Building on previous years, this year I have been lucky enough to be able do virtually all my work from my home office and so spend ever increasing time encased in rubber. Well, all good things come to an end and I have to come to terms with the next phase of work life.
As of next week I will be working away from home, probable spending a couple of months in foreign parts (mainly in the USA). If all goes to plan, this sacrifice will be rewarded with more work which I can do from home next year, so perversely its all part of my rubber life plan. I have found that often, you have to speculate to accumulate…
All this means a pause to my ambition of spending day after day encased in rubber. As regular readers will know, I have been finding this ambition ever nearer to being a reality as time went on this year. I am now convinced that it is perfectly feasible to wear only rubber clothes, if that’s what you chose to do, and that the real challenge is organising the rest of your life to be compatible with this aim. So it is all the more disappointing that I have to put my encased life of hold at this stage.
Now I don’t want anyone to think that rubber will not be part of my life at all. I am planning long weekends fully encased in rubber and evenings/nights in TE. But I feel that all this is going to seem quite mundane compared to my usual life.
Then there is the challenge of adjusting to spending long hours every week day not protected by my rubber skin. I decided that a sudden change may be psychologically too much so have spent the last week spending more and more time in vanilla. Although physically no massive deal, the odd thing is that it has possibly been slightly more uncomfortable coming off rubber than going on it. Very difficult to explain – but its a little like growing a beard or your growing your hair long – the transition is not exactly life threatening, but not something you would chose to go through very regularly.
Physically, there are lots of prickly sensations, itchiness, and some actual minor skin blemishes. I think this may be partly because of the challenges of the weather conditions here with extremes of temperatures and humidity that I have been cocooned against since summer.
Anyway, onward we go …
Sealed
Monday, November 28, 2005
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Wednesday, 23 November 2005
Imagine you were totally hermitically sealed, every inch of your body air and water tight, covered by a thin close fitting rubber membrane. What issues would you hit straight away? And if you wanted to stay like that for as long as you could, what would test you as time went on? Well, given my particular fetish, this is something I have often thought about but I have never seen a comprehensive list of all the problems that would hit you at each stage of the process, so I thought I would start one.
I have draw up this list partly from personal experience as I have hit many of the issues on the road to trying to achieve my own optimum level of total enclosure. As you might expect, the longer the time you want to spend sealed, the more items you need to deal with and yet, many of the most fundamental issues are encountered in the first few hours.
By understanding the issues I think it is possible to prepare to deal with them. Some things may be easy to fix while other require some personal sacrifices to be endured, but this will depend on what your views are on various levels of compromise to your closed environment. For sure, some compromise to the perfection of your encapsulation is always necessary if you want to survive beyond a few minutes being totally sealed - as you will need to breathe eventually! It’s up to the individual as to what concessions will result in them still feeling they are sealed enough / for long enough to be acceptable for them.
Rather than include my solutions / compromises / personal endurances here, at this stage I will just identify the issues in the order in which I think they occur. I would be interested to hear comments from anyone who has actual experience or even just an opinion…
Assuming a totally hermetically sealed starting point, with absolutely no respite, this is my hierarchy of challenges for a totally enclosed person, with a rough estimate of when I think they first become noticeable:
1. Immediately:
a) Putting on tight rubber (Ingress) / sticking to skin (lubrication & chlorination)
b) Breathing
c) Some loss of dexterity (particularly fiddly manual handling through gloves)
d) Partial impairment of senses of smell, hearing, touch and possibly sight.
e) Difficulty speaking clearly enough
2. Within Minutes:
a) Condensation – Vision
b) Temperature Control / Overheating / Perspiration
c) Possible spontaneous / involuntary sexual over stimulation (men only?)
d) Hair snagging / pulling – mostly only if long haired
3. After a few hours:
a) Urination
b) Condensation – breathing mask / tubes / equipment
c) With some hoods/masks, face can get damp from either saliva or condensation from goggles or breathing
4. Within a day (or maybe a little longer):
a) Circulation (unless rubber good fit)
b) Dehydration – particularly if perspiring.
d) Skin/suit can become badly saturated, if you have been allowing yourself to perspire.
e) Leaking / leaving puddles. Some suits leak when they become saturated.
