I am always very pleased to read accounts of husbands being kept under petticoat and baby discipline, as I am quite sure myself that there is no more effective way of dominating and controlling the male sex than subjecting them to the humiliations of baby life, with all its little discomforts and indignities.

But where I think many ladies make a mistake is allowing Baby to just sit about in his play pen, amusing himself with his dolls. I agree that it makes a very amusing picture to see a grown man, in pretty baby girl clothes, sitting sucking a dummy and playing with a doll, but it is quite wrong that the wife should have to prepare his meals and wait on him, and I find that the discipline very much better if my husband, in spite of his baby clothes, is made to do housework and cooking and various other household chores.

He should still, of course, wear proper baby attire, and my husband is always kept in dainty and babyish little smocked frocks and frilly lace petticoats, over which he has to wear a pretty frilled pinafore when he is doing his household duties. For his nappies I use old flannelette sheets, and as he never wears less than three nappies at a time, the bulk of these is quite considerable and keeps his frock and petticoats sticking out all round in a most amusing baby-like fashion which causes him intense humiliation. He is also, when working, required to use his dummy at all times, and usually I tie it in place with a ribbon fastening at the back of his head in a bow, which I think looks quite cute.

Only when the household tasks have been carried out to my satisfaction does he revert to full baby treatment. He is allowed then to go into his play pen, or he is perhaps strapped into a large pram and put out in the garden, where he he must lie in the pram and amuse himself as best he can with his dolls and baby toys, until such time as I am ready to take notice of him.

His nappies are only changed once a day, at bedtime, so much of the time he is wet, which is babyishly uncomfortable for him, and also, of course, causes him considerable embarrassment and shame, as it emphasises his babyfied condition. One amusing result of this is that, because of his thick bulky nappies, and nappy rash, he is forced to walk in a wide-legged toddle, and the spectacle of Baby 'toddling' round like this never fails to amuse visitors.

It is, naturally, a very bitter blow to his male pride that I insist on him wearing his nappies and other baby attire in front of any visitors to the house. In spite of frantic protests and pleas from him at first, it is a rule which I have always maintained from the very beginning, and he really does suffer furiously blushing agonies of humiliation when he is when he is brought out to meet other ladies, and he is subjected to their teasing and scornful comments on his baby status.

He has even, on a number of occasions, been brought out in his petticoats and nappies to face the schoolgirl daughter of one of my friends, and the confident derision and contempt with which this young girl treats him really makes him squirm. I have sometimes let her give him his bottle, and it is lovely to see the cool, mocking way in which she handles him, laughing at him and telling him how sweet he is, as she forces the little rubber teat into his mouth and makes sure that he drinks every last drop before she will finally release him.

Constant humilation like this is, I am quite sure, the way to maintain complete control over your husband, and I look forward to hearing more on this subject.

Alice J.
(Gwent)

I have made the same observation in this magazine - nursery discipline is an excellent method of guaranteeing a docile and obedient husband, but of course it isn't much use unless hubby also does the housework for you. I think that Alice J. should ensure that her big baby does not suffer from nappy rash if he is going to make himself useful around the house, however.

New white flannelette sheets make very soft and cuddly nappies that Baby will  find comfortable but, as Alice J. suggests, three or more need to be stiched together to make a really thick babyish nappy. Over this a pair of plastic baby panties, in pastel shades such as pink or yellow, looks very sweet.
Susan