Showing posts with label sports shield. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sports shield. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

the vaginal rubber fetish


Vaginal rubber, a latex Ortho All-Flex diaphragm

Vaginal rubber: The local rubber fetish community has finally begun to recognize latex cervical barriers as a necessary part of a woman being properly dressed in total rubber for thrust encounters in rubber clubs. That epiphany has resulted in a recent increase in the number of women coming in to the clinic to be fitted for diaphragms. I had been telling them about the need to wear a silicone caps (a strapless FemCap) as a safety precaution for at least a year after an influential Dom began using pressurized CO2 gas as punishment to keep his rubber-chicks in-line and other Doms began to follow his example. A jet of gas through a douche bag nozzle into a girl’s gasmask drinking port, down her open neck zipper into her cleavage or having her bend over to be penetrated and filling her vagina with gas can cause frostbite to sensitive tissues, or worse gassing a girl’s vagina can result in the rubber-chick dying from an embolism, unless she has an effective gas guard inserted.

Not surprisingly, my arguments about protecting the women’s safety had no effect on Doms providing their rubber-subs with gas guards. And now having the girls fitted with latex diaphragms (as they are currently still doing) offers almost no protection against CO2 gas in the vagina. That’s because if the gas gun has no warming baffle (and many don’t) and the gas is released in a sustained jet it cools the soft rubber dome to a temperature where the rubber will become brittle and shatter and pressurized gas can pass through the cervix to the uterus where it can easily enter the woman’s bloodstream. The only cervical barrier that can withstand even short duration jets of cold gas is the thicker silicone FemCap and as I mentioned FemCaps or even silicone rubber diaphragms aren’t what the Doms are having their girls fitted with. The men want the girls wearing latex diaphragms because they have found the latex transfers heat better than silicone of a similar thickness, but most of all because a latex dome is much more stretchy when rammed by a thrusting penis, which some Rubber Doms are calling ‘caressing the rubber wall’.

Velvet latex: Gepetto’s sex-device shop has been working for some time to enhance a man’s experience when he is ‘caressing the rubber wall’ by increasing the friction of the soft latex dome of a diaphragm (also known as a sports shield or gas guard) when the glans of an erect penis is rubbed against it. The shop had tried a lot of different formulations to increase the ‘tooth’ of the surface of natural rubber to simulate the short dense pile of velvet. Some formulations worked for short periods of time, but the tooth or pile was so delicate that it rubbed off after being used for a few acts of intercourse so the dome lost it’s effectiveness as a male experience enhancer. Worse however was that it left the wearer with microscopic bits of latex in her vagina which when mixed with the woman’s natural secretions over an interval of several days creates a funky vaginal odor similar to what occurs after forgetting and leaving a latex diaphragm inserted too long.

Recently Gepetto has been experimenting with a new formulation of latex created by Jeff’s labs, to develop an enhanced experience diaphragm. After dipping the rim in liquid latex the finishing process subjects the outer surface of the dome to a gas which causes it to foam with a uniform surface of millions of microscopic bubbles which when dry establish a very tight molecular bond providing a strong soft surface that simulates the feel of velvet while being difficult to wear through. The latex quickly reaches body temperature so there is no decrease in heat transfer and there is no decrease in elasticity if properly cared for. The latex is still sensitive to extremes of heat and cold and easily deteriorated by oily substances, but Pirate, Robin, and the other men who have been trialing the few made for testing purposes (Anya, Taryn and I are the only women involved in testing because of the potential value of the new device) say they provide an amazing enhancement to a man’s pleasure by the way the bubbled surface of the stretchy latex caresses the heads of their penises. The working name for the project is ‘Bubble Wrap’ but marketing wants to call the line Vaginal Velvet.

Gepetto’s shop is now starting to test a similar product which is gas treated on both the inside as well as the outside of the dome. Treating the inside gives the woman the same caress enhancement sensation against her vaginal walls, especially for the erectile tissue of her G-spot. With a diaphragm inserted I can’t use the full strength of my vaginal muscles to grip my partner’s shaft because the spring rim absorbs some of it but the double velvet diaphragm I’m testing now (I’m the only woman so far) takes me to orgasm unbelievably fast (in less than 10 minutes when I’m Luteal) and that’s amazing because today I’m CD20 and in my Luteal phase. When I’m being taken bareback by a lover who knows how to light my fire it will typically take at least 15 minutes after penetration when I’m fertile and when I’m luteal (like now) 25 minutes to get me to a G-spot orgasm. I was just given the first one to test so I don’t know just yet how quickly I will orgasm with it when I’m fertile. I think Vaginal Velvet could be a huge seller if Gepetto decides to go commercial with it. Right now he sees the market for Vaginal Velvet devices as being primarily for professional escorts who want to offer their rubber-stud clients an exceptionally intense experience w/o requiring them to ingest or wear anything themselves.

