Some adults have turned to sucking on pacifiers in order to reduce stress and anxiety, according to reports from Vice and The New York Post.
Expectedly, pushback to the neotenous practice has formed, with one social media user saying “Smoke a cigarette you fucking loser.”
The trend is large enough to form an industry around it. Adult pacifiers are being manufactured and sold online, where even expensive luxury pacifiers can be obtained.
“Sleep isn’t coming easily these days. Neither is calm. And for thousands of young adults in China, the solution isn’t therapy, exercise, or even melatonin—it’s adult-sized pacifiers,” Vice said in August. “They’re everywhere on Chinese e-commerce platforms like Taobao and JD.com, selling for as little as 10 yuan (about $1.40) or as much as 500 yuan (roughly $70). They’re marketed as sleep aids, stress relievers, even tools to help you quit smoking.”
A Chinese news website quoted buyers as saying:
“It is high quality, soft, and I feel comfortable sucking it. It does not impede my breathing,” one buyer said on a leading shopping platform.
“It is amazing in helping me quit smoking. It gives me psychological comfort and makes me not so fidgety during my smoke cessation periods,” said another person.
There may however be negative health implications from the use of pacifiers by adults. Vice said:
But medical professionals aren’t thrilled. Dr. Tang Caomin, a dentist in Sichuan, warned that pacifiers aren’t built for adult mouths. Prolonged use can alter your bite, cause joint damage, or disrupt your breathing during sleep. “If you sleep with a pacifier in your mouth,” Tang said, “it can interfere with breathing, and in the worst case, there is a risk of suffocation.”
The phenomenon has apparently been around for a while, as a physiology website explored the topic of adult pacifiers as a stress relief tool in 2022, finding that they may only offer temporary relief but don’t fix any underlying cause to produce permanent solution. They also provided a list of side effects:
- damage to your teeth
- misalignment
- jaw shape changes
- changes in the roof of your mouth
- infections in your mouth from germs in or on the pacifier
- speech problems
- avoiding finding long-term ways to cope with anxiety
They even recommended throwing the pacifier away.
“You might consider throwing the pacifier away and stopping using it altogether,” PsychCentral said in 2022.
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Alienation from the Holy Creator in the sinful desire to rule one’s self, to be one’s own god, that results in one languishing under a cruel and unusual, totalitarian Satanic CCP or similar dictatorship has many bizarre manifestations.
Reversion to infancy is a well known coping strategy for lack of perceived success which creates dopamine hits in our brains. Everyone on this site that makes fun of it should know that intellectualization, basically what everyone is doing here, is classified as the same level of unhealthy coping
In other words, everyone here trying to explain their way out of acting against a vicious dictatorship that threatens our existence is every bit as unhealthy as these pacifier suckers.
Healthy response to threat is action taken to defeat the threat. That’s why you can’t sleep. That’s why you are sad. That’s why you are anxious. Your body can see the threat and you are doing nothing, instead using coping strategies to dampen the fear.
I’ve got news for you…it won’t work. Nothing except ending the threat will work.
We end the threat by winning the information war, and that requires that we speak the truth, especially when unprompted. The truth is that Jesus Christ is lord, Satan will destroy his own henchmen, we are going to win no matter how clever, dastardly, or powerful our enemies think they are. The people of God (Christians) will triumph and rule. It is inevitable.
Any man that would be seen sucking a pacifier would definitely suck a…. You get the rest. Can’t believe how stupid some people are these days.
😂😆 Now their appearance matches their intellect.. perfect!
Israel is laughing at their propaganda weakening America.
What they do to themselves is their business-if they want to be laughed out of the immediate area, let them.
I had friends years ago that did that, but they were under hard drugs and was to prevent them from biteing toungues off amd fingers
those gd dancer mfrs, night club people
The weak and spineless generation.
These useless idiots will become politicians.
I’ve got to get out of here.
..Adults Sucking On Pacifiers To “Relieve Stress”
Sometimes all it takes is a good suck on something.
By the looks of those pictured, that’s about all they will be able to suck.
Some even say subconscious sexual gratification.
That’s what freud would say.
Childhood abandonment, desertion and FORSAKEN issues.
I needed that, 2funny
Lmaoooooo
More proof we are living in clown world.