Size matters

An anxious student’s first look at her trainer’s equipment

Cosplay with latex hoods and ball gags: The UNLV Cosplay group is starting a project to play at being kinky escorts to service boyfriends, so Taryn’s friend asked if I would provide technical assistance and training. There is no money in that for me, but it gives me an opportunity to scout the sorority women for possible candidates as escorts. It’s a way for an attractive and adventuresome student to make money if she has talent and can get with a good service. However, with the economy like it is the competition for the available opportunities is brutal.

Anyway, the sorority girls wanted to learn about some basic D/S lifestyle clothing so they could get familiar with and dressing in BDSM gear for role-play, but found that hoods and ball gags caused some members problems. The compression and sensory deprivation aspects of tight latex hoods freaked out some girls and some didn’t like wearing ball-gags because they would appear too subservient (which is exactly what wearing a ball-gag is supposed to do) and minimize the noise if they scream when a well hung instructor/Dom rammed their cervix. Those who couldn’t tolerate hoods and ball-gags were dropped from participation immediately as they would never be able to stand more restrictive equipment like catsuits and ballet-boots.

I think some of them just fantasized about being BDSM submissives – none have the perspective or drive to be Dommes - and so when they had a an opportunity to experience a bit of D/S lifestyle reality they didn’t like the smell of sweaty latex and the taste of a ball-gag and the work to get in and out of the latex suits. You have to be a fetishist, at least to some extent to enjoy wearing latex even though you may be doing it to get a specific man’s attention. So I set up a scenario for the remaining six girls who wanted to wear latex catsuit. It was that that they were being accepted for training as escorts. It starts with an actual and very thorough pelvic exam and a full STI panel to make sure they were healthy and capable of taking at least an eight inch penis before I let them play with some of the casinos well endowed male escort trainers. I know most of sorority girls recently had full STI panels, but I wanted to see the results of our tests to ensure they were still clean.

Rebreather bags & asphyxia: My Advanced Sexual Techniques class at St Lucy’s is having latex rebreather bags fitted to their gasmasks and the FFMs they will use for dive-sex training. A fitter came on campus from Labia Labs the fetishist developmental group jointly owned by Jeff, Gepetto and me. I’ve gotten permission from St Lucy’s board to use Labia Labs even though I have a financial interest in it because they are the only BDSM development shop for creative design of BDSM clothing and equipment, among other things. They will periodically ask for audits of expenses which the Labs comptroller is happy to provide and they even send a young female CPA over to try out some of the designs herself. I’m afraid I’ve co-opted her making a closet rubberist out of her, but that’s human nature, to seek pleasure and she seems to have found it in a latex catsuit, Ben Wa balls, hood and gasmask. I wish everyone was that easy to mind-fuck, but I’m sure she was using toys, dildos and vibis, before I took her to the next level. Now she wants to try everything we teach in AST, “to make certain the school is getting its moneys worth” she says, so who am I to complain. She audits my training classes so she can safely use the equipment and the students rather like having a young beautiful member of the schools admin taking class with them as it makes them feel more adult.

We are training the girls with RBs connected to their gasmasks first. Then when they become confident in that application we will teach them the delights of rebreather bag use during dive sex, which is more complicated. Rebreather bags can be very dangerous since they are used frequently during solo sex and it is easy to get into trouble by trying for a personal best in continuous valve closure during asphyxia play. What we advise is during solo play that the student not shut the valve sealing her rebreather, but put her finger over the vent so that if she faints her hand will drop away and the open valve will allow her to breathe fresh air. Passing out during rebreather solo play with the valve closed has led to a lot of deaths and some that should have died as they ended up in a persistent vegetative state from lack of oxygen to the brain and will be on a ventilator for ever, unless next of kin decided to turn off the ventilator.

Under water rebreather bags: Our way of using an underwater rebreather bag is different from surface rebreathing in that the bag is connected to the exhalation port on a modified FFM that has had the exhalation valve removed and replaced by one at the end of the UW rebreather bag and a manual valve beyond that which can block exhaling into the water. There is also a valve on the air hose to the second stage reg on the FFM (or for added difficulty the tank valve can be used) so that the wearer can shut off her own air.

