always chose to go down the catwalk through the Meat Market to check the selection of men on offer. Knowledgeable cocksmen knowing this nurse a drink and watch the door from the sling boutique. No more intently watched twenty feet of catwalk exists in Vegas than that strip through the Meat Market between the sling boutique and the Sling Bar. Repeat Gamma harness wearers call being on display while walking those twenty feet to make their selections ‘running the gauntlet’ as men smile, preen and flex their muscles as a harness wearer struts past the candidates vying for her favors. The cloud of testosterone laden musk hangs so heavily over the catwalk that some girls who frequently walk that red carpet swear it causes them to need to wax more often. Others find the overwhelming scent of male lust frightening while still others are highly aroused by being wanton and on display. I love being the object of lust on the part of multiple males so I find the experience liberating.

An adrenaline high: When I walk down the catwalk to choose a man who looks virile, interesting and perhaps a little dangerous it’s a comfort to know the only condition I need to worry about is pregnancy. My adrenaline is flowing and there is no better feeling in the world! The scent of male musk, all those sex hungry men undressing me with their eyes, salivating and fantasizing about harness-fucking my brains out and hoping I’ll chose them. It’s a huge turn-on and a very different feeling than performing because when I’m performing the lights are on me and I usually can’t see my audience though I can feel the Chi rising from them. Walking down the catwalk between the sling boutique and the Sling Bar being assessed by a group of virile men having about ten feet of erect penis between them is far more personal and I have to admit the thought causes me to get wet and swing my hips a bit more than usual. Since in the Sling Bar I won’t be on my toes I usually wear stiletto sandals that are easy to get out of rather than pointes, but I do have a pair of GMs in my gym bag in case I need them. .

Sling-girl clothes: Clothes that can be worn comfortably with bar slings are bikinis, tunics, thongs, front closure sports bras and bare legs so it is fairly easy to identify women as they enter the club who will be stopping by the sling boutique to be fitted for a glamour harness. Shoes for a sling-girl can depend on where she is in her cycle, if she is commando and if she plans on condoms being used. A sling-girl shouldn’t wear fabric covered shoes unless she doesn’t mind them being ruined. There are purse hooks at each location where a sling girl can hang her mesh shoe bag to prevent splattering her shoes with coitial discharge. However, after putting her shoes back on she still may have to walk through lover’s fluids to leave the bar so platform soles are a good idea. Typically a sling-girl will wear a thong so after she Kegels out any discharge the remainder can drain into the liner in her thong. Many returning sling-girls go topless and rouge their nipples because in the harness the cross straps display the wearer’s breasts beautifully and a partner has immediate access to her nipples for sucking.

What a sling-girl shouldn’t wear is latex because the latex caught between the weight of her body and the harness will almost certainly tear. However, if she is wearing heavy rubber that has a relief zipper and can stand the shear forces that can work well for some women who can stand the heat generated by sex in heavy rubber. We have had to revive sling-girls wearing heavy rubber who fainted from poor hydration during a penetrative encounter.

Height adjustment and Cable capes: There are fifteen positions for slings in the Sling Bar and reservations are required. To prevent thrust-drop if the man is taller than the woman bar slings are clipped on to individual cables attached to small winches mounted on heavy steel bracing above the ceiling. A small cordless control box for each position is used to vary the height of the sling wearer above the floor. With that flexibility even the smallest woman can adjust her height so her partner can thrust directly into her vagina w/o having to worry about thrusts so off center that she is being lifted on his shaft on each thrust then dropped back into the harness as he withdraws. Of course thrust-drop (in a bar sling its called sling-drop) is an option if she enjoys that sort of encounter, but even with satin lined straps too much of it can cause sling burns on the inner thighs and buttocks.

A cable cape is attached to the cable at each position. A cable cape is a section of lightly padded brightly colored canvas about two feet wide and three feet high that is held taunt on a soft frame to block the bartender’s view of the couple when the harness wearer has her back to the bar. It also provides support for the woman’s back so she can lean back comfortably. It’s called a cable cape because when the woman’s harness is connected to the winch cable it looks as though she is wearing a cape that is blowing behind her in the wind. The colors of the cable capes are also used to identify the positions at the bar for the customers.

Boot techs and boot sex

Contemplating the perversity of inanimate objects

Gepetto’s ballet boot techs: The guys fit the custom boots Gepetto crafts and sells, custom adjusting the shanks and padding and for some women they are the first to penetrate them in their new boots getting their ‘boot cherry’. St Lucy’s AST slang now includes ‘boot-dicks’ = Gepetto’s boot techs and ‘boot-cherry’ for a girl who is not a virgin, but is fucked for the first time while standing in her new ballet-boots. For a St Lucy’s girl being penetrated while lying on her back or on all fours in ballet boots doesn’t count as having her boot cherry picked.

The techs have medical degrees and specialize in orthopedics and especially the leg, foot and ankle. It didn’t start out that way, but in the last several years because of the number of orthopedic problems encountered in women wanting to wear ballet boot – many of whom are turned away because they couldn’t wear them safely – and especially in professional KP boot fighters it became obvious for his financial and his customer’s physical safety he needed medical specialists doing the fitting and adjusting of his custom ballet-boots. A job as a boot tech for a board certified Orthopod isn’t an obvious career move, but for a young strong virile male who likes young tight pussy it’s hard (no pun intended) to think of a better niche, even in sex drenched Vegas.

The Okamoto 004: A few girls under the age of 16 are fitted with Gepetto’s ballet boots even knowing they will outgrow them in six months, so you know their parents have money! Fortunately none are from St Lucy’s because of the 4 years of pointe requirement. Gepetto has a rule that his boot techs must all use condoms if the woman he’s fitting asks to see how well her new boots feel during ballet-sex. That service is called a ‘field trial’ and covered in the cost of the adjustment visit(s) which is built into the starting price of the standard (unarmored) boots at $2,500 per pair.

