The long letter from Mrs P.W. in your latest issue must surely go a long way towards answering some of the questions raised by Chris Mercury in his recent article on baby discipline and treatment. It illustrates perfectly the mutual pleasure and enjoyment that such a discipline can bring to 'Mummy', as she watches 'Baby Sandra's' pathetic wriggling and squirming under her teasing, and to 'Baby' himself, whose enjoyment of the situation is so plainly shown. She is certainly not alone in having a husband who enjoys, and responds to, petticoat domination.

Domination such as this, in which the husband is reduced to complete baby status in nappies, and the petticoats and frills of a small child, and may even be exhibited to other ladies while wearing them, is much more than just a make-believe game. It demands, on the part of the husband, a complete surrender to his wife's authority, for once he has submitted there can be no turning back, and, as far as the wife is concerned, I believe that there is always present, as Mrs P.W. admits, a strong dominant streak which enables her to derive excitement and pleasure from humiliating and shaming him like this.

We have been happily married now for over twenty years, and I am in complete control of all our business and financial affairs, and my husband wishes it to be so. In return for escaping these responsibilities he is more than happy to submit to the humiliations of petticoat and diaper discipline, which he knows gives me pleasure to carry out.

I am strict with him, and he has long since learned that my orders, however humiliating or distressing to him at the time, must be obeyed. For instance he must present himself, if commanded to do so, in front of other ladies when dressed, even in baby style in a child's short petticoats and frocks. This is something that, even now, causes him the most intense embarrassment, but he accepts my right to humiliate him in this way for my own pleasure, and would never dream of disobeying.

Over the years our friends have become aware of his inferior position in our household, and are amused by it. I do not make him wear his nappies in front of other men, but often have him in a frock and petticoats and pinafored when married friends are visiting, and I am always interested in the reactions of the males when they see a member of their own sex being humiliated by his wife and other teasing women. They rarely join in the teasing, being fearful perhaps of finding themselves in a similar position one day, and even seem sympathetic towards him.

Ladies, on the other hand, whether married or single, never fail to really enjoy the situation. If not already in his nappies, they invariably ask that he should be put into them, and obviously derive the same pleasure that I do from his pathetic baby squirmings and squealings whilst he is being teased about his sissy baby attire. Hours of teasing and tormenting like this can reduce him to tears, so that he sobs to be allowed to escape. But it is part of our bargain that he should submit to such treatment, and he accepts this.
Yours sincerely,

Mrs P.M.B.
London.

Males who do not understand the benefits of petticoating are often very defensive when they hear of it, because it confronts them with the fact that their 'manliness' is so often just a veneer, and that they could so easily be reduced to housemaid or baby status by a determined and strong woman. They are too silly to understand that it would probably give them a longer and happier life.

Some couples - and I have a letter which deals with this, which I must publish in Volume 3 - like to both dress up as babies, both with dummies and nappies and really pretty baby panties, and cuddle and tease each other. They describe it as very pleasant and relaxing. Now one of the things that can put a female partner off the idea of babying is that she has to be very dominating and active, whilst 'Baby' just enjoys all the attention.

Perhaps readers' wives would be more accepting of the idea of both being babies in private, after all babies get lots of cuddles and loving attention, and it is just a new and playful way of expressing one's love for one's partner. My female correspondents tell me that baby discipline can be funny and enjoyable, but that it takes time to get used to.
Susan