Further to our telephone conversation recently, I am enclosing some further sketches on the petticoat and nappy discipline theme, which of course you are quite free to publish...you will notice in some of these that the unfortunate 'baby' is under restraint. This may seem out of keeping at first, but it isn't so really. The essence of babyhood is complete helplessness, and so it is only natural that a man kept under baby discipline, and in baby dress, should also be made to suffer the additional humiliation of being rendered physically helpless. And in any case it is quite usual, after all, for a small child to be strapped into its pram or baby's high chair, or to be kept on reins.
I am quite sure that many of the ladies whose letters I quoted, in the article on the subject that you were kind enough to publish recently, make use of full restraint at times as an extra humiliation for much-dominated husbands, and it would be interesting to hear their views. Particularly in front of teasing visitors, to be rendered completely helpless dressed up in nappies and baby clothes would be a terrifying experience, for he would know that he was quite literally at their mercy, with no chance at all of escape. And if in addition, for instance, he were blindfolded, perhaps by a pair of Mummy's thick winter bloomers pulled over his head, so that he could not even see who his tickler and tormentor was, then I think he would experience the ultimate in shame and embrrassment.
Of course there is another side to
the picture - the awful humiliation for a man of having his hands free,
yet not daring to remove his petticoats and nappies because he has been
forbidden to do so. In some ways, this could be even worse, and more shaming
for him, and again it would be interesting to know the views of these domineering
ladies who practice this form of discipline on their husbands. Or perhaps
they might 'persuade' their hubbies to write and say what they think.
Yours sincerely,
W.G.