Condoms are required because even if the girl says she is on the pill young women aren’t too good at remembering to take them and Gepetto doesn’t want to make the headlines by being involved in paternity problems. The condoms are also for the techs protection since most of the professional KP boot fighters are promiscuous (Go figure!) so the possibility of STIs is more likely while field trialing with a professional boot fighter. The techs use Okamoto 004 Condoms which the guys say are amazing and feel as though they are wearing almost nothing,

Gepetto started out with only one board certified Orthopedic specialist, but found that even as virile as he is he couldn’t keep up the level of service required given the number of field trials he was expected to perform, so a second hunky orthopod was brought in to spread the load which has worked a lot better, especially when there is a KP boot competition coming up and the professional fighters are in town and want their boots checked. Well, some of us are just curious about the new tech and want to see how good he really is. A really good tech will check his patients foot health; the length of her nails, her calluses, ankle mobility, toe pads and give her a foot massage. It’s here that a tech must have a really good bedside manner to be successful. When Mike the original Orthopod gives me a fitting by the time I put my feet in my boots and lace them up I’m fully aroused, nipples hard and erect, pelvis tingling, nearly panting with desire and the gusset of my tights is soaked with my natural lube. Of course I insert my Oves or diaphragm ahead of going for my fitting appointment otherwise I’d be too aroused and fully tented so my cervix would be too deep to reach to place the Oves or diaphragm correctly.

Latex grab and the Okamoto 004: The other day I went to have a boot adjustment of a pair of Gepetto’s lightly armored KP boots I’d had refurbished. I wear that style when I am duty manager at the casino and while the outer leather and heel blades were fine the inner padding needed replacing. Knowing there was a new boot tech, Adam, who had been on tech rotation for the last three months I was interested in how he would handle my fitting so I booked an appointment with him and I prepared for a field trial by double bagging, wearing a flat spring latex Reflections over the Oves cap I had screwed down tight on my cervix. I was CD 18 and luteal so there was no danger of him impregnating me even if all three methods (condoms, diaphragm and cap) failed, but I wanted to have some fun with him.

Adam had read my file and knew I used to compete at the senior level as a KP boot fighter and still sparred and use my blades occasionally in the casino to slit the laces of some drunken boot-chick who wants to fight. So he paid particular attention to my ankle strength and flexibility as well as my nails and calluses and said I have lovely feet for a ballet dancer and I think he’s right considering that I have been in pointe shoes for a large part of the last 25 years. He was particularly impressed that I didn’t have bunions, a fact that I attribute to good genes and trying to wear properly fitting pointe shoes. He gave me the most wonderful foot massage before I put on my toe pads and pulled down the convertible feet of my tights over my padded toes and then put on my socks. I wear socks in my boots over my pads and tights so that I can take my socks off and still fit in my boots when I’m menstrual and my feet swell. Once I had warmed up my legs and feet with a few minutes of stretches I zipped the boots up then adjusted the laces until my insteps were compressed by the padded tongues and laces holding my arches against the insoles covering the titanium shanks while he watched.

I walked around in my boots getting used to the wonderful feel, how comfortable they were with the weight I can put on my heels and my weight pressing my insteps down tighter in my boots until I took a little of my weight on the tips of my toes compressing my gel-pads into the quarter of a stress ball in the toe boxes used to cushion the tips of the wearer’s toes. Then I asked Adam for a field trial to make sure the padding didn’t’ shift. I knew it wouldn’t because I’ve had other pairs of Gepetto’s boots refurbished, but I wanted a plausible excuse to cover my lust for Adam to give me an orgasm penetrating me from behind while I stood bent over the short barre in his adjustment Sallé.

I’d worn a single button closure mid thigh coat-dress in lime green linen by Chanel over a sports top and tights so it was just a matter of him opening that one button and I shrugged out of my dress and was immediately down to practice clothes. He hung my dress over the far end of the barre and rolled down my tights as I unzipped him and carefully unpacked his erection from its cup while he snapped on nitrile exams gloves and fingered me caressing my clitoris which was swollen with blood and ready to play. Then he caressed my engorged labia and inserted two fingers into me and I quivered as he caressed the ring of nerves surrounding my entrance and felt the rim of my diaphragm high up in my post-pubic vault. He asked what type it was and I told him it was a latex flat spring that was the hardest type to under-thrust and he smiled pulled his fingers out and reached for the condoms.

I watched as he tore open the packet pulled out the 004 and rolled it on to his rock hard erection. His tip was already dripping pre-ejaculate which immediately began collecting in the small reservoir tip. I had a moment to admire his erection glistening in its lightly lubricated latex sheath before he turned me around had me bend over and hold on to the barre. Adam is a big man. He had me spread my legs in second position so he could stand between them and when he gently spread my labia he found I was just the right height in 7” heels that he could position his tip against my entrance w/o having to bend his knees. Then he moved his hands to my hips to hold me steady and pushed. .

For me it’s always special the first time I take a new man and Adam was no exception! I tried to relax and gasped as his tip disappeared inside me and then with a single long smooth stroke he buried his entire length in me until his pelvis was hard against my tight buns and his tip slid along the latex dome of my diaphragm as it glanced off my cervix. And then the fun began! I had intentionally not lubed up with DiveGel+ knowing that half my natural lube would be collecting in the dome of my diaphragm and that all his lube would be contained in his sheath so that after a few strokes the lube on his condom would be gone and given how tight I am and how large he is there would be considerable friction between the two latex surfaces as he repeatedly thrust against the folds in the dome. It was just a matter of time before friction dried out the two latex surfaces causing the latex to heat and begin to stick together, a condition known as ‘latex grab’.

At that point a contraceptive failure of some sort was almost certain. There were several possibilities; the friction could wear a hole in his condom, or wear a hole in my diaphragm, or both, or pull the diaphragm off my cervix, or pull his condom off. My diaphragm was new and the dome much thicker than the condom and with the flat spring rim that only flexes in a single plane it would be very difficult for him to displace the rim from behind my cervix by latex grab alone. So I thought the most likely result would be either his condom would burst or that he would slip out of it. It seemed to me that because of the small reservoir and my very tight grip it was probable his pre-cum would be forced down along his shaft so the after a few minutes he would slip out, and that’s exactly what happened!

