Adult Babies in mainstream literature

[Bertha]

I have been very interested in the threads about crossdressing in films and on television. I am still amazed by the content of the kids on YCDTOTV and how it escaped the notice of the censors but Betty has explained the AB and cross dressing scenes were spread thinly across the entire series. It did however, get me thinking about adult baby scenarios in mainstream literature. I remember reading a novel by Tom Sharpe when I was in my mid teens and being gobsmacked to read a chapter where Sir Giles was tied to a bed dressed as a baby. Until then, I thought I was the only person on the planet to have such fantasies. I subsequently read all the Tom Sharpe novels and without wishing to malign the author in any way, I always thought there was a detectable fetishistic subtext in his writings, although I don't recall there being any further AB scenarios. Crossdressing is rampant in literature, Shakespeare herself was a generous contributor to the genre. But, apart from the my one example, I am struggling to recall any other examples of AB scenes in mainstream novels. Can anybody offer some examples?

[Weezy1234]

Stephen King has some references in the Dark Tower series. Specifically, in Wolves of the Cala. It's just the twins that get kidnapped by the Wolves that get returned as mentally disabled . Many require diapers when returned. Not exactly Adult Baby.

In The World According to Garp, Percy Bainbridge apparently wears diapers because she likes them.  Her sister tells Garp that "... it's not like she uses them."

[Bertha]

Weezy

Thanks for replying. I have remembered a book by Ian McEwan called the Cement Garden that became a film of the same name. It has an older boy regressing to sleeping in a cot but it is generally a strange book/film. Also by Ian McEwan was a TV play from the mid seventies here in the UK called Jack Flea's Birthday Celebration, in which a man who lives with an older woman becomes her fantasy child. Another BBC play from the sixties was called Who's a Good Boy Then, the premise is that a childless couple take in a lodger, Billy Oates, played by the excellent Ronald Lacey. The last scene has a pyjama and dressing gown clad Billy grasping the barred window of his attic room, shouting out, "I am, I am a good boy", as a passing train below drowns out his cries. Sadly I don't think a recording exists. I have read novels that feature ab scenarios but annoyingly I did not catalogue them at the time, there must be more examples. Incidently, the TV version of Blott on The Landscape, does feature George Cole tied spreadlegged to a bed wearing a nappy and a bonnet whilst using a dummy, but it is more a comic moment than anything else.

[Betty]

I remember Cement Garden. Disturbing movie, but it features one of the kids who liked to dress up as a girl with the help of his sister. I had the film before the fire. Since most of the DVDs did survive the heat & water, it might still be around somewhere. If it was on tape though it was lost.

If I still have it, it might be nice to feature it on our movie night. BTW, it's always night time somewhere in the world, & everybody has a different evening to kick back with a movie, so it's always movie night here for somebody.

I have to agree about, "Who's a Good Boy Then". Can't find a copy anywhere. Looking it up, shows it ran on BBC's "The Wednesday Play". Only a handful of episodes still exist from that series, thanks to a very few viewer's personal tapes of it. I suspect they were wiped out during BBC's mass erasure, deletion, & destruction of old video/film a few decades ago, like when they wiped out most of the old Dr. Who episodes.

They say they've found & restored all the old Dr. Who episodes. No they did not. They collected all the private VHS tapes of them in the best shape to make copies of the privately owned tapes. I remember watching Dr. Who & all their old re-runs as late as the mid-1970s from our local PBS station, & a Canadian station in crystal clear quality. The originals did not look like old worn VHS tape recorded on their slowest speed. Modern enhancements may have improved them a little, but they're still VHS sourced versions of the show. A few of the episodes were copied from Betamax or even rarer U-matic tapes of better quality, but most are just copies of poorly recorded VHS.

They say BBC's the mass deletions of old video & film was caused by not being able to afford to save & archive everything during budget cuts. BBC was the largest broadcasting company in the  world, & they couldn't afford so save & archive their stuff? BS! Somebody was lining their pockets rather than spend a minimal amount to save old stuff.

[Angela M...]

Hey Bertha, I remember the BBC series Blott on the Landscape and I loved it but I have yet to find a DVD copy anywhere. I have searched the Internet and asked most of the British shops in Ontario if they could find me a copy but no luck. I remember in the show George Cole liked to be tied to the bed in a nappy, bonnet and dummy and play Nanny Bot Bots with his mistress.  I do have a VHS tape called Personal Services with Julie Walters that features her business of catering to men's peculiar habits. It features men in skirts and lingerie and diapers and rubber and is based on the London madame Kristine Keehler I believe.  I just barely remember the film Cement Garden and think there are clips on youtube but I remember it as a young boy who wears a wig and girls clothes and pretends to be a girl. His older brother teases him but an older girl says perhaps he is jealous and wants to dress up too, putting a ribbon in his hair. 

[Angela M...]

Hey Betty, that may be why I can't find Blott on the Landscape, the bungling BBC have ditched it. Back in the 70's my friend and I would watch it and also the Benny Hill series. He was German and said nobody did comedy like the British. We would also watch all the Carry On films we could find. He and I did a two week vacation in England in 1970 and had a blast.

[Betty]

It's at Amazon for around $5-$24, but it's encoded to only play on region 2-4 players. That means it can't play on regular players, & DVD drives in the Canada & the USA, unless you're handy with cracking the player's, drive's, or DVD's coding (it's actually quite easy).

http://www.amazon.com/Blott-Landscape-Complete-Series-Regions/dp/B0007ZD6VS

Of course if the DVD exists, it's most likely it has been cracked & the cracked version is circulating around.

[Betty]

Don't bother buying it from Amazon. I just found a better deal for the whole series from a private source. I'll send you & any of our regular members who want it, a link on our private messaging system here when it's ready for downloading.

[Betty]

It appears there's only 6, 54 minute episodes of the series. Is that correct?

[Bertha]

Yes, six episodes it was. Actually I'm surprised there were that many as it is not a long book, it must have been a faithful adaptation, I think I only watched the ab episode. The BBC wiped dozens of classic plays, sitcoms, etc during the sixties. They maintain it was due to the high cost of video tape in those days, it is probably true. The BBC has always been under pressure to control costs as it is funded by the UK taxpayer paying an annual licene fee. The Cement Garden is a quite disturbing book/ film but well worth a read and a watch for it's overall content.