Answering Some Questions...

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Quick Question: Comfortable With Lockdown?

Does lockdown affect someone who has been living for years locked into totally enclosing rubber?

I am well past the point of remembering why I must be totally sealed in rubber all day, whenever possible. I only know that I am well-conditioned to live this way whenever it is physically practical and socially acceptable.  The physical conditioning and adaption were an essential pre-requisite to being able to wear rubber for long periods, but the mental conditioning was the key.  A key that locked me into the apparently permanent need to be totally enclosed in rubber at every opportunity, for as long as I can.  The strength and simplicity of my conditioned dependency allows me to detach myself from the “why” and look at things as someone who just “is” living a good deal of time totally enclosed.

Living as I do is not without challenges, but I am not going to list them all here.

I think the most difficult challenge of total enclosure lifestyle for me has been social isolation.  Most of society (in my locality) is prejudice against rubber clothing in general and men dressing in anything that could be interpreted as a sexual way.  As an aside, I observe that for many this rule does not apply to women to the same degree, but there are too many things to discuss on the reasons for this to cover here.  Back to the point: the way that I and many others deal with this is to not engage with general society while in rubber.  Thus, the challenge is that the longer you spend totally enclosed in rubber, the longer you spend socially isolated.  Despite many being “comfortable with our own company             “, I would imagine most of us ultimately are affected by long periods of social isolation.  This could be both because it affects what we can do in public (e.g. travel, exercise…) and also at some point we need some degree of social interaction.

With my lifestyle I quickly became socially isolated years ago.  It effectively defines one of the barriers for how much time I can spend in rubber.  I became something to be aware of, manages and come to some sort of crazy balance with.

So does lockdown affect someone who has been living for years, socially isolated while locked into total enclosure?  I obviously don’t really have way of being objective to compare my experience with those of other people, as I only live one type of life.  However, within my experience, I would say it definitely DOES affect me.  I allocate a proportion of my life to cramming in all the things I cannot do when totally enclosed in rubber and, in lockdown, what I can do in that time is totally different.  So it must affect me. 

Am I able to cope with lockdown better than most people?  I would say yes. as social isolation is in no way new for me, just a bit more extreme and prolonged during lockdown.

There is another way that lockdown affects me.  The Covid menace allows me to detach even further from the “why I do it” and I can become an interested bystander.  A self-submissive part of me excels.  Being totally sealed now makes perfect sense, and my masked and filtered/treated air supply becomes a necessity to help try to avoid infection.  I can allow myself to think questioning thoughts like, “why am I in this total enclosure” and “can I take it off”, knowing that the answer will be that after all this time, this is not the time to consider breaking my rubber seal for a millisecond longer than necessary.  I now know I will want to be totally sealed due to both my conditioning and my dread of the alternative. 

What options do I have, right now, today?  Well in my mind, the only option in town is to stay safely sealed in rubber for the rest of the day.  My rubber skin will try its best to protect me from everything outside.  This gives me a warm feeling.

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