For normal breathing the valve at the end of the rebreather bag is open so that exhaled air can be released. To activate the rebreather the valve on the end of the rebreather is closed which allows the diver’s exhalation to fill the bag. Then the wearer’s air is shut off by means of the in-line valve or the main tank valve. We prefer a trainee use the in-line valve because shutting off the tank valve prevents buoyancy control by means of inflating her BCD or drysuit a complication a rebreather student doesn’t need at first. Once there is no air through the DV the wearer sucks air from the rebreather bag and the level of carbon dioxide quickly increases to the point where clear thinking is impossible and unconsciousness is imminent. She or her dive buddy has to be ready to restore to her second stage reg before she becomes unconscious. That it’s why we recommend never having solo dive-sex with a FFM fitted with a rebreather bag. There is almost no room to recover from a breathplay mistake while wearing a rebreather bag fitted FFM.

Colored oval crotch gussets: Now that autumn is here (the autumnal equinox was on 9/23) I’m glad to be getting back into fall leggings and convertible tights. I love my custom legwear with its brightly colored oval cotton lined crotch gussets. I love flashing bystanders when I wear them under micro-minis or getting head turning looks when I wear them in the casino hallways on the way to class and rehearsals. When I go into a restaurant I just wrap a pareo around my hips and slip past the dress code, but I wear it in a way that creates a hip-slit that clearly shows my leg from the waist to toes and a flash of colored gusset when I walk. Blood red, emerald green or canary yellow are my faves for drawing attention. I coordinate the colors with red being when I’m menstrual, green when I’m fertile and yellow when I’m luteal. I often wear red satin pointes during rehearsals as well when I’m menstrual since if I’m in costume one of my stallions interested in menstrual sex may have difficulty seeing the color of my crotch gusset. I’m CD9 and fertile today so my crotch gusset is a brilliant emerald green.

Drospirenone and blood clots: The FDA has issued a safety review update on the possible increased risk of blood clots with birth control pills containing drospirenone. The link is: http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ucm273021.htm Of the St Lucy’s students who are on the pill the majority are on a pill containing drospirenone, Yaz or one of its generics. While we haven’t had an instance of any female at St Lucy’s having blood clots while taking birth control pills containing drospirenone we are recommending that all students whose pelvic anatomy will permit, have a GyneFix frameless IUD inserted do so because the GyneFix has virtually no side effects and a very low rate of expulsion if it is implanted correctly.

The Spa at The Lorelei and Hoods

An advert for the Spa at The Lorelei

The photo: The Spa at The Lorelei can provide almost any service imaginable. Here a model with a fellatio guard inserted is posed about to be deep-throated by a service stallion. Adolph has one of Taryn’s best adult media photographers on site doing a spread for an insert in French Vogue and other European up-market women’s magazines. No torn jeans, hollow cheeks and emaciated bodies so the first thing reader’s look for when they see the photo is if needle tracks on the arms have been airbrushed out.

Included are tastefully presented photos of the estrogen softened unblemished skin of young fertile women’s bodies, alluringly posed with some at or near ecstasy. The subliminal message is that after a Spa package at The Lorelei you too can look and feel 23 again. There will be a scent tear strip in the insert with an artificial (but dead on) imitation of fertile cervical mucus with cinnamon overtones. It’s targeted at the niche market of adventuresome 30 somethings who at that age will have come into their trust funds or have already married money.

Latex hoods: For fetish sex the usefulness of a latex hood is hard to overrate. It’s true that if your partner is into long hair and you have a glorious mane then there are occasions where a rubber hood might not be the best choice of head covering unless he’s into cutting you out of a hood to get to your hair, which a few guys are. And if you are out at a movie you will probably get stares if you wear a Polymorph or Rubber 55 hood to the film; appreciative looks from the men and disapproval or envy from the women. But in fetish clubs and for surface and underwater sexual encounters wearing a good quality latex hood is usually a fashion plus and can provide some protection for the wearer’s hair and head.

