In China, Adults Suck on Pacifiers (4 photos)

Pacifier prices in China have skyrocketed to $70 apiece. Why? Because they are now being bought not for children, but for adults.





Adults post photos of themselves with pacifiers

There is an unexpected boom in adult pacifiers in China. The Chinese claim that pacifiers relieve anxiety and improve sleep. They also help quit smoking and improve nasal breathing (the mouth is busy). Some online stores claim to sell more than 2,000 pacifiers a month. Adult pacifiers cannot be bought in a baby store. They are big for an adult mouth, stronger. There are cheap ones for 10 yuan, there are incredibly fashionable ones for up to 500 yuan.

Do they really suck?



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In fact, yes. The Internet is full of opinions of Chinese people who use a pacifier to help them live.

"It is very comfortable to suck on, it calms me down"

"It is amazing how much it helps me quit smoking. It gives me psychological comfort and helps me feel less nervous during periods of quitting smoking."

"When I am stressed at work, I suck on a pacifier. I feel like I'm being enveloped in a sense of security that I've had since childhood."

Doctors say it's not very good.





A baby pacifier is much smaller than an adult one

But pacifier sellers deliberately downplay the potential harm that pacifiers can cause even to a child. Long-term use of pacifiers causes pain when chewing and changes the bite, everyone knows that. If you suck on a pacifier for more than three hours a day, the position of your teeth may change in a year. Well, and in children, parts of the pacifier can get into the respiratory tract during sleep. Well, and then this is just an attempt to fake the lack of the necessary emotion that a person needs. That is, a person does not feel protected and does not change his life, but looks for false ways to gain this feeling, which will be fake.



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