“Barton Bagnes is a registered sex offender who wears diapers. Two days ago he exposed his diaper to young children in Holladay. Recently a very concerned mother told police her four year old child came to her and said that Bagnes had shown them his diaper. Bagnes has a history of exposure. He’s on the sex offender registry following a 1999 conviction for showing his private parts and his diaper to a young child. He was also convicted in 2000 doing the same thing to a child. In 2007, however, charges of lewdness were dismissed. Bagnes allegedly showed his diaper but not his private parts. Last year, he got another diaper dismissal; private parts weren’t exposed…. Officials said that there isn’t a law specific enough to address the diaper showing. We’ve now gone to the state capitol to see if the law needs changing. One lawmaker we talked with is interested in looking at this loophole.” — ABC4 (US)

There is a subtly comical video about “Diaper Boy” — the authorities’ moniker for Bagnes — at ABC 4. You can watch as the newscaster and a local law-enforcement representative struggle to speak of a grown man wearing a diaper with the gravity that a sex crime involving children would seem to demand. The video also specifies that the man was wearing an Elmo diaper. It makes you wonder whether he had an erection giving three-dimensional form to Elmo’s bulbous nose.

You can find Barton Bagnes’ entry on SONAR, Utah’s sex offender database. (By the way, what the hell sort of registry makes it impossible to link directly to a sex offender’s page? Is that a technological failure or some twisted privacy regulation? Whatever the case, it certainly detracts from the registry’s usefulness.) SONAR reveals that Barton, currently 31 years old, is a tiny man who weighs only one hundred pounds and stands just over five feet tall. Evidently that explains how he is able to fit himself into diapers — and it symbolizes, perhaps, the way in which his sexuality has been stunted at toddler level. When a grown man dons an Elmo diaper and shows it to four-year-olds, it is difficult not to think that he’s trying to say, “Hey, I’m just like you. I want to belong…”

It is instructive to compare the modus operandi of Diaper Boy to Baby Man, purportedly the only “out” “adult baby” in the world. Baby Man wears diapers and has un-learned his toilet training in order to live an open life of infantilism. He seems to function in society and doesn’t have run-ins with the law. What’s more, he doesn’t seem to be a pedophile — or maybe his pedophilia, odd as it sounds to say it, is self-directed, channeled into an effort not to exploit children but to become both child and exploiter in one. Diaper Boy, on the other hand, appears to have the exact opposite m.o. Presumably he creeps around in adult get-up then unleashes his Elmo diaper on unsuspecting children. It makes you wonder if the “cure” for Diaper Boy would not be imprisonment or therapy but a rather a dose of openness in the manner of Baby Man. Maybe he’d leave off with the children if only he could find the courage to become Diaper Man?

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