Posted by oznl on July 04, 2008 at 22:14 [210.49.252.143]
In Reply to: New generation of DLs? posted by gcwetter on July 04, 2008 at 20:30
What little research exists surrounding our unusual predilection suggests that if anything, the reverse is true: ABDL behaviours can be spawned by toilet training too early rather than too late.
A number of academics (including the famous-to-us Dr T J Speaker) have pointed out that the sensations surrounding wearing and using nappies is erotic for infants. Their theorising then goes on to postulate that the premature withdrawal of the opportunity to live out this phase (by early toilet training) can for some, engender an adult desire to resume sexual behaviours involving nappies/diapers. They’re not saying that it explains every ABDL that you meet but rather that early toilet training is a statistically significant marker.
If we accept this, it follows that allowing a child to fully satiate their interest in experiencing nappies will resolve the matter and make them less likely to return to such behaviours as adults.
I recall the child of a friend. Although a friend, she was a hopelessly indulgent mother and incapable of imposing any discipline or order on the child who was consequentially a militant and thoroughly disagreeable toddler. She briefly attempted toilet training when the child was 3 but abandoned it quickly because “he didn’t want to”. The child was quite articulate for a 3 year old and utterly uninhibited about telling his mother precisely what he wanted without fear or favour. He adamantly insisted that he only wanted to urinate or defecate in his nappies and would often resist attempts to change him afterwards.
This persisted on until he was well past 4 years of age. I suspect he had pretty good bladder & bowel control. He could choose when and where he wanted to use his nappies and would sometimes indicate precisely what he was going to do in his pants well before he did it. As school loomed, his mother fretted but as usual, was unwilling to impose any behavioural standards on him and so she shopped and shopped for ever-larger size nappies.
Eventually, the child announced that he was tired of wearing nappies and for his mother to take them off him. There was no need to toilet train him – apart from one or two forgetful incidents, he had excellent control and I expect, had had so for some time. It seemed like he just needed to be satiated of a desire to use nappies before moving on and had a mother that tolerated this.
I suspect this child will not be an ABDL (more likely a career criminal or a serial killer but that’s another story...)
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