subject: Adult Costumes: Keeping Things Interesting [print this page] Adult Costumes are some of the most popular fun-wear of all time. Very few indulge in such fantasy apparel, it's true, but those who do are some of the most devoted repeat-customers an adult-oriented vendor will ever see. Adult Costumes constitute a niche market in absolute terms, but proportionally speaking they are an economic dynamo, one of the most reliable of bestsellers, right after adult videos and adult toys.
Adult Costumes come in a variety of styles for any number of different purposes. But no matter the particular design, the overriding purpose of any one of them is to seduce, to tantalize and arouse. The vast majority of such sensual apparel do so by appealing to fantasies and fetishes, such as the innocent schoolgirl - one of the most popular outfits ever. These typically involve plain white shirts and plaid miniskirts, mimicking the traditional school uniform. Another popular outfit is that of the French maid, with its stark black and white color scheme. Policewomen costumes are also always in demand, which aren't considered complete without a set of handcuffs and a billy stick, adult toys indeed.
Those three are the most famous of Adult Costumes. What they share in common is the sexualization of power, the eroticization of power relationships. Why it is that human psychology finds domination and submission so sexually arousing is beyond the scope of this article, if not even medical science itself, but suffice it to say power is seductive and many sexual fantasies rest primarily on various arrangements of it. Thus the schoolgirl, the maid, and the policewoman.
The line between fantasy and fetish is not clear, with some not even recognizing a difference and counting the words synonyms. But if such costumes and adult toys as the aforementioned are not disturbing enough for quotidian bourgeois sensibilities, consider those of the Nazi officer and the chubby furry critter. Nazi SS uniforms have long been a staple of many sadomasochistic routines. For some reason, the combination of a handsome uniform with a dark murderous history is extremely erotic to those for whom domination and submission figure prominently in their sex play. But even more bizarre is the case of that even smaller but perhaps even more surprising minority who find animal costumes extremely arousing. And not just any animals, either - not some tiger or lion or any animal associated with sexual prowess - but critters of the sort generally considered cute, such as rabbits, squirrels, or little birds!
