Fitting actresses with 60 y/o diaphragms, new pussy

A latex diaphragm made in the UK between 1950 and 1954

The Photo: A Lambutt Dalston 92 ½ mm contraceptive diaphragm. It was the style in general use in the UK shortly after the WWII. In those days diaphragm sizes increased in 2 ½ mm increments.

Porn actresses and Escorts: While both vocations are considered sex-workers there is a great deal of difference between the requirements for the two professions.  The actresses don’t have to be outstandingly beautiful just have attractive bodies, don’t need to have a killer vaginal grip or be particularly pelvically talented. Which is often a good thing because with a tight grip if not very well lubricated being repeatedly fucked hard can cause the erosion of the vaginal rugae which is not only extremely painful but requires abstaining from penetrative vaginal sex of any sort for several weeks while the vagina heals. A porn actress just needs to be able to convincingly fake passion as their male partner works himself up for the obligatory cum shot. They just need a pretty face and be willing to perform almost any sex act on cam.

An elite Escort however, needs a killer body, a beautiful face, to be well educated, have a lovely voice, be able to carry on an intelligent conversation with well educated clients and their friends and be very pelvically talented with a strong vaginal grip.

With a bit more vaginal training the Dryads could easily join the ranks of elite Escorts if they wanted to. There is such a high turnover at that level from marriage, injury and disease (not necessarily in that order) that there is always room for two more beautiful girls entering the profession.  The down side is at that level that there is an early sell-by date (generally the mid 30s) unless an individual is gorgeous and supremely talented and the Dryads are already in their late 20s. However, as they are from aristocratic families they should have their pick of husbands.

Actress’s vaginas: After all the actors both male and female as well as the Dryads and I passed full panel STI screenings and the women all had negative serum pregnancy tests to try and eliminate any potential oopses I spent several evenings fitting all the actresses, twelve of them, who were to be in the film with latex flat spring diaphragms colored to appear similar to the one shown in the photo above.  The Dryads, Bryony and Claire, wanted to be involved with the film too to gain insight from a different perspective than being a Hostess at Clever Cunts into the reasons gorgeous young men and women decide on a career in explicitly sexual films, other than the money, which actually isn’t that good and working conditions can be quite bad as well. Even as a porn actress the sex isn’t all that good either since a good bit of most plot lines have the women being mistreated.

Since the Dryads want to become practicing Psychologists it wouldn’t be a good idea to have it known that they appeared in a porn film however artistic it might be. So it was decided they would be extras as latex catsuit girls wearing full hoods on camera so they can’t be identified and with Noms de Théâtre in the credits.

Latex catsuits and menstrual ballet-boot sex: The film script that Tanaquil is working from is set in the mid 1950s in the UK. It’s about a girl from the slums who self-educates and with mentors rises through an Escort service to be the moral conscience behind a member of parliament. It would not be too far off to think of it as My Fair Lady with explicit sex.  It calls for filming at least two encounters showing the preparation for and acts of latex menstrual ballet-sex with the woman in a latex catsuit and ballet-boots made to look like those of the period. Two of the minor porn actresses who are on their periods suddenly became unavailable because of vaginal yeast infections which left openings for the Dryads to have larger roles than just looking fetching in latex as ‘stage furniture’. Tanaquil has recast the Dryads as those women. They will still be hooded or have their backs to the cam so just their hair and not their faces can be seen She recast them because they enjoy menstrual sex and show it w/o acting, have more experience with and are more comfortable in ballet-boots than her other actresses and will be menstrual at a convenient time. They are so excited to have the experience of actually being fucked on cam, performing in major roles in a porn film! Not that I’m letting them go w/o practicing with the well endowed men who will be filling them with semen.

It’s a pity that porn videos can’t capture the scents that develop during the wearing of leather ballet-boots, latex catsuits and menstrual flow during ballet-sex.  Sounds are easily captured: the hiss of the relief zipper being opened, the thud and gasp when platforms hit the floor when thrust-dropped, the creak of leather boots as weight is shifted from one foot to the other while being thrust into and the mewing, moans and screams of delight during the run-up to and at orgasm. However, the scents: the pelvic musk of a fertile female or the coppery scent of a menstrual flow mixed with the tang of latex polish and latex wet with estrogenic sweat, the scent of sweat dampened leather boots and the fragrance of her shampoo go unappreciated by the casual viewer who hasn’t provided for his own stimulation by fondling and licking the relief zipper of an unwashed latex catsuit his mistress was wearing when he fucked her and a pair of her still sweat dampened ballet-boots that he can sniff.   

Sex with a porn actor: You may be surprised to learn that massively hung porn actors aren’t necessarily all that good during a sexual encounter. Apparently the fact that they are having sex so often with actresses who fake a lot of their seeming pleasure leads some of them to not bother to give a female partner her pleasure before they pull out and spew semen for the cum shot. The cum shot is usually a close-up of him pulling out to finish the last several strokes with his fingers so the audience can see the jets of thick hot cream splatter on his partner’s face, breasts, hard flat belly or on all of them if he is a heavy hitter spewing 6 to 8 or sometimes as much as10 ml of semen in five or six jets.

With Tanaquil’s men I’m pleased to say it has been quite different. The boys who will be with Bryony, Claire and me as partners in the video have been quite attentive during our ‘rehearsals’ as the Dryads are gorgeous, tight, deep and from their perspective ‘new pussy’ and with me because I’m known for my pelvic skills as well as a financial backer for the project in addition to also being ‘new pussy’. Our men are all making an effort to give us multiple orgasms fucking us boneless to where we just seem to melt during the afterglow while we each snuggle with our lover.

Male assistance with diaphragm insertion: The script calls for the three of us to allow our partners to ‘help’ with diaphragm insertion. None of the men had ever seen a diaphragm before much less inserted one so we are teaching them how to place a diaphragm correctly; pushing the posterior rim along the back wall of the vagina and under the cervix then tucking the anterior rim up behind the pubic bone and feeling with the fingers to ensure the cervix can be felt under the dome. It can be fun as they ‘accidently’ caress the shafts of our clits so we become aroused and wet which makes the diaphragms that much harder to insert since with arousal the vagina lengthens (tents) pulling the uterus and cervix deeper into the abdomen away from a thrusting penis. Its fun and good practice for the guys who seem genuinely interested in learning to insert a partner’s diaphragm correctly.

Of course we all check afterward to make certain they have done it properly. It wouldn’t matter other than possibly being uncomfortable for Bryony and Claire since they have GyneFix copper IUDs implanted - unless the guys were going to blow air into our vaginas where the diaphragm would be needed as a gas guard - but for me since I use a cervical barrier as my primary method it could mean the difference between safe sex and an unplanned pregnancy. That’s why I always ‘double bag’ with an Oves cap screwed down tight on my cervix under the diaphragm when playing with a man unless I’m menstrual when there is no possibility I will become fertile.   

Milex as a training diaphragm, prep. for the Vernal Equinox

A silicone Milex wide seal Omniflex diaphragm

The photo: A Milex wide seal Omniflex (coil spring rim) diaphragm. A common mold is used to extrude both Milex rim styles so the two indentations in the 8mm inner flange of the wide seal are where the fingers should be placed to fold the other, Arcing spring rim, style Milex contraceptive diaphragm.

Escorts, training assistants and training diaphragms: Training diaphragms serve several purposes. Things like decreasing the sensitivity of both an escort candidate and his training assistant so he can build his stamina for delayed orgasms. Learning effective techniques to under-thrust an All-Flex or Omniflex diaphragm on request or covertly. And for the women escort candidates how to wear a latex Reflexions flat spring diaphragm as flood insurance, to prevent having water forced into her uterus during dive-sex.

Stamina building: To increase the effort needed to cause a woman to reach vaginal orgasm a silicone diaphragm of the proper contraceptive size can be worn. Silicone diaphragms have far poorer heat transfer properties that the latex devices they replaced so decrease the tactile sensitivity of male/female vaginal contact. Depending on the individual woman’s pelvic anatomy occasionally the rim of an Omniflex might rub against her G-spot when she’s aroused increasing her sensitivity. With training assistants who have this situation (I was going to say ‘problem’, but for most Milex wearers that would not be a problem) it can usually be eliminated by having the training assistant wear a diaphragm one size larger.

Since all our TAs have GyneFix IUDs implanted the too large training diaphragm can be removed immediately after the training session since there is no need to leave it inserted for a minimum of six hours after having semen released in her vagina. Removing the too large diaphragm immediately after the training session prevents the possibility of developing a UTI from being unable to empty her bladder completely due to the too large rim pressing on her urethra.

Under-thrust training: Two different sizes are used for training depending on the woman client’s desired scenario; either accidental under-thrust where a properly sized Omniflex is used or a breeding fantasy where a diaphragm two sizes too small is used to increase the likelihood and ease of a partner intentionally under-thrusting the rim and filling the dome with semen.

