THE STUDY

	Jim was a 16 year-old honor student who needed who 
needed a good summer job. The recent recession meant 
most places weren't hiring. His parents were going away 
for the summer and he decided he would rather stay at 
home and work for some spending cash for the next 
school year. Day after day as summer approached he 
checked with the local employment agency, only to hear 
that companies considered him too young for the few 
positions they had.
	His parents went ahead and left for their summer 
home, with Jim promising to join them if he wasn't 
hired soon. Finally, the agency called him and said 
there was an 8 week research study he could participate 
in for $800 dollars a week. They said the pay was high 
because project was a bit unusual and they had 
difficulty finding enough people. Every participant 
must stay 24 hours/day with the project and not reveal 
the data to anyone. Jim agreed to participate no matter 
what he had to do (he was desperate) and next week he 
was off to the research center.
	When he arrived he was ushered in to the office 
where one of the supervisors, Mr. Taft, described the 
study. The main part of the study was to examine 
patients with severe sleep disorders and study the 
impact of an experimental drug on the patients. The 
drug wasn't believed to affect normal people at all, so 
it shouldn't be dangerous. The drug was believed to 
help people with sleep disorders gradually overcome the 
problem. The dose of the drug is small and it gradually 
impacts the persons sleep so they eventually sleep 
through the night. The main goal of the study is to 
determine how well the drug works to help these people 
sleep. They also wished to monitor how deep the sleep 
of the patients becomes, since critics of the drug 
argue it puts people into too deep a sleep (such that 
they will have difficulty waking up in the middle of 
their sleep cycle, even if someone is trying to wake 
them).
	"It sounds like a neat project, but I don't have 
sleep problems" Jim said, "What will I do?" "You will 
have an important role in the study," Mr. Taft replied. 
"First, you will watch the data on the patients as they 
sleep. We don't watch the patients directly as they 
sleep, but we see their heart rate and brain waves on 
our office monitors. We will show you how to tell when 
they are sleeping and also when they are in an 
unusually deep form of sleep. When any of the patients 
drift into an unusually deep sleep, you will go in to 
periodically check up on them. You will go to their 
rooms and make sure they look comfortable and all the 
equipment is working properly. We need to know more 
about this deep sleep so we need to keep the patients 
dry and comfortable so they stay in this sleep mode as 
long as possible. You will also be cleaning them up if 
they are sweaty with a damp cloth, etc. There may also 
be times when a patient wets themselves in this very 
deep sleep. If they are wet you will clean them up and 
change them into an adult diaper. This won't be 
necessary with most of the patients, but we need to 
know how many patients experience this side-effect. I 
hope this work is O.K. with you, because you already 
signed on and we need somebody right now." "Well," Jim 
said, "I'm not sure what to think, but I need the work 
and for ten weeks I can do anything."
	"There is also a second aspect of the study you 
will be involved with as you sleep," Mr. Taft said. 
"The drug isn't believed to have much effect on people 
without sleeping problems, so you will take the drug 
before you go to bed every night. It may make you sleep 
a little bit better, but there is only a one-in ten 
chance you will go into the deep sleep we are concerned 
with. There is a one in a hundred chance you will wet 
yourself during sleep after a few weeks, but I wouldn't 
worry. We will monitor you just in case, along with 
many other people we have in our sample of normal sleep 
people." Jim agreed to start participating the next 
day, wondering how it would all turn out.
	The first couple of weeks of the study were 
largely uneventful, in large part because the drug 
takes several days at least to have any impact at all. 
The sleep problem patients were gradually starting to 
sleep better and Jim would go in and wash off their 
forehead and check the equipment when they slept a 
little deeper. He hadn't noticed any change in his 
sleep from the drug, other than not sleeping as well 
initially due to new surrounding.
	Finally, in the third week, some of the patients 
started to get into the very deep sleep the study was 
looking at. Jim went in to check one of the patients in 
this deep sleep and much to his surprise he found them 
soaked with urine. Thinking "how gross "he went to the 
supply closet to find a brief for the patient. He 
opened the closet containing the diapers for the first 
time and was amazed by the variety of products. As he 
grabbed one labeled an overnight brief and baby powder 
he felt a weird excited sensation that took him by 
surprise. Despite his strange feelings, he got back to 
his job and went back to the patient. He pulled off the 
patient's pajamas and underwear, rolling him to the 
side so he could change the bedding beneath him. As 
promised by the study leaders, the patient didn't wake 
up from this intense sleep. Jim winced at the smell of 
urine, but cleaned the male patient like a pro and 
proceeded to apply a baby wipe and powder. Jim felt 
himself getting excited in his loins and was amazed 
that the excitement grew as he put the patient into the 
diaper and taped it firmly to him. Embarrassed by his 
reaction to the diapering, Jim went back to work.
	During the next couple of weeks, Jim encountered 
several of the patients ( a significant minority) 
needing to be changed into fresh diapers during their 
sleep. He found his interest in the diapers growing as 
more patients started to need them. He used all the 
diapers available at the research center on the 
patients, from thin line Tranquility to Attends and 
Molicare overnight briefs. His own sleep was getting 
slowly better through time, which he attributed to the 
long work hours and relaxed atmosphere.
