autonepiophilia

Definition

Paraphilic condition in which sexuoerotic arousal is dependent on impersonating a baby in diapers and being treated as a baby. Autonepiophilia, a paraphilia of the stigmatic/eligibilic type, may be adjunctive to masochistic discipline and humiliation. The reciprocal paraphilic condition, playing the parent role with a partner who plays the infant, is nepiophilia.
Etymology: From the Greek, autos , self, nepon , infant, and philia , attachment.
Synonyms: autopaedophilia; autopedophilia; paraphilic infantilism.
See also: infantilism.