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As an interested mother I noticed my son Rob looking at your wonderful web site and after reading some of the letters thought you might be interested in my own experience with a petticoat problem. Rob was about 8 yrs old when things first came to a head, He seemed to be fascinated with aprons and pinafores and I would regularly find him wearing one of either mine or his sister's and had several hidden in his bedroom. After several unsuccessful warnings that aprons and pinafores were for girls and not boys I became increasingly worried about him and on the advice of a family friend I caned him and made him stand in the corner for an hour. I told him he would continue to be punished in this way until this silly apron fixation stopped. To cut a very long story short and several cannings it did not stop and I had to eventually concede the point when it became clear that despite regular punishments he just loved his pretty aprons and was buying his own with his pocket money. In the end I told him if he wanted to wear them he would learn to do housework and much to my daughter's delight he revelled in the idea. He is 22 years old now, has never had a proper job apart from part time cleaning and has worn a ladies style apron ever since. All our friends and family know and accept it as quite normal although when we are on our own he likes to wear a skirt too. He just adores his feminine role and does all the housework, laundry, ironing and loves washing up. He most treasured possession is his formal starched white bib apron with cross over rear straps which he wears for special occasions or when we are entertaining Most amazingly he has had a regular girl friend (a former school friend of his sister who has left and married) now for two years who seems to accept the situation very happily and in fact he does housework for her mother 2 days a week. Most of your contributor's male maids appear to quite naturally find it very embarrassing to be seen by outsiders in their "uniforms" but Rob loves to be seen by anybody and will often slip down to the corner shop or round to his girl friends house in the next road wearing his neatly tied pinny without batting an eyelid despite frequent sneers and jibes. His girl friend is a hairdresser and I see that he has his hair done up in rollers under a head scarf quite often now but if he is happy I suppose that is all that matters. Obviously as a mother I am a bit sad that I didn't have a normal ambitious masculine son but on the up side I have enjoyed a free House Maid and he has even assured me if he ever leaves to get married it would only be on the basis he can continue his housework here. His girl friend recently asked me if I still have his punishment canes of which I have several because I regularly caned him and put him in the corner for any stupid slip ups up until quite recently so perhaps he is missing the cane which would never have occurred to me until I read so many of your contributors letters. I hope this is of interest to your readers Mary Stevens (Mrs) Her future daughter in law writes... My future Mother-in-Law Mary Stevens recently wrote to you about my boy friend Rob and has asked me to let you know how I am getting on with my relationship with her son. I was a school friend of his older sister who has now married and left home. So I was a regular visitor to their home and have always known Rob wearing a ladies style apron or pinafore and quite happily spending his time pottering around doing the housework and even some times wearing a skirt. It was all very strange to me at first but as with his family and their friends I gradually accepted it as quite normal. Mary was always very strict with him and often his sister Jean and I would hide behind the settee to secretly watch if he was getting the cane. Often he would have to stand in the corner facing the wall for hours at a time and I always found him to be so submissive and polite unlike my own brother who had always rather bullied me until he left home. Rob had been to my house quite often during the school holidays to do housework for my mother who had always been friendly with his mother and she had become very fond of him. It wasn't until in my early 20's after several relationships with bossy boy friends that I started to realise how nice it would be to be in a relationship with someone like Rob who was nice looking, very easy going and who I could control and live to my own agenda pursuing my hairdressing career without too many domestic ties.. We went out as a couple and enjoyed each others company much to the delight of both our Mothers who had quickly realised he would need someone like me and that I also would clearly be very content in that situation. In a way although he still lives at home I took over from his Mother and I am now also quite strict with him. Like his Mother I insist he wears an apron at all times regardless of who may come and go and if we visit someone else he will take an apron to wear when we get there. He keeps my flat spotless and does my laundry which he sometimes takes home to do with his own and is absolutely in his element. If we are entertaining like his mother I like him to wear a black dress and a crisp clean white bib apron with cross over straps at the back with long ties which always looks stunning and I know he feels proud and helps his confidence which I feel is important for an emasculated man. It is important because obviously he does get teased a bit by friends and neighbours although I find that male visitors rarely make much comment. In his bedroom at home he has 2 large garment rails with some very pretty and some very practical aprons, pinafores and maids outfits which he has collected since he was a boy and will always get a few more from various relatives every Christmas and Birthday. I think he's probably got one for every day of the year and is certainly easy to buy a present for. I now have my own little hairdressing salon which Rob cleans and I have just started letting our apprentice roll up and pin Rob's longish hair to practice and I think he quite excited when I make him wear a head scarf to go home in. his rollers which often stay in during the next day when he might be doing house work at home or for my Mother which he does two days a week. I never let him take his hair rollers out himself and after he did this on one occasion I told him I would ask his Mother if she had still has one of the canes she used on him which I fully intend to use if necessary and I already make him stand in the corner nose to the wall for an hour or two if I get cross. It probably sounds as if I am an absolute tyrant but we are both very happy and enjoy a very healthy sex life particularly after he has just been punished which seems to have quite an erotic effect on both of us. I know Rob has never really known any thing different feels most comfortable with his submissive feelings and would never want to change his way of life. He has told me that he knew from an early age that he wanted to serve and by wearing an apron or pinafore it made him feel complete and now we both feel having read together of so many other men in similar situations on the wonderful "Petticoat Discipline" site we are not as unusual in our relationship as we previously thought. He has absolutely no inhibitions about being seen in an apron but when outdoors he likes to wear a raincoat or similar perhaps slightly undone with just a glimpse of his pretty apron showing which makes him quite excited and will happily walk such attired between his home, my flat. Mother's house or my Salon all of which are fairly nearby without batting an eyelid. Since he was at school he has worked weekends in a local old people's home washing up and sometimes does holiday relief as a domestic on the cleaning side, He tells me how he enjoys washing up the most but has learnt so much about general housework from some of the older cleaning ladies who have done it all their lives. He has to wear their uniform which is grey slacks, a blue gingham tabard and the dreaded hairnet and whilst he would rather wear a pinny he say's a tabard is the next best thing and of course it is more acceptable in that environment and blends him in better with the female staff. On one occasion when I was feeling particularly mischievous I sent him to work in his rollers as a punishment but he said with his hairnet on he didn't feel particularly conscious of them and he only had one comment from one of the ladies about how he was having his hair done. The Matron there is a bossy woman and is always asking him to do extra shifts at short notice and he doesn't like to say no. Last Saturday he had been at the sink from 7.30am until 2.00pm and she rang just after he got home to ask him to do an evening shift but fortunately I answered the phone and was able to put a stop to that and told her he had far too much housework to do at home Last week while cleaning for my mother he managed to accidentally back the vacuum cleaner into Mothers precious antique display cabinet breaking the glass and two ornaments over which he was devastated.. Mother went absolutely mad over which she called shear carelessness and told him he would be paying for the damage which will take him for ever, She before retiring had been a school head mistress and told him he would write out 500 lines declaring how careless he had been which reminded me how she punished me as a girl although the most I ever had was 200. So he will be very busy over the next few days between his housework... We hope to marry next year and I think I am a very lucky woman and if you are interested I will keep you informed of further developments Regards Janet Thank you for your lovely letters ladies. I'm sure Rob has benefited from his mother's training and will be a wonderful supportive husband to you Janet. I'm sure our readers hope you keep us informed. Auntie Helga |