A spa for adults who like to wear diapers has just opened (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)
Want to unwind and hear a bedtime story while wearing a giant nappy? There’s now a spa for that dedicated to the Adult Baby Diaper Lover (ABDL) community.
Officially called The Diaper Spa, the new business in Atkinson, New Hampshire, US, is aimed at adults who wear diapers and role-play as young children.
It promises a ‘safe and judgement-free zone’, allowing guests to pamper themselves with ‘snacks… playtime, story time, nap time, cuddle time, changing time, colouring, nursery rhymes and sing-a-longs’.
Its website describes the setting as an ‘ageplay-friendly, adult diaper spa’ for people to address past trauma. Expect to be both ‘nurtured and pampered’ throughout ‘richly immersive experiences’.
ABDL is often considered to be a type of fetish, in which consenting adults role play in some way pertaining to age, in this case babies. But some within the community will argue there’s nothing sexual about it at all.
The pastime is very different to the trend of concertgoers wearing nappies in order to avoid missing their favourite song or losing their spot at a show, which is more of an act of convenience.
The owner of the unusual spa has defended her business (Credits: Getty Images)
The spa is advertising its Adult Baby-Diver Lover (ABDL) nursery spa care for $300 (£237) an hour among other services that are not what you would normally expect in a spa, such as a $200 (£158) virtual playdate.
The most expensive thing on the list is a 24-hour Diaper B&B, which is described as a ‘premiere spa experience for the little one inside of you’.
The ABDL community exists beyond the US, including here in the UK. A 35-year-old man who identified himself only using the pseudonym Mark, from south London, previously told Metro.co.uk why he enjoys it.
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‘It feels great sitting in a wet and soiled nappy,’ he shared. ‘For a normal person it would be horrible but for me it feels comforting, while also naughty and humiliating’.
Mark said his fetish began in early puberty when he felt ‘a sense of wanting to be a baby again’.
Meanwhile, ‘Nanny Prudence’, who charges upwards of £200 for an ABDL session ran by her, said her clients are usually aged 25 to 65 and are over 95% male.
The owner of the new spa in the US, Dr. Colleen Ann Murphy, who is a board-certified integrative medicine physician and sexologist, told WHDH that her spa is intended to be a place for people to heal from trauma.
Murphy also said the spa is not intended to cater to ‘perverts’. Speaking to Fox News, she explained: ‘One of the most common misconceptions about ABDL is the association with paedophiles, perverts, and sex offenders.
‘This is not true, and I have never encountered anyone of that nature in my work or research.
‘ABDL, or Adult Baby Diaper Lover, is a diverse community with various individuals and their unique wants and needs.
‘In my work, I primarily focus on individuals who see this lifestyle as a physical or emotional necessity rather than entertainment. All my services are platonic and performed solely on my own property.’
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