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The Wetter The Better:Leah Baque Interviews Wet Set's Paul Compton
Leah: Paul, you're the editor of Wet Set magazine, a publication which focuses on the fetish of wettingÄ So, when did you first realise your own interest in wetting and how did it happen?
Paul: Even at a young age I found myself attracted to girls who wet themselves, especially those who did it on purpose. They seemed to have a free spirit and a defiant nature. Wetting your pants is such a basic taboo, built into all of us from the very start, and any girl who was willing to break this taboo got my immediate attention. I was also a late bedwetter, so I knew how good it felt to wet myself. My mother often made me wear nappies to bed, and sometimes I would deliberately wet them just for the great feeling. When I was 19 I met a girl who loved having 'accidents', and would deliberately hold on until it was too late. Her friends all thought her accidents were genuine, but I immediately recognised her as a soulmate. We had a great relationship, and got right into wetting with each other, sometimes in public, or in our beds, but always we had great sex afterwards. Sometimes we dressed in nappies, changing each other when we wet, and this was a really intimate and sexy game.
Leah: Do you prefer to wet yourself or to watch others?
Paul: I enjoy both watching and doing it myself. The best is when you can do it with someone at the same time. Some Wet Set readers just like it when others have accidents, which I think is a bit mean, but I like to join in. It feels really warm when you let go in your pants, and it's a great sexual turn-on. I love to experience it myself, and also to watch the expression of ecstasy on a girl's face when she does it. I enjoy nappy games too. You get a great feeling of security being treated like a baby in nappies, and it's almost as much fun to do this for someone else.
Leah: Do you know of any psychological theories as to why people like to wet? Or do you have any theories of your own?
Paul: I think there's a whole bunch of different things which can play a part. There's the humiliation thing which is also important in a lot of other fetishes. Many wetters get off on the embarrassment of having others see them wet their pants (the 'masochists'), while others get off on seeing others humiliated (the 'sadists'). There's the submissive/dominant aspect too. Pants wetters are the ultimate submissives, and they like to have a dominant person come to help them. I know that wetting role playing games are common in many relationships straight/gay/lesbian. One partner plays the role of the little boy or girl who has an accident, and the other cleans them up and maybe puts them in a nappy. Such games involve a lot of intimacy and trust between two people, and it can be very enjoyable to put yourself totally in the hands of someone else, and be treated like a child. Many Wet Set readers enjoy being put in nappies and treated like a baby, and in doing so they recapture some of the freedom and security they don't get as adults.
Leah: Do you think that the different methods of toilet training could have anything to do with how an adult perceives the act of urination? (ie. Such as Freudian theories?)
Paul: This is important for some people, but not for all. I know that some who are into wetting and nappies started doing it as adults, and were introduced to it by their partner. They start out doing it to please someone else, and find themselves hooked. Other readers though, can trace their interests back to the way they were treated as children, and this is especially so for bedwetters. Lots of kids continue to wet their beds right into their early teens, and some are even made to wear nappies. Around puberty they start to realise that wetting their bed or nappy is pleasurable, and it often becomes something sexual. Many readers recall waking up in a wet nappy as a young teenager, and masturbating in it. Mothers can easily affect the attitude to wetting, and some make a big fuss over their kids when they have an accident, and give them lots of attention. It's not surprising that a few start to do it on purpose.
Leah: What celebrities do you know of who wet?
Paul: There are a huge number of celebrities who have admitted to having accidents, but none would ever admit to getting sexual enjoyment from it. (I have a few on my mailing list, but I'm not going to say!) Our favourite celebrity is the American actress Suzanne Somers, who wet her bed every night until she was 14 and even did it on her honeymoon. There was an interview with Howard stern where he dragged all the details out of her, and even said he found the idea of her lying on the wet sheets to be a turn-on.
Leah: Why do you think the majority of society frowns upon wetting?
Paul: To be honest I don't think the majority of society even thinks about it! As the publisher of Wet Set I have to deal with a lot of people ® printers, typists, photolabs etc, and I have never found anyone to be disgusted by it. Some think it's funny, but all agree it's pretty harmless. That doesn't mean they would do it themselves, and to that extent they frown upon it, but not too many people would think pants wetting should be illegalÄ except for some elements in the government that is! The conservative Christian right are pretty much against it, but they are against all fetishes. Any sexual interest other than the missionary position is on their hit list.
Leah: Do you think that this could ever change to become a readily accepted way of living?