Contraceptives as Fetishes: Readers of this blog know that I have a number of fetishes. The main ones are: Pointe shoes, Diaphragms and cervical caps, especially the Oves cap. People don’t usually think of women as having fetishes, they are far more likely to be a male thing, but with contraceptives: hormonal methods pills, patch, ring or shot; IUDs and cervical barriers making the hormonal method or device you are fitted with a fetish can increase a woman’s desire as well as the effectiveness of the method. That’s because a fetish object is far more likely to be used correctly and used every time than one that doesn’t have the user’s interest level that a fetish object does. I don’t specifically talk about contraceptives as fetish objects to my escort candidates or St Lucy’s students, but getting them to equate the contraceptive they are using with pleasure and safety can, over time, reinforce a fetish-like desire for disciplined use of the method.

This can be problematic when a woman is just starting on pharmaceuticals and she hasn’t found the hormone mix or delivery method right for her. For example; where the patch (Ortho Evra) can come unstuck and fall off or develop sores underneath, or pills where the type and amount of hormones will cause nausea, swollen and sore breasts, or a copper frame IUD can cause heavy bleeding and these side effects can be a huge turnoff so it is very important to find an effective method that works well for you as soon as possible before contraceptives become a turn-off. Once a woman has an effective method that fits her lifestyle then elevating it to the status of a fetish so she wants and needs to use it correctly is a very good thing.

I’ve found that focusing on the pleasure of wearing rubber inserted in the vagina is particularly effective with the women who need motivating most, the ones who are most likely to be non-compliant, not inserting correctly or using their barrier for every act of intercourse. This is especially true of divers who have a GyneFix IUD implanted so have little concern about pregnancy. Of course the problem for divers with a GyneFix inserted isn’t pregnancy but pelvic inflammatory disease (PID which can cause sterility by scaring a woman’s tubes) or an embolism from having air forced into the uterus by the hydraulics of male thrusting under water, which is why it is so important for divers interested in dive-sex to be compliant in wearing vaginal rubber.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Volunteering at the clinic


A Miltex Vaginal speculum

Fitting sports shields: My time fitting sports shields at the clinic this morning was very busy. A woman’s water polo team was in town, for pleasure, and came in for fittings because one of their moms had been fitted here last year. Each had to have a pelvic exam first to make certain her cervix was healthy. That’s because while wearing a cap will not hurt a healthy cervix for women who have cervical dysplasia a cap will make the condition worse. Chuck let me insert the speculums (warmed and lubed before insertion) and I think that’s the part of the pelvic exam women like the least, having our introitus stretched and held open. Five took 22mm FemCaps and 2 took 26mm and they all wanted strapless caps so afterward I taught a short class about the easiest way to remove them and I made sure each girl could properly insert, to make certain she had her cervix covered, and remove her shield. It was pretty much a communal thing with them all standing around watching as they all got fitted. I’d never had that happen before where a room full of women watched one another being fitted. Usually it’s just the occasional mom with a daughter coming in for her first FemCap for dive-sex. But they were very quiet and none of them was shy so it worked out well and it was certainly a bonding experience for the team.

Contraceptive challenges: After I finished fitting sports shields I assisted Chuck as he saw a series of patients. All had birth control problems of one sort or another; pill side effects, an IUD expulsion, incorrect barrier sizes one that was too large and two that were too small and three abortions, two by Mifeprex and one EVA, electric vacuum aspiration.

Hormones: Of the women with pill side effects two were experiencing heavy irregular bleeding while using progestin-only-pills called the mini-pill or POPs. Chuck had them stop hormones and switch to GyneFix IUD implants. The other has started using Ortho Evra (the patch) a month ago and her breasts were so badly swollen that she could hardly stand to wear a tee much less a bra. Chuck took her off the patch – because of the high estrogen dose administered transdermally by the patch breast tenderness is a common complaint – and because she still wanted an extremely low maintenance method, inserted Implanon, a single rod implant the size of a matchstick, in her upper arm.

ParaGard expulsion: The girl with the IUD expulsion was a rubber-chick who had such a brutal sexual encounter at a fetish club that it caused uterine cramping severe enough to bend the frame of her ParaGard, copper IUD. The IUD was protruding from her cervix so Chuck tugged gently and it pulled out painlessly. An ultrasound showed the arms of the frame hadn’t perforated the uterine wall but she was bleeding so he didn’t want to insert a GyneFix until her uterus had healed. So he fitted her with a Milex diaphragm which she had wanted as protection during pool-sex.

