Posted on 07/30/2017 11:13:55 AM PDT by aquila48
Tykables, the only brick and mortar storefront in the United States dedicated to adult baby diaper lovers (ABDL), is located in Mount Prospect, a suburb of Chicago. Its customers, John-Michael Williams, the store’s owner says, include those ABDL who have a fetish or sexual interest in dressing like or pretending to be a baby; people who have a medical need for adult diapers and enjoy the brand’s options; and individuals, some of whom are on the autism spectrum, who find the diapers and child-style clothing provide a sense of comfort and stress relief.
To be clear, those in the ABDL community are not interested in sexual contact with children or babies, as some people mistakenly believe, but are interested in items and activities related to behaving like or pretending to be children. What’s more, some ABDL aren’t interested in role playing as a child at all and instead find pleasure in the texture or sound or feeling of clothing and pieces associated with the community.
Saying that people who identify as ABDL are misunderstood and maligned would be a colossal understatement. Even worse, not only do they face ridicule for having desires or inclinations that exist outside of what is considered by mainstream culture to “normal,” there are few places beyond the internet to express their identity, find community or buy goods related to their interests.
For those reasons, the mere existence of Tykables, which offers all three, is something of a marvel. What’s even more incredible to me, though, is that aside from some Mount Prospect residents who initially expressed concern about the storefront after it opened last spring, it’s operated for almost a year without incident. In fact, Williams recently told me that he hasn’t even experienced so much as someone ringing the doorbell and running away.
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Hey, stop making fun of Al Frankenstein. Wait, on second thought, carry on.
At one time another name for a place like the Huffington Post was called a Mental Hospital.
Another sick fetish we’d know nothing about if it weren’t for the internet. Now there’s actually an identifiable market being served, isn’t the free market wonderful.
Gee thanks to Obama how many ABDL do we have in the US military with the DoD buying their diapers?
I saw this episode on the original CSI(King Baby)
I don’t know if they’re all crazy.
Remember that female astronaut who wore one so she didn’t have to stop to pee on her long trip to murder that woman she thought was after her boyfriend?
OK....they are all crazy.
Man with penis and Y chromosome putting on a dress and identifying as a woman (transgender) = perfectly normal
I was in Times Square two weeks ago with my twin boys and it was sick to see an adult parading around in a diaper. Seriously? This guy should be off the street and under observation or treatment.
And overall, how about some community standards? Where is that line today? No bestiality in public, everything else goes? Perversion okay, sex okay, diapers only on adults, women (not even pretty) with painted clothes okay?
Off on a tangent, back in the 70s and early 80s when I visit NYC, the problem was whores and drugs. Now it is perversion. Consistent is the trashiness of the place, the rats in the subways, etc. The subway stations are beyond filthy. Okay, back to the topic. Adults parading around in diapers is just wrong.
Look being a bit odd quirky or uniqueness is one thing ....
but this is under the category of Transanity.... transitioning from sane to insane
Excellent point.
“At one time another name for a place like the Huffington Post was called a Mental Hospital.”
And perhaps one can now sympathize with the old doctors’ sense that such people need to be SHOCKED...real good.
I only clicked on this article to see that picture. I can’t believe it took until post 11 for it to show up, lol!!!
trans-insane
That depends.
I used to think that movie “Idiocracy” was exaggerated. Now I think it didn’t go far enough.
Check out “People’s Republic,” and “Indian Country” by Kurt Schlichter. They’re beginning to look like the logical conclusion to this insanity.
Wasn’t an old diaper man arrested in Durango Colorado for murdering his son who saw photos of “dad” on a diaper?
http://kdvr.com/2017/07/22/dylan-redwines-father-arrested-in-sons-death-boys-mother-says/
http://kdvr.com/2017/07/22/dylan-redwines-father-arrested-in-sons-death-boys-mother-says/
OMG. these people are just nuts.
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