You may have seen it: pictures of adult men or women dressing like babies and wearing diapers. They practice ‘age play’. For most ‘normal’ people a bizarre fetish that mainly meets with incomprehension. A final taboo? NBRplaza figured it out for you.

Age play: What is it?

Age play is literally a role play between adults, in which one of the parties pretends to be someone of a (very) different age. Usually such a person poses as a person who is extremely much younger (infantilism) and who dresses and behaves like a baby. But in some cases it also happens that someone pretends to be older.

Usually age play is sexually oriented. Often there is also some form of dominance / submission involved and therefore occurs in a BDSM relationship.

Such a role play can go in all directions. It is a way to make a fantasy come true. Think, for example, of sissyfication (a man in girl’s clothing), incest (pretending to be your uncle and niece), or a situation in which someone plays the babysitter, a patient who comes to the doctor or is a schoolgirl / boy who has to stay over.

Erynn explains to us: “Ageplay is often no longer role-playing. The little one also feels really small and does not play this. They occur in all ages and often do not link to a specific age.”

It should be emphasized that age play has nothing to do with pedophilia. A person who engages in age play is not sexually attracted to children, but likes to recreate children’s traits. In that case, the point is that the person pretending to be a child relives a number of emotional experiences as a child.

No game

People who do age play usually do not come out publicly. People who do age play encounter incomprehension. Why would you want to be “daddy’s little girl”? Are you a pedophile?

Tequilarose says she doesn’t have to make much of an effort to put herself in the role of ‘daddy’s little girl’. “I have a lot of stuffed animals and I like to watch cartoons. I prefer to wear my hair in pigtails.” After meeting her first ‘daddy’, they often went to the zoo or the cinema together. And then eat an ice cream. Now she is looking for that little bit extra in a BDSM relationship that a daddy can give her. Many dominant men want nothing to do with this. Until she found someone to behave like a child with, without shame. Her new master bought her a Bambi plush toy and let her play with stickers and coloring books. Tequilarose rushes to say that the game has nothing to do with pedophilia and that she was never abused in her youth. “That is a big misunderstanding. I am mainly concerned with the intimate bond that you can have between two adults when you can be yourself completely.”

The dominant in the father / mother role experiences a responsibility. Or as a master put it to us: “I don’t know why, but it’s something … important.” The master is all about care and the emotional bond.