Well, it comes down to advertising i think.
The companies advertise for kids, yes old kids too, as this is a HUGE segment. Then other companies with adult products advertise to older women mostly, as its another large segment. Finally there is the medical system.
No company has unlimited ad funding. They shoot for the large segments as that will get the best roi.
If P&G as example spent money on a campaign for say 20-40 year old segment of the US. There is not going to be a good roi. If they are a medical need, most will get through insurance, which is a area they spend money on ads for. the rest are moslty going to be an extremely small number.
The only areas they dont advertise to is ABDL and/or recreational use of diapers.
So, for years and years the public only gets exposure to the areas that they see ads for, if they are ABDL they seek out what they want and is very niche market.
So, as John/Jane Q Public....You think that outside that area is some weirdo type of thing.
I mean back when i was a youngster it was still weird to most people the whole BDSM till like 80-90's started to become main stream, hell even as recent as the 50 shades movie was all "shocking" to see it protraied in a big budget film.
Now, i'd say the BDSM area both has overlap with ABDL and is also a much larger segment of the population. You dont see "real" handcuffs from places like S&W advertising for BDSM, although I'd say that there is a LOT of them in the BDSM world, yet if you had some even today, you'd be looked at a bit by the older generation.
Now, whilst it's not the ads fault, nor the mfg's fault, it's just the numbers game, and that biases the public by sheer quantity/exposure.
Now, how to overcome this, which is happening slowly as it is, is to support any places that do cater to the ABDL group and keep them around, I get MegaMax's on a regular order all the time, that said, I try to support them by my pocket book.
The time will see more and more exposure to diapers as a option, every year that we get things like covid19 and alike where shared spaces like bathrooms are getting to become risky to your health.
I've seen now some resturaunts where there is a bin right by the door, so you can use a paper towel for opening the door, which is a great thing, i've been doing that for years, and only use my left hand as much as possible in say a bathroom, as to not pick somehting up, and when out wear glasses to keep just the habit of rubbing my eyes at bay as that is a great way to get critters in to you.
But, if say the CDC was to actually publish the percentage of infected bathrooms with covid19, i think the public would first off panic and then maybe take measures.
I mean in all reality, why when this was at it's peak would you goto a place where you know people go to wash up, they have to touch the door you leave out of before they cleaned up, i don't really care about the amount of fecal matter as much as viruses.
But most the public doesnt even think of that.
I think the CDC should have given orders to use public/shared bathrooms as a last resort, and use other options, from diapers to a urinal in your car, or as amazon drivers, use old pop bottles.
Anyhow, there is a market there, and at some point the roi will be there for larger and larger mfg's to enter the DL space, or even do things like Pampers for adults (prob not
), but at least advertise for the other uses, like it's way cleaner to have some sterile urine in your own diaper, than to use a public bathroom where it's likely to have viruses you can easily catch.
I know that back in victorian times they used stale urine for washing clothes, and sometime after then to now we have been told that urine is somehow bad/unhealthy or akin. This i dont know how it was c=hanged, but i'm sure it has at least in poart to soap companies and/or bathroom companies...marketing again.
Enough of my rant, sorry if I went a bit askew there...
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after having a full void bladder leak!. Just I feel a wet lump between my legs that's it's gonna fall on the floor!).
