Psychology Class and Diapers

So we've been talking about conditioning in my psych class. It got me wondering if this is why diapers turn us on. I thought about it for a few minutes and came up with this:

When we are little kids, our minds can be easily molded. *VERY* easily molded. We can be taught anything (see Skinner experiments). Well, because we learn 24/7, it makes me think that diaper fetishes are basically learned.

We all have stimuli that cause us to do things unconditionally. For example, if there is a really, really loud and unexpected noise, chances are your body will automatically close your eyes for half of a second and your heart rate will increase.

There are things in this world that, normally, have zero effect on us (based upon what it is). For example, if I were to present a baseball to someone, they would be like hey, that's just a baseball. If that baseball exploded every time they got near one, they'd be afraid of baseballs. Thus, that stimulus that normally had no effect became a fear. Maybe diapers work the same way. I'll use myself as an example.

Sexual contact or sexual touch is a stimulus requiring no learning. My response to that would to be sexually aroused. Diapers were just something that I ended up wearing. It did not mean anything to me whatsoever way back when I was a little kid. It was just an object. Sexual pressure came from the diaper due to its softness, thickness, and tightness. When I wore diapers, I found that diapers gave sexual feeling. Thus, after years upon years upon years of diapering, I began to associate diapers with a good sexual feeling. Boom: sexual fetish for diapers. The neutral object that meant nothing became associated with a primitive response. I think that explains it the best for me.

What a great class - I get to learn about why weird crap happens with me!

Interesting and quite rational. So the pleasure tends to be "buried" for most of us, who do not remember our diapered years at all, but it is in there and can be unleashed recovered by stimuli later in life?

The problem is, I have no way of knowing whether I actually liked wearing diapers as a baby. Even my parents say that I acted indifferent about them and didn't have much difficulty potty training.

I'll go for that, I believe my love for diapers came about when I was about 4 or 5 and my parrents got me down and put a cloth diaper on me and pretended to call a neighbor girl over to see me. I know I was both scarred and excited about her seeing me that way. And today I would still love to have some girls (women) got me down and put a diaper on me.

That seems to bring up the 'nature vs nurture' question. Are we conditioned sub-consciously by the diapering ritual, bottle feeding, etc. but once we gain continence we're taught to literally revile the trappings of infant dress and manner.

I can remember watching babies waddling around from time to time with plastic/rubber pants literally ballooning out thinking how comfortable and secure they were but the little voice in my head told my I'm not a baby anymore and forget about it.

This begs the question: Are we trapped by a guilt complex that overwhelms a desire to recreate the simple pleasurable experience(s)of childhood?

Simple conditioning can be used to explain many phenomena. It could often be used to explain the diaper fetish, or whatever we want to call this interest in diapers.

The problem there, is there are probably people that it doesn't apply to. Those who have a diaper fetish that simple conditioning doesn't describe an accurate picture.

I know I have had sexual feelings back as far as I can remember. I didn't label them sexual. So it's quite possible there were sexual feeling that existed before I remember. And some of those sexual feelings might have been at least partially caused by being diapered.

The problem is, we just can't really do much more than speculate on this. Not everyone has a diaper fetish. Not everyone finds diapers revolting. Much goes between those two extremes.

Jigme

I have spent many years trying to figure out why I have this fetish. I've had it for as long as I can remember, and the main reason I figure is because I became sexually aware of myself (it feeling good down there) from a very young age- and thus associated those feelings with diapers. Thanks for rationalising it that way, good to see I'm not the only one thinking this is the cause (maybe not the only cause, as everyone is different, obviously).

I start marturbating daily as a 2 year old wearing diapers (my parents have told me I would always lie postrate and hump the ground as a child). I kept masturbating once I was potty trained but without the warm, moist, soft diaper it was not quite as fun and so I always fantasized wearing. That's how it all started for me.

Makes sense. During our early years all we experience are diapers. There's nothing to compare it to. Then after potty training, we're in normal underwear. That day when I stumbled across my old diapers at the age of 5, I guess I had more awareness. When I put the diaper between my legs and felt how soft the padding was down there, I was hooked from that day.

I believe that four of the five senses and conditioning can be the reasons that for the majority of us ABs and DLs are the way we are. First, the sense or touch,how else can we explain why we have preferences for cloth diapers over disposables or plastic pants vs rubber pants. The sense of touch is also from being rubbed gently or more roughly (during say the toilet training period) with diaper rash creams and baby powder. Two. the sense of sight as you remember how your mother, primary diaper changer or father or other caregivers looked down at you as the changed you wet and poopy diapers. Also how you felt seeing other younger siblings orv babies/toddlers having there diapers being changed. Third. The sense of sound as you heard how you were talked to as your diapers were being changed. Fourth. The sense of smell as you remember the smells of pee pee and poopy diapers and the sweet smells of baby powder and diaper rash creams. Add the conditioning of toilet training and diapering for late bed wetting and it is no surprise that there a re a great many of us out there with great big desire to want wear diapers,either cloth or disposables and rubber or plastic panties for either sexual pleasure or to recapture those beautiful childhood memories of more loving and less stressful times.