Fortunately for me he had just taken me to a mind-blowing G-spot orgasm where with a white knuckled grip I clutched the barre as he held me quivering, gasping, moaning, mewing, toes curled, calves cramping, back bowed and sweat dripping off me as he kept me in ecstasy until my vaginal contractions became so strong and friction of the two latex surfaces so great that he slid out of his sheath and came in me spewing his molten pearl against the stretchy rubber dome! When he came it felt as though he was trying to drive his tip through my diaphragm and into my uterus as he planted his seed in the depression the dome of my diaphragm made in my anterior fornix. When he finished he stayed inside me as we caught our breathe enjoying the few minutes of afterglow before he started to soften. Then he reached for the base of his sheathe as he pulled out and found it wasn’t there and when he withdrew he was bareback!. He was shocked and very apologetic and offered me Plan B One-Step or ella, but I told him I was fine with two effective barriers that hadn’t been displaced and besides I was Luteal and couldn’t be impregnated at this point in my cycle. He was so relieved! When I told him how I caused his 004 to come off he was fascinated, he hadn’t heard of latex grab and learned that when male and female barrier methods are used simultaneously the couple need to use plenty of a good water based intimate lube.

Murder case dismissed in death of newlywed wife

(CNN February 23, 2012) -- An Alabama judge on Thursday abruptly dismissed the murder case against a man accused in the scuba-diving death of his newlywed wife off Australia's coast. The decision from Judge Tommy Nail came near the end of the second full week of David Gabriel "Gabe" Watson's trial in Birmingham. The entire article can be found HERE

Personal comment: It was a difficult case to make and the way the judge summed it up the prosecution didn’t present a convincing case. Gabe Watson has married again. It would probably be a good idea if his new wife doesn’t go SCUBA diving with him.

Gardasil and pelvic familiarization

The HPV vaccine Gardasil

Gardasil Cervical Cancer Vaccine More Cost-Effective Than Cervarix

“(Research: Comparing bivalent and quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccines: economic evaluation based on transmission model)

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/doi/10.1136/bmj.d5775
(Editorial: Comparing bivalent and quadrivalent HPV vaccines)
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/doi/10.1136/bmj.d5720

The quadrivalent cervical cancer vaccine (Gardasil) is more cost-effective than the bivalent vaccine (Cervarix) if the two are equally priced, concludes a study published on bmj.com today. This is despite the fact that Cervarix may provide better protection against cervical cancer.

However, the authors stress that considerable uncertainty remains about the differential benefit of the two vaccines.

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a common sexually transmitted infection seen most often in young women and adolescents. There are more than 100 types of HPV - some cause genital warts, but others cause cancers including cervical cancer.

Two HPV vaccines (Cervarix and Gardasil) are currently available. Both protect against HPV types 16 and 18, which cause over 70% of cervical cancer cases, as well as several other types of cancer. Gardasil also protects against types 6 and 11, which cause the majority of genital warts as well as a rare disease called respiratory papillomatosis.

In 2008, the UK government chose the bivalent vaccine Cervarix for its HPV vaccination programme, based partly on analyses by Mark Jit and his colleagues at the Health Protection Agency suggesting that Cervarix would have to be £15 to £23 cheaper per dose to be as cost-effective as Gardasil. However, the choice of vaccine will be re-evaluated when the current tender for the vaccination programme ends.

Since then, further evidence has emerged to differentiate the two vaccines. For instance, Cervarix appears to give better protection against cervical cancer caused by HPV types other than 16 and 18. Gardasil has now also shown protection against vulvar, vaginal and anal cancer.

Using this latest evidence within a mathematical model, Mark Jit and his team set out to re-evaluate the two vaccines to inform the next round of vaccine tendering.

They found the price differential between the two vaccines was larger than their 2008 analysis. Based on the most recent evidence, Cervarix would have to be £19 to £35 cheaper per dose to be as cost-effective as Gardasil, mainly due to a lack of protection against genital warts.

When all differences between the two vaccines are considered, "the quadrivalent vaccine (Gardasil) is still more cost effective if the two are equally priced," conclude the authors. However, they stress that "considerable uncertainty remains about the differential benefit of the two vaccines."

An accompanying editorial says that modeling can help decision makers, but ultimately the tender price is the final determinant of cost-effectiveness.”

Personal comment: St Lucy’s was fortunate that we had good advice when we chose Gardasil as protection against cervical cancer as now it has been found to protect against genital warts as well as vulvar, vaginal and anal cancer. This year all new St Lucy’s students must have completed the series of three Gardasil injections over an interval of six months before they are allowed on campus for orientation. All our male partner/instructors have had the full Gardasil regimen as well to provide maximum protection to themselves and their student partners. Gardasil has recently become a topic of debate among candidates for the Republican nomination for the 2012 presidential election. The conservative candidate Michele Bachmann seems to be very poorly informed and continues to blunder on about mental retardation and the dangers of vaccines. Sigh!

New St Lucy’s entry requirements, Pt II: I was remiss when posting about changes to St Lucy’s entry requirements for the 2011/12 school year. I failed to mention that all entering students must have had at least four years of ballet training consisting of not less than four hours a week for at least fifty weeks per year. We aren’t a ballet academy, but the physical and mental development (poise, grace, discipline, confidence and pelvic muscle development) of the students is so closely tied to ballet training and discipline that any less and a student has a very difficult time keeping up. One might think that this requirement would dissuade parents from enrolling their daughters at St Lucy’s, but that hasn’t been the case as highly qualified applicants far outnumber the seats available for new students. Parents (especially their mothers) are determined to begin preparing their daughters years in advance to get into St Lucy’s.

Pelvic Familiarization for post-menarche students: Because the health syllabus at St Lucy’s is heavily weighted toward teaching female sexual skills we require all post-menarche students to take a pelvic familiarization (PF) course. This course covers menstruation, feminine hygiene products and their proper use, reproductive tract devices for contraception (IUDs, condoms and cervical barriers), dealing with the hymen and sex toys. The course purpose is not only to familiarize the student with the range of products and devices available, but to have her become comfortable and confident about touching her own genitals so she won’t be afraid or embarrassed when she takes Contemporary Sexual Health and Advanced Sexual Techniques. To that end we teach and recommend the students masturbate to learn what arouses them and what doesn’t so they can guide a male partner/instructor when that time arrives.

Students in this course usually range in age from 13 to 15 as all train heavily for ballet which often delays menarche. You would be surprised at the number of girls who have been brought up to think that touching themselves “down there” is dirty or shameful so PF has reduced the number of girls needing counseling due to psychological issues from becoming more intimately aware of their own bodies. We are very pleased with the PF student’s response to the classes on the clitoris, condoms, dildos and vibrators and all have delighted in their new found source of self-pleasuring with the toys provided each student for lab exercises.

