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Fetishes: From Diapers to Smoking Girls with Balloons
Informed consent is essential to healthy, fetish sexual play.
People frequently label behaviors that are unusual and difficult to understand as sick, deviant, and perverted, while psychiatrists have labeled anything unusual or difficult to understand, like fetishes, as pathology.
The following correspondence got me thinking more about fetishes:
Hi Dr. Olson,
I was born with urinary issues that left me dependent on diapers. When I hit puberty, I had a new problem. Not only was I a young gay boy, but a gay boy in diapers.
The thought of spending a night with another man was out of the question. I loved sex, and I loved men, but I hated being lonely.
After I met another man who introduced me to the world of diapers as a sexual fetish, I got an education in diaper love, dad/son role play, infantilism, water sports, and many related fetishes.
I am not a role-player or an adult baby. I’m an incontinent man who finds pleasure in the sexual stimulation I get from wearing a diaper.
I have a partner, but my fetish is not a part of our sexual relationship; it is an open…
