Are you fed up with googling adult diapers in your quest for the best deals on incontinence products and instead, coming up with page after page of unhelpful links to AB/DL (Adult Babies/Diaper Lovers) sites? I have been frustrated by this experience since I purposely try to avoid the murky places the internet is more than willing to take me. You know - "as a man thinketh in his heart" and all that spiritual stuff. I find that when dealing with life's normal and sometimes abundant adversities, it is important to keep my mind in healthy places. I would prefer to not be constantly confronted with the need to sort between good or dubious material. The constant demand is tiring.
That being said, the other day I finally decided to hit a you-tube link to a syndicated talk show featuring Adult Babies and Diaper Lovers. My rationale was that this show had been broadcast on regular television so how perverse could it be? Despite the obvious holes in my logic, I was neither horrified nor titillated by the outcome. The video portrayed an attractive young woman admitting to secretly enjoying wearing babyish clothes and diapers. She had done so since the age of six when she started sneaking nappies from relatives' diaper bags or spending her allowance on them at the drugstore. She explained that this wasn't in any way a sexual thing for her; it was a way to shed stress and be comforted. She claimed also to not have suffered any childhood trauma that made her seek out this pastime. Next her boyfriend was asked how he felt about it when he first learned of this quirk. He answered he was OK with it because "I know everybody's strange." Fair enough.
So then what was to be a brief you-tube foray took on a research life of its own. In the process, I learned a lot and dispelled some preconceived notions. Infantilism is the clinical term for the fascinations or fetishes of the adult baby or diaper lover. It does not appear to be a mental disorder according to a large body of opinion neither, in most cases, is its behavior claimed to be tied to sexual gratification. Sexual activity is very often kept separate from the fetish. The majority of AB/DL discussion and social groups make a point of rejecting pedophiles.
It seems that most of these folks use the paraphernalia of baby life to regain glimpses of their childhood happiness and to recall the comfort and lack of stress they had as children. I learned that there are even special nurseries in the U.S. where adults can engage in baby play and then drift off to sleep in over-sized cribs. Most of these gentle folk do not soil their diapers, according to what I have learned, although there is a small percentage who do enjoy having their dirty diaper changed by a well-paid consort.
I do not identify with this fascination, but I definitely understand the desire to shed stress, and to return to a child-like state of care-free bliss. I suppose there's nothing strange about this desire; some of us seek relief in a bottle, or worse, and this is quite innocuous really. Still, our escapes from reality can end up complicating grownup life even further, I think. At one point near the end of this little research project I saw a photo posted on a website of a grown man wearing diapers and sucking on a pacifier. That's when I decided that I knew enough about this fetish and I could quit looking any further. Now I'm back to just looking for the best online deals I can find.
That being said, the other day I finally decided to hit a you-tube link to a syndicated talk show featuring Adult Babies and Diaper Lovers. My rationale was that this show had been broadcast on regular television so how perverse could it be? Despite the obvious holes in my logic, I was neither horrified nor titillated by the outcome. The video portrayed an attractive young woman admitting to secretly enjoying wearing babyish clothes and diapers. She had done so since the age of six when she started sneaking nappies from relatives' diaper bags or spending her allowance on them at the drugstore. She explained that this wasn't in any way a sexual thing for her; it was a way to shed stress and be comforted. She claimed also to not have suffered any childhood trauma that made her seek out this pastime. Next her boyfriend was asked how he felt about it when he first learned of this quirk. He answered he was OK with it because "I know everybody's strange." Fair enough.
So then what was to be a brief you-tube foray took on a research life of its own. In the process, I learned a lot and dispelled some preconceived notions. Infantilism is the clinical term for the fascinations or fetishes of the adult baby or diaper lover. It does not appear to be a mental disorder according to a large body of opinion neither, in most cases, is its behavior claimed to be tied to sexual gratification. Sexual activity is very often kept separate from the fetish. The majority of AB/DL discussion and social groups make a point of rejecting pedophiles.
It seems that most of these folks use the paraphernalia of baby life to regain glimpses of their childhood happiness and to recall the comfort and lack of stress they had as children. I learned that there are even special nurseries in the U.S. where adults can engage in baby play and then drift off to sleep in over-sized cribs. Most of these gentle folk do not soil their diapers, according to what I have learned, although there is a small percentage who do enjoy having their dirty diaper changed by a well-paid consort.
I do not identify with this fascination, but I definitely understand the desire to shed stress, and to return to a child-like state of care-free bliss. I suppose there's nothing strange about this desire; some of us seek relief in a bottle, or worse, and this is quite innocuous really. Still, our escapes from reality can end up complicating grownup life even further, I think. At one point near the end of this little research project I saw a photo posted on a website of a grown man wearing diapers and sucking on a pacifier. That's when I decided that I knew enough about this fetish and I could quit looking any further. Now I'm back to just looking for the best online deals I can find.
About the Author:
About the author: Kate Kew has been caregiver to senior adults for over 30 years and is the Director of Communications for Golden Age Medical where she is building a resource library to help inform and support those who are trying to cope with senior care and incontinence for the first time. You are welcome to visit, use and add to this online library: All about adult diapers
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