Iâve been married to my husband for two years. Five months into our relationship (before we got married), he confessed that he was an adult baby. I was so grossed out, I was literally ill. (Why would this great guy want to be like this?) I told him he would have to choose: diapers or me. He chose me. I believed him and married him. Shortly before the birth of our child, I found out that heâd been looking at diaper porn online. I lost it. He apologized and said heâd never look at diaper porn again. Once I was free to have sex again after the birth, it was like he wasnât into it. When I asked what the deal was, he told me he wasnât into sex because diapers werenât involved. I broke down, and he agreed to talk to a counselor. But on the day we were...
Married A Disgusting Diaper Lover
First, MADDL, letâs calmly discuss this with a shrink.
âThereâs a fair bit of controversy over whether people can suppress fetishistic desires like thisâand whether itâs healthy to ask them to do so,â said Dr. David Ley, a clinical psychologist, author, and AASECT-certified sex therapist. âPersonally, I believe in some cases, depending on the support of their environment and personal relationships, it is possible, but only when these desires are relatively mild in intensity.â
Your husbandâs interest in diapersâwhich would seem to go all the way back to at least age 7âcanât be described as mild.
âGiven the apparent strength and persistence of her husbandâs interest, I think it unlikely that suppression could ever be successful,â said Dr. Ley. âIn this case, I think MADDLâs desire for her husband to have sexual desires she agrees with in order for her to be married to him is a form of sexual extortion, i.e., âIf you love me and want to be with me, youâll give up this sexual interest that I find disgusting.â Without empathy, mutual respect, communication, unconditional love, and willingness to negotiate and accommodate compromises and win-win solutions, this couple is doomed, regardless of diapers under the bed.â
Now letâs bring in a voice you rarely hear when diaper fetishists are being discussed: an actual diaper fetishist.
âThe common misconception with ABDL (adult baby diaper lovers) is that they are into inappropriate thingsâlike having an interest in childrenâand this couldnât be more wrong,â said Pup Jackson, a twentysomething diaper lover and kink educator. âAB is not always sexual. Sometimes itâs a way for a person to disconnect from their adult life and become someone else. With DLs, they arenât necessarily into age playâthey enjoy diapers and the way they feel, much like people enjoy rubber, Lycra, or other materials. To understand her husband, MADDL needs to ask questions about why her husband enjoys diapers and figure out how to deal with itâbecause a lot of people want/need these kinds of outlets in their life.â
Okay, MADDL, now itâs time for me to share my thoughts with you, butâChrist almightyâI hardly know where to begin.
âGreat guysâ can be into diapers; this is not who your husband âchooses to be,â since people donât choose their kinks any more than they choose their sexual orientation; outing your husband to his mother was unforgivable and could ultimately prove to be a fatal-to-your-marriage violation of trust; a counselor isnât going to be able to reach into your husbandâs head and yank out his kink. (âI absolutely hate that therapists are seen as sexual enforcers who are supposed to carve away any undesirable sexual interests and make people ânormal,ââ said Dr. Ley.)
Youâre clearly not interested in understanding your husbandâs kink, per Pup Jacksonâs advice, nor are you open to working out an accommodation that allows your husband to explore his kink on his own, per Dr. Leyâs advice. Instead youâve convinced yourself that if you pitch a big enough fit, your husband will choose a spouse who makes him feel terrible about himself over a kink that gives him pleasure. And thatâs not how this is going to play out.
Your husband told you he was into diapers before he married youâhe laid his kink cards on the table at five months, long before you scrambled your DNA togetherâand he backed down when you freaked out. He may have thought he could choose you over his kink, MADDL, but now he knows what Dr. Ley couldâve told you two before the wedding: Suppressing a kink just isnât possible. So if you canât live with the diaper lover you marriedâif you canât accept his kink, allow him to indulge it on his own, and refrain from blowing up when you stumble onto any evidenceâdo that diaper-loving husband of yours a favor and divorce him.
Follow Dr. David Ley on Twitter @DrDavidLey and Pup Jackson on Twitter @pupjacksonbitez.
Iâm a 33-year-old man, and for years Iâve practiced edging. Recently Iâve experimented with long-term edges, where Iâll withhold coming for days or weeks while still maintaining a daily masturbation practice. I love living on that horny edge, and Iâve even learned to love the ache in my balls. But is this safe? Am I setting myself up for prostate/testicular trouble down the road?
Priapus Precipice
A study conducted by researchers from Boston University School of Public Health and Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health found that men who masturbated at least 21 times per monthâmasturbated and ejaculatedâwere at lower risk of developing prostate cancer than men who ejaculated less than 21 times per month (âEjaculation Frequency and Risk of Prostate Cancer,â European Urology). Read the study, PP, weigh the slightly increased risks against the immediate (and horny) rewards, and make an informed (and horny) choice.