Gas guard/flood insurance: This is taught to both training assistants and to sexually adventurous female clients who come to Adolph’s spa, The Lorelei, for encounters with some of Pirate’s stable of stallions. A correctly sized device or perhaps one size larger latex Reflexions flat spring diaphragm is worn to protect the woman from the possibility of having water forced into her uterus by the hydraulics of her partner’s thrusts during underwater sex.

If the woman is on another effective method of contraception the one size larger can be worn for the dive and removed immediately afterward to avoid the possibility of developing a UTI. With guests at The Lorelei diaphragms are usually fitted since they can be worn at any depth and Lorelei guests have access to Adolph’s deep water training facility. FemCaps can be fitted if the pelvic anatomy permits, but they are subject to painful squeeze below thirty feet.

Beware the Ides of March: Today Adolph’s 18 y/o niece had a serious accident while training with Adolph in his deep water training facility. Fortunately it occurred while he was with her so no one else can be blamed as his temper is legendary when something goes wrong. It was her fault as she had intentionally worn an Omniflex into The Well with him rather than the flat spring latex Reflexions she knew needed for maximum flood insurance protection. She told me later that she so loves it when her partner under-thrusts her protection, even though in her case it wouldn’t have resulted in a pregnancy even if she had been fertile because she has a GyneFix IUD implanted. I understand that feeling since I enjoy it too, though in my case if my Oves displaced while I was fertile I’d stand a good chance of conceiving.

When he took her in missionary at 125 feet while breathing Nitrox II she was a bit narced and her fantasy about having semen in the dome of her diaphragm combined to cloud her judgment and she didn’t object when he under-thrust the rim. During that encounter she had an air bubble forced into her uterus. She was on her period and some of the air formed a clot in her lung.  I’m CD7 today and she is cycling a few days behind me at the moment and was CD3 and bleeding heavily, the most dangerous time, when she got the clot. She is doing well enough in Adolph’s private hospital considering what might have happened, but will be on blood thinners and under observation for a few days. What that means is that she will not be going with me and my other wards to celebrate the Vernal Equinox on March 20^th at Location Z.

Smokeless fire: I’ve been working on my basic skills as a handmade of Aphrodite and I think I’ve mastered the formulation (with the help of Jeff at Labia Labs) of a special ingredient that can be sprinkled on wood and peat fires that will make them burn smokeless and nearly completely so there is almost no ash left. This will allow the use of the twenty large stone fire pits Jack found buried in the ground, four per altar, around the five altars at Location Z to provide warmth for the demi-handmaidens and me and our inductees. The fire pits had stone lids on them which is why they went undiscovered until recently and helps explain the distance between the main and secondary altars. Taking the smoke out of the peat fires while increasing the heat released will improve our comfort substantially while reducing the likelihood that we will be detected from the smoke if the weather happens to be clear. Jack already has pre-positioned stacks of cut blocks of dried peat under tarps in the provisioning area and the pits filled with the first blocks for the vernal equinox celebration.  The fires for this years vernal equinox will be the first in the fire pits in hundreds of years and other than improving our comfort I wonder what other effect they might have.

UNLV’s spring recess is from March 17-22 so we will be leaving for Inverness and Ullapool this coming Monday the 17^th.

Penelope and Sylvie

Beginning dive-sex training in woman superior position

Suction, the cervix and desire: I’ve written about this before, but not quite in this way. I love wearing a vacuum enhanced Reflexions latex diaphragm with the dome vacuum significantly increased by TED exercises as I mentioned in my July 16, 2011 post entitled “Gas guard tricks professionals use”. I started wearing it with an enhanced vacuum as a training exercise to get used to the pressure of the latex dome being stretched over and gripping my cervix when the vacuum pulled the stretchy rubber into my anterior fornix. Returning readers will remember that increasing the dome vacuum minimizes the likelihood that the diaphragm will displace during dive-sex if the vagina floods while it’s being worn as a gas guard. I had written earlier that pumping down the vacuum was easy to do.

A reader asked if that comment covered women outside my circle of ballet and escort friends who have very strong vaginal muscles. The answer is no, and when I thought about it I think it’s unlikely that a woman who hasn’t had vaginal muscle strengthening as part of her training regimen as have classical ballet students, dancers (who clench their pelvic muscles every time they rise en pointe) and professional escorts will find it difficult or perhaps impossible to totally evacuate the dome of her latex diaphragm. My Gyn who’s patients are mostly ballet dancers and very high-end escorts said that most women who pump down the vacuum of a Reflexions take a while to get used to the feel of the dome gripping the cervix before they begin to enjoy the feeling of security that I found the first time I used TED exercises to cause the stretchy membrane to grip my cervix. And, curiously the feeling makes me even more sexually assertive than if I was wearing an Oves cap.

Reflexions is the only diaphragm that meets all the requirements for a deep water (below 30 feet) gas guard since the flat spring rim will not distort under increased water pressure. I’ve used it successfully at depths of 6 ATA, below 200 feet. A flat spring rim is also important because it is very difficult for a man – even intentionally - to under-thrust. And the latex dome is softer and stretchier than silicone which means it can transmit body heat more effectively, but more importantly for this application (as I’ve mentioned above) the dome can be more completely evacuated so the latex membrane is stretched over the cervix and clings to it like a coat of paint making it very unlikely to dislodge. Total evacuation puts pressure on the cervix which some women find reassuring as it is a sign that the vacuum is very strong. Others, especially women inexperienced with dive-sex, find pressure on the tip of the cervix to be uncomfortable and can’t stand it so a strong vacuum while important can be an acquired taste. The down side of the Reflexions is that a flat spring rim can be harder to insert correctly than an arcing spring rim and a latex device has a shorter service life than silicone and can’t be used by couples who have a latex allergy.

Penelope’s pregnancy: A few days ago Penelope, the Duke’s most recent mistress, came to me to tell me she was newly pregnant. She has been on the Progestin-only-pill (POP) Cerazette that has 0.075mg desogestrel in each pill. She had been taking an antibiotic for a sinus infection and it apparently decreased the effectiveness of her pills to the extent that she ovulated and Colin – my escort who has been servicing her while the Duke has been convalescing and I’ve been with John - impregnated her. We don’t know for sure, but everyone thinks that’s who got her preggers because His Grace, while not exactly shooting blanks, is not as potent as he once was and Colin has been routinely filling her with class 5 sperm on a continuing basis for the last four weeks. His Grace rather than being upset is quite envious as he would have liked to have impregnated her himself. It would have been another ‘notch on his gun’ in a manner of speaking. Penelope said she wanted to abort the pregnancy and I went with her when she told Himself and he agreed.

The Duke had the Gyn he has on call fly out to the Abbey with a portable evacuation pump and I assisted during her abortion yesterday morning. Penelope’s cervix didn’t need dilating and the procedure went well taking less than 45 minutes. She seemed to be taking the procedure well physically, but mentally she was very upset and wanted to go back to her apartment in Edinburgh to rest so she flew back with the Gyn and the helicopter returned a few hours later with her replacement.

Sylvie: As soon as we found that Penelope was going to leave I phoned Tanaquil, the European head of Taryn’s Adult Services Empire, for a suitable young courtesan to take her place and Tani produced one almost immediately. Penelope’s replacement is Sylvie a 23 y/o courtesan and Soloist with the Paris Opera Ballet who comes from a noble French family and who works with Tanaquil. Tani had been looking for a way to introduce Sylvie into the British Aristocracy and having her fill this vacancy as a play-girl during the Duke’s deer shooting party seemed to be a perfect opening. Tani emailed me Sylvie’s CV and recent medical records for the Dukes approval. The results of her most recent full STI panel verified she is negative of all known STIs and safe to play with and she has had the full series of Gardasil injections. She will also take over Cyndi’s ballet training while she is with the Duke this summer.

I asked Tani how it was possible to have Sylvie at the Abbey less than 24 hours after we found we needed another suitable woman. Tani said she was already packed and had been scheduled to be placed in another nobleman’s household where the man is a happily married balletomane who wants a live-in teacher for his daughters with a little something on the side as relaxation during his wife’s extensive travels. Instead, Sylvie being placed with the Duke - where she has a chance at a relationship with John and perhaps becoming a future Duchess – is a much better use of her skills as she has a raging libido and is not only an accomplished ballerina, but a diver and rubberist all of which appeal to the Marquis of Marle.

Honestly, it hurt when I learned another woman was intentionally being inserted into the Duke’s household with the hope of attracting John’s attention and capturing his affection. However, as I wrote in an earlier entry at 40 I’m too old to give him the best chance of producing an heir free of birth defects so I understand the need. Also, if we stay friends and she becomes the Duchess we have a powerful ally in the upper reaches of the British Nobility. However, she was brought in as a consort for Himself and I still have John at least for the duration of my visit. So, for now, since Himself is on light duty that limits him to a bit of oral sex with Sylvie who will be primarily serviced by and servicing Colin.

