Slomo said:
I wouldn't. An adult's body is NOT just a simple upscale from a baby's. As such, a diaper which fits a baby, and is scaled up, will not properly fit an adult.
What? Nahh.
Check out the ten different sizes of stretchy-waisted diapers that children get (if you count bedwetting diapers like GoodNites). Check out all the sizes of adult underwear! I count six sizes of men's Jockey briefs--just between the waist sizes of 32 and 40 inches! Now check out the
two sizes of adult diapers that most of us are stuck choosing between (medium and large) and their almost universal lack of meaningful elastic in the waists, and then tell me that their distinguishing design features amount to anything more than a cost-cutting measure. 'Cause they
don't! We're talking physically large throwaway products, after all, and so the manufacturers have to find ways to cheap out. Those tall, elastic-less wings bristling with extra tapes might as well be a pair of hands with nothing but middle fingers on them saying, "Fuck you! We don't care what your rise is, what your waist size is, or what your hips are shaped like. Here's a bunch of loose material and adhesive. Get your ass to work!"
If adult diaper companies truly cared, then yes, I think adult diapers would be designed like the baby kind. You'd have more sizes, more elastic, fewer fiddly tapes, and........well, probably
not Elmo. (Damn.) But a big baby can dream, yeah?
Of course, we like adult diapers, so we don't like to think that they are the way they are just because of the bean counters, but... Pretty sure that's the case. As it is with so many products, really. Occam's Razor slices again!! (Ouch. DAMN IT!)