Recalling a few of the stories on big closet lately, I was struck by this news story.
http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_mews/2011/05/04/6584344=an-inf...
By Melissa Dahl
When 29-year-old Stanley gets home from a hard day at work, he just wants to kick back with a nice bottle of milk, his pacifier and maybe play around with some Legos. As an "adult baby," the California man likes to pretend he's an infant, while being cared for by his roommate, a former nurse. It's called infantalism, and although for many it can be a kind of sexual fetish, that's not the case for Stanley, he tells National Geographic.
"For most of us, you're doing it to relax, you come home from work, and you change into baby mode, and, you know, you put away all your adult stuff and everything gets on hold," explains Stanley, who's been doing this since he was 14.
Tonight, Stanley will be featured on the National Geographic show "Taboo," where he'll get to show off all the customized baby gear he's constructed, including an oversized drop-side crib and a regular-sized playpen that he reinforced to be able to support 350 pounds. (He's also building a super-sized high chair, a project he's been planning for a year and a half.)
More at the link
Comments
dangerous
The government issued a ban on drop-side cribs. I hope poor little Stanley doesn't become a SIDS victim.
Disgusted by comments
Samirah M. Johnstone
Infantalist link taken down?
I tried to take a look at it yesterday and it would not load. So, I just tried it again and it was gone. Hmmmm. People probably think he is some sort of sexual predator ... is there no end to ignorance? If his horn is honked so easily, well more power to him. At least he can reach the button.
I've finally accepted that there are needs, but probably no button, and if there were, the FBI would be guarding it like a hawk, to make sure that I did not get to it.
And what sort of person would we bond to if they were willing to meet our needs? I know exactly who that is. The man is in what I write, but I will never meet him in this life. That's OK. Maybe in the next?
Khadiah
link changed
Looks like the link changed. It is now at
http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/05/04/6584344-an-inf...
Martina
I was watching CSI
about 6 years ago with this friend of my sister's, a guy about 60, visiting from Alaska.
And the CSI episode had a casino executive who was an adult baby, who got murdered.
And the guy I was watching it with, he flipped out like he was on a bad acid trip.
So physically repulsed he couldn't watch it- Going OH MY GOD NO NO NO NO!
one of the more weirdly unexplainable things I ever saw, his reaction.
Much weirder than the Adult Baby subculture on the cop show. I always wondered,
was it too close to home for him? Latent babyism or whatever you would call it
coming to the surface? Anyway I ripped off this weird event & put it in PLAY NICE.
I don't get someone wanting to being a baby, but I'd love to be a baby-sitter.
Listening to Justin Beiber and yacking on the phone with my girlfriends all night,
so I guess I'm weird too, except I can kind of hide it better, what with walking upright and all.
And the nice thing about being a 55 year old man whose a 13 year old girl
babysitting a 35 year old man who's a six month old baby is when the fucking brat
wont stop crying you can shake them as hard as you want and not get in trouble...
~~hugs, Veronica
What borders on pure insanity?
Canada and Mexico.
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I'm a toddler, so I can
I'm a toddler, so I can toddle around just fine. :P
The problem with that CSI episode, and pretty much every other depiction on TV of ABs, is that they look for the person that has the most shock value. It would be as if every time you saw a show with TVs and TGs and they looked like something out of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, bad makeup, big hair, gaudy clothes and made it sound as if that was how they always dressed.
It's entirely possible that the guy is an AB, and in the crib/closet, most are or knows one. A lot of ABs I know that saw the show had a similar if somewhat milder response.