Just my .00000042 Bitcoin: in hindsight, it probably wasn't a good thing to use the word "Diaper" in the business name or signage. I'm just normally paranoid about AB/DL and the reaction of the Muggles. It's just one of those things Muggles are paranoid about, too...for all the wrong, stupid, uneducated reasons.
I have limited exposure to sexology, other than that fascist "Dr." John Money and his spearheading the "John/Joan Case" (the Reimer twins from Winnipeg, Manitoba), and the concrete rebuttals of Dr. Milton Diamond. I believe, as Diamond asserted, that "nature truimphs over nurture", no matter how much that sick pig Money denied it and crowed it was a "success", despite the obvious. It wasn't a success. Two dead brothers are proof enough.
But I digress. I was only priming the pump here. One massive problem I have with AB/DL and the psychiatric 'community' is how they label AB/DL as "paraphilic infantilism". There are too many cases here and at-large to prove that sex is not the main thrust of what we do. Muggles get college degrees, jobs, buy cars, houses, drink, gamble based on the degree of their virility. They bank their machismo/femininity on it. I recently saw Dr. Freedman on M*A*S*H tell Hawkeye how sex seems to be rooted in everything...or at least that, he says, is what he was taught to say. But I don't have diapers, dresses, toys, a rocking chair, a high-chair and a crib--or use them--to bolster my phallus or ego; it bolsters my need for comfort, security, self-assurance. Being here reinforces that. I never did well among my peers...I was always different. Not because of AB/DL (which they never found out), but because they could walk right on up to you, sniff it out...and out comes the Red X stamp. That tends to occur at puberty. There it is...
The other thing I have against the term 'paraphilic infantilism' is the abuse of the Latin: if sexuality was truly involved, it'd be "paraerotic infantilism". "Philia" is about familial ("filial"), "eros" is about sex. On that token, 'pedophilia' (an associative word we hear far too damn much by ignorant & indifferent Muggles against us) should be "pedoerotica". The academic minds ain't stayin' true to the Latin. All in all, we don't like being called "paraphilic infantilists" because that first word trips it all up.
We're all branded, no thanks to 'modern psychiatry'. This is why you, I and others won't make much world progress in AB/DL with word abuse like that...among other things, such as past news & entertainment media treatment. I've already cited the damaging examples.
When is the next DSM coming out? I wonder if we have enough time--or willingness from the 'community'--to objectively debate and change the standard, the descriptives, the definition before DSM-VI comes out. A good chunk of progress will arise from that alone...as well as discretion & tact by the AB/DL community...both rank-&-file and at-large.
Oh, and by us, when we stop handing what we do to so-called 'entertainment & news media', as if we have an ally through them. We don't. We need to both change and grow things about us, on both sides of the AB/DL fence, before we'll be considered a community worth considering, without the need for martyrs and blood, be they figurative...or literal.
Guess that's all I gotta say.
with a radiation field around a foot in diameter or so. I had no clue kinda freaked me out since I had it sitting next to my computer practically in my face and sleeping with it sometimes for half a month for psychic reasons dream stuff. When I found out it was radioactive I took a turned on a geiger counter I have and soon as I put it near it the geiger started going off. It is about as radioactive as uranium glass . Someone else with the same rock tested it with a gamma spectrometer come to find out the radio signature was thorium 232 
Even if we can just get people to stop doing that it would be a gain.
, but I contain myself. It definitely hurts what they say …