Hoods with hair tubes can show off a woman’s shiny locks at fetish parties among friends, but hair tubes can be a liability at fetish clubs where during an argument the wearer’s hair and her hoods hair tube becomes a handle to throw her off balance or drag her around by her hair. To prevent a partner or enemy from using a woman’s own scalp hair as a weapon against her a well fitting latex hood w/o a hair tube sprayed with a light coat of silicone lube prevents the wearer’s hair and head from being grabbed and held in a fight. Hoods also give the wearer the opportunity to sweat in latex so that she gets the full benefit of her estrogenic sweat mixed with the scent of chlorinated latex. A down side is that rubber hoods worn under very hot conditions can contribute to heat stroke. And, hoods worn with SCUBA gear for underwater sex prevent the wearer’s hair from becoming entangled in her regulator, hoses and buoyancy vest. In advertising spreads you see photos of women with long loose hair in dive gear, but they never show the problems when a long haired woman gets her hair entangled in her SCUBA equipment. It can be painful, ruin a girl’s locks if her hair has to be cut to get her lose and can be a safety problem if the tangle limits the ability of the wearer to turn or even move her head.

Worn during surface encounters hoods can provide some head protection if the hood being used is neoprene and a few millimeters thick or of thin stretchy latex if woman’s hair is long and it is piled around her head under the hood so it forms a cushion if she gets thrown against a wall or to the floor. I find wearing a latex hood useful for projecting an image of mystery as well as protecting the back of my head when being held against a wall and being thrust into while my legs are wrapped around a partner’s waist. When Jacques takes me that way his thrusts bounce me so that my head tends to hit the wall and wearing a hood minimizes the discomfort so I can concentrate on where the real action is, with him ramming my cervix.

The darker side of hoods: Hoods also have a darker side since, like rubber swim caps they can be used to suffocate the owner. But using a hood that way requires twisting it around and it’s very difficult to get a grip on to do that w/o breaking the wearer’s neck in the process. I talked to my psychiatrist about men who enjoy suffocating women and he said that while breaking a woman’s neck accomplishes the same end result very efficiently it doesn’t give the attacker (almost always male) the same sense of accomplishment and the same visual thrill that watching the woman struggle as she suffocates does. So for a man determined to suffocate a woman with the hood she is wearing it’s much more satisfying for him to peel the latex hood off the wearer’s head and then force it back on her head backwards, even if it is necessary to lube the inside to force her head into it. My shrink said the sociopaths he has talked to about using her hood to suffocate a woman - while not nearly as elegantly accomplished as suffocating a woman with her own swim cap - is far more satisfying to the man because he is killing her with something she was using to attract men. I know enough sociopaths to understand that for many of them beautiful women are prey and we are hunted just as surely as men hunt other mammals.

Snow in the Spring Mountains: It’s hard to believe since we had 85° weather a few days ago, but we are having a Spring storm that is leaving snow at the higher elevations of the Spring Mts. – the summit of Mt Charleston is about 11, 900 feet - to the west of town, near where my home is. On the Strip the temp is in the low 60s and we are also having very high winds so it’s a good evening to be inside.

CD28 and spotting: I’m cycle day 28 today, the last day of this menstrual cycle. My progesterone has dropped and I’m spotting so I have changed from my tiny Oves cervical cap to a latex Reflexions flat spring diaphragm for flow control and as a gas guard for dive-sex protection. I will start menstruating tomorrow and have my heavy days on days 3 and 4 then taper off on day 5 and have an Oves sucking on my cervix again on CD6. I love it when I start to bleed as it is a renewal of life a reaffirmation that I’m still a fully functional female and my body is preparing to accept a fertilized egg to create a baby. I can handle the cramps with 800 mg of ibuprofen and being menstrual is my second fave time in my cycle after my fertile days when my libido is raging.

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.