youtube babies help lead the way

This is a copy of my response to a discussion on Daily Diapers. The discussion supposes that wearing diapers has become a fad given the number of videos of diaper folks on youtube. One poster suggests that youtube is not helping public tolerance... as usual i digressed abit but here is my posting and my reason for being optimistic things will get better for the Adult babies of the world...

"Public discussion of sexuality has been opened wide with the Gay rights fight and AIDS. Here in Canada our Supreme Court has said it's all right to have sex parties in public places (ie bars nightclubs, etc (restricted to 18 and over)). The club can even charge to enter but must not charge for sex. The determining cases were two Montreal "Straight" swingers clubs. They were charged and it went all the way to the Supreme Court.

Though straight clubs have been doing this for years with the occasional police crack down, gay club backrooms and bath houses were raided frequently. The resulting fight for our rights to enter and play in such places has been long but has lead to informing the public. Part of that education has come from harm reduction practices established to slow HIV infections. It has been generally accepted for years now that its a better opportunity to promote safer sex messages to people having this kind of "public sex" than to charge them. It wasn't an easy battle but it has won the day.

The courts, largely based on changing community standards and individual rights, now accept sexual diversity between consenting adults in some places that are deemed "public".

I would argue we are moving to a more accepting "community standard" at least in Canada, with respect to diversity. I can see that the use of diapers for sexual purposes being seen as weird as in BDSM. Diaper lovers will not be shunned if discovered.

The larger community issue will be with AB's like myself. Tolerance will take time to develop.

The internet is a great help in this effort. Youtube and other services are exposing all kinds of different sexual and divergences from societal norms. The more exposure, the more tolerance can develop. Canada's number one News Magazine recently (March 5, 2007) did a full page on Adult Babies. Have a look at the article here.

The days of Jerry Springer "adult babies fight on stage" are diminishing. Progress is being made. Youtube and other internet/media resources are helping. I expect to have a program in place soon, funded by a government to conduct harm reduction (safer sex) programming within the AB/DL community. 10 years ago i would have been laughed at.

So while we will see some "not so helpful" stuff on youtube that may make some of us wince, we will see many good things as well.

I also seek the day when we are not seen as a member of a select community but as part of a larger human community. Its happening the GLBT world, it can happen for ours too.

boy ricky

ps you can find my youtube channel here"