f) Trouble sleeping – particularly if mask causes breathing trouble
g) Temperature control while asleep
5. Around the 24 hours mark:
a) Defecation
b) Nutrition
c) Pressure points / chaffing (unless rubber v good fit)
6. Sometime 24 or 48 hours plus:
a) Start of a general build up of moisture in suit (even if not been perspiring)
b) Various secretions (e,g, mucus from nose, semen from sexual organs…) may start to build up.
c) Oral Hygiene
7. Within a week
a) Lesser secretions may start to irritate or even impair (e,g eyes, ears)
b) Difficulties with general personal hygiene may start to cause risk of skin irritation – this will certainly be worse if saturated
8. Sometime within a week or two
a) Growth of Nails
c) Men - Facial Hair may cause mask leak / fit issues or cause skin irritation
d) Social exclusion leading to seclusion & isolation
9. Longer term:
a) “Wardrobe Malfunctions”
b) Risk of pressure sores
c) Women – Menstrual cycle and other female hygiene issues
d) Probable increased risk in some types of infection (UTIs and the like)
e) Vitamin D deficiency (due to lack of UV on skin)
f) Cardio Vascular & general / weight problems (difficulties of Physical Exercise).
g) Hair length
h) Dental care (and even eye or general health checks)
i) Difficulties dealing with some (even minor) ailments while in total enclosure
j) Isolation leading to loneliness and possible psychosis
k) Becoming totally dependent on / addicted to your rubber encapsulation…
Did I miss anything?
Hope I haven’t put anyone off trying longer sessions of total enclosure by concentrating on the just the down side. Most of these issues have remedy and there are also the up side of the fetish to consider.
Have fun with your rubber limits,
Sealed
I have draw up this list partly from personal experience as I have hit many of the issues on the road to trying to achieve my own optimum level of total enclosure. As you might expect, the longer the time you want to spend sealed, the more items you need to deal with and yet, many of the most fundamental issues are encountered in the first few hours.
By understanding the issues I think it is possible to prepare to deal with them. Some things may be easy to fix while other require some personal sacrifices to be endured, but this will depend on what your views are on various levels of compromise to your closed environment. For sure, some compromise to the perfection of your encapsulation is always necessary if you want to survive beyond a few minutes being totally sealed - as you will need to breathe eventually! It’s up to the individual as to what concessions will result in them still feeling they are sealed enough / for long enough to be acceptable for them.
Rather than include my solutions / compromises / personal endurances here, at this stage I will just identify the issues in the order in which I think they occur. I would be interested to hear comments from anyone who has actual experience or even just an opinion…
Assuming a totally hermetically sealed starting point, with absolutely no respite, this is my hierarchy of challenges for a totally enclosed person, with a rough estimate of when I think they first become noticeable:
1. Immediately:
a) Putting on tight rubber (Ingress) / sticking to skin (lubrication & chlorination)
b) Breathing
c) Some loss of dexterity (particularly fiddly manual handling through gloves)
d) Partial impairment of senses of smell, hearing, touch and possibly sight.
e) Difficulty speaking clearly enough
2. Within Minutes:
a) Condensation – Vision
b) Temperature Control / Overheating / Perspiration
c) Possible spontaneous / involuntary sexual over stimulation (men only?)
d) Hair snagging / pulling – mostly only if long haired
3. After a few hours:
a) Urination
b) Condensation – breathing mask / tubes / equipment
c) With some hoods/masks, face can get damp from either saliva or condensation from goggles or breathing
4. Within a day (or maybe a little longer):
a) Circulation (unless rubber good fit)
b) Dehydration – particularly if perspiring.
d) Skin/suit can become badly saturated, if you have been allowing yourself to perspire.
e) Leaking / leaving puddles. Some suits leak when they become saturated.
f) Trouble sleeping – particularly if mask causes breathing trouble
g) Temperature control while asleep
5. Around the 24 hours mark:
a) Defecation
b) Nutrition
c) Pressure points / chaffing (unless rubber v good fit)
6. Sometime 24 or 48 hours plus:
a) Start of a general build up of moisture in suit (even if not been perspiring)
b) Various secretions (e,g, mucus from nose, semen from sexual organs…) may start to build up.
