A very warm welcome to 'Relate', which certainly looks as if it is going to be a really interesting publication.

Personally, I found the letter from Mrs J.S. of special interest. In it she described how she compels her husband to wear nappies and a rubber baby outfit, and how she straps him into a baby's high chair, where he has to submit to baby treatment in front of her women friends. As she says that he is often kept like this for a full day, one can well imagine the misery and humiliation he must suffer. I really liked the idea of making him scrub the front doorsteps in his pinny so that the neighbours and passers-by can see the extent of her domination over him.

I was interested to see that Mrs. J.S. says that her husband was brought up by an aunt who dressed him frequently in frocks, petticoats, and a pinafore and made him do the housework. For I believe very strongly that, where 'conditioning' of this nature has taken place in boyhood, it not only makes a man more ready to accept such treatment in later life, but can lead to a real desire on his part to be dominated and humiliated like this. In my husband's case, I was informed shortly before our marriage by his sister, that as a boy he had often been punished in a pinafore and petticoats. And I am sure that her reasons for telling me were simply the fact that she knew her brother had secretly enjoyed such punishment, and that he would want to be dominated and treated in the same way by me.

I may say that I was only too willing, as I have a very domineering, and possibly somewhat sadistic nature. So ever sice we were first married, he has been subjected to all sorts of humiliating attire and treatment. Mostly, like Mrs. J.S., I use nappies and baby clothes on him, for I find that these cause him the maximum amount of humiliation and discomfort. He has a wardrobe of pretty frocks, frilled petticoats, bibs and bonnets, together with cute little matinee coats that would gladden the heart of any baby girl. They are worn regularly, and not only when punishment is required. I very often exhibit him in them to my women friends.

I do not, like Mrs. J.S., favour rubber. I find it more amusing to have his frocks and frilly ruffled petticoats etc., made in true baby materials. When he wears these, he cannot help feeling even more keenly the reality of his enforced baby status. I add to this by making him use a dummy and regularly feeding him from a child's rubber-teated nursing bottle. In fact, he is never free for a moment from all the little tyrannies that every baby must suffer.

Another little trick I have which Mrs. J.S. might like to make use of with her own baby is to strap his hands round in a clenched position with strong adhesive tape and put him in heavy woollen mittens tied in a bow at the wrists. This quick and simple little device makes it physically impossible for him to hold anything, or to use his hands in the normal way, so he is completely reduced to the helplessness of babyhood. If left alone for any reason, he cannot get up to any babyish mischief, nor can he unbutton his frock or petticoats, or unpin his nappies. Restrained like this he cannot feed himself, but must submit humiliatingly to being spoon fed, baby fashion, by myself or by any guest who takes pity on him. It is truly frustrating for him, and I love to see him struggling pathetically to do things for himself rather than be humiliated in this way.

In case your readers have any doubts on the matter, we are a very happily married couple, and I'm sure my husband would not be happy now with any other relationship, and I am also sure that he enjoys his nappies and baby treatment just as much as I enjoy subjecting him to it.
Yours sincerely,

Mrs. J. O'D.

There is a great deal of evidence that petticoating in boyhood can produce a very docile and submissive husband, which many women appreciate. I like the idea of putting Baby in woolly mittens, so that he cannot get up to any mischief, or do anything else much except cuddle Teddy. Still, women want their husbands to do the housework too, and so I trust that Mrs J.O'D. unties Baby's mittens so that she can tie him into his pinafore, and see that he busies himself with all the domestic chores.

Needless to say, the couple are very happy. There is no happier home than one under full petticoat government, in which the husband accepts the wife's rule in every way, no matter how humiliating it might be at times.
Susan