Looking at Jess’s collection of dummies and sippy cups, you’d be forgiven for thinking the pretty 21-year-old had a baby of her own to care for.
But Jess’s collection of babygrows aren’t sized for a newborn – they are designed with her 5ft 5in frame in mind.
As an ‘adult baby’, Jess likes to wear nappies, drink from bottles and ‘regress’ back to her infancy.
A sexual abuse survivor, Jess, who lives in Lakeland, Florida with her 24-year-old boyfriend, David, says that regressing has helped her make peace with her troubled childhood. Jess, who works as a nanny, said: “Age play is really my best escape and it allows me to reclaim the innocence of my childhood and have it play out the way I always wanted.
“Aside from that though, regressing and being ‘little’ just fits with my personality.” “It allows me to be playful and cute, which is what I’m like naturally anyway and so I think that I would definitely still be living this lifestyle if I’d had a more ‘normal’ childhood.”
Jess and David engage in practices called Daddy Dominant/Little Girl (DDLG), Adult Baby Diaper Lover (ABDL) and Age Play (AP) – all sub-sects of BDSM. But the couple, who have been together for four years, say for them age play is not sexual and is more of a lifestyle choice.
“We never have sex while I’m age playing but for a lot of people it is a sexual kink,” Jess explained.