RH Protection: One of the first things Sylvie did when she got settled at the Abbey was to introduce herself and to say how pleased she was to meet me as Tani had been very complementary, telling her that her reproductive health was quite safe in my hands. She told me she, like Penelope, is on the POP Cerazette for contraception and wanted me to check the diaphragm she had been recently fitted with for upper reproductive tract protection because she wanted me to give her a basic course in dive-sex since she was unfamiliar with the necessary precautions and techniques.

She had been prescribed a 70mm All-Flex a wonderful design for vanilla sex and the most prescribed diaphragm in the U.S., but it’s not the best rim style to use as a gas guard for protection during dive-sex since it can be under-thrust relatively easily and the rim will distort from the pressure on dives deeper than 30 feet. So I rechecked her size and 70mm was correct so I gave her one of the 70mm latex Reflexions flat spring diaphragms and showed her how to insert it and do TED exercises - after applying a gel in the dome to lube her cervix - to increase the vacuum in the dome so it gripped her cervix. She was immediately proficient in doing the TEDs and she loved the snug secure feeling as the latex membrane sucked tightly against her cervix. I told her that Colin would be her lover for now and she said Tani had told her she would be with Colin until John became available when I left and that was fine since it would give her a chance to settle in before she focused her charms on him. I think Sylvie and I will get along quite well.

Gas guard tricks professionals use

A training set: Gaynors, a gas guard and its introducer

Penelope’s Training: While our men have been out deer stalking I’ve been working with Penelope, the Duke’s current mistress, to widen the range of her intimate skills. She was a soloist with the English National Ballet before becoming arm candy for Himself and on this trip she has been fucking my escort, Colin, while I have been in the Duke’s or his son John’s bed. While with Colin he has been telling her about underwater intercourse which made her want to try dive-sex in the castle’s heated pool so she asked me to help her with the basics she needed for safety and pleasure during an underwater penetrative encounter

The basics are straight forward and she was already OW certified with SCUBA equipment which reduced the training she needed to vaginal and upper reproductive tract protection. Fortunately I had brought along my fitting set and the spare Reflexions diaphragms I had left over after fitting Taryn’s friends in the Sirens. [For more about them see my entry ‘The Sirens’ for June 22, 2011.] I’ve learned to keep the fitting set and a selection of Reflexions sizes with me since I always seem to be asked by women I meet about how they can go about safely having underwater sexual encounters. A training set similar to the Gaynor pointes and Reflexions diaphragm shown in the photo above is worn during pointe class as a confidence building measure to get the woman accustomed to wearing a diaphragm with a high vacuum in the dome during strenuous exercise.

Underwater sex, a greater need for care: In earlier entries on this blog I haven’t gone into detail about fitting gas guards, who are the best candidates and which women may be at greater risk during dive-sex. That may have led to a misconception by readers that any woman can safely use a gas guard. However, that’s not the case. Fitting diaphragms for use as gas guards during dive-sex requires close attention to detail during the patient pelvic exam as the environment in which the device will be used is far more hostile than encountered during regular PVI on the surface. A careful check of the vaginal walls for growths, scar tissue or genetic irregularities that could prevent the rim from sealing properly is critical because it is essential that the dome develop a strong vacuum to hold the device securely in place over the cervix while the wearer is aroused underwater.

Vaginal flooding: The best fit of a diaphragm is the largest size that is comfortable to wear when not aroused. The sign of a good fit is a vacuum in the dome so strong that it is difficult for the wearer to break the seal to remove it. The left end of the introducer shown in the photo accompanying this entry can be used to insert between the vaginal wall and the rim as an aid to help break the seal of a diaphragm with a very strong vacuum in the dome. The ability to create a seal and vacuum strong enough that the dome will not displace even when the vagina floods is something that a significant percentage of the escorts who want to offer dive-sex as a service can’t manage because of irregularities in their vaginal walls and as a result if they offer dive-sex they are at considerable personal risk of PID or an embolism.

Returning readers will remember that a strong vacuum is needed to hold the diaphragm correctly in place when the wearer is fully aroused because the anterior rim is out of her pubic notch and is adhering to the anterior vaginal wall by the grip of the vaginal muscles and the vacuum in the dome. This is extremely important during dive-sex because of the likelihood of her vagina flooding especially during pool or open water encounters where the wearer’s body is rotating so that the opening of her vagina is pointing toward the surface at times during the encounter.

If the vagina floods and the vacuum isn’t very strong that could lead to the dome of her diaphragm displacing and flooding as well. So teaching a woman who wants to use her diaphragm as a gas guard ‘Totally Evacuated Dome (TED) exercises’ is important. It’s easy to increase the vacuum by squatting and pushing down forcing the cervix toward the entrance to the vagina to totally evacuate the dome so (TED) exercises are an important part of dive-sex training.

As I’ve written elsewhere in this blog the only diaphragm that meets all the requirements of a deep water gas guard is the Reflexions latex flat spring device. A flat spring rim is important because it is not only very difficult for a man to under-thrust, but is the only rim style that will not distort due to water pressure on dives deeper than 10 meters. Additionally the latex dome is softer and stretchier than silicone which means it can transmit body heat more effectively, but more importantly for this application the dome can be more completely evacuated so the latex membrane is stretched over the cervix and clings to it like a coat of paint. Total evacuation puts pressure on the cervix which some women find reassuring as it is a sign that the vacuum is very strong. Others find pressure on the tip of the cervix to be uncomfortable and can’t stand it so a strong vacuum while important can be an acquired taste. The down side of the Reflexions is that a flat spring rim can be harder to insert correctly than an arcing spring rim and a latex device has a shorter service life than silicone and can’t be used by couples who have a latex allergy.

Lubrication: It is vital for the woman’s reproductive health and comfort that she use a thick silicone gel as a waterproof vaginal lube to coat her delicate tissues during an underwater penetrative encounter. For this we are using DiveGel+ a reformulation of an industrial silicone base bearing lube to which has been added a biocide. The biocide is necessary to reduce the likelihood of STIs because the male partner can’t wear a condom during dive-sex. There is the option of using a female condom inserted prior to entering the water, but the esthetics of FC use prevents it from being a frequently used alternative. Usually a 10ml prefilled applicator of DiveGel+ in the vagina is sufficient for an interval of several hours. A small amount of DiveGel is also applied to the inside of the dome of the diaphragm to lubricate the cervix when the vacuum stretches the latex membrane over the cervix.

Penelope’s dive-sex encounters: I’m pleased to say that Penelope’s pelvic anatomy is ideal for wearing a Reflexions and she easily adapted to the subtleties of insertion and the TED exercises to pump down the vacuum in the dome. She also found the sensation of the latex dome gripping her cervix as reassuring so it seems she is an excellent candidate for effective gas guard use. She and Colin have been in the castle pool frequently in the last few days as she gains experience with her new skill.

Under-thrust training

My Gaynors and a latex Reflexions gas guard

AST and under-thrusting: My Advanced Sexual Techniques class at St Lucy’s has a symbiotic relationship with the male escort trainees. One of the ways that the two groups learn from each other is by participation in the diaphragm under-thrusting lab. The AST students get to experience what under-thrusting feels like and the escort trainees learn how to intentionally under-thrust and how to avoid under-thrusting, mutually valuable lessons. This is very valuable to the 80% of students who are not involved in competitive swimming or taking the pre-professional ballet syllabus. Swimmers and dancers now get additional under-thrust training because from their touring to other schools they are at higher risk of becoming involved with more adventuresome men. They begin with a Semina (coil spring rim) which is easiest to under-thrust and then when they see how easy it is for a guy to get under the rim they switch to a Reflexions fiat spring where for all but the most determined man it is too painful to thrust under the dome.

Diaphragm changes at St Lucy’s: I have convinced the dean of students that for the students reproductive health the students enrolled in ballet and swimming should routinely be fitted with Reflexions flat spring diaphragms because they provide greater dynamic protection, both from the possibility of being under-thrust and for dive-sex below 30 feet. Under-thrusting has become more of a problem as more and more women out here have started using diaphragms as gas guards for upper reproductive tract protection because of their increased interest in dive-sex, especially when menstrual.

St Lucy’s girls have had one or two instances of under-thrusting by prep-school boys they hooked-up with while at dance or swim competitions at co-ed schools in surrounding states. The girls have been fitted with GyneFix IUD implants so pregnancy wasn’t a concern, but emboli during submerged sex is always a potential and serious problem. The girls had been allowed to use Semina diaphragms which work well if a lover just wants vanilla dive-sex no deeper than 30 feet, but there are more and more men who think its fun to try to compromise their lover’s protection and a flat spring diaphragm makes that very difficult to do using only an erect penis.