Having pelvic familiarization taught in a gentle, non-threatening and supportive way our psychologists believe will result in very young students not suffering from stress related Vaginismus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaginismus a condition where any vaginal penetration – or sometimes in severe cases even the thought of penetration occurring - causes clenching of the pelvic muscles making any penetration extremely painful and so tight penetration is impossible for an erect male. There are physiological reasons – which we test for and if found prevent the student from entering St Lucy’s - as well as psychological reasons for Vaginismus. In the past we have had an occasional case of stress related vaginismus after a student has been accepted so our psychologists believe the PF course should prevent that from occurring

The pill and condoms

LoSEASONIQUE

The Photo: Pictured is of one of the newer extended cycle combined (estrogen/progestin) oral contraceptives that allow a woman to have only four pill-periods (withdrawal bleeds) a year. Under the LoSeasonique extended-cycle regimen, women take of 84 orange combination tablets containing 0.1 mg of the progestin levonorgestrel and 20 mcg of the estrogen ethinyl estradiol, and 7 yellow tablets containing 10 mcg of ethinyl estradiol. Levonorgestrel is one of the older and safer progestins, not nearly as likely to contribute to blood clots as etonogestrel (NuvaRing and Implanon) and drospirenone (Yaz and Yasmin) though the likelihood of severe side effects on etonogestrel or drospirenone is still very low. The problem with levonorgestrel is that it doesn’t have as long a half-life in the body as the newer progestins and therefore pills that use it are more sensitive to level fluctuations if not taken correctly.

I’m posting this because: This is the most thorough discussion I’ve found of things to consider and what a woman’s (or a couple’s) reasoning should be when deciding if ‘the pill’ offers enough protection for the woman, or if the couple should use condoms to provide added protection. I am having my Contemporary Sexual Health students at St Lucy’s bookmark this article on the Scarleteen site.

This article addresses things that impact the real-world effectiveness of birth control which Eric, a good friend and frequent reader, obliquely raised in a comment to my May 10, 2011 post ‘Effectiveness rates using 2 methods of birth control.’ He wrote: “I wonder if anyone would be willing to try putting these numbers into real-world practice?” Many women for whom 95% effectiveness isn’t good enough use condoms to improve their chances of avoiding pregnancy and condoms are a must when having sex with a partner whose sexual history is unknown.

Scarleteen.com
By Heather Corinna
May 6, 2011

If You Use the Pill, Do You Still Have to Use Condoms?

“Kori asks:

I'm and 18 years old and have been having sex for a year and been on the pill for about a year. I take my birth control like a ritual at the same time every day (the combination pill). Sometime my boyfriend and I don't use a condom in the beginning to get him hard then we always put one on. My question is, when on the pill do you absolutely have to use condoms? They say that every time you have sex you NEED to use a condom. I know it is the most effective way, but I thought that the one of the points of the pill is so you don't need to use a condom.

Heather Corinna replies:

We get asked about this a lot; about whether once you have a more effective method of contraception than condoms, like a hormonal method or IUD, if they're still needed to prevent pregnancy.

The only right answer to that question, no matter who asks it, is that it really depends on what you and your partner want and need.

All methods of contraception, including condoms, can prevent pregnancy, but some methods are more effective than others. If someone had to choose between condoms and the pill, and just wanted to choose one based ONLY on which was the more effective method of the two in preventing pregnancy when used properly, then they'd choose the pill, because it's more effective in both typical and perfect use. But that's not usually the only factor in people's decisions about contraception or condom use, and plenty of people don't have to choose just one.

If you want the most effective, foolproof protection you can get from unwanted pregnancy and still want to have the kinds of sex that present pregnancy risks, then you'll want to use dual protection: to use two methods, not just one, because using two is always more effective. If you're comfortable with or prefer less protection than two methods can offer, then it's okay to only use one method.

There are no have-to's here, there's just what you want to choose to do as an individual, based on what you want, feel most comfortable with and are or are not willing to take a given level of risk with. If you need a little help making that decision, I can certainly walk you through some of that process, and give you some information that might help inform your choices.

How effective at preventing pregnancy a given method is is often one of the biggest, if not the biggest, factors for people making these choices. So, let's have a look at that first. The combined birth control pill is over 99% effective in perfect use, and 92% effective with typical use (same goes for the ring and the patch). With the pill, specifically, some studies have found that typical use rate is substantially lower for young adults younger than 19, but it sounds like you do use your pill properly, and have for some time, so that probably doesn't apply to you.

What any of those percents mean in the real world is this: 92% in typical use means that for every 100 women who report the pill is the method of contraception they have used in one year, 8 of them became pregnant while using that method, and 92 of them did not.

My best advice when people are trying to figure out if they're in perfect or typical use is to remember that perfect use rates are usually from controlled clinical trials, and typical use rates reflect self-reporting and more typical, real-life use, which includes things like taking a pill late or even missing one now and then in a given year (which is very common: taking a pill at exactly the same time for one whole year, never missing any, never throwing one up, and so forth is pretty tough to pull off). To be safest, it's usually best to consider typical use rates when choosing a method or methods, especially with an ongoing method like the pill where how you take it every single day influences your risks, not just how you take it on the day you have sex, unlike with something like condoms, where how you use it only matters each time you use it. To be sure that's clear, how someone used condoms three days ago has no impact on how well using condoms today will protect them, whereas how someone used the pill three days ago IS relevant to possible risks with sex they have today.

But if you know you use your pill as properly as possible, and have swung that for a year of use to know you can do so for a full year, if you average the typical use rate and the perfect use rate, you probably have a good sense of what your effectiveness is. For the combined pill, that'd be 95%.

Once you know the numbers like that, the question to ask yourself is if that's okay with you. Are you comfortable with something around that 5% in-one-year chance of pregnancy? If you are, then it's okay for you, according to you, to use the pill alone when it comes to preventing pregnancy.

If you're still on the fence and want a comparison, let's do the same math once you add a condom. Condoms are 98% effective in perfect use and 85% effective in typical use. We show estimated rates for using combined methods of contraception here. [This information is found in my post ‘Effectiveness rates using 2 methods of birth control’]. On that page, you'll see the combined rate for perfect use of both methods is 99.99% effective the estimated combined rate of both methods used more typically is 98.8%. If we do that same averaging we did with the pill, for those who use condoms really well, that gives us a 91.5% effectiveness. For those who use both methods very well, then we're looking at just over 99%, a little more than a 4 percent difference between using the pill alone, and just about the same effectiveness as the pill by itself in the kind of perfect use found in a controlled study.