Paul: No, and I wouldn't want it to be. For me it's something to use as a sexual turn-on when the time is right, or with the right person. You have to be in the mood. If it was something that happened all the time, then it wouldn't be fun anymore.
Leah: When did you start writing Wet Set and what made it happen?
Paul: I started it back in 1993. I had an office job in the city for a large company and I was bored shitless! I amused myself by writing sexy letters about wetting and nappies to people all over the world, whose contact ads I saw in magazines. I had some good feedback, and my letters were popular, and soon I had about 50 people to write to. Then People magazine published a story called –Aussie Teens are Wrapped in Nappies", and I wrote a letter to the editor which included my address. The response I got was so great that I knew I could never keep up with writing personal letters, so I started Wet Set.
Leah: Did you find there's a lot more interest in wetting than you knew of before hand?
Paul: I guess so! If I compare what I know now with what I knew when I started, there is a huge difference, but since I have built things up fairly slowly over the years, I have never been totally shocked or anything.
Leah: Is this interest in wetting evenly split between males and females?
Paul: I'm pretty sure it is, but as with most sexual interests, it's the guys who want to buy a magazine or video on the subject. The girls will mostly keep it to themselves, or maybe share it with just one friend or lover. So our readership is weighted heavily towards the guys, although we do give the females most of the space in the magazine!
Leah: Yea, why are the photos in the magazine mostly of women with only 2 of men in the issue I have? Is that what the public wants? Is it the reason women feature in men's and women's magazines, that the female body is supposedly more attractive to look at than the male body?
Paul: The simple answer is that this reflects my own sexuality - I am mostly straight, so I give Wet Set a heterosexual angle. Plus the fact that the buyers of most adult mags are guys, and most guys are straight - so I figure I sell more copies this way. Nevertheless, I am planning a running feature on gay guys, lesbians and transsexuals. I want to show that an interest in wetting covers everybody, but I guess Wet Set will remain largely hetero.
Leah: I've read a lot about drinking urine recently and I think
it's an interesting alternative therapy for many health problems
Paul: Piss drinking is not something we cover, for a couple of reasons. This will also help you to understand how the 'watersports' topic works. Traditional WS is usually linked to B&D eg. In magazines like Sex Bizarre. Pretty much the only angle they look at is Golden Showers, which is someone pissing n someone else. It tends to have a very aggressive feel to it, especially where it involves peeing into someone's mouth. The censors here in Australia are not too keen on GS, and consider it demeaning and aggressive. So one reason we don't cover GS (and therefore piss drinking) is that we want to keep on the good side of the censor, but it's also because we approach WS in a 'submissive' kind of way. We concentrate on accidents and pants wetting, nappies and bedwetting - the embarrassment of wetting yourself, or behaving in a 'childish' way. I appreciate that piss drinking doesn't have to be aggressive, and you can drink your own if you want to, but for censorship purposes, it's easier to just steer clear of the topic all together. If we were a general interest magazine we could talk about piss drinking in a 'medical' sense, but since we're not, it would be very hard to convince the censor we weren't advocating GS.
Leah: Getting into greater detailsÄ With bedwettingÄ do you like to clean the sheets as soon as possible/ Or leave them piss-soaked for a few weeks?
Paul: That would depend very much on whose sheets they were. Personally I like to wash the sheets the next morning after wetting the bed, but I make sure I have gotten full enjoyment out of them first! Like I often wet them again before getting up, and then bring myself off while I lie there. Some readers like to leave the wet sheets on the bed for a while to remind themselves what a sissy bedwetter they are, and they probably like to have a big stain on the mattress too ® just so other people can see it! In Wet Set #7 I wrote an article on "How To Become a Bedwetter" and one of the important points was to start thinking of yourself as one. The first thing to do was to make a big stain on the mattress as a reminder, and to leave the wet sheets on the bed all day. Getting into the bed the following night, you couldn't help but remember what a big baby you had been the night before!
Wet Set magazine costs Australians A$13.20, or if you're overseas it's US$12.00. Back issues are A$11.00 (Aust) and US$10.00 (overseas). Subscriptions (4 issues) are A$49.50 (Aust) and US$45.00 (overseas). You can get Wet Set magazine from: W.S.P., PO Box 392, Turramurra. NSW, 2074, Australia. Or visit the website at: www.wetset.net, or email editor Paul Compton at: pcwsp@ozemail.com.au
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