Our male escort candidates appreciate the St Lucy’s swimmers, ballet and AST students wearing flat spring rim cervical protection because it gives them more of a real world feel just as though they were having an encounter with a female escort candidate or a paying client rather than an adventuresome teen and it gives the students experience with men who are expert at how to manipulate a woman’s body to completely exhaust her sexually from the intensity of the encounter. The St Lucy’s swimmer/dancers are the envy of the other girls for their access to as much of the very best sex it’s possible for a girl to have in Vegas and get paid walking around money for it.

Stalking staff: We take precautions that our instructor’s identities are hidden from students outside the entertainment industry. They work using professional names and carry no personal ID. Even so we occasionally have a very determined former-student who develops an obsession for an instructor and s/he attempts to force themselves on the person on whom they are fixated. It’s mostly male students stalking women staff, a testosterone thing probably and last week we had another instance. The object of this stalkers obsession is a dancer/diver therapist on the staff of the ASCE course that I wrote about in my entry for November 6, 2010 “Sexual addiction and Vegas”. She was his partner for the training and he obviously formed a strong (but unreciprocated) romantic attachment. Swift and firm action is the only way to stop that sort of behavior.

The head of a freshly euthanized dog (of the same breed as his pet - from a pound that euthanizes strays) was sent by courier to his wife at their home in the mid west. A hand delivered note addressed to the wife was slipped through the mail slot in the front door of their home that said if he didn’t stop the next gift she received would be part of something far more precious to him. After a hysterical call from his wife he seemed to take the warning to heart because he immediately left Vegas and two days later I heard he checked himself into a rehab facility. Go figure!

Motivational sex

A Semina silicone coil spring diaphragm and its introducer

Travel agents behind-the-scenes tours: One of the things that have kept our casino/hotel profitable during the recession is that we are offering ‘award tours’ as motivation for selected top-selling adventuresome women travel agents in up-market agencies. We offer them a chance to have an adult adventure behind the scenes in the Vegas entertainment community and offering that sort of an adventure has been a great motivator in increasing our bookings, especially in the area of adult entertainment. It’s not intended as a gender specific thing, but so far it’s turned out that way. Think about it, how many men have you seen working as travel agents? The women we select from the travel industry are usually single, between the ages of 35 and 45, pretty, in good physical condition and are self motivated. A few are single moms which is not an issue with us as it makes them that much more intent on making a sale.

Everyone awarded a “behind the scenes tour” is checked for STIs and hCG. We tell them that it’s a normal part of Vegas life (which it is in our part of the entertainment industry) and the tests are free so while we sometimes get a strange look there is so much else going on it’s soon forgotten. We test so we know exactly where we stand infection and pregnancy wise so we aren’t allowing a pregnant chick to dive because she could later claim the pressure caused birth defects or other complications and we need to know about their sexual health to protect our tour guides. Our male escorts offer unprotected sex (no condom) if the woman wants it so she can experience ‘Mr. Muscle’s’ load draining into her thong while he takes her to dinner in a nice restaurant and dancing.

Child Care: We have very few winners bring their children, but if they do we are prepared. We have a deluxe day-care facility for hotel guest’s young children. For tweens we take them to see magic shows or movies and for those over the age of consent we have special programs. Teen daughters can be more easily entertained by an afternoon in a dance class or watching a rehearsal and for boys we have them work out in the gym or take a SCUBA class with a male escort.

If the boy is over the age of consent and his mom says it’s ok we may take him to Naughty’s for a soda and a blow-job. We don’t come right out and ask “is it ok for Bobby to be blown” we just ask if it’s ok to give him a taste of Vegas while chaperoned, and they usually agree. We wouldn’t intentionally give a virgin his first experience with vaginal penetration, (unless asked to) but we do ask enough questions to tell if he has been sexually active. The kid is normally blown away (no pun intended) and comes back raving about what a great time he had watching the pole-dancers. They always seem to leave out the part about the dancer letting him remove and smell her shoes and swallowing when he unloads in her mouth.

Men and head: I don’t know what it is about males that make them so pleased when we swallow their ejaculate. The dancers entertaining the teen males have had recent full STI panels so the kids are in no danger. And, the boy leaves with a swagger in his walk. OMG! That is so cute to see what effect his first professional blow-job has on a boy! When I give head I always swallow. I like the feel of the thick hot fluid sliding down my throat like a huge glob of mucus from a sinus infection, but with a much better, taste. I love the thought that my stomach juices are digesting the hundreds of millions of sperm in his load any one of which could (if I wasn’t protected) give me his baby if he pumped it in to me from the other end.

A virgin in Vegas: We had one tour-winning mom ask that we give her 17 y/o son his first vaginal sex. She was concerned that he wasn’t assertive enough. She said he was shy around girls and thought “where better for him to learn about women than in Las Vegas”. I could argue the point either way, but it’s something we are prepared to handle and the mom signed a waver telling what she didn’t want him doing (no anal sex, but cunilingus and fellatio were ok) so there wouldn’t be any ‘misunderstanding’ after the fact. We also videoed the encounter, so if there was a difference of opinion about what actually occurred during the encounter we would have a record.

There are so very few 17 y/o straight male virgins in Vegas that I took responsibility for his sexual education myself. It was an opportunity worth more than rubies! He is polite and smart a National Honor Society student and into hiking and rock climbing so he is in wonderful physical condition. I thought he might be shy because he thought his package was undersized, but it turned out it was just the opposite. He appeared to have normally sized genitals, but when he became aroused he turned out to be equipped with a giant-economy-size package that was at least 2.5 inches thick and 8+ inches long. When I saw him aroused it was all I could do to keep from smiling which I was afraid he might misinterpret. I was so pleased that I had the feeling he was special and had taken him under my wing for his entry into manhood, sexually speaking. I told him what a wonderful gift he had been given, but that he would need to be gentle with his girlfriends. I let him watch and told him what I was doing as I inserted a Semina diaphragm and we talked about how he needed to be sure his girlfriend was protected before entering her. He said he thought “girls had hair around their pussies” which gave me the opportunity to talk about how most female dancers in Vegas had waxed or shaved pubes so their abbreviated costumes would fit better.

I taught him how to give oral sex and loved it afterward when I could smell my musk on his face and taste my fluids on his lips as I taught him to deep kiss. I taught him to breast feed (gently) and he proved to have the stamina one hopes to find in very young virile males entering me gently and taking me five times the first afternoon and four more that evening before I had to ripple-grip him. Afterward, during pillow-talk, he said: “I thought you were going to suck me so deep inside you I’d be coming out your mouth!” That conversation was caught on the video which I thought was cool! I loved him ramming my cervix, but he wasn’t nearly big enough to hurt me! I told his mom when they left that she had a wonderful son and she needn’t worry about his performance with girls. She seemed relieved. When he starts dating at home the girls will be all over him like white on rice, and lining up for a chance to be taken by him.

Preparation for dive-sex: The tour winners have all heard about and want to experience dive-sex so we give them some preliminary training where if they aren’t SCUBA qualified they take a basic SCUBA class using an Ocean Reef Space Raptor FFM. They are fitted for a diaphragm for use as a gas guard and shown how to use it. We also show them how to use a diaphragm introducer that holds the diaphragm (either a Semina coil or Reflexions flat spring rim) in its compressed position for ease of insertion. [An introducer is shown with a Semina diaphragm in the photo at the top of this entry.] The women are also given a diaphragm under-thrusting class, in a studio (not underwater) to let them experience what under-thrusting feels like. Included in the tour winner’s dive-sex encounter is a guaranteed three orgasm minimum with a gorgeously virile and well hung escort, which is usually the high point of their stay in Vegas.

Our escorts do not under-thrust during dive sex for safety reasons. We give the women the under-thrust class so that if they have dive-sex again they will know if their partner is under-thrusting the dome of their diaphragm. If they think their gas guard has been compromised by being under-thrust during submerged sex the wearer should immediately terminate the encounter at least long enough to surface, remove, reinsert and reseal their gas guard before continuing with the encounter.

The tour winners are fitted with either Semina diaphragms and have dive-sex in one of the twenty foot deep training pools; or, for a very few who we are courting because of their contacts, they are fitted with a latex Reflexions flat spring (suitable for dive-sex below 30 feet) and use Nitrox II to dive ‘The Pit’ the 68 ft. deep pool at my home. That last bit drives my lawyers wild and increased my insurance premiums, but I can write that part of the insurance premium off as a business expense.