Again, in more practical terms, that means that for 100 people using both the pill and condoms really well over one year, that probably less than one will become pregnant as opposed to five with the pill alone or close to nine with condoms alone. In both cases, that's a pretty big difference.

How big or small a difference that seems to you, though, is going to be about you. There are people who don't want to become pregnant and want to try and prevent it, but who also feel like it would not be the hugest deal if they became pregnant. There are other people who earnestly feel the world would come to an end and to whom pregnancy seems like the worst thing that could happen to them at a given time. Sometimes during one time of life or relationship, while we don't feel a pregnancy would be ideal, we feel like it would be okay and that whatever choice we might make, we could deal with that choice. Other times, for whatever reason, it really is just the last thing we want to have happen. I'd say that if and when you're in the world-will-end, last-thing-I can-deal-with group, that if you're going to have the kinds of sex where pregnancy is a risk, dual contraception is the way to go. If a possible pregnancy feels way less dire than that, then it's much sounder to consider only using one method.

This is something you can also talk with your partner about. There are a few reasons why some couples prefer using condoms, specifically, with another method to prevent pregnancy. One of the biggest perks is that then both people get to share responsibility and both people also get to have some control over the prevention of pregnancy. While a pregnancy can't impact your partners' body and health as it would yours, and often asks less of them in terms of the impact on their whole life, it still can have a big impact on their lives, no matter what choice you make with it, particularly should you become pregnant and choose to parent.

Some folks feel fine without that personal control of their own, while it makes other people really uncomfortable. Some folks also react particularly badly to an unintended pregnancy when they didn't have control: it's easy to blame the other person who had it when it happens, even when a birth control failure wasn't that person's fault. I also don't know what your feelings are about taking all the responsibility for birth control here. If you would rather it be shared, that's one reason to keep using condoms, but you also have the option of sharing responsibility for the method you're using alone, too, like having a partner split the bill for it.

You also might want to consider how much you and/or your partner tend to worry about this stuff. Any kind of worry or anxiety can impact the quality of our sex life and our whole life, so if using one less method = more worry for either of you, that may not be so ideal. If, on the other hand, using two methods alleviates worries, it may be a real positive. And if it seems to make no difference, then maybe this just isn't a factor for either of you at all.

How much you and your partner like using a given method and what kind of access you have to that method is often another factor. So, if the pill alone doesn't leave you feeling secure enough, but using condoms is an issue for any number of reasons, you might also bear in mind the pill isn't your only option and there are more effective methods than the pill, and, since the main difference with those others is mostly with typical use, far more goof-proof ones.

You may have the option of choosing a method of contraception that's more foolproof and effective in typical use. Sometimes people use the pill just because it's the only method they knew about or the only one a healthcare provider suggested: I don't know if you've considered other methods or not. Depo-Provera injections, the contraceptive implant and IUDs all have much higher rates of effectiveness in typical use, because they're really, really hard to screw up as a user. With IUDs and implants, there's nothing you really need to do at all, save replacing them every five to ten years. With an injection, you only need to remember to go get a shot once every three months. So, if you want to ditch condoms, but in looking at all this, you feel like the pill isn't leaving you feeling secure enough, you can talk to your sexual/reproductive healthcare provider about some of these other, more effective, options. The healthcare provider you see for contraception is also always a great person to ask the questions you're asking me.

This also isn't a choice you have to make in any permanent way. You may find there are times in your life or relationships where you feel just fine using only one method, or this one method, and times when you feel a lot better backing your method up. And sometimes you may need to use a different method temporarily, like if you've got to or want to go off the pill for any reason or you did wind up missing pills or need to take a medication which may interact with the pill. So, don't feel like this is something you only get to decide once and have to stick to ever after: it's not. You can always change your mind based on any changes in your feelings or circumstances.

Last, but absolutely not least, one of the biggest differences between all other methods of contraception and condoms is that only condoms can reduce your risk of sexually transmitted infections.

Many young people immediately stop using condoms once they have another method of contraception, even if they haven't yet done all they need to to reduce their STI risks. For our readers at Scarleteen specifically, this is a pretty big deal since the age group with the highest rates of STIs are those in their teens and early 20s, with around one in every four people in that age group contracting an STI every year in the United States alone. The risks of STIs are pretty big at your age, and more often that not, it's the folks who worry least about them who tend to be the most at risk, since they also tend to be the folks who don't do enough, or anything, to reduce those risks, which includes using condoms and other barriers for any oral, vaginal and/or anal sex.

My best advice is always to figure that for as much as you're concerned about unwanted pregnancy, you want to be sure you're just as concerned about STIs, and doing just as much to prevent acquiring or transmitting infections as you are in trying to prevent pregnancy.

If you do want that extra protection, either from pregnancy, STIs or both, and your boyfriend is having issues with erection when condoms are on right from the start, know that practice with condoms usually does make perfect. If he gets used to having condoms on from start to finish, chances are that this won't stay an issue like it has been. Of course, you both also always have the option to spend more time before intercourse with sexual activities other than intercourse (or oral sex, if you want to reduce STI risks for that activity by using condoms with it) to get him, and you, more aroused before intercourse starts. You can also try different styles or brands of condoms, including the female condom, so that it's not even going on him at all. Just know that if you're going to use condoms, using them properly is very important, just like using your pill is. Proper use includes a condom being used from start to finish with sexual activities, not being put on or taken off halfway through.

Again, there are no have-to's here. There are just your personal choices, made either on your own -- you are the one who would potentially become pregnant, after all -- or with a partner. I think it's always wise to make these choices very carefully and with as much information as possible, and when it comes to preventing outcomes we don't want, we just want to be sure that whatever choices we do make really fit with what we most want, don't want, and what we do and don't all really feel ready to handle.”

Public schools and Sex-Ed

A Semina coil spring diaphragm on its introducer

About this photo: The silicone Semina diaphragm is used as a starter gas guard for students at St Lucy’s while training for underwater sex. The introducer on which this one is mounted helps women with short fingers or long vaginas to insert it correctly.

