Monday, 05 September 2005 Getting SPAM on Holiday?

Re: SPAM

Thanks Xevious for reporting the SPAM and I am Sorry - I am also disappointed about these freeloaders. To protect my readership from having to waste their time reading rubbish, I have chosen to have zero-tolerance from now on. Gratuitously off subject posts will be deleted (and have been). I really object being forced to act as the despotic censor on what I view as being a “community thing”, but it falls to being a responsibility of owning a blog.

I would like to assure readers that I do NOT have a problem to people posting links to other sites – as long as they are relevant and of interest. I have deliberately left critical posts online in the past, although I would prefer constructive or well communicated criticism. Don’t worry if you do (briefly) go off topic, I am not going to delete your post as long as you spend some time either on subject or replying to any of my off-subject posts!

We all know what constitutes a malicious or SPAM post – and I will do my best to protect you from them. I have tightened up a little so that only registered blog users can post and put in a word verification option, which may stop automatic / robot posts.

The downside is that this antisocial behavior by the few, means it is just that little more troublesome for the many genuine people who which to comment – which is a shame. If anybody has trouble posting PLEASE contact me via emailing me at:

e m a i l @ v u l c a n i s e . m e . u k

(remove the white spaces from the email address)


Re: 7 Days without latex

I have finally decided the I am definitely NOT taking latex with me on vacation. It’s just going to be far too hot to wear all day and this is not a challenge I am interested in (too many bad experiences with high core temps). I am not that interested in shorter latex sessions these days, so I am going to attempt a different type of challenge…I fly tomorrow and will have to endure 7 days without any latex enclosure…

For most, including many rubber fetishist, this may seem like no real problem. And from a physical standpoint, it’s probably no big deal – I imagine it akin to the challenge of going to a nudist colony for the first time and/or walking bare foot all day. We are all designed to do it, but it’s going to feel very strange if we are not used to it.

Like Xevious says, it is going to be the emotional impact. Although latex CAN feel a little like a physical addiction resulting from excessive habitual exposure, I have always gambled on it being more like an emotional dependency. More like a cuddly toy is to a child than tobacco or heroin is to an addict. Bereft without it, but not exactly life threatening!

To put you in the picture, I do NOT spend 24/7/365 in latex (unlike Latax Lady) but I do wear latex as regularly as, and for at least as many hours as, most people wear the (vanilla) clothes they wear to work. This is my minimum aim. I have not been able to be too fixed in this rule and my level of exposure does vary from one week to the next (weather temperature, work / social commitments etc). However I do spend as much time as possible in latex TE and, when averaged out since the beginning of the year, have basically been spending much more time wearing latex than any other material.

Getting used to wearing latex most days for between 8 to 16 hours between changes (occasionally 24+ hours) was NOT easy for me. I had spent many years “practicing” regular long exposures, including regularly spending my working day in rubber. Still, the first few months I found it very challenging to reliably meet and then break beyond the 40 hours / week target, week in, week out. It felt like a physical limit, but once through the physical adjustments the real challenge was again a mental test.

Even now, I still find it a mental challenge to regularly attain my ambitions of long periods in Total Enclosure and often find I feel like I want to remove the goggles, face mask or even the whole hood of my rubber enclosure. Total coverage of the head seems an order of magnitude more difficult than just wearing one piece rubber on the rest of my body.

At least I have got past the point finding it easy to wear a suite with integral gloves (usually with extra pair(s) of surgical gloves, for snug fit). Having gloved hands for more than a few hours used to be challenge beyond just wearing a cat-suit. Now I would not think I was really wearing latex unless the hands were fully integral to the suit. Years before that I went through the same thing with feet.

Anyway, I still have a way to go before absolute TE (wearing hood with googles & mask over the mouth) for long periods feels completely normal - and yet something else has changed. Wearing non-rubber no longer feels comfortable or normal – in a way very similar to early rubber exposure – OK, but odd thing to be doing for very long. The loss of the micro-climate between rubber and skin, the way that different parts feel different amounts of air movement, different levels of insulation etc, the way it doesn’t feel consistently like a second skin, the way many materials are not at all stretchy – all as equally as odd to me as rubber would be to a vanilla.

This non-normality of wearing vanilla started off as a mild and very temporary effect but seems to gradually have become more noticeable and longer lasting as I have gone on. Now, due to the proportion of time I spend in rubber, I never seem to get used to wearing vanilla.

In addition to this is the emotional dependency. Just like being at home can be more reassuring than being away (or your own bed, own country, own tribe, being with your loved ones etc), being in rubber TE does come to be comforting due to the familiarity of it’s ever-present and very noticeable all-over feeling. This seems to have become even more significant than the physical comfort – and the feeling seems to get more intense the longer I have been out of latex TE.

The longest I have managed for the last few months with zero rubber is probably a long weekend. Then the whole of the last 24 hours my mind is full of anticipation of the fix of rubber TE I will shortly have.

As of tomorrow morning, I am going to be away from any chance of latex exposure for 7 days and nights. I have been preparing for weeks, so don’t think it will come as a shock to the system. Still, I am nervous I will not be able to sleep…

I will be out of contact for this time, but will report back on my experiences when I get back. Could it be as mentally challenging as going for a rubber lifestyle was? I doubt it...

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