Sexual addiction and Vegas

An illustration from our brochure on ballet addiction

Vegas for medical professionals: As prospective clients we are targeting groups of medical professionals, especially Gynecologists, Psychologists and Psychiatrists who are either sexually adventuresome or want as part of their continuing education (CE) to experience extreme sex or sex in hostile environments so they can better understand the compulsion or addiction to it. These disorders are not fully understood and treatment protocols vary widely. An emerging protocol, one that is gaining in popularity, calls for mental health professionals to experience the narcotic effect of extreme sex for themselves. Our Sexual Addiction Continuing Education (SACE) short courses are done in conjunction with and filled through major medical schools throughout the country which feel that they don’t have the expertise to teach such a specialized subject in-house, but they do most of the screening process for us. We provide a relaxed learning environment and aside from the clothing, shoe and protective device fittings, which are pleasurable in themselves and take about four hours, the other three days are devoted entirely to sexual encounters with a single diver/dancer escort chosen specifically to match the physical and mental needs of the student.

IUDs and dive-sex: I’ve written before about the fact that wearing a cervical barrier as a gas guard during dive-sex is crucial for the safety of the woman and that a diaphragm can interfere with the strings of an IUD with a frame, such as a ParaGard or Mirena because the strings can stick to the dome and if that happens removing the diaphragm can pull out the IUD. Because so many female Gyns have IUDs inserted themselves and because ParaGard and Mirena are the only two brands currently approved by the FDA (except in clinical trials) for insertion in the U.S. we had to come up with a way to allow ParaGard and Mirena wearers to safely wear a diaphragm for dive-sex.

We decided that since the IUD was providing effective contraception spermicide wasn’t needed in the dome. Instead we filled the dome with dive-gel the thick super slippery silicone base intimate lube so if the dive gel is applied correctly there would be no danger of the IUD strings sticking to the gas guard. Problem solved! And, we can use this fix with all other women IUD wearers who want to experience dive-sex for themselves.

Confidentiality: With medical professionals there is a confidentiality issue both from the personal and professional privacy standpoint. We initially though that for dive-sex the client would wear a mirrored full face mask so that the escort s/he is with would be unable to recognize the client with his or her clothes on. And for Ballet or other surface sex laboratory-encounter training the client would wear a Polymorphe latex helmet that covers the hair and facial features so again s/he is unrecognizable. But as the length of the course increased to four days and the escort would be in classes, at meals and sleeping with the student for the entire time that idea was obviously unworkable so we just give the student an alias for the time s/he is with us. And as licensed sex therapists our escort dancer/divers are ethically bound not to discuss what a client says during a therapy session. The mirrored FFM and the Polymorphe helmet are still used, but just as part of cosplay.

Doctors and pointe shoes: While dive-sex is more extreme ballet-sex in its most virulent form is far more prevalent as a disorder, probably because dancewear and shoes are cheaper and more readily available than SCUBA and pools that can be used for intimate dive encounters. One of the problems we have had with both men and women in the SACE program is that few of the women and none of the men have had much experience with wearing much less walking in pointe shoes.

For the very few women who have taken pointe and have kept up some level of skill we offer a CE penetrative encounter en pointe while taken from behind. We have the woman fitted in new Gaynor Minden pointes sized with her wearing additionally toe padding. Gaynors are the strongest and most comfortable pointes to wear for a penetrative encounter en pointe, but still it can be painful so being a bit of a masochist is a plus. The problem for women who have never experienced an orgasm en pointe is that regardless of how strong their feet and ankles are they all go rubber-legged at orgasm so the escort must hold firmly on to her hips not only to be able to guide his thrusts against her G-spot, but to support her when her ankles begin to wobble and she starts to fall off pointe.

For the women who have never worn pointes: We trim their toenails and pad them up in Gaynors just as we do for the experienced pointe wearers and let them stand en pointe holding on to the barre in a studio just so they get a feel of what it’s all about. Then, for their CE encounter we have them kneel on a bed and be taken doggie style where they can support themselves on their hands and knees while still having their toes packed into the blocks of their Gaynors.

A very few with high pain thresholds will insist on trying to stick it out en pointe. If that happens we have them sign liability wavers and substitute silicone toe pads and coat their toes with lidocaine gel to numb them. But that doesn’t stop their calves from cramping or their ankles from wobbling from the start. They insist on trying to get as much of the total experience as they can so you have to admire their dedication. But those few are at very high risk of a bad sprain even though the escort is there to catch them when they fall off pointe.

For men who have never worn pointes: So far none of the male doctors has had any previous experience wearing pointe shoes. There have been only one or two who wanted to try wearing toe-shoes and then only because they specialized in treating male sexual fantasies and had seen several cases of pointe shoe addiction. So we trimmed their nails, fitted them (padded up) in Gaynors, and coated their toes with lidocaine gel with additional in their silicone pads. They did quite well for their first times in toe-shoes, complaining only about calf cramps. Their CE pointe encounter is with their therapist diver/dancer escort also en pointe standing on an adjustable platform so she would be at the correct height for penetration.

And, the guys have all been very focused as most gave their escort an orgasm (no faking is allowed by the escort) before they ejaculated which I think is marvelous control by guys balanced on their toes for the first time while drilling a dance-chick. Realistically I know continuing education in such a specialized field as sexual addiction is worthwhile, but I have to wonder if the continuing education training we are providing isn’t enabling addiction of some of the medical professionals we are training. In talking to my personal psychiatrist – who was a dancer in her teens and has taken the SACE course we provide - she says that it’s probable, that some of the doctors taking the course will become addicted themselves from the intensity of the encounters we provide.

Gas guards for high school girls

An All-Flex silicone arcing spring diaphragm

Offering advice and support: I try to stay away from involvement with high school girls in town. I have more than enough to do with my work at St Lucy’s as well as my full time job with the ballet. But several weeks ago a friend who is a pit boss at the casino and the mom of 15 and 17 y/o daughters in city schools came to me for advice. She understands the culture here and both girls are on birth control pills, to ‘regulate their cycles’. Well, I’ll accept that explanation as it’s the standard reason at their ages. So she wasn’t concerned about pregnancy as much (although that is always a concern in a mom’s mind) as she was about the unintended consequences of oral sex.

Safe sex: Oral sex is usually thought of as ‘safe sex’ because there is no danger of pregnancy. But the community is finding out the hard way that in addition to transmitting STIs oral can have additional dangers. That’s because there was a recent instance of a very popular girl in her daughter’s school who had a pulmonary embolism when her boyfriends blew air into her vagina while giving her oral. He did it with her permission so that they both could hear her Queef, which they thought was hilarious. Apparently she had been letting him fill her vagina with air for months and they had been getting away with it until at the end of her most recent period while the walls of her uterus were still raw an air bubble got in her bloodstream and caused a clot that lodged in her lung. She claimed the clot was caused by her birth control pill, Yaz, but the nature of the clot and the fact that there was no sign of deep vein thrombosis, points to the fact that her BF caused it by filling her vagina with air. It used to be that blowing into a vagina was known to be dangerous and girls were taught that and wouldn’t allow their sex partners to do it, but times have changed and some young women are paying dearly for their lack of knowledge or - if they know - willingness to take that sort of risk. It can be very dangerous, but I’m not against having air forced into my vagina if I take the proper precautions. [See my post about ‘Vaginal Breathing’ for more about having orgasms using compressed air.] Actually, I find it great fun when a partner forces air into me using his mouth. I get a lovely full feeling having my vagina expanded with air, but there is a safe way to do it and that is to use a gas guard.

My friend wanted me to meet with a group of her friends who are mom’s who have daughters and a few who have sons in the city schools to talk about the danger of forcing air in the vagina and if there was a way to protect their girls. They were all past the point of trying to get their teens not to do it, knowing full well that some would try it anyway. They were interested in how to protect their daughters. As I mentioned earlier the way for a woman to protect herself against vaginal over-pressure events is to wear a gas guard. I asked if any of the girls had a Mirena or ParaGard or any other framed IUD inserted and was told that none did. That was good news because you shouldn’t wear a diaphragm or cervical cap with IUD strings hanging out of the cervix because removing the barrier can pull out the IUD if the strings stick to the barrier. Finding that none of the girls had an IUD I recommended to the moms that they have their daughters fitted with All-Flex diaphragms.

I recommended All-Flex because it is made of silicone, is rugged, is the easiest style to insert correctly and can be ordered through local pharmacies. The possible problems with using an All-Flex is if the girl takes a very small size (All-Flex isn’t made in sizes smaller than 65 mm) or has a very shallow pubic notch it wouldn’t be right for her. Most teen’s first diaphragms are 65 mm and few women have shallow pubic notches so I thought they would probably be ok, and they were. The girls have all been fitted and all but one took 65 mm devices. The other took a 70 mm. I was pleased that they were already sexually active so their vaginas had been stretched a bit by dildos and their partner’s penises. The moms wanted to know if All-Flex was the same style that I used for dive-sex (the word is getting around about my fondness for dive-sex) and when I told them that it wasn’t they wanted to know why I wasn’t recommending the one I used. I didn’t want the conversation to get diverted to my involvement in dive-sex which several of the women tried to do. I kept them focused on protection during oral sex, but I did tell them why I wasn’t recommending the style diaphragm I use.

