Hsu Kevin J, Bailey J Michael
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
Department of Psychological and Social Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, 1600 Woodland Road, Abington, PA, 19001, USA.
Arch Sex Behav. 2023 Aug;52(6):2385-2401. doi: 10.1007/s10508-023-02564-z. Epub 2023 Mar 6.
Adult baby/diaper lovers (AB/DLs) enjoy role-playing as babies and/or wearing diapers. They also engage in other related activities, such as urinating or defecating themselves and having an adult care for them. Previous surveys have revealed that AB/DLs commonly report sexual motivation, a finding that is corroborated by case reports in the psychiatric literature and some media interviews. The fact that AB/DLs change their appearance and behavior to become more like babies raises the possibility that they have an erotic target identity inversion (ETII). In ETIIs, a person's external erotic target is inverted into the self, resulting in sexual arousal by the fantasy of being a member of the target class or by imitating one. If AB/DLs are sexually motivated by an ETII, they should experience both sexual attraction to babies and sexual arousal by the fantasy of being a baby. We surveyed 207 male AB/DLs recruited from the Internet about their sexual orientation, sexual motivation, and sexual interests for a primarily quantitative analysis. Consistent with past research, a substantial minority of participants reported non-heterosexual identities (42%), and a large majority reported some degree of sexual motivation for being AB/DLs (93%). Wearing diapers and urinating or defecating oneself were rated as especially sexual. Even though 40% of participants reported sexual arousal by the fantasy of being a baby, only 4% reported sexual attraction to babies. This pattern of results is contrary to predictions from the concept of ETIIs. Instead, participants indicated that physical or mental pain, humiliation, and an adult woman were important to their sexual fantasies of being a baby. Masochism appears to be a promising alternative to an ETII for explaining the sexual motivation of AB/DLs.
成年婴儿/尿布爱好者（AB/DLs）喜欢扮演婴儿和/或穿着尿布。他们还参与其他相关活动，比如自行排尿或排便以及让成年人照顾自己。此前的调查显示，AB/DLs普遍表示有性动机，这一发现得到了精神病学文献中的病例报告以及一些媒体访谈的证实。AB/DLs改变自己的外表和行为以更像婴儿，这一事实增加了他们存在性目标身份倒置（ETII）的可能性。在性目标身份倒置中，一个人的外部性目标会倒置为自身，从而通过幻想成为目标群体的一员或模仿目标群体来产生性唤起。如果AB/DLs是由性目标身份倒置产生性动机，那么他们应该既对婴儿有性吸引力，又会通过幻想成为婴儿来产生性唤起。我们对从网上招募的207名男性AB/DLs进行了调查，询问他们的性取向、性动机和性兴趣，主要进行定量分析。与过去的研究一致，相当一部分参与者报告了非异性恋身份（42%），绝大多数参与者报告称成为AB/DLs有一定程度的性动机（93%）。穿着尿布以及自行排尿或排便被认为尤其具有性意味。尽管40%的参与者报告称通过幻想成为婴儿会产生性唤起，但只有4%的人报告对婴儿有性吸引力。这种结果模式与性目标身份倒置概念的预测相反。相反，参与者表示身体或精神上的痛苦、羞辱以及成年女性对他们幻想成为婴儿的性幻想很重要。受虐狂似乎是一种比性目标身份倒置更有前景的替代解释，用以说明AB/DLs的性动机。
