Dear Miss Candida,

I am always interested to read of petticoating and baby treatment being used to control the male sex, as I have a friend who is a firm believer in this form of discipline.

It really is a wonderful thrill to visit her, and to see her great squirming 'baby' husband being put through all his ridiculous childish antics. There is no doubt that she really has got him completely under her authority, and she has even trained him to talk in a lisping baby voice, and I cannot imagine anything more absurd than to hear his big helpless creature mouthing silly baby-talk through the dummy which he must always use.

Very wisely she dresses him, in spite of his size, in proper baby-girl frocks with lots of smocking and tiny puffed sleeves, and lovely frilly white lace petticoats, and of course his frocks and petticoats are always short enough to ensure that his humiliating nappies can be clearly seen. Because of the utter babyishness of these outfits, the whole effect of grown-up babyhood is made even more bizarre exciting; his little frilly petticoats sway and bob as he moves about and he actually looks like some sort of grotesque outsize baby doll.

When I visit them, I am allowed to take complete charge of 'Baby' – to bath him, change his nappies, give him his bottle and generally amuse myself with him in any way I want. Just to nurse him and whisper teasing baby talk into his ear – to which of course he must reply in the same way! – is enough to make sob with shame, and when it comes to pulling his little frock and petticoats up and changing his nappies, poor 'Baby' gets so upset that he literally squirms in agonised humiliation!

But worse is in store for him, did he but know it. One of my friends will shortly be having her first baby and she has agreed to come along one day and actually feed him at the breast. His wife is delighted at the idea, and so am I, and we both hope that once he has been fed like this, it will become a regular occurrence. I am longing to see his face when he finds out what we have planned, and to have the thrill of seeing him really feeding at the breast like a true baby.
Yours sincerely,

Barbara H.

This letter was kindly contributed by Helena, who has lots more letters to send us. Obviously Barbara was having a lot of fun with this big sissy baby, and I am sure he would have come to enjoy it too. Most men are just big babies at heart, as the majority of wives find out.

If your 'baby' is going to be humiliated by breast feeding, it might be an idea to try a little trick that an older nanny I met years ago used to use if the boys under her care developed bad habits: a little wee-wee corset, so that baby behaves himself, and does not get overexcited. It was made from strong pink satin, lined with very soft angora wool. A pink ribbon could be threaded through holes (a bit like doing up a shoe) and tied in a cute bouncy bow. Tie the bow in a special way, so that baby cannot remove it without you noticing.

Nanny Grace told me that this was often necessary for boys of age 14 or 15, and prior to fitting this corset she would give the part to be restrained a treatment with very cold water or ice, so that it was made as small as possible, to enhance the girlish or little baby appearance. She would then dress the boy in a pretty sailor suit with a ribboned cap, starched cotton shorts or a skirt, and long white silk stockings. Apparently they looked enchanting, and were very subdued too.

I have never done anything like this myself, as Nanny Grace's ideas did seem rather old-fashioned, even to me. She was a strong advocate of full petticoat discipline, but that was not news to me, as I had witnessed it as a child.

I have heard of wives making their husbands wear restrainers that look like something from the Spanish Inquisition, but petticoating and nursery discipline should be cuddly and loving, not something medieval. Anyway, I am sure 'baby' came to enjoy the attention of his two 'nannies' just as much as they so obviously enjoyed  humiliating and teasing him.
Susan