Differences in latex Vs silicone gas guards: I explained that while the use as a gas guard was similar in the two situations (oral sex and submerged intercourse) the ambient conditions were quite different. The girls don’t need a diaphragm to protect the upper reproductive tract that can safely handle the wide variations in pressure encountered during dive-sex below 30 feet. All their daughters need is a single atmosphere device to prevent embolisms during an oral over-pressure encounter. And, the only diaphragm that provides protection below 30 feet is made of latex, which isn’t as well tolerated by users because of the possibility of latex allergy, latex is more susceptible to damage from oily lubes and meds, latex is more likely to contribute to infections and the flat spring rim of the latex diaphragm is more difficult to insert correctly. My explanation relieved any concern about my choice of an All-Flex for their daughters.

Fitting and wearing regimen: We talked a bit about getting the girls fitted and that it would be good to go to one of the local clinics that fit entertainers with diaphragms because the fitters are highly experienced and will provide a supportive fitting experience. I wanted to stay away from having anything to do with having local girls as young as 14 being fitted with diaphragms – though the reasons could be that it was needed as a pessary - because they are below the age of consent. But what the teens do while using their diaphragms is up to them. I did talk to the moms about their daughter’s gas guard wearing regimen. I recommended that the girls insert their barriers before each time they are around their BFs because teens are very spontaneous and if they are going to have oral they really needed to be protected rather than ending up with a lot of ‘just-this-once’ encounters where the teen’s gas guard is at home while she is being eaten during lunch in the back seat of a car in the school parking lot.

The moms said that most of their daughters were really freaked out about their friend’s pulmonary embolism so if they can develop the habit of wearing their diaphragm before the horror of what happened wears off things might just work out. I suggested the moms mention to their daughters that gas guards are worn by some celebrity entertainers. That’s true, they do, and because out here local teens look up to young super club and cabaret entertainers as role models they are more likely to wear their protection if they think that Tara or Mila or Anna is wearing one too.

Women, fertility and desire

Fertile: Is she or isn’t she?

Live Science
By Stephanie Pappas,
LiveScience Senior Writer
17 October 2010

Booty Call: How to Spot a Fertile Woman

Ask the average person how the menstrual cycle affects women's moods, and you're likely to get an earful about PMS, or premenstrual syndrome. While it's true that PMS symptoms are common (although not as stereotypical as usually believed), new research is finding women's behavior shifts at another point in the reproductive cycle: ovulation.

Two new studies in the November issue of the journal Evolution and Human Behavior find that women get a little wilder during their most fertile days of the month. One study found that fertile women are more open to the idea of hooking up with a stranger or acquaintance, while the second found that women with less masculine-looking partners are more likely to lust after strong-jawed men during fertile days than women with partners with manly mugs.

The new studies are two of more than 20 that have examined the effects of ovulation on the way women dress, talk and think. While it's not yet clear if or how these temporary changes affect women's relationships in the real world, they may by a key to humanity's past.

"The idea is you see the preferences that would have evolved ancestrally still show up," Steven Gangestad, a University of New Mexico evolutionary psychologist and co-author on both new papers, told LiveScience.

Ovulation and lust

Until about a decade ago, most research on the menstrual cycle focused on PMS, which occurs after ovulation and before menstruation. Few people had investigated whether ovulation affected women, Martie Haselton, a psychology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, told LiveScience. (Ovulation occurs when a woman’s body releases an egg down the fallopian tube where it can meet up with Mr. Sperm.)

"Nobody was asking what happens on fertile or non-fertile days," Haselton said.

One reason no one had tackled the question is that researchers in human evolution had long assumed that ovulation didn't matter much in humans. Unlike other mammals, which go into "heat" during fertile periods, women can be up for sex any time of the month. Evolutionary theorists have tried at several explanations for the loss of this estrus cycle in humans, one of the most common being that humans lost the "heat" phase to conceal ovulation. If a man didn't know which sexual encounter would pass his genes along, the theory went, he'd be more likely to stick around and help raise offspring.

The problem is that men do seem to be able to tell when their partner is ovulating, albeit imperfectly. No one knows how men can tell (smell is one hypothesis), but several studies have found women report that men become more attentive and jealous around fertile days. One 2006 study published in Evolution and Human Behavior found that when women were fertile, their male partners saw other men as a greater threat to their dominance.

Another problem is that women do seem to have a "heat" phase, although it works very differently than in other mammals. It's not that women become more receptive to sex in the five or so days around ovulation, Gangestad said. It's that they want sex for different reasons.

"It may be experienced more as a kind of lust mid-cycle," Gangestad said. "Outside of mid-cycle, women may be more interested in sex for intimacy."

Multiple studies have found that women go for more masculine-looking men when they're ovulating. According to a 2008 review of research by Gangestad and his colleagues published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, some of the masculine traits fertile women prefer are strong-jawed faces, muscular bodies, dominant behaviors, deep voices and tallness.

Because most studies on the topic have been done on heterosexual women, little is known about how ovulation affects lesbians or bisexual women. One study, published online in May 2010 in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, found that ovulation boosted lesbian women's motivation to act on their desires for other women, while bisexual women showed smaller increases in motivation. While women's sexuality is more fluid than men's, study coauthor Lisa Diamond, a psychologist at the University of Utah, told LiveScience, the findings suggest that ovulation could be a window into the biologically-based component of female sexual orientation.

Girls gone fertile

Back in the more-studied world of heterosexual couples, Gangestad's most recently published study on female preferences finds that if a woman is partnered with a man without a masculine face, her eye is more likely to wander during her fertile days.

This wandering eye doesn't necessarily translate into a cheating heart. Most women probably notice nothing more than a "funny little feeling" of lust during their fertile days, Haselton said. But other studies have shown that the hormonal fluctuations surrounding ovulation do change women's attitudes and behavior.

For instance, fertile women seem to be more open than non-fertile women to the idea of taking "sexual pleasures where [they] find them," in the words of one question asked to participants in the study by Gangestad and his colleagues published in the November issue of Evolution and Human Behavior. They're also more likely to express interest in sleeping with an attractive stranger or someone they don't care about.

A 2006 study in the journal Hormones and Behavior found that women who had their pictures taken during fertile and non-fertile stints were judged to be trying harder to look nice on fertile days, suggesting the hormonal boost of ovulation may translate to real-life decision-making. The women's faces were blacked out, so judges could only go on hairstyles and clothes to make their assessments, said Haselton, who co-authored the paper. To avoid any menstruation effects, none of the women were photographed right before or during their periods.

"We saw that the effect was strongest for women who were photographed closest to the day of ovulation within the high-fertility window," Haselton said.

An online shopping experiment reveals fertile women are also more likely to choose sexy clothes and accessories than women who weren't fertile, according to the study published online in the Journal of Consumer Research in August. For those who aren’t as interested in sexy clothes, ovulation can mean more money. In a widely publicized study published in Evolution and Human Behavior in 2007, researchers found that ovulating strippers made an average of $30 more an hour than menstruating strippers and $15 more an hour than non-ovulating, non-menstruating strippers.

Do fertility fluctuations matter?

The big question, of course, is how much ovulation affects the real lives of the non-strippers among us. Do women give in to the temptation to cheat more often when fertile? (No one has found any evidence suggesting they do, Gangestad said.) And what about the massive number of women on the birth control pill? The pill halts ovulation and smoothes out monthly hormonal cycles, so do women on hormonal birth control act differently than those who aren't on the pill?

The answer to that question depends on whether women base any long-term relationship decisions on the changes that happen around ovulation, Haselton said. So far, none of the studies on the topic have shown that ovulation changes women's preferences for long-term mates, just short-term flings.

"Being on the pill does remove a lot of the variation in the changes in hormones across the cycle, so we certainly would expect it to have an impact on a woman's behavior," Haselton said. "But if it's only having an impact within that narrow range of fertility, then maybe it's not that big a deal."

From an evolutionary perspective, unraveling the question of ovulation could reveal a lot about how human reproduction evolved. It's possible that women really are trying to signal their fertility with sexy clothes, Haselton said, but it's more likely that the changes are side effects of the hormonal tides women experience throughout the month.

Perhaps women really did evolve to conceal ovulation but can't quite cover up all the side effects, Haselton said. "There may be a co-evolution arms race between women concealing and men detecting any cues that leak out."