Diaphragms: The girl with the diaphragm that was too large (it kept popping out of her pubic notch and she couldn’t pee very well when it was inserted) had gained 15 lbs and the weight had caused her to need a smaller diaphragm, which she was fitted with. Of the two girls who had the diaphragms that were too small one had been miss-fitted by another clinic in Nevada, not here in Vegas, and the other was 16 and had been fitted a year earlier with a 60mm coil spring. She should have returned for a refit in 6 months because she is still growing and because a year ago she was newly sexually active and a woman’s pelvic anatomy stretches with use. That stretching has nothing to do with how tight she feels to a partner which is a function of the strength of her pelvic muscles. She was fitted with a larger Cooper Surgical (the old Milex) Omniflex which is the only coil spring rim diaphragm still made in the U.S.

Terminations:
Of the three abortions, the two medical ones were started with the women taking the first pills in the Mifeprex regimen and they were given the rest of the pills to take two days later. We keep in touch with these patients to make sure they are doing well and schedule them to come back two weeks later as follow-up. The other woman had waited too late to take Mifeprex so she came in scheduled for an electric vacuum aspiration which is a bit more invasive than a menstrual extraction because it requires cervical dilation because a larger diameter cannula is used. The EVA went well and in an hour the woman was on her way with Ibuprofen for any discomfort and doxycycline to prevent possible infection. I’m CD 21 today, so I’m looking forward to my menstrual extraction this time next week.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Travel risks and the pill


FemCap before the removal strap is trimmed off to be used as a sports shield

Travel more than doubles risk of blood clots: study

Reuters Mon Jul 6, 2009 By Amy Norton

“NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A study published Monday strengthens the evidence that long-distance travel can lead to potentially fatal blood clots in some people -- showing that the risk grows in tandem with the length of the trip.

In an analysis of 14 previous studies, researchers found that, in general, travel was associated with a nearly three-fold increase in the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) -- blood clots that form in the veins, often in the legs.

If such a clot dislodges and travels to the lungs, it can cause a potentially fatal condition called pulmonary embolism.

Several high-profile deaths have brought attention to the risk of VTE among travelers, particularly those on long-haul flights. Experts think a combination of factors -- including dehydration and hours of sitting in cramped conditions -- explains why some people develop blood clots.

However, not all studies have found a clear link between travel and VTE. To look at the discrepancy, the researchers who conducted the current review, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, analyzed 14 studies involving more than 4,000 cases of VTE.

Some of the studies compared VTE patients with a "control" group of people who had been referred for possible VTE symptoms, but were found to not have a clot -- a comparison that carries the risk of bias because the control group likely has a higher-than-average risk of blood clots.

In other studies, the control group consisted of healthy people from the general population -- which are more likely to capture the true VTE risk associated with travel, explained lead researcher Dr. Divay Chandra of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.

When the researchers looked only at those studies, they found that travelers had a nearly three-fold higher risk of blood clots than non-travelers.

What's more, the risk climbed along with the duration of the trip -- rising 18 percent for every two hours of any type of travel, and by 26 percent for every two hours of air travel.

But while the current findings confirm the travel-VTE link, Chandra told Reuters Health, "there is no reason for panic" because the absolute risk to any one traveler is still low.

Still, Chandra said, "people who travel long distances should be aware of the risk of blood clots and learn to recognize the symptoms."

Symptoms of a blood clot in the leg include pain, warmth, swelling and redness in the limb. If the clot travels to the lungs, it may cause sudden shortness of breath, chest pain or a cough that produces blood.

To help reduce the risk of VTE, experts generally recommend that long-distance travelers periodically move around and stretch their legs, and drink plenty of water to stay hydrated.

Certain people are at increased risk of blood clots, Chandra noted -- including cancer patients, people who have recently had major surgery such as a joint replacement, and women on birth control pills. They may want to talk with their doctors about any precautions they should take when traveling, he said.

SOURCE: Annals of Internal Medicine, August 4, 2009.”
Personal comment: Hormonal contraceptives can have some relatively uncommon but very serious side effects. We try to discourage the use of birth control pills where possible because of the added risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) and recommend either a GyneFix IUD or a cervical barrier for St Lucy’s students. And, as returning readers know our casino’s entertainers; dancers, escorts and intimate services providers are all fitted with GyneFix implants as well as a strapless FemCaps used as sports shields for thrust buffering and over-pressure event protection.

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I'm a classically trained dancer and SAB grad. A Dance Captain and go-to girl overseeing high-roller entertainment for a major casino/resort