c) Oral Hygiene
7. Within a week
a) Lesser secretions may start to irritate or even impair (e,g eyes, ears)
b) Difficulties with general personal hygiene may start to cause risk of skin irritation – this will certainly be worse if saturated
8. Sometime within a week or two
a) Growth of Nails
c) Men - Facial Hair may cause mask leak / fit issues or cause skin irritation
d) Social exclusion leading to seclusion & isolation
9. Longer term:
a) “Wardrobe Malfunctions”
b) Risk of pressure sores
c) Women – Menstrual cycle and other female hygiene issues
d) Probable increased risk in some types of infection (UTIs and the like)
e) Vitamin D deficiency (due to lack of UV on skin)
f) Cardio Vascular & general / weight problems (difficulties of Physical Exercise).
g) Hair length
h) Dental care (and even eye or general health checks)
i) Difficulties dealing with some (even minor) ailments while in total enclosure
j) Isolation leading to loneliness and possible psychosis
k) Becoming totally dependent on / addicted to your rubber encapsulation…
Did I miss anything?
Hope I haven’t put anyone off trying longer sessions of total enclosure by concentrating on the just the down side. Most of these issues have remedy and there are also the up side of the fetish to consider.
Have fun with your rubber limits,
Sealed
Monday, November 14, 2005
Monday, 14 November 2005
Following comments and messages I received, I just want to clarify about the 24/7 thing, before posting on practical observations etc…
Sorry if I have led people to think otherwise, but I cannot claim to be a 24/7/7 rubberist, let alone spend my whole life in total enclosure with breath control. Although I probably wear rubber for more of the time than most people wear non-rubber (day) clothes, I am not as fastidious (or as I think of it: “dedicated”) - or as brave as those who spend all there time totally sealed in latex, such as the lifestyle documented by Ladyll. I look on that kind of life of rubber commitment as an ideal to aspire towards, but not one I have achieved, yet…
That’s not to say I just wear rubber as and when I feel the need, and then only for a few hours until I have “fixed” my need. That’s not me either.
It’s more accurate to say I routinely wear just rubber on most days. The amount of time I spend sealed up depends on what I need to do and where I need to be. I wish that rubber was suitable for every situation – but I find it just isn’t. If I go to a business meeting I wear business clothes. If I want to go up a mountain, I wear outdoor clothes. If I go sailing in the north Atlantic I wrap up in tons of sailing clothes! Sometimes I manage to wear these with rubber underneath but it’s sad to say that, for me, the 24/7/7 is not compatible with all the things I currently have to do with my time.
Luckily, and through some perseverance, I have been able to tailor a substantial part of my life to minimise the “out of rubber body experiences” - something I am keen to maintain and expand on. This is the real challenge – before I worry about the practicalities I have to constantly endeavour to maintain an everyday life compatible with my need for long periods of rubber encasement. I have to optimise the mundane life to give me the opportunity to realise my dream existence. This has not been without some sacrifice and risk to my financial security – but, up to today, things have always worked out in the end.
Now there is the question of the degree of my everyday enclosure. This is where I feel I would like to do a little better and be more rigorous for more of the time.
My current situation is that, assuming there is no need for excessive exertion and there is no heat wave, I feel completely comfortable wearing my normal suit all day, every day. That’s a medium thickness, close fitting cat suit with feet and hands plus a pair of black surgical gloves inside the suit and two pairs of similar, but different sized gloves outside the suits gloves. The gloves are a critical part of the setup as I need to get them exactly right to enable me to type at a computer all day and yet not cause any circulation problems. The same goes for the fit of all the rubber – but the hands, feet neck and head seem to be the most critical to get right.
With this I typically wear a hood which is either part of the suit or has a substantial overlapping seal. The hood will either be one with built in mask or, more often, it may be one with small openings for mouth, nostrils and eyes – over which I can wear separate goggles and a respirator mask over the mouth & nose. A hood with open mouth makes it easier to quickly switch to a configuration compatible with talking on the phone.
The hood and attachments remain a physical endurance challenge for me, even in situations where the rest of the suit seems very comfortable and the natural thing to be wearing. I used to have the same thing with my hands, but having integral gloves in my suit for years has meant that uncovering just my hands is not an option and I have had to adjust to the experience.
