huggiesman

Well, there's our proof--nice detective work!

I have seen the web page that includes "7" among the sizes that can earn points to be redeemed, but I haven't seen the magazine which allegedly includes this coupon, nor do I understand why we're supposed to believe an unattributed statement on Wikipedia from an unnamed PR person from P&G. If the magazine really exists, then someone needs to name it and give us the page number next to which the coupon can be found. And if the PR person exists, name her/him. Without such basic standards of proof, all this speculation just means we're behaving like a bunch of, well, babies. I haven't seen them on the shelves, and until then, it's much ado about nothing.

Instead of studying the photos so intently, why doesn't someone just go pick up a copy of the magazine? (BTW, the second link, for me, brings up something totally unrelated.)

She references being a bedwetter frequently in her comedy; it's part of her shtick. I don't know whether there's any truth to it, or if it even matters. Her boyfriend is Jimmy Kimmel, if that gives you any idea of what her home life must be like.

This one's tough...is it that she sees your "bizarre behavior" as an affront to God, or as an affront to her? This may seem blasphemous, but I tend to think that 1) God, whatever that may mean to you, doesn't care that much, if at all, about what you wear, and 2) what happens between two people in a marriage is their business, and no one else's, not even the church's. If you and your spouse are kinkier than what the church would like, then that's their problem, and they shouldn't know anyway. If she sees this as disrespectful to her and thinks she can just click her heels and have it go away, you're both going to be disappointed. Is is fair to ask you to manage these aspects of your personality? I think probably so. Is it practical just to say "after we're married, you're just not going to like CD'ing and being diapered anymore, right honey?" I tend to think not. It's a part of you, and has been for a long time, and it won't simply go away. You both need to accept that idealizing each other, and anticipating that you're going to be living with an idealized version of each other, won't work. She'll be living with you warts and all, she should get used to at least some of the warts, if she loves you.

No problem...when I say 'fit', I really mean more that more of us will try to sort of squeeze into these or tr to rig them to go around our grownup hips, than actually fit into them. Are Cruisers scented still? If so, then that's another reason to get them even if it's for stuffing...the Pampers scent makes me have to pee all by itself.

Right--this may benefit the parents of disabled kids, but that's not why P&G is doing it, just as whatever developments in adult diapers may benefit us without us being the target market. This is about marketing to the parents of toddlers and convincing them that P&G's product is one they can use for six months or a year longer. Pull-Ups dominate their market segment, so to compete, P&G needs to get out in front in this market segment. The last time around, Dr. Terry Brazelton was hired as the endorser to convince parents that letting their kids go to size 6 before training was OK; I wonder who they'll hire this time? I also wonder if this will be Cruisers-only or if we'll see other Pampers lines get larger as well. If you want to see a size 8, then just go buy a bunch of 7's whether you need them or not--eventually the marketers will see an opportunity.

I agree with you...although bigger Pampers just happen to be something we AB's/DL's would be interested in, and the continued expansion of baby diaper sizes means the more slender of us (of which I am not one, admittedly) can now wear our beloved fetish objects straight out of the package, I'm not sure what it says about our society's parenting skills...a size 7 might fit what, the average 8-year-old? Even as AB's, do we really want to have diapered third-graders as an almost routine occurrence? (As opposed to third-graders in Pull-Ups, which is probably slightly more common already...) IIRC, size 6's came out in about 1994 or '95, so at this rate, I guess I can expect size 12's for kids to come along at about the time I will actually need (as opposed to wanting) diapers, and may be less happy about it (I'm 38 now).