The Boston Globe

Students find more sex than education
By Joanna Weiss
December 12, 2010

IF TEENS AREN’T going to get sex education from their parents, and they aren’t going to get it from their schools, then they’re going to get it somewhere. From music. Or TV. Or each other. And so, according to high school students from Jamaica Plain, here are some things their friends think they know about sex: That you can’t get pregnant if you have sex in water. That if you have oral sex, you won’t get an STD. That there’s no point in wearing a condom because it will probably break.

Hear this, and some of the current statistics about teen health in Boston become a little clearer.

Teen pregnancy rates have dropped over the past decade — the result, public health officials believe, of the increased availability of chemical birth control. But chlamydia cases are rising at alarming rates, a sign that teens don’t understand that certain types of birth control — and certain types of sex — don’t protect you from disease.

In other words, the burden of contraception falls largely on girls. Acting alone leaves them vulnerable. And sex education, for girls and boys, is haphazard at best. Some kids happen to attend a school that offers a meager program. Some attend one of the handful of schools where the Boston Public Health Commission or some third party has a clinic. But many get nothing, or not nearly enough.

Now, students are asking for more; a coed group of teens from JP’s Hyde Square Task Force is lobbying for comprehensive sex ed, including information about healthy relationships and, yes, free condoms for all. Not a bowl of Trojans sitting on a shelf, but a couple of designated adults in every school — ideally, one male, one female — who could distribute condoms to kids who ask, without passing judgment.

The kids are committed; they’ve put together an honest, funny video that states their case. If politicians are willing to be just as brave, we’re in good shape.

And there are definite signs of hope. The Boston Public Schools recently created a new Health and Wellness Department. The school system is partnering with the public health commission to develop a system wide sex ed program. City Councilor Ayanna Pressley has scheduled a hearing on sex ed and condom distribution.

But this kind of talk makes politicians and the public skittish. So it’s worth reminding everyone of the facts. According to the public health commission, nearly 70 percent of Boston teens report having sex by the time they’re 18. About half of sexually active teens have had three or more sexual partners by age 17.

Studies of condom distribution programs in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York schools have shown that making condoms easily available doesn’t increase the number of kids who have sex. It merely increases the number of kids who use condoms. And even kids who might use condoms, if they were close at hand, will tell you they won’t bother to ask a stranger at the drugstore to open a locked cabinet.

They might, however, ask an adult they trust. And while it’s easy to say they ought to be asking their parents, Massachusetts law does not require parental consent for access to contraception or reproductive health, says Deborah Allen, who heads the health commission’s Child and Adolescent Family Health Bureau.

Besides, as teens from the Hyde Square Task force said, there are often giant barriers to talking about sex at home. Sometimes, it’s a matter of culture. Sometimes, it’s logistics: parents work two jobs, teens are caring for younger siblings, and there isn’t much time for sensitive conversations.

As Pressley and Allen point out, many parents have been asking for sex ed in Boston schools, too. They understand that kids need all the help they can get, combating a culture that makes sex look cool, or lets boys convince girls that sex is the best way to prove their love. As 17-year-old Samantha Brea said, “A lot of songs just talk about sleeping with all of these women. You don’t have a song saying, ‘Oh, let me put on a condom before I sleep with you.’ ’’

The music industry isn’t very good at education. That’s what schools are for.

Personal Comment: Here in Vegas our school district’s sex education curriculum remains unchanged — it is abstinence based, although students do learn about contraception. Can you imagine an abstinence based sex-ed program in Vegas? Through our clinic we try to encourage the patients to teach their children about responsible birth control and STI protection. At St Lucy’s because the girls are all taught intimate skills in conjunction with the other arts we take comprehensive sex education very seriously.

Religious fundamentalists and ‘Personhood’

STI protection a latex condom

News from the Birth Control Wars – Pt. II

The Las Vegas Sun
The Associated Press
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 1:27 p.m.

Nevada court hears ‘personhood’ measure appeal

Proponents of a ballot initiative to reshape Nevada abortion law asked the state Supreme Court on Tuesday to focus on the eight words that they said clearly define their goal.

"The term 'person' applies to every human being," Personhood Nevada leader Olaf Vancura said afterward, using the same eight words outside the state high court that are the focus of his group's appeal. He wants to be allowed to collect signatures to qualify the initiative for the November ballot.

In court, an American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada lawyer told the seven justices that voters wouldn't know that amending the Nevada Constitution to define "personhood" as beginning at conception would let advocates advance efforts to ban abortions, restrict common forms of birth control and affect end-of-life questions.

"These are hot-button, critical issues," ACLU attorney Lee Rowland said, urging the state's only appellate court to uphold a lower court ruling in January that the initiative is vague and violates state law limiting ballot questions to one subject.

"There needs to be some information in there that lets the voters know what's going on," Rowland said.

Justices appeared skeptical of overruling the lower court based on Personhood Nevada lawyer Michael Peters' argument that the lower court judge erred in examining anything more than the legality of the wording.

Justice James Hardesty asked Peters if there was a difference between considering the constitutionality of the proposed initiative and determining whether it "impacts other provisions in our laws beyond the stated purpose of the initiative."

"You're limited in looking at, in this case, the eight operative words in determining the single subject," Peters responded. "It's an 'on-its-face' analysis."

"Does this fully inform the voters, ultimately, as to what they're voting on, what they're amending in the Constitution?" Justice Michael Douglas asked. "Or is it so open-ended that they're not sure what the meaning is?"

Peters told Douglas, the first black justice on the Nevada Supreme Court, that the initiative aimed to extend civil rights to a person at conception.

"In essence you're asking us to define when life begins," Douglas said. "Does it do that? Is it clear in all cases?"

"It does define human beings and when life begins," Peters responded.

More than 50 people ranging from right-to-life advocates to Planned Parenthood representatives filled the courtroom gallery for the oral arguments in Las Vegas.

A day earlier, another branch of the national organization Personhood USA gained enough signatures to put an anti-abortion proposal on the Mississippi ballot in 2011.

A similar proposal goes before Colorado voters this fall, and Personhood USA leader Keith Mason said signatures were being gathered for constitutional amendments in Missouri, California, Florida and Montana. Mason tallied about 40 states in which the organization was working toward changing laws.