Personal comment: I think this is an important article because it summarizes and to an extent explains in print so many of the psychological aspects of a woman’s menstrual cycle and how they affect her personality. Some women, especially dancers and those of us in the adult entertainment industry have known since we were teens how to use our hormonal fluctuations to increase our attractiveness to men. It’s instinctive, but can be developed into an art with a little practice. We have known for years that intimate performances while fertile can bring in a lot more money than the same routines when we aren’t. That is why my dancers and other entertainers at the casino don’t use hormonal contraceptives.

Copper IUDs are the contraceptive of choice for the younger girls and sterilization is popular for the older ones and gas guards are now commonly worn by professionals even when no dive-sex is anticipated so if while receiving oral her client blows into her vagina the likelihood that he will give her an embolism is greatly reduced. Guy’s wanting to ‘blow-up-a-pussy’ has become very popular here recently. Initially that caused a lot of concern because it’s not good business to tell a client no. Fortunately it is just a matter of a girl being fitted for a diaphragm to use as a gas guard and she’s good to go. Personally I’m a lot more likely to try risky things with risky men while I’m fertile than when I’m not, although when I’m menstrual I’m almost as adventuresome.

Sounds and scents of rubber sex

Interspiro FFM showing adaptor plate, beneath ONU, where twin-hose reg is mounted

The Neo-Queens of neoprene: We are offering a two day course for escorts on SCUBA wearing for surface sex and the first eight classes are fully booked. It’s sort of a reverse strip in rubber and among the rubber fetish community it is becoming increasingly popular. We are teaching the girls how to get the most sound and scent from their equipment. Neoprene and latex - while both rubbery materials - sound and smell differently and have different stretchiness depending on thickness and purity of the materials. By far the most common rubber suits are the ubiquitous neoprene wetsuits. Latex wetsuits are far rarer and far more costly and are sold as fetishwear rather than sports equipment because there is almost no thermal protection when wearing latex vs. neoprene. We teach the girls how to tease by lingering over the pulling on of neoprene tights and then working the toes and feet into rubber booties and pulling the stretchy bootie shafts over the ankle cuffs of the tights with the creak and squeal of friction from dry tight rubber surfaces rubbing and the snap of contracting rubber-on-rubber when the seals close as the booties and gloves are pulled on. And, for the couples really into rubber lust the woman will wear a ripe Reflexions latex gas guard so her lover can smell its musky stench and watch her insert it.

New fetish booties: Gepetto has designed optional footwear for women in the rubber fetish community who can wear pointe shoes. It is the pool-pointe bootie, a pool-pointe with a bootie top. Returning readers remember that pool-pointes are silicone rubber pointe shoes with a blocked toe-box and unbreakable carbon fiber shank and Velcro closures on the ribbons. And, lead weights can be added on the platforms to hold the wearer on the bottom of a pool. The inside of the toe-box is heavily padded so no taping or padding is needed so they can be worn out of the water. Once the toes are seated in the toe-box the wearer points her foot, puts weight on the platform and pulls the stretchy bootie shaft over the ankle cuff of the neoprene or latex tights. Grippers on the inside of the bootie shafts hold the tension on the toe-box holding it securely on the foot. Putting on the hood with its long shoulder skirt is another opportunity to tease putting up our long hair, pulling the hood over the head, pushing loose strands of hair back under the hood and adjusting the skirt over the shoulders and tops of swelling breasts. Then pulling on the zip front jacket with the double-ended zip pulls, so the client/lover can get to the girls breasts and crotch, and zipping up the wrist and ankle seals. We recommend using Interspiro FFMs [shown in the image accompanying this entry] modified to take a Mistral twin hose regulators so the couple can get close face-to-face w/o having single hose regs sticking so far out front. Twin-hose regs are also handy in case the encounter leads to dive-sex since the exhaled air is vented out of the reg housing on the top of the tank leaving visibility excellent between the girl and her lover.

Sensual attraction: Both men and women seem to be attracted by the sounds and scents of sex in rubber both while on the surface and during dive-sex. The hiss of air being sucked through the demand valve and again on exhaling (this is especially true when using a twin-hose reg), and the burble of bubbles as the air from exhalations rushes toward the surface. On the surface the creak of neoprene as weight is shifted from one leg to the other and air tanks are adjusted and the creak of the pool-pointes as the woman’s weight shifts while en pointe flexing the shanks. I love the compression, the zip and creak of the straps on my five strap spider FFM head-harness as they are tightened seating the seal against my cheeks clamping my nose and mouth in the rubbery scented oral-nasal unit of my Interspiro FFM, used with a Mistral twin-hose. And the ever present scent of my own estrogenic sweat as I pull on my rubber suit teasing my lover into arousal and then sweating, panting and mewing into my ONU during my own arousal and the marvelous escape to an exquisite explosive vaginal orgasm. It’s a sensuous bouquet of scents, sights and sounds guaranteed to arouse the most jaded rubber Dom.

My alibi for missing Astor Courts - continued: I keep forgetting that readers don’t follow my cycle to know when I’m menstrual. Well, except the reader (You know who you are!) who charts my cycle as closely as I do, but on his own calendar. I think that’s so sweet! Go figure! I was CD2 on July 31st, when Chelsea and Marc were married and if I had been traveling then I would have been traveling with a Milex Omniflex inserted for flow control. No big thing, but I prefer to travel with an Oves sucking on my cervix. I think that’s a psychological hang-up, a holdover from when I flew commercial and had to go through scanners that picked up the metal spring rim of my diaphragms and I had to explain that to the TSA agents. Sigh!

I know I would have tried to be on my best behavior while wearing a diaphragm at the wedding, but it could have been a bit touchy. That’s because I could have met someone who was really happy to see me and while the dome collects flow amazingly well the dynamics of a thrusting penis against the dome will cause the rim to flex, which it should. But what that means is that when the rim flexes it leaves a thin coating of blood on the vaginal wall that will coat a partner’s shaft. So, if he isn’t very careful a partner could get a little blood on his trousers. Even if he was wearing a root boot he would need to take care stripping it off afterward. That would have really been a bummer if he was a member of the wedding party, especially if his wife found a stain. Well, it didn’t happen! I’m told that everything went very well for the entire weekend at Rhinebeck. Chelsea was very smart not to have invited me.

Dive-sex collateral damage: We are starting to see cases of teens wearing their Mom’s diaphragms dry (with no spermicide) for dive-sex. That’s good news and bad news. It’s good that teens recognize they need to use a gas guard, but it’s bad to use someone else’s GG without being fitted so you know the device is the correct size. That’s a problem because with a gas guard that is too small a partner can push his way under the rim and leave semen in the dome. If that happens and she conceives the unintended pregnancy can be taken care of relatively easily. However, with a penis thrusting under the dome the gas guard is no longer protecting her from the possibly fatal side effects from penetration of the upper reproductive by air bubbles or pool water caused by the hydraulics of her partners thrusting. That can cause an embolism from gas bubbles or infection from pool bacteria. I keep stressing to my students the need to wear a correctly fitted gas guard, preferably a Reflexions flat spring diaphragm or a cervical cap during dive-sex to be as safe as possible.

Cyndi and transference

A high quality Home Pregnancy Test kit

Cyndi and transference: Returning readers know that at 16 Cyndi is precocious and sexually active though I still try to keep her under my wing to an extent. She had been after me to let her sample Freddy and after assuring her that any problem she might have with him would be emotional not biological and getting her assurance she could compartmentalize her feelings I agreed to let him know she was available. He lost no time getting to her and she had several sexual encounters with him last week and now she is afraid she may be preggers! I think her problem is transference since she has been talking with Natasha about how she came to be preggers. It’s a common story; she was taking a course of antibiotics for an infected tooth and the medicine reduced the effectiveness of her birth control pills enough that she had breakthrough ovulation. She was having recreational sex with four of her ballet partners during that time and one got to her egg.

I keep telling Cyndi that her circumstances are quite different. She is super safe with a GyneFix implanted. Its effectiveness can’t be reduced by any meds she may be taking and her partner’s little swimmers get immobilized by the copper ions from her IUD. Then when she ovulates the sperm can’t penetrate her eggs outer surface to fertilize it, so she should just enjoy the orgasms he is giving her guilt free. The way she is obsessing about her pregnancy fantasy you would think she was virgin when they met and Freddy had popped her cherry.

Chris did that for her more than two years ago and impregnated her in the process. Returning readers will remember she nearly bled to death when she miscarried while diving in a cove on Virgin Gorda. That’s when we met and Chuck our male Gyn saved her life. She has been going through First Response Early Results home pregnancy tests (HPTs) with the first urine of the day and they have all been negative. Even if she were to have conceived at this point only 7 days from the first time he ejaculated in her it is far too early for hCG, the pregnancy hormone, to show up. It’s nearly impossible that she could be pregnant, but nothing in contraception is 100% effective so she will be on edge until at least the 29th or 30th when she should get her period.

