About "adult babies" and "littles"

[HappyAsAGrownup]

I've recently found out someone I know well has been attending events for people who identify as "littles" - ie adults who roleplay being babies, toddlers, or children up to and including teenagers. Apparently activities include crafts and colouring, being read popular children's books at 'story time' amongst others.

This is not something I know much about although I'm familiar with adult kinks and fetishes, and while most of that stuff is just not for me, I tend to think that what people do in private is their business as long as it's consensual and doesn't hurt anyone.

But this adult baby and "littles" stuff is giving me the ick, especially as some of these events are part of much bigger bdsm/ fetish party events where the wider focus is on sexual and erotic themes. I'm thinking even if the 'regular' participants aren't actually having sex, their activities are somewhat sex-adjacent, and I'm really confused about people roleplaying as children being in this environment.

I thought I'd try and educate myself a bit (in case I'd got it horribly wrong, and so I could form a more informed opinion) but the blogs and websites i found (a lot of the resources appeared to be on closed forums which I didn't wish to join) have continued to make me feel uneasy about people roleplaying as children doing so in a sexually focussed environment.

YABU - stop clutching your pearls, adults in giant onesies and custom giant reusable nappies are fine in a bdsm/ fetish club

YANBU - this is weird AF

NB this person does not have any contact with any actual children in my life ever, nor indeed any children at all on a day-to-day basis AFAIK

I've not read most of the comments because I find this stuff too awful and repulsive to think about. but I do want to say to all those people saying "oh no I better stop using the term littles" - no!!! It's a normal word for a child that is why they've chosen it. We should not stop using language the normal way to indulge a fetish. Just as we shouldn't stop using the word "woman" just because some people use it incorrectly.

I think that these kinks should be shamed too. There's a weird prioritisation of sexual preferences in today's society. Just because something is a sexual preference doesn't mean it's automatically good. Some of people's urges and desires are bad. If someone has a fetish for strangling women that's something that speaks ill of them as a person.

It's really hard to believe that someone who is turned on by a 42 year old man dressed like a baby would be turned on by an actual baby tbh. Is there any evidence that one leads to another?

First of all, you can be turned on by more than one thing, so not all paedos are exclusively attracted to children are they?

Sam can't be a nice because he has a wife? That's not how it works.

And someone who's crossed a line into getting aroused by nappies, children's voices and other associations may not be be able to control what else they're attracted to.

I'd also imagine people into this stuff are quite socially isolated and could easily end up getting into more stuff that most people don't

See, any time someone says, unprompted, "I'm not a [racist/wife-beater/paedo/murderer] honest" ... well, most likely they are.

It could be a way to recreate stuff they can't do in real life.

There's literally infinite reasons why this is disturbing.

We're not about to put anal sex in the same category as this shit and noncery.

To the people saying there is no evidence - we've already mentioned Maria Childres and David Challenor. Evidence enough for you?

Well, plenty of young women are having anal sex they don’t want or enjoy, and that is actually physically damaging them, so…..

But they are mimicking sex with babies, which can lead to real life paedophilia. How can this not concern you?

Grim as Fuck. Some stuff should be shamed. In fact society largely works off it. Its shame that stops a lot of us doing unpleasant things.

@GodDammitCecil Anal sex has risks but it's not the same as above the surface paedophilia or actual paedophilia

Funny this thread has come up. I was actually watching the black comedy, Attack of the Adult Babies (created by Paddy from Emmerdale) earlier today. Just a very weird movie 😦.

That said, this thread (& the film earlier ) has made me wonder whether DH is a 'little'. Can't imagine him wearing a nappy and I have certainly never heard him do baby talk. But there have been times he sits on my lap or I have given him piggyback rides to bed. Both when he's just in his pants (maybe briefs are a bit nappy like). Or is it a gender reversal thing as opposed to age play?

Could be worse, had an ex who liked watching YouTube videos of women pooing their knickers purpose.

With a statistical sample of one, obviously not.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's revolting. But that's not the same as saying it leads to pedophilia, in which case it should be banned by law not just judged by society.

I disagree.

The fact Schools are teaching ANAL to our children.....see trying to normalise it to girls.

So you don't think that homosexual males need to learn how to have sex safely?

VOM

YANBU. This is troubling.

It is weird AF but YABU

It has nothing to do with sexualising children.

A peado is not attracted to a baby because it wears a nappy.

It is very obviously a grown adult, which they’re not interested in.

That is like saying a person who finds a dwarf attractive must be a peado because they are the same height as some children.

I’m sure there are some peados that will date dwarfs or watch dwarf porn to try and normalise how they are feeling but if they are attracted to children then even an adult dwarf is not going to do anything for them.

It does make me feel uncomfortable but it’s very unlikely that peados are involved with this, as fully consenting adults is not what they’re into.

Tbh even if this was a kink for peados then I’d rather they do it with consenting adults than children anyway.

If you want to understand it OP I recommend you read Lissy's Daddy by Katie Douglas, it is a fictionalised account but it really digs deep into the whys and how it all works from the POV of the female character and was written by a woman who lived what she wrote about. There is a whole series. It fits into BDSM because there's nowhere else for it to be. A lot of littles are asexual. 🤷‍♀️

I think it's time to reintroduce shame to society.

Its grim and I absolutely don't believe it's completely innocent. How come play acting and dressing as a little girl in a club is ok, but they would quite rightly be investigated if pretending to be a little girl online? I don't care if its some misguided "therapy" (and I don't see legitimate charities such as Rape Crisis suggesting this as a credible route for coping with trauma!) - anything related to childhood being used as a fetish is wrong.

When someone's behaviour makes them feel it necessary to say "I'm not a pervert!!", then hard drives could probably do with a check up

It’s another form of penetration, lots of women enjoy it.

let’s normalise it

let’s normalise it

No, let's not please.

Again, that’s not having sex with a baby

No. No desire to normalise this. Some people are screwed up. I tend not to socialise with adult baby fetich creeps