Sometimes I wear the whole lot for more than 24 hours at a stretch, but more typically I would change the head configuration through a day. In order of things that I normally want to remove or replace as I become uncomfortable are: any re-breathing kit, then goggles, then anything I can remove from the face and then finally the whole hood in extremis. After that I am usually fine, but it’s not long before I start to feel uncomfortable with a bear face – so it all starts to go back on again.
Now that the weather is cooler here, I am forcing myself to keep totally covered for a minimum of 8 hours a day and then only exposing the mouth / nostril holes for the rest of the day. Eventually, I think this will feel as natural to me as being sealed in latex from the neck down does now. At the moment I start feeling a little restricted half way through the days and get a strong desire to strip to the neck by evening. These feeling seem to be more habitual or psychological than physical discomfort and just removing the mask covering my mouth can pacify the feeling for a while. Eventually though the feelings to uncover the face can return and sometimes I find my will crumbling and I take time out of the hood.
If I take a few minutes out, no big deal you may think, but I see it differently. I want to get to the stage where wearing rubber all over is the norm and from past experience I know that part of the way this will happen is to stop thinking of it as something you wear for a particular reason and to not have an association with taking it off at a particular stage. For example, the first hurdle all lifestyle rubber fetishists have to overcome is the instinct to strip after sex - and the way I deal with this is I NEVER remove my rubber suit after sex, for at least one hour, no matter what! Once into this habit, the rubber suit becomes so much more than just a route to an orgasm.
Another important stage for me was wearing rubber every day it was compatible with what I planned for the day – even if I didn’t feel any desire to. I admit I am still working hard on this one and occasionally do fail. Why is this one important? Well, for one, I have never regretted being in latex once I forced myself to, and the consequences of not wearing rubber for a few days are being totally over stimulated when I do wear it on the first day back. Sounds great to be so totally sexually over-stimulated, but not when the aim is being sealed in rubber as just part of your everyday existence. When you are trying hard to catch up on work or whatever, holding back the orgasms hour after hour, it can be a total torture. It can almost feel like an agony. The only cure for me seems to avoid spending a day or more out of rubber, if possible. Wearing it every day, I still feel very stimulated but not to the extent I am out of control.
So how does this apply to my hood / mask issues? Well I think that if I can get to the stage where I only uncover my head when there is a practical reason to, rather than because I desire relief from enclosure, I can start to adjust to the experience as I disassociate the feeling of psychological endurance with the wearing of the hood.
Some people desire to be tested by the feeling of endurance. But for me, the wearing rubber as an arduous endurance you must suffer is not compatible with wearing it on daily basis. I think that with that mind set I would fail.
I am hoping that one day, wearing rubber over every inch, regularly 100% totally enclosed for long periods of time will be at least as comfortable for me as most people find wearing “normal” clothes for the same period. From my experience so far, I think it is totally feasible to adjust to this, but know that I am not there yet and that I will need to be very committed to achieve my goal.
For me the journey continues…
Sorry if I have led people to think otherwise, but I cannot claim to be a 24/7/7 rubberist, let alone spend my whole life in total enclosure with breath control. Although I probably wear rubber for more of the time than most people wear non-rubber (day) clothes, I am not as fastidious (or as I think of it: “dedicated”) - or as brave as those who spend all there time totally sealed in latex, such as the lifestyle documented by Ladyll. I look on that kind of life of rubber commitment as an ideal to aspire towards, but not one I have achieved, yet…
That’s not to say I just wear rubber as and when I feel the need, and then only for a few hours until I have “fixed” my need. That’s not me either.
It’s more accurate to say I routinely wear just rubber on most days. The amount of time I spend sealed up depends on what I need to do and where I need to be. I wish that rubber was suitable for every situation – but I find it just isn’t. If I go to a business meeting I wear business clothes. If I want to go up a mountain, I wear outdoor clothes. If I go sailing in the north Atlantic I wrap up in tons of sailing clothes! Sometimes I manage to wear these with rubber underneath but it’s sad to say that, for me, the 24/7/7 is not compatible with all the things I currently have to do with my time.
Luckily, and through some perseverance, I have been able to tailor a substantial part of my life to minimise the “out of rubber body experiences” - something I am keen to maintain and expand on. This is the real challenge – before I worry about the practicalities I have to constantly endeavour to maintain an everyday life compatible with my need for long periods of rubber encasement. I have to optimise the mundane life to give me the opportunity to realise my dream existence. This has not been without some sacrifice and risk to my financial security – but, up to today, things have always worked out in the end.