Rowland urged the Nevada high court to consider the effects of eight words "that are only fleshed out and that only have meaning once you read the description of effects."

"So your argument is that the sentence encompasses more than a single subject?" asked Hardesty, who posed most of the questions during the 30-minute hearing.

"Absolutely," Rowland replied. "Allowing it to go through simply because of its brevity, I think, poses a very real danger to the citizens of Nevada, which is that the initiative process starts to be used for vague, semantic and theoretical ideas."

Personal comment: “Amending the Nevada Constitution to define "personhood" as beginning at conception would let advocates advance efforts to ban abortions, restrict common forms of birth control and affect end-of-life questions.” More right-wing-nuts at work!

If ‘personhood’ is defined as beginning at conception will that mean that the 20 to 30% of the fertilized eggs that aren’t implanted or that are spontaneously aborted (miscarried) many of which a woman is unaware of will require funerals? If so, how will anyone know? Will Rush Limbaugh, Pat Robertson, James Dobson or other men of that persuasion (the Conception Cops) be checking every woman’s required pregnancy test to see who conceived? Additionally ‘personhood’ would set the stage to promote the erroneous claim by radical conservatives that hormonal birth control is an abortifacient!



DA's sex Ed warning befuddles Wis. teachers, kids
Associated Press
By Todd Richmond, April 9, 2010

MAUSTON, Wis. – Mike Taake has taught sex education for 30 years, and he says he knows what doesn't work: just telling kids to wait.

The Mauston High School health teacher has used abstinence-only and comprehensive curriculums, and he said students need all the information they can get about sex to make the best choices. But teaching them about contraceptives could land him and other teachers in court.

Juneau County District Attorney Scott Southworth last month sent a letter to area school districts warning that health teachers who tell students how to put on a condom or take birth-control pills could face criminal charges. The warning has befuddled teachers, school administrators and parents in Southworth's poor, rural county.

"Seems like a step back in time," Taake said of Southworth's logic.

Southworth, a Republican and a Christian evangelical, took issue with a law Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle signed in February requiring schools that teach sexual education to adopt a comprehensive approach.

Southworth warned that teaching a student how to properly use contraceptives would be contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a misdemeanor punishable by up to nine months behind bars and a $10,000 fine. He said it would be promoting sex among minors, who are not legally allowed to have sex in Wisconsin.

"It puts the school kind of in the middle between two sides, between the government and state telling us what should be taught and what people think should not be taught," said Scott Lenz, a health teacher in the New Lisbon School District. He said he would teach contraceptive use if he got the approval of his school board.

Southworth said he doesn't want to drag teachers into court but feels he was ethically responsible for warning them of the new law's potential consequences. He urged the school districts to refrain from offering sex education courses until the Legislature repeals the law.

"Listen, there's a real problem with the law," he said. "I didn't pick the fight. The Legislature dumped it in my lap."

Southworth didn't cite evidence in his letter showing that teaching someone to use contraceptives makes them more likely to have sex. But in an interview Thursday, he pointed to Milwaukee Public Schools, which teach a comprehensive sex education curriculum but still struggle with high teen pregnancy rates. Sex education experts, however, say many social factors influence teens' decisions to have sex, including lack of parental supervision and poverty.

Janine Geske, a Marquette University law professor and former state Supreme Court justice, said she didn't understand Southworth's legal logic. She said that if he tried to prosecute a teacher for adhering to guidelines approved by the Legislature and governor, the case would likely be dismissed.

"To be frank, I can't follow exactly what he's trying to get at," Geske said. "If a teacher is educating a student pursuant to state law ... I don't see how under any examination (that) could be criminal."

The state Legislative Council, a group of attorneys that provides legal advice to state lawmakers, issued a statement Friday saying it also believes teachers who follow the state guidelines would be safe from prosecution.

In Wisconsin, children under age 17 who have sex with each other can be prosecuted as juveniles. Seventeen-year-olds who have sex with one another can be convicted as adults of a misdemeanor.

Wisconsin schools aren't required to teach sex education. But under the new law, which was backed by Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, schools that do must teach a range of topics, including the benefits of abstinence, the proper use of contraceptives, how to make responsible decisions and the criminal penalties for underage sex. Parents can choose to keep their children out of the classes.

Juneau County lies in the woods and bluffs about halfway between Madison, the state capital, and the Minnesota border. The teen birth rate here in 2008 was nearly 34 per every 1,000 births compared with the state rate of nearly 31 per 1,000, according to a report last year by the county and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

The county is about evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans. Voters narrowly backed former President George W. Bush in the 2000 and 2004 elections, but sided with President Barack Obama in 2008.

Southworth says he's not trying to bolster his reputation as a social conservative for a potential run for higher office, his stance has proved popular with anti-abortion groups.
Matt Sande, the legislative director of Pro-Life Wisconsin, which opposes the new law, said every district attorney in Wisconsin should follow Southworth's lead.

"We commend him for his courage, his frankness in exposing the consequences of this irresponsible new law," Sande said. "If I were a district administrator, I would want to know the impact."

And Janet McCauley, a speech teacher in the Mauston district, said she thinks the new sex education guidelines promote "sexual curiosity" and that Southworth's warning was necessary.

"This is dangerous to our young people. I just think the whole bill wasn't thought out enough."

But many parents said they were befuddled by Southworth's warning.

Audrey Jensen, whose 16-year-old daughter, Justina, is a sophomore at Mauston High School, said Southworth is trying to censor what students learn, usurping the role of parents. Children will have sex regardless, she said, and they need all the information they can get.

"I think he's actually a little unrealistic," said Jensen, 47. "Obviously he doesn't remember being a teenager."

Mauston High School quarterback Brady Nelson, 16, said sex education doesn't encourage teens to do it and Southworth should leave health teachers alone.

"It teaches you more about the bad side of it than the good," he said. "You're not going to learn any other way. You can't really charge a teacher for teaching us about the ways of life."

Taake said he intends to teach contraceptive use and isn't worried about being prosecuted.
"It's not just teaching them how birth control works. It's everything else that goes with it," he said. "To arrest me for teaching correct birth control and the student makes the wrong decision and gets pregnant, that's not my decision."

