# Is marketing adult diapers to young adults based on unnecessary greed? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 14, 2023, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-marketing-adult-diapers-to-young-adults-based-on-unnecessary-greed/987036 "2023-07-14T15:27:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-marketing-adult-diapers-to-young-adults-based-on-unnecessary-greed/987036/41 "2023-07-14T23:29:42Z")
I finally found the commercial. It’s actually well done and the baby is cute. Notice that the grandmother uses them too and recommends to her daughter. That’s why I mentioned they expect to hook the consumer on the product for a long time. You’ll have to cut and paste the link. Discourse won’t let the link work. Link [THINX TV Spot, 'Don't Kegel Your Way Out of It' - iSpot.tv](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/1SUu/thinx-dont-kegel-your-way-out-of-it) ---
**Author:** ![Digger11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@Digger11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digger11)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-marketing-adult-diapers-to-young-adults-based-on-unnecessary-greed/987036/42 "2023-07-14T23:40:26Z")
I don’t think that marketing of adult diapers will really and truly reach the “unnecessary greed” phase until we start seeing commercials aimed at the sexual kink that employs diapers. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-marketing-adult-diapers-to-young-adults-based-on-unnecessary-greed/987036/43 "2023-07-15T00:07:48Z")
After I gave birth, I lost continence when I stood up. This only lasted a week or so. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-marketing-adult-diapers-to-young-adults-based-on-unnecessary-greed/987036/44 "2023-07-15T00:14:46Z")
I thought _everybody_ knows that adult diapers are just the thing to wear when driving 900 miles nonstop to assault your ex-partner’s new girlfriend. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-marketing-adult-diapers-to-young-adults-based-on-unnecessary-greed/987036/45 "2023-07-15T00:18:21Z")
THINX aren’t actually diapers. That’s the company that originally came out with reusable period underwear and now they have reusable incontinence underwear. It’s generally meant for light incontinence , as an alternative to pads. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-marketing-adult-diapers-to-young-adults-based-on-unnecessary-greed/987036/46 "2023-07-15T00:30:00Z")
Thank doreen. I learned something today. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-marketing-adult-diapers-to-young-adults-based-on-unnecessary-greed/987036/47 "2023-07-15T00:37:07Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > There are many situations where diapers are very helpful to adult patients. I’ll take your word. Be well. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-marketing-adult-diapers-to-young-adults-based-on-unnecessary-greed/987036/48 "2023-07-17T21:09:05Z")
I read somewhere that there has been a significant surge in younger women buying adult diapers, but not for post partum bladder control, but so that they could last the entire 3 1/2 hours of the Taylor Swift concert without needing to head to the restroom. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-marketing-adult-diapers-to-young-adults-based-on-unnecessary-greed/987036/49 "2023-07-17T21:19:38Z")
That was mentioned on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me a couple of weeks ago. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-marketing-adult-diapers-to-young-adults-based-on-unnecessary-greed/987036/50 "2023-07-17T22:01:58Z")
That idea is not so new - I knew men who wore diapers to football games over 20 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-marketing-adult-diapers-to-young-adults-based-on-unnecessary-greed/987036/51 "2023-07-17T22:34:11Z")
Hmmm … I really want to see _Oppenheimer_ in a theater, but three hours is a long time to go without … ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-marketing-adult-diapers-to-young-adults-based-on-unnecessary-greed/987036/52 "2023-07-19T03:17:05Z")
If there is anyone that seriously believes that people are using adult diapers because they are lazy or can’t be bothered to drop what they’re doing and find a bathroom, I suggest you try this little experiment. Put on a pair of adult diapers under your normal street clothes. Then drink a bunch of beer or water……hold it in until you have a completely full bladder. Then unload into the adult diaper. Once you find out what a completely full adult diaper looks and feels like, you will probably that no sane person would pick adult diapers over toilets just because of convenience. With the possible exception of astronauts. Everyone talks about the psycho astronaut that wore the adult diapers so she didn’t have to make a pit stop on her way to commit a crime, but astronauts have to use those diapers frequently and it sort of gets normalized. ---
**Author:** ![tofor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tofor/32/13727_2.png) [@tofor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tofor)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-marketing-adult-diapers-to-young-adults-based-on-unnecessary-greed/987036/53 "2023-07-19T11:05:26Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > With the possible exception of astronauts. Everyone talks about the psycho astronaut that wore the adult diapers so she didn’t have to make a pit stop on her way to commit a crime, but astronauts have to use those diapers frequently and it sort of gets normalized. Wearing them maybe, but I’m pretty sure Chris Hadfield said with a bit of pride he never needed to actually use one. They’re only worn during ascent and descent and some astronauts just hold it, so I don’t think “frequently” is accurate. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-marketing-adult-diapers-to-young-adults-based-on-unnecessary-greed/987036/54 "2023-07-28T05:36:15Z")
Many years ago, I briefly dated a very nice man who had previously worked at Kimberly Clark, and among other things, employees would test various products, and they actually had an RN on staff whose job it was to measure people and the products. Sometimes, he said you’d go into the cafeteria, and notice that someone’s pants seemed a bit lumpy, and you could hear “crinkle crinkle” as they walked by. He never heard of anyone, ahem, testing the diapers, but women certainly did with menstrual products. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-marketing-adult-diapers-to-young-adults-based-on-unnecessary-greed/987036.md?page=2)