How common is it for adults to wear diapers not because they needed them?

In 2020 I came across this question on-line last year in 2020 and the answer to this question is in my honourest response to this is both Yes and No,

In my personal case I had epilepsy as a adolescent in my youth aged 12/13 back in 1992/1993 and this has led me to believe that I have suspected permanent neurological damage to the muscles controlling my bladder.

However as each person is different it really depends on the situation one finds themselves in no pun intended.

Personally speaking from my perspective I wear them both because of the fact I have to do what ever keeps me clean and dry and this meant making some personal sacrifices since becoming partially incontinent in 2010 aged just 30, through no fault or desire of my own.

But the simple fact is that I also have to wear adult sized disposable diapers/nappies for reasons of practicality and comfort/personal hygiene.

When I am in diapers I can safely regress back to a more simple/innocent time as specially when I get stressed out or suffer from episodes of PTSD and other psychological reasons although that's a topic for another day.

And yes I fully accept that there are some who need them genuinely more than myself and at the other end of the spectrum however there are those who don't need them at all,

this puts me somewhere in the middle of these two spectrums if you can imagine a see saw as a scale of where I find myself.

but on the other side there are those who choose to wear them anyway and there's nothing wrong with that at all.

As saying goes each to their own as long as no-one gets hurt or any laws are broken,

There are also those who have to wear diapers/nappies because of the job or career they are in such as astronauts/explorers, factory workers and scientists or prison guards and or deep-sea saturation divers

and some sports such as some racing car drivers or pilots in Aerial aerobatic compititions or millitary pilot's who have to wear them because of obvious reasons.

Personally as for myself I wear them as my chosen form of under-wear in order to help avoid embarrassing situations as per my earlier replies.

As for weather its mortally wrong or right I will leave that up to you, personally speaking I don't judge anyone and never will do so.

As in my mind stigmas simply don't exist and in my humble opinion if people want or choose to wear diapers/nappies then they should not be bullied or looked down on by society,

as specially given that anyone at any point in their lives will have to wear them as specially in cases of disability or getting old.

It's about time that society as a whole comes to realize that wearing diapers/nappies doesn't make anyone less human and people should come to accept this fact

As specially given that most people like myself have hidden disabilities and to make fun of them is to automatically discriminate against these people.

Discrimination and bullying in any shape or form is not only wholly wrong but illegal, period and should be eradicated at all costs.

I don't know how common it is, but I for one wear cloth diapers and rubber pants due to a life long fetish for wearing cloth diapers, wetting my bed and my diapers during the day and becoming sexually aroused when I am in my diapers and with a girl who knows I love diapers and lets me enjoy myself with her. Especially when a girl is changing my wet diapers is a time when I become very excited. It all stems from being a late teen bedwetter and mom diapering me, which often resulted in a growing erection, especially when she cleaned and powdered my pee-pee and bottom and held my erect pee-pee in her hand as she pinned on my diapers. So now my fiancee knows all about my diaper fetish and changes my diapers. When she does that, i become erect just like when I was a teen. After hiding my diaper fetish for many years I am now very open about my love of going potty in my diapers no matter where I am-at home, or out and about with my fiancee.

I won't even try and quantify the impossible ,knowing how many people not diagnosed with incontinence who wear diapers.

I will say eith diapers being ever more discrete and trim fitting , readily available and the high cost of medical care ,many people would rather take care of it themselves instead of rolling the dice and committing to long term relationship with PCP or Urologist, if I didn't have insurance I wouldn't consult a doctor to tell me I wet and shit myself uncontrollably,tell me something I don't know ,like away to have control again.

People spend billions of dollars on everything from Tena to depend without knowing there's better more affordable available if you look .

So millions of people self treat with commonly available undergarments because they can ,being in diapers for many years and knowing what your trying to hide ,makes me a good diaper spotter ( not that I commonly do it ,or would call somebody out for wearing,my right to privacy is the same as there's) so although people expect and assume I wear diapers ,they really can't confirm it by looking ,everyone is entitled to that discretion especially from another diaper user,even if there choice of clothing screams “ falling to hide diaper,right here ”.

Be the last or gentleman who doesn't ought you,to them ,obviously vthey have wet through m or soiled there pants let them know discretely what has jappened so they can hopefully rectify it before some judgemental moron moron comes across them and makes a scene out of a natural body function.

I wear nappies 24/7 out of medical need though I have become very much DL as a result. I have no idea how common it is but My continence nurse tells me there are many adults wearing nappies for one reason or another. There is a lady I see sometimes in our town. She is in her mid 40's and obviously wears nappies the outline is always clearly visible and she is obviously not worried that it is obvious to anyone who looks that she is in nappies.

I think it's probably more common now days. With how readily available and you can have them discreetly deliver to your front door. I used to get embarrassed to buy them from a big box store, but now that I can order them online and have a huge selection…no problem.

I suspect that many more people wear diapers either full time or part time today than did 20 years ago. I see as many adult diapers in grocery stores, drug stores and big box retailers as I do baby diapers, maybe even more. It may be that its primarily due to age and better health care that has made incontinent goods more acceptable. Even though I wear diapers primarily for fun and erotic desires, I also have reached the age where more frequent wetting, less control at night and just the inconvenience of having to find a potty to use much more often than I did 30 years ago makes wearing diapers more sensible and convenient in addition to the fetish, erotic, humiliation it excites in me.