Now there is the question of the degree of my everyday enclosure. This is where I feel I would like to do a little better and be more rigorous for more of the time.
My current situation is that, assuming there is no need for excessive exertion and there is no heat wave, I feel completely comfortable wearing my normal suit all day, every day. That’s a medium thickness, close fitting cat suit with feet and hands plus a pair of black surgical gloves inside the suit and two pairs of similar, but different sized gloves outside the suits gloves. The gloves are a critical part of the setup as I need to get them exactly right to enable me to type at a computer all day and yet not cause any circulation problems. The same goes for the fit of all the rubber – but the hands, feet neck and head seem to be the most critical to get right.
With this I typically wear a hood which is either part of the suit or has a substantial overlapping seal. The hood will either be one with built in mask or, more often, it may be one with small openings for mouth, nostrils and eyes – over which I can wear separate goggles and a respirator mask over the mouth & nose. A hood with open mouth makes it easier to quickly switch to a configuration compatible with talking on the phone.
The hood and attachments remain a physical endurance challenge for me, even in situations where the rest of the suit seems very comfortable and the natural thing to be wearing. I used to have the same thing with my hands, but having integral gloves in my suit for years has meant that uncovering just my hands is not an option and I have had to adjust to the experience.
Sometimes I wear the whole lot for more than 24 hours at a stretch, but more typically I would change the head configuration through a day. In order of things that I normally want to remove or replace as I become uncomfortable are: any re-breathing kit, then goggles, then anything I can remove from the face and then finally the whole hood in extremis. After that I am usually fine, but it’s not long before I start to feel uncomfortable with a bear face – so it all starts to go back on again.
Now that the weather is cooler here, I am forcing myself to keep totally covered for a minimum of 8 hours a day and then only exposing the mouth / nostril holes for the rest of the day. Eventually, I think this will feel as natural to me as being sealed in latex from the neck down does now. At the moment I start feeling a little restricted half way through the days and get a strong desire to strip to the neck by evening. These feeling seem to be more habitual or psychological than physical discomfort and just removing the mask covering my mouth can pacify the feeling for a while. Eventually though the feelings to uncover the face can return and sometimes I find my will crumbling and I take time out of the hood.
If I take a few minutes out, no big deal you may think, but I see it differently. I want to get to the stage where wearing rubber all over is the norm and from past experience I know that part of the way this will happen is to stop thinking of it as something you wear for a particular reason and to not have an association with taking it off at a particular stage. For example, the first hurdle all lifestyle rubber fetishists have to overcome is the instinct to strip after sex - and the way I deal with this is I NEVER remove my rubber suit after sex, for at least one hour, no matter what! Once into this habit, the rubber suit becomes so much more than just a route to an orgasm.
Another important stage for me was wearing rubber every day it was compatible with what I planned for the day – even if I didn’t feel any desire to. I admit I am still working hard on this one and occasionally do fail. Why is this one important? Well, for one, I have never regretted being in latex once I forced myself to, and the consequences of not wearing rubber for a few days are being totally over stimulated when I do wear it on the first day back. Sounds great to be so totally sexually over-stimulated, but not when the aim is being sealed in rubber as just part of your everyday existence. When you are trying hard to catch up on work or whatever, holding back the orgasms hour after hour, it can be a total torture. It can almost feel like an agony. The only cure for me seems to avoid spending a day or more out of rubber, if possible. Wearing it every day, I still feel very stimulated but not to the extent I am out of control.
So how does this apply to my hood / mask issues? Well I think that if I can get to the stage where I only uncover my head when there is a practical reason to, rather than because I desire relief from enclosure, I can start to adjust to the experience as I disassociate the feeling of psychological endurance with the wearing of the hood.
Some people desire to be tested by the feeling of endurance. But for me, the wearing rubber as an arduous endurance you must suffer is not compatible with wearing it on daily basis. I think that with that mind set I would fail.
I am hoping that one day, wearing rubber over every inch, regularly 100% totally enclosed for long periods of time will be at least as comfortable for me as most people find wearing “normal” clothes for the same period. From my experience so far, I think it is totally feasible to adjust to this, but know that I am not there yet and that I will need to be very committed to achieve my goal.
For me the journey continues…
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