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Adult baby change9/20/2023 Banbury, Lusher, Lewis, and Turner described a case of two adults who practiced ABDL and had a drug addiction, showing that in both cases, either the addiction and the ABDL practices could be considered an auto-medication practices carried out to face sexual abuses during childhood. Cernowsky and Bureau reported a case of a woman affected by depressive symptoms and ABDL interests who was asking for help only for the former symptoms, not for the latter. The man required psychological counselling because of gender dysphoria but he did not perceive ABDL interests as a distressing factor. Kise and Nguyen reported a case where ABDL interests were included in a gender dysphoria framework. In this case, sexual fantasies were not present, and the treatment and resolution of hallucinations did not lead to the dissolution of ABDL fantasies. Evciment and Gratz described a 57-year-old male case who was hospitalized because he was affected by hallucinations and had declared to have a desire to be 3-years-old children and to be nurtured by his wife as if she were his mother. Benthell reported a case of a man with brain damage for whom wearing little girl clothes and the diaper was necessary to have an erection and sexual gratification. In 1967, Diniello referred a case of man who had orgasms when he wore diapers, and he adopted other infant behaviours, such as eating baby food or drinking from a baby bottle. Tuchman and Lachman described a case of a 29-year-old male who regularly wore diapers and masturbated when he wore them. The first documented cases of ABDL are dated to 1964, however, to date, there are still few studies that have described this phenomenon. In recent years, in the paraphilic field, a peculiar phenomenon has been described, called Adult Baby/Diaper Lovers (ABDL), which concerns persons who act a voluntary regression to a previous age and/or wear a diaper for psychological reasons. DSM-5 defines paraphilia as: “any powerful and persistent sexual interest other than sexual interest in copulative or pre-copulative behaviour with phenotypically normal, consenting adult human partners” (pp 794). Furthermore, the notion of sexual deviation changes with regard to different historical ages and, in its definition, is influenced by socio-cultural variables. Typical and atypical sexuality is difficult to examine due to the intimate and variable nature of the study. Moreover, ADBL behaviours seem to assume different functions and meanings. Conclusion: Specific kinds of parental modes, anxiety traits, and enuresis seem to be the source of ABDL interests. Moreover, associations were observed between current or previous ABDL phenomena enuresis and negative mood states. Results: The data indicated that adults with ABDL showed the presence of anxious traits and recollections of parental rejection during childhood. Finally, they filled out the Adult Parental Acceptance–Rejection Questionnaire, to evaluate their recollections of parental perceived rejection, and the Personality Assessment Questionnaire, to evaluate the primary psychological aspects related to parental rejection. Then, the participants filled out the Cognitive Behaviour Assessment 2.0 battery to obtain anamnestic information regarding their psychological, medical, and personal history and to evaluate primary psychological dimensions in clinical practice. Participants were first given an ad hoc questionnaire, which was devised to obtain information about the anamnestic variables related to ABDL. Method: An internet-based study was conducted and it involved 38 adults aged between 18 and 74 years ( M = 34.95 SD = 12.25). It was also assumed that there would be differences in ABDL profiles based on the age of appearance of their first Adult Baby-Diaper Lover (ABDL) fantasies. We hypothesized that ABDL phenomena were associated with general psychological maladjustment and with an experience of parental rejection during childhood. Aim: This study was conceived to investigate the functions of ABDL behaviours and the characteristics of ABDL in an online Italian community sample. Background: Knowledge of the Adult Baby-Diaper Lovers (ABDL) phenomena is quite recent and there are, of yet, few studies on this phenomenon.
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