I do believe that incontinence is not the big "taboo" it used to be as in my time as a youngster it was never spoken of whereas now you see every store has lady products and a fairly good selection of mens guards, pull ups and slips as they are reffered to and the bigger stores even sell a few different makes of the slips.

When out and about I fairly often see discarded Nappies and sadly not always in the bins, down on a local beach the cleaners usually have to deal with a few discarded Nappies which the idiots do not put in the bins but seem to leave on display 😯

I often have a look at “Nappy heaven” when in a big Tesco store !

It's probably like water running in China. Let me explain that remark:

When I was in third grade, one of the other kids was this guy named Charlie. One day Charlie said “I have a theory. I think that there's always water running somewhere. Like, right now, I'll bet you that water is running somewhere in China!” We all told him, “Charlie, there's probably water running right now somewhere else in this school building."

The point is, we sit around and wonder “Is there anybody else anywhere who likes to wear diapers like I do?” There's probably somebody else who likes wearing diapers who lives in my neighborhood. They have no idea that I love wearing mine, so I'd also have no idea that they love wearing theirs. I think there are lots of us, way more than you'd ever imagine. Only a small handful of us even find sites like this one on the web and of those who do, only a few actually show up here and talk about it.

A shame we don't have some way of knowing who does this, it would be fun and interesting to know. There have been suggestions in the past, like, if you're into diapers wear a diaper pin on your shirt pocket or whatever. Problem is, there are bound to be lots of other people who love wearing their diapers whom I'd never want to have know that I love them too, for obvious reasons. As a member of various online diaper forums over the years, I've had various people invite me to come spend a day hanging out with them, going on hikes, driving around, going to fetish parties, whatever, while wearing our diapers. And I had one guy write and ask if he could come live here in his diapers with me and my wife.

While I have the usual fantasies about everyone knowing (especially women and my wife's friends) and being completely open and obvious about this, in real life 99.99% of all of that is just out of the question!

Given the stores are stocked heavily with Depends and other incontinence products, I would say it is VERY likely “water is running in China” - or within a few houses of us!! As the baby boomers age, so do bladder and bowel issues. These are not fetishes - just a real need to contain leaked during and bowel.

I can't speak for how many people wear them only as a fetish - or because they like - but don't need - them. Probably more than you'd expect.

Just a small piece of information for all the diaper lovers of the World. Our numbers are growing exponentially every year. This was written in a journal I received and it is attributed to the modern design of diapers. People are just finding them soothing and comforting.

Since this is a later-in-life experience I don't think it can be called a fetish. I think the term is more like an experiment that went well.

Personally I wish it was more mainstream and the times I do see it, it’s always portrayed in a negative light. It’s honestly a massive turn on for me to wear diapers and there are soo many layers as to why it’s comforting and arousing at the same time. I honestly wish there were more open views to adult diaper choices.

Given the stores are stocked heavily with Depends and other incontinence products, I would say it is VERY likely “water is running in China” - or within a few houses of us!!

A fitting metaphor… water is definitely running in a fair number of adults' nappies at any moment in time!

I am into diapers since my youth and before internet I bought magazines about it, already in 1974 there where a lot of rubber magazines talking about it and now with the internet it is obvious that there are a lot of diaper lovers around the world.

I wonder how long it will take that our stupid states and polititians start to put us in the perverted corner

When I discovered I was into wearing diapers again, I figured I was the only one into this! I really considered myself weird in that sense.

When I got older I discovered I wasn't to only one into this and there was a whole community into this. Diaper Pail Friends was what was popular at the time. Anyone remember that? I couldn't believe anyone else actually liked to wear diapers! We all have something we are into, or excites us, live your life!

I couldn't believe anyone else actually liked to wear diapers! We all have something we are into, or excites us, live your life!

I 100% agree! Even though I'm medically incontinent, I enjoy wearing diapers 24/7. Living my life as an incontinent person and enjoy wearing diapers is a positive thing being incontinent. I'm not ashamed of my incontinence nor the fact of enjoying wearing them. Simply just my 24/7 lifestyle.

When I discovered I was into wearing diapers again, I figured I was the only one into this! I really considered myself weird in that sense.

When I got older I discovered I wasn't to only one into this and there was a whole community into this. Diaper Pail Friends was what was popular at the time. Anyone remember that? I couldn't believe anyone else actually liked to wear diapers! We all have something we are into, or excites us, live your life!

Same here. I discovered DPF in 1996, when I got connected to the internet. I thought I was the weirdest guy ever, before that.

I believe it's way more common than you may think. I'm not just saying for incontinent people. The adult size diaper industry is a multi million dollar business.

Look at all the different types, prints, colors. They just don't make a few at a time for a few people. So if you think that you are the only one think again.

If you want to wear diapers than do so. As long as you do your thing in a adult manner. That's just my opinion.

Probably more common than anyone thinks! I've never told anyone in-person, so there's got to be more like me.