Gene testing for KP Fighters: Over the last few months we have had some suspicions about the gender of some women wanting to be allowed to fight in the local Knife-Point fighting club. So, just to be certain that the fighters we let compete are all female we have begun physical exams and gene testing to make sure all our KP fighters are biologically women who don’t have a ‘male advantage’. We have found three so far who couldn’t pass the physical or biological tests. Two were intersex (previously called hermaphrodites ) and the third was an attractive blond who was extremely strong for her size with no external indication that she had male genes. There aren’t enough he-shes yet for us to establish a division so they can fight in their own class.

The Afterglow half-slip: I have been asked by several women business associates how I manage to keep my skirls from becoming stained from coitial discharge after sex during breaks at business conference. If I’m having sex during the day and wearing street clothes, well, a skirt and blouse rather than tights and sports top or bikini, I wear a silicone rubber underskirt – which I call an ‘afterglow half-slip’ - to prevent coitial discharge from soaking through my skirts. As much as a girl might Kegel there is always some residual drainage that can last for several days and never touch the crotchless hosiery I wear for chance encounters, so just Kegeling won’t solve the problem and semen stains are very difficult to remove from satin and cashmere. Several of my minis are made especially for working girls and have silicone liners to provide that sort of protection. But with my haute couture items from Chanel, Armani, Versace and others that are only lined with satin I always wear an afterglow skip.

Ripe latex gas guards – Part II: I have received a surprisingly strong favorable response from readers to my comments about the erotic appeal of the strong odor of a continuously worn latex diaphragm. They were posted in my entry for July10, 2010 where I wrote:

“Another characteristic of latex gas guards is that they are far more likely to develop a strong musky latex odor after being worn continuously for a day or two. For women interested only in the contraceptive effectiveness of a diaphragm an odor can be a major distraction. The odor can be gotten rid of by soaking the D in a 50/50 vinegar/water solution for 20 minutes and reoccurrences minimized by applying a few drops of liquid chlorophyll in the dome before insertion. The odor develops because the latex is porous to a slight degree and acidic vaginal fluids penetrate the surface and interact with the rubber strengthening the natural musk of the vagina and the scent of latex.

The musky latex scent of a ripe natural rubber gas guard is highly prized by any male in ‘Rubber Lust’. It’s rather like the bouquet of Roquefort cheese to a epicure. For women in rubber lust relationships they will switch from a clean Reflexions to one already pre-ripened with a strong musky/latex scent when they are to meet their rubber lust partners. The scent and discoloration of the latex dome has no effect on the safety and effectiveness of the barrier.”

From the flood of favorable replies it appears there is far more interest in smelly rubber diaphragms than I thought. Until now it’s a subject that had rarely come up unless women are talking about ways to get rid of the odor. However, now that it’s public knowledge that there are men who enjoy the smell men are writing to say that they find the scent of a ripe latex diaphragm erotic. And women are writing to say that they are relieved to know the enjoyment by their men of a strong vaginally enhanced rubber odor from their gas guards was a common kink in a male rubber fetishist fantasy because, until now, they thought their men weird because they loved the ripe rubbery stench of diaphragms that had been inserted continuously for several days.

Adolph and the World Cup: Old news, but last Sunday Spain defeated the Netherlands 1-0 in overtime, to win its first World Cup. Adolph is furious and thinks Germany should have tried harder. He is slowly becoming resigned to Germany’s loss and may eventually accept Germany being third, at least for the next four years. Meanwhile he is muttering about payback.

Rubber Lust and gas guards

The Reflexions deep-dive latex gas guard

Our Ballet SI and Ginny’s new gig: I had hoped it wouldn’t happen, but one of our SI students has come down with case of rubber lust. Rubber Lust is the name given to a strong psychological attachment to latex, especially fetishwear, and my psychiatrist says it occurs primarily in men. Only 3% of the cases are women and they seem to be more profoundly affected than men.

The SI ended Friday (07/09/2010) with most of the students going home, but Ginny, the 19 y/o student with rubber lust, will be staying in town for a week or so and she said she intended to hit as many of the latex fetish clubs as possible. Her uncle is her closest relative and he has given permission for her to stay on. At 19 she is legal as far as consent is concerned and has her own money so she’s (at least theoretically) on her own. Having introduced her to Reflexions latex diaphragms used as gas guards during deep dive sex at SI training I felt a certain responsibility for her safety. I’ve found a place she can stay where my friends can keep her entertained and not roaming around town unescorted where she could be grabbed.

Abi, Adolph’s Pool-Assistant and latex arm-candy is unable to be sexually active for the next week or so while she is being treated for a major vaginal yeast infection caused by the change in ph when Adolph filled her vagina with chocolate syrup and sucked it out of her during a Hershey’s cunnilingus encounter. He is in need of a temp to replace Abi and Ginny seemed an ideal choice because she isn’t afraid to try anything. She was a good student at the SI and her rubber lust and gamy latex gas guard made her an excellent candidate for Adolph’s vacancy. They should get along well since he is deep into rubber lust and is a connoisseur of ripe latex gas guards. Ginny should be safe enough since I know where she is and who she is with and Adolph has agreed to treat her ‘gently’. With Adolph ‘gently’ covers a range of intensities, but I think she will be far safer and learn a lot more about the fetish community and it’s appetites from staying a week with Adolph than roaming alone around Vegas where I don’t think she would last a day before someone took her.

Rubber Lust as a disorder: The most benign occurrences of rubber lust in women are typically manifested by a strong attachment to their rubber contraceptive diaphragms or cervical caps. We are seeing a major and sustained increase in cases of female rubber lust which I think is because of the growing importance of dive-sex in recreational opportunities for young singles and the need for effective protection from infection and embolisms during underwater penetration. The fact that continuous wearing of a gag guard is becoming the most popular wearing regimen has just magnified the increase. With continuous wearing – which is what I do with my Oves - a woman is far less likely to be caught unprepared so she can immediately take advantage of any opportunity and underwater sex can be far more spontaneous.

I am among the women with an advanced case of rubber lust, but it hasn’t reached the point of being a disorder for me. For it to be a disorder that would mean it impairs my functioning in the business world and in my social life. Actually, I see my rubber lust as enhancing my desirability in the fetish community and in certain key business circles. Returning readers will remember my love for wearing latex and my finding that the Reflexions latex diaphragm with its flat spring rim is effective as a gas guard down to at least 130 feet. Since then Adolph and I have tested Reflexions seven times at a depth of two hundred and five feet, just off the bottom of his training facility, and the rim doesn’t distort or leak which I’m very pleased about. I was confident that if it worked well at 130 feet it would still be effective at 200 feet, but it’s always good to have assumptions confirmed. That took a bit of preparation with spare sets of twin 130 HP tanks on the bottom for breathing Trimix19/30 and 100% oxygen pre-positioned for the last deco stop on our ascent. I don’t think many women will be trying dive-sex at 130 feet much less 200, because there are so few heated training facilities that deep and the low temperature of open water at those depths has the effect of decreasing a male partner’s ability to perform. Still I’m pleased that I can offer women training at Adolph’s facility an effective way to protect their upper reproductive tracts during a deep-dive-sex encounter.

Latex Vs silicone Gas Guards: Another nice thing about Reflexions is that is made of natural rubber latex. Although that means it can be harmed by oily meds and lubricants, will discolor more quickly and won’t last as long as a silicone gas guard (one year vs. two) it is the only flat spring rim diaphragm made and a flat spring is the only style that is safe to use at water depths below 33 feet, or 10 meters. The good thing about a latex gas guard is that the dome is stretchier than silicone and latex has much better heat transfer characteristics so it’s a more springy natural feeling when a partner thrusts into the dome. And very experienced male partners prefer latex gas guards for those reasons as well.

Rubber lust and ripe latex gas guards: Another characteristic of latex gas guards is that they are far more likely to develop a strong musky latex odor after being worn continuously for a day or two. For women interested only in the contraceptive effectiveness of a diaphragm an odor can be a major distraction. The odor can be gotten rid of by soaking the D in a 50/50 vinegar/water solution for 20 minutes and reoccurrences minimized by applying a few drops of liquid chlorophyll in the dome before insertion. The odor develops because the latex is porous to a slight degree and acidic vaginal fluids penetrate the surface and interact with the rubber strengthening the natural musk of the vagina and the scent of latex.

The musky latex scent of a ripe natural rubber gas guard is highly prized by any male in rubber lust. It’s rather like the bouquet of Roquefort cheese to a epicure. For women in rubber lust relationships they will switch from a clean Reflexions to one already pre-ripened with a strong musky/latex scent when they are to meet their rubber lust partners. The scent and discoloration of the latex dome has no effect on the safety and effectiveness of the barrier.