	One day during the fifth week Jim encountered 
something new. He went to check on Mr. Jones, a patient 
who was requiring a change during almost all of his 
deep sleep events. After entering Mr. Jones room with a 
fresh Molicare diaper and powder, he proceeded to pull 
off the covers and was then surprised by what he saw. 
The current diaper was soaked as usual, but there was 
the obvious presence of a significant erection. Jim 
assumed this would go away and took off his diaper and 
started to clean him up. As soon as he started his 
work, Mr. Jones' erection grew impressively until his 
penis stood straight up. Jim was amazed not only by 
this but by his own reaction. He knew he wasn't 
remotely close to being gay, and yet he grew highly 
aroused himself as he powdered the erect penis, waiting 
for it to subdue. After waiting several minutes, Jim 
decided he needed to do something and forced the erect 
penis into the diaper and then taped it shut. Seeing 
the erection popping up the diaper, he knew it would 
leak badly if he left it like this. Without thinking, 
Jim put his hand on the outside of the diaper and 
messaged and stroked the diaper until Mr. Jones came 
with a quiet groan. After re-taping the diaper, he left 
the room with his heart racing and his mind wondering 
why he got so excited by the episode.
	For a few nights Jim didn't sleep that well, 
perhaps due to his lying awake and thinking about his 
joy at changing all these diapers. Finally, he slept 
fine again and eventually he was sleeping like a baby, 
better than he had in years. Then one morning, we woke 
up with a big surprise. He was wet! Not just a little 
wet, but soaked badly. He was quite embarrassed at this 
development and didn't tell his superiors. The next 
night two nights he was dry and he figured it was just 
a fluke. Finally, he wet the bed again three nights in 
a row, even after cutting down his liquid intake. 
Embarrassed, he told Mr. Taft what was occurring. "Wow! 
I guess you are that one-in-a-hundred in the normal 
sleep population. Please keep taking the drug and see 
how it progresses. To keep yourself dry at night, use 
the diapers you use for the sleep problem group."
	Jim was embarrassed as he went to bed that night, 
but nonetheless brought a Molicare brief into his room 
with him. After deftly putting on the diaper, he was 
amazed at the sensation. He simultaneously felt comfort 
and arousal and also embarrassment at his reaction. 
Laying in thick, diapered confusion, he drifted to 
sleep. The next morning he awoke in a soaked diaper but 
a dry bed. He was somehow surprised at how comfortable 
he was, and stayed in bed for awhile enjoying the 
feeling of being in wet diapers.
	Over the next weeks, he wore diapers every night, 
trying them all out and wetting more and more 
thoroughly. He finally decided to wear them during the 
day while he worked. After a few hours he had to go 
badly, right as he changed another patient. As he 
powdered the patient, he flooded his diaper with warm 
urine. The sensation was phenomenal as he wet himself 
on purpose for the first time. He wasn't sure why he 
started wetting at night, and here he was wetting on 
purpose. He felt a little shame at his behavior, but 
couldn't stop.
 	Finally the study ended. Jim was pleased at the 
money he had earned, but he looked forward to getting 
back to a normal life. It seemed strange that he 
wouldn't be taking the drug anymore. In their final 
meeting, he asked Mr. Taft how the study went overall, 
and whether he should be concerned about his new-found 
bed wetting. With some anxiety, Jim asked "How long 
will the wetting at night last? It is over now, isn't 
it?" "Don't worry about the incontinence, Jim. Now that 
you are off the drug it will subside pretty quickly. 
Please take along a supply of diapers for night and let 
us know how long you wet at night. It may take 1 night 
or a month, we really aren't sure. It is important for 
us to know how long the effect lasts."
	As the days went on, Jim secured some job 
interviews and continued with his life. Unfortunately, 
he continued to wet the bed for a solid month after the 
project ended. He liked the feel of the diapers at 
night considerably, but he was concerned and 
embarrassed that it was continuing. Finally, he went 
for a scheduled meeting with Mr. Taft.
	"You are still wetting the bed?" Mr., Taft said. 
"Yes," Jim replied, "every night." "Well, Jim, there is 
something I need to tell you." Mr. Taft went on, "The 
reason you were paid so well for simple work is that we 
had to mislead you about the project. The patients you 
were tending were actually infantilists, who wanted to 
wet themselves at night. The drug helped some of them 
achieve their goal of wetting in their sleep, and 
having someone tend them was part of what they paid 
for. Furthermore, the drug you were taking at night was 
actually a placebo, with no physical impact. We only 
had you take them to make the study sound more legit. 
The reason you started to wet the bed, and the reason 
you are still wetting the bed is that you 
subconsciously want to wear diapers. It is the only 
explanation for your behavior, and I suspected it was 
occurring before the study ended." Shocked, and oddly 
pleased, Jim replied "Why do you think that?" 
"Because," Mr. Taft responded, "there isn't a better 
explanation and it looked like you were wearing diapers 
during the day on several occasions. Am I right?" 
Shocked at his own realization, he told Mr. Taft he was 
probably right.
	 Jim went home, did some thinking, and tried to 
put everything in perspective. Finally, after hours of 
reflection, he put on a diaper. He wasn't sure why he 
liked to wear diapers, but he couldn't help it. He only 
had a couple more weeks in diapers before his parents 
returned home. Then he was out of diapers, at least for 
a while.......