Personal comment: “Southworth, a Republican and a Christian evangelical” is undoubtedly attempting to burnish his conservative credentials with the intention of a career in politics. In the process he is trying to limit the effectiveness of his communities Sex Ed program by throwing up legal straw men and that’s a huge shame. It’s this sort of thinking that has kept the unintended pregnancy rate in the U.S. so high. Religious narrow-mindedness gives organized religion a very bad name.

Training plugs and sports

An escort on her ass after a TP shock

An escort trying to get up after a TP shock

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

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

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

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

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

Cara & Gigi are Kitted out

Day dreaming while changing into dry shoes

Cara becomes involved: Returning readers will remember Cara, Pirate’s niece, the 24 y/o Ph D candidate in Psychology at Harvard who is here to learn first hand some of the joys and problems of professional escorts for her doctorial thesis. [She first appeared in my blog on 12-09-09 and has settled in well.] She has asked to accompany me on some clean-up operations to see what sometimes happens to escorts if an encounter goes badly. I think it’s great that she wants to see how even the most beautiful and skilled women can be brutalizes and butchered when things go wrong. That way she gets to see the whole picture for herself, that it’s not all great sex, meals in fancy restaurants and attending parties as arm candy. To prepare for coming with Taryn and me I had her fitted for a gas and liquids proof encasement suit and soft latex boots with gripper soles for walking around on messy and slippery floors. Gepetto makes our BioGard suits, hoods, gloves and boots and we usually wear Mestel 400 gasmasks so I had Cara fitted for a Mestel as well. As things have gone recently we are overdue for a call to do a clean up

Gigi: I just took 16 y/o Gigi, Jacques first biological daughter who entered St Lucy’s for the spring semester, to be fitted for a gas guard and a Penetrator plug. She already wears Freed Studios pointes which fit well enough so there is no reason to change them for now. Since her mom was one of Tanaquil’s ‘toe-girls she has had Gigi taking ballet since she was four y/o and pointe since she was ten, so after six years of pointe three hours a day four days a week she has excellent pointe technique and is very strong. Chuck, the male Gyn at our clinic fit her with a 60 mm Semina transparent silicone diaphragm as a gas guard. Gigi is already an accomplished SCUBA diver – her family has a place at saint Tropez - so she looking forward to learning dive-sex techniques which Cyndi has already been telling her about.

Gigi is menstrual: Fortunately she has very regular cycles and comfortable menses so there is no need for her to medicate. The GyneFix she has been wearing for a year she adjusted to after several cycles and it hasn’t caused her periods to be heavier so she is very pleased with the level of comfort and protection her mini-GyneFix has provided. I’ve shown her how to use her Semina diaphragm for flow control while having sex. She has used a Diva Cup successfully but of course that has to be removed for penetrative sex. So today she has been practicing with Robin who will be her orientation partner.

She wasn’t supposed to have sex with any man other than Robin until he has taken her through the St Lucy’s terms and conditions for taking my Advances Sexual Techniques class. However, one of Cyndi’s roommate’s older brother was visiting and was horny for sex in the red sea – his GF at UNLV is on the pill and hardly bleeds at all during her pill period - and when he heard Gigi was menstrual he “persuaded” her to let him take her in a corner of the common room against the barre and he took her from behind. She slipped into 3” heels so she was a good match for his height. Unfortunately, when he gave her a vaginal (G-spot) orgasm her vaginal muscle contractions were so strong that when he thrust into one of her contractions he tore his frenulum so he was in great pain and passing a lot of blood. Cyndi came in after the guy had given Gigi her orgasm, had hurt himself and was struggling to pull himself free. She thought it was just Gigi’s flow leaking around her Semina until she saw the guy’s face twisted in pain and tears running down his cheeks and he was cursing and calling her a ‘man-eater’. Gigi knew what had happened, because she had had the same problem with young uncircumcised French men and knew right away she had unintentionally injured him. Though later she told me he said he was ‘looking for ‘tight French pussy’ and she hoped she hadn’t disappointed him. I love her dry sense of humor! Cyndi and Gigi packed his penis in ice and dropped him off at a nearby ER.

Male protection: Gigi isn’t in trouble over his injury because she told him before he penetrated her that she was new to St Lucy’s and hadn’t finished orientation and shouldn’t have sex. St Lucy’s believes that, in the spirit of full disclosure, girls with very strong vaginal muscles, should warn their partner’s that it might be safer for them to wear condoms because of the strength of their ‘vaginal grip’ if the boy is concerned about the possibility that he might tear. Because of the significant strengthening of vaginal muscles from pointework all the St Lucy’s girls taking pointe are given a supply of polyurethane, Lambskin and FC2 condoms (because those male condoms can’t be burst – but they can be pulled off) to carry in their purses or dancebags in case a partner asks for protection. However, few men ask even to use an FC2 because it would appear that he was afraid of what a ‘mere girl’ could do to his manhood and that’s a psychological bridge most men are not prepared to cross even at the risk of a debilitating injury.

Raped: He was very insistent and would not take no for an answer, so rather than struggle with a man 6 years older and 70 pounds heavier than she, she decided to let him have his way and see if he enjoyed what he was so adamant about getting. When I heard about her encounter the saying ‘be careful what you wish for’ came immediately to mind. She could charge him with rape but Gigi feels he probably is suffering enough and she has become the talk of the dorm for the strength of her vaginal grip and injuring a rapist. The students are trying to keep the incident quiet but the administration will almost certainly hear of it if he files an insurance claim saying the injury occurred at St Lucy’s.

Getting kitting out at Gepetto’s: I also took Gigi to Gepettos. She was measured for two latex encasement suits. One in heavy black rubber and one transparent body condom, and a pair of Pleasure boots. All for her limited introduction into the fetish scene here in the valley. Fortunately she is of age (16 is the age of consent in Nevada) so we don’t have to worry about the gray area of parental consent for under age sexual training.

Reproductive tract protection and RFID: I’ve covered this before but since both Cara and Gigi are new to Vegas I’ll mention it again. All women entering St Lucy’s as well as our casino’s Escort candidate training have RFID chips attached to their gas guards this is so that when they enter a location where gas guards are required - the pool area or the fetish training studios - the chip readers will only allow them entry if they are wearing their cervical protection. This helps the women remember to insert before leaving their dorm or dressing room to avoid the embarrassment of being publicly stopped. After a week or two it becomes second nature for a woman to insert her gas guard before leaving her dorm or apartment.