fandomhigh | Sexual Safety [period 2, Friday]

"Good morning!" Irene was dressed rather differently than usual today -- she'd pulled her hair up into a high ponytail, and was wearing a pair of sleek yoga leggings. This probably had something to do, if you were a guessing sort of student, with the ten or so yoga mats laid out on the floor. There were comfy sweats and a dressing screen at the back of the room as well, for anyone who hadn't had the foresight to somehow know to wear flexible clothes to class.

"One of the most embarrassing things to deal with," Irene said, "is a sexual injury. Let me say first and foremost that if you aren't sure if something will fit somewhere, or if it will be easily extracted once it is in, don't put it in there. But, if you do anyway, don't be too afraid to go to the hospital and to be honest with your medical professionals -- they've seen it all, and they need to know what happened in order to help."

She clapped her hands together briskly, continuing, "However, if you're not being adventurous with your orifices -- and again, if you want to, please do some Googling first so as to avoid totally preventable things -- there's still always the risk of hurting yourself through the sheer act of sex. It's often like working out, or wrestling -- sex can be, obviously, very physical. I always recommend stretching beforehand, though of course that can be a bit of a moodkiller -- 'Hold on, luv, I have to stretch out my hamstrings before you bend me over,' and so on. So a good way to ensure that you won't pull anything is to stretch in advance if you know or predict you might be getting laid."

She gestured to a table where she'd put together some small handouts with varying poses demonstrated. "I'm a big fan of yoga in general -- it helps the mind as well as the body -- but from a purely physiological standpoint, yoga and pilates have been demonstrated to help with sex and flexibility, and the meeting of the two."

She plucked up a book from the same table, smiling. "Try out the poses in the handout and see what feels good and what feels tight, and stretch accordingly. Then flip through this, and see what I mean about how stretching beforehand is not only a good idea, but a huge part of sex since pretty much forever."

[links NSFW! Even if it goes to Wikipedia, the Kama Sutra is very much illustrated!]

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Stretchily.

Ada Miller

Kathy Li

Jasper Dent

Cosima Niehaus

Hanna Heller

Johnny Storm

Or get your ohm on.

Try out those stretches, and flip through the Kama Sutra and get ~~intimidated~~ inspired!

Ada looked at her handout, and if she seemed more interested in the pictures than the words, well... the pictures, she recognized. While she could pick out a word or two she recognized, most of it just looked like a squigly blob to her.

"I know some of these!" she realized, delighted. "The hoochie girls use them as warm-ups before dancing! I always thought they just made them up!"

Thank you, Ada, for sharing.

"What is a hoochie girl?" Hanna asked, curious, stretching out her legs.

"Dancers," Ada said, miming breasts larger than her own. She'd need a lot more bust if she ever wanted to be a hoochie girl, which she didn't. They rehearsed constantly, never getting to run the midway. "Lots of legs and feathers and sequins and not a whole lot of fabric; big smiles, big eyes, high kicks, light fingers, and big plans for a romance or some idiot's wallet."

Hanna blinked, trying to imagine that. Like showgirls in casinos, it sounded like? "Ahh. So, this is good for dancing, as well as-- sex?" For a class about sex, it was sometimes rather awkward to actually mention it. She tried not to snicker. "I didn't know it was supposed to be this athletic."

"Yeah, and now I'm wondering if the trapeze artists do it too, and the tiger trainer." She rummaged in her pocket and pulled out some hard candies, offering one to Hanna. "Anyone who has to move fast and tricky could use it, really."

"Hmm. Thank you." Hanna took one and unwrapped it, stretching out her left leg and flexing her toes, thinking. "I stretch before doing sparring. Or running. But not like this. Maybe it will help with that too." She smiled, and popped the candy in her mouth. "That sounds like you lived at a circus, yes?"

"Traveling carnival," she said, nodding. "More rides and games, not as much of a single big top show."

"I think I would like that, very much," Hanna observed. "Did you, hmm, participate? In the shows?"

"Nah, I'm a scout to hang posters and I still the games," she answered, sucking on her candy. "And a barker, one of the best they've got for the Biological Impossibilities."

Ada grinned, utterly unrepentant. "I like yelling at the townies until,they pay up to go in instead of trying to peek from outside."

Hanna giggled, remembering the abandoned amusement park in Berlin, trying to imagine a carnival in that place. "What are the - Biological Impossibilities?" Hanna asked, being careful with her pronunciation.

Just to test the flexibility, she did the splits, not quite achieving the bendiness of Kathy.

"It's the modern an' polite way of saying 'freakshow,'" Ada said bluntly, checking her handout again and trying the one that looked like a snake or a statue of a sphinx. "Bearded ladies, conjoined twins, unicorns, giants, mermaids, that sort of thing."

Hanna tilted her head to watch Ada, then turned over to try that one, feeling her back muscles stretch. "Real giants? Or... I don't know." She curved back and asked, "They are okay with just-- being in a show, to be stared at?"

"Who cares what a bunch of strange Townies think? If they want to point and gawk, they'd do so anyway, and at least this way we're making 'em pay for it," Ada said, shrugging. "The big draw of our carnival is the Alabama Mermaid, and she loves meeting new people. Any Townie gets nasty with Marti sees the business-end of Uncle's boot real fast."

Ada cocked her head, studying Hanna. "You haven't ever been to a carnival?"

"No," Hanna admitted, turning over to do a back head-stand. "I have been to an amusement park, after it had been closed. But, I grew up in a wilderness area. No towns. Definitely no carnivals. It sounds like fun. I don't think I would be a good barker, though."

A flip through the Kama Sutra had Kathy turning bright red, she she was going to hastily put it down and focus on yoga.

...And certainly not anything you could do with yoga, no way.

Jasper wasn't all that flexible but he'd take trying to stretch muscles that didn't get much stretching over looking at the Kama Sutra. That way lay nothing good.

Cosima wasn't quite brave enough to look at the Kama Sutra in public, so it was yoga for her, too. She almost managed an entire sun salute sequence without wobbling.

Interesting. Streeeeetch. The shoulder stand was fun. So were some of the others. Hanna was pretty flexible anyway, but she kept giggling (forgive her) when trying to imagine how these would work with sex.

She will be happy to demonstrate